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Fun and Games
Oct. 30th, 2011 04:23 amFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
…no amount of preparation can keep me from my experience.
Given their terrible performance in the last two games, I went into today's game anticipating defeat. How wrong I was, (for which I'm very happy)! Would it be unsportsmanlike conduct to say we absolutely destroyed them? And terrible joke notwithstanding (on FB), where I said something about Wake Forest being unable to see the wood from the trees, I spent the time of the game posting updates about the score and anything else that came to mind – including the terrible moment when I thought that Gametracker was going to stop working for good about 5 minutes before the end of the second quarter. Luckily it came back on a couple of minutes into the third quarter, so… phew to that! :D
While I was watching the little peg men running around on the field I was checking out some rousing music on Youtube. Gaile put me on to these people, called 'Two Steps From Hell.' It's kind of soundtrackish stuff obviously meant for fantasy or some kind of movie background, and from there I accidentally found 'Brand X music' (or something like that)… sort of orchestral and choral mix, very inspirational. Very stirring – it went well with some of the game.
In the end though we won… and then Mir came home, and in answer to my Skype'd message of Yay! We did it, she starts a voice chat and the first words out of her mouth are "I'm gonna KILL HIM!" LOL – and once she'd read to me the passage from the book, I understood why – and then I laughed until I cried.
If you try to teach before you learn
or leave before you stay,
you will lose your ability to try.
…no amount of preparation can keep me from my experience.
Given their terrible performance in the last two games, I went into today's game anticipating defeat. How wrong I was, (for which I'm very happy)! Would it be unsportsmanlike conduct to say we absolutely destroyed them? And terrible joke notwithstanding (on FB), where I said something about Wake Forest being unable to see the wood from the trees, I spent the time of the game posting updates about the score and anything else that came to mind – including the terrible moment when I thought that Gametracker was going to stop working for good about 5 minutes before the end of the second quarter. Luckily it came back on a couple of minutes into the third quarter, so… phew to that! :D
While I was watching the little peg men running around on the field I was checking out some rousing music on Youtube. Gaile put me on to these people, called 'Two Steps From Hell.' It's kind of soundtrackish stuff obviously meant for fantasy or some kind of movie background, and from there I accidentally found 'Brand X music' (or something like that)… sort of orchestral and choral mix, very inspirational. Very stirring – it went well with some of the game.
In the end though we won… and then Mir came home, and in answer to my Skype'd message of Yay! We did it, she starts a voice chat and the first words out of her mouth are "I'm gonna KILL HIM!" LOL – and once she'd read to me the passage from the book, I understood why – and then I laughed until I cried.
