EEEEEEEEEEE! \o/

[kasche]

I want to play basketball.

I've just seen the basketball finals, and it was one of the most beautiful matches I've ever seen. I just. I'm still galvanized BEYOND BELIEF. And I really want to play sports again - I haven't done anything since high school, and I guess I kind of miss it. I'm not really much of a sportsy person in general, though, and I'm not talking professional - haha, god no* - but as I was watching our volleyball matches, these days past, I felt the strong hitch to touch ball again and oh good grief that phrase didn't come out right at all. Anyway. Swimming or volleyball would likely be the obvious choices, since I know them best (dude, I've played volleyball on and off for years) and like them fine, but I kinda want to do something new. Like basketball, say. ;D

...except that I couldn't be more out of shape if I tried, so I'd better do some gym (hahaha, that worked out SO WELL last winter), or some swimming beforehand - oh WHO AM I KIDDING, I'll talk and talk and not do anything in the end. Still, it'd be nice.


It was VERY VERY SAD not being able to watch my own basketball national team playing, though :( But I guess not eating my liver out with every (and I do mean every) match was nice.

I guess.

OMG GUYSSSSS.

(The really bad thing about our team is that we tend to adapt too much to our opponents. :( If we're playing against a great teams we're capable of doing brilliant things, but if the adversaries are mediocre then the match is mediocre. D: Either way, we always end up losing or winning by a handful of points, and let me tell you that's not good for the health.)

(I love my boys anyway, though. ♥)




P.S.: totally unrelated, but I've just seen on my flist a link to a post with icons from Jane Austen's History of England. Man do I love that woman. :D





*The only time I came close was in elementary school. The instructor in the swimming pool I used to go to wanted me to do competitions. I couldn't say no fast enough, or enough times. :P At the time I was dead sure that (a) I wouldn't have won - meaning I would have come up not second but last, or second to last at best - and (b) that they asked it of anyone who took their courses long enough, so there was no particular meaning to the request. ...er, turns out? It didn't actually work that way. Whoops.

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[kemis.livejournal.com]

*delurks briefly to squee at basket too*

I missed most of the games for one reason or another, but mostly is that my heart wasn't really in it, without our boys to cheer on. It still burns the way German creamed us at the European tournament.

And god, I hate so much the fact that soccer is the only sport that gets regularly aired in this stupid country, when there are other, more interesting sports that deserves more attention than what they get.

[spacedye-vest.livejournal.com]

This year I've failed at following anything in the Olympics, unless it was something everybody was talking about at a rare moment I was paying anybody any attention :D


But excited sporty monkeys are certainly cute.

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the Men's Olympic match?

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

After two years of slothfulness, I'm starting up my old sport (swimming) again. We could make a pact to get fit together?

[kasche.livejournal.com]

WAS IT AWESOME OR WHAT? Jeez how much I've liked it! ♥

Aw man, don't make me think back to that... and it wasn' even Germany alone, we hadn't been exactly stellar during all the European championship. :( Gah.

Is that ever true! D'you remember the ooold times, when they'd show at least the one basketball games? On early saturday afternoons? I talked dad into getting Sky practically just for that. :P

[kasche.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a lot, but missing them completely just wasn't an option. What with mum watching it almost non-stop every day and all. ;P

Eeee, thanks! ;D

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I'm sorry, I hadn't realized the image at the top could be misleading ^^;

[kasche.livejournal.com]

We could, but I'm afraid I wouldn't keep to it much ;D

Aw, swimming. I love being in the water so much. ♥ But you know, my main problem is constancy. Which is why I'd probably better look into a team sport. ;D

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch it, but I'm glad you enjoyed it (and that they had to WORK for it!)

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's my problem precisely. That's why I'm enrolling in a class. It's been ages since my last workout, but recently I've noticed my muscles just straining to do those strokes. Watching the Olympics clinched my conviction.