We played Godiva first round. We started on O and I hucked to Doris but overthrew her because we were going downwind. :( She laid out too... sorry Doris. Anyway, we got the disc back and scored the first point. We traded until 4-4 and then we stopped converting even though there were plenty of turns on both sides. We had our chances but we threw them away. We ended up losing 7-13.
Our next two games were against Wellesley (13-0) and Brown (13-1). We worked on different defenses like 4-man-cup and clam. It was fun but really cold and rainy and a lot of standing on the sidelines.
Hrm, reflecting on how I did today... two things that I did well was dump cutting and backhand hucks. I was able to make effective dump cuts and get the disc back from people. I've also been working on backhand hucks in the last two weeks because I feel less comfortable being forced backhand. I threw two backhand hucks during the Godiva game, one to Smeri one to Chelsey and they were both completed... yay! One thing I need to work on is marking, taking away the around, marking with my feet and not lunging.
During the second half of the Brown, I was playing defense on a handler and I'm not sure what happened but she collided with me and I hit the ground really hard on my knee. Michelle and Chelsey carried me off the field. But it's feeling a lot better now. :) I think it was just the impact... no twisting or popping or snapping.
Tomorrow we play Bowdoin first round, BC second round, then probably Stonehill third round and the winner of the Godiva/Brute Squad game. And it won't be rainy and cold!
Smite did well their first round - beat Harvard 9-8 (wow I didn't know it was that close), then I heard they almost scored two on Brute Squad, and then lost to Stonehill and Brandeis.
http://upa.org/scores/tourn.cgi?div=36&id=6224
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Midlife?
I've had a few nicknames over the years and almost all of them have come from frisbee. Lately Hatch has been calling me Midlife, a nickname started by Smeri and propagated by Jin. How did I get this nickname you ask? Well, Smeri had a good friend back in the day also named Karen. And when I came into Smeri's life, I became New Karen and the other Karen was dubbed Old Karen, even though I'm older in years than Old Karen.
Then this year on Hatch there's another Karen from BC, so she became New Karen and I became Middle Karen and then they decided that Midlife sounds better than Middle Karen, which, I agree with, but MIDLIFE??? Really??? And Doris likes to call me CRISIS now, which I think sounds better than Midlife. Midlife makes me sound old and decrepit and boring (hey - don't go there.)
Incidentally, the now "New Karen" is actually called Butter (I have no idea why). Hatch likes to make up dumb names (ahem). And because I know another Butter, who's older, non-Asian, and a boy, I've been calling "New Karen" Butterball. And because she hates it so much, it has kinda stuck. =P
Anyway, Jin introduced me to sMITe yesterday as Midlife and I just got a bunch of weird looks from the newbies and evil snickers from Smeri and Sluts.
Then this year on Hatch there's another Karen from BC, so she became New Karen and I became Middle Karen and then they decided that Midlife sounds better than Middle Karen, which, I agree with, but MIDLIFE??? Really??? And Doris likes to call me CRISIS now, which I think sounds better than Midlife. Midlife makes me sound old and decrepit and boring (hey - don't go there.)
Incidentally, the now "New Karen" is actually called Butter (I have no idea why). Hatch likes to make up dumb names (ahem). And because I know another Butter, who's older, non-Asian, and a boy, I've been calling "New Karen" Butterball. And because she hates it so much, it has kinda stuck. =P
Anyway, Jin introduced me to sMITe yesterday as Midlife and I just got a bunch of weird looks from the newbies and evil snickers from Smeri and Sluts.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
First Smite Practice
Today was the first practice for sMITe. We had about 24ish girls come out including 10 or so returners. It was a really amazing first practice - everyone seemed to know how to throw to some extent already. We learned vertical stack and after 2 iterations of the infinite stack drill we scrimmaged and the timing of cuts looked really good. Yayy I'm excited for sMITe.
Also, we're selling visors. They're red (the same red as the Smitten visors) with this design:
Sluts designed it and we're selling it for $8 + however much you want to donate to sMITe. Let me know if you want one!
Also, we have a ton of discs still - $10 each for any color (white, blue sparkle or glow in the dark).
Ooh, and sMITe has 11-12 people going to club sectionals this year. That's more than we've had any year I've been on sMITe =P
Looks like it's going to be cold and rainy for sectionals.
Also, we're selling visors. They're red (the same red as the Smitten visors) with this design:
Sluts designed it and we're selling it for $8 + however much you want to donate to sMITe. Let me know if you want one!
Also, we have a ton of discs still - $10 each for any color (white, blue sparkle or glow in the dark).
Ooh, and sMITe has 11-12 people going to club sectionals this year. That's more than we've had any year I've been on sMITe =P
Looks like it's going to be cold and rainy for sectionals.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sectionals this weekend! NYC last weekend!
Hatch is playing in club sectional this weekend in Lancaster! The schedule is up but it's probably not final, depending on when you read this. Earlier there were 15 teams: 3 pools of 4 and 1 pool of 3, and then recently two teams dropped out and now there's this business with two giant pools, which I think is the worst idea ever but I don't have a better solution so I guess I shouldn't complain.
I'm pretty excited about club sectionals, any excuse to play in a tournament is super. The last few weeks Hatch has been having double practices and scrimmaging ourselves, which gets kind of old.
This past weekend I went to the US Open in NYC :)
Bryan and I got a grounds pass so we were able to watch all the smaller courts (anything besides Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums). We watched a men's doubles' match and the a men's singles match between Robin Soderling and Sam Querrey. My brother actually played and beat Sam Querrey when they were kids (around 14 maybe?) and they played at the same tennis club. Then we watched Shahar Peer (5'7" and 130 lbs) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (5'9" and 160 lbs). Kuznetsova just had so much more power than Peer, no comparison.
Bryan and I with the tennis ball car. It actually feels fuzzy like a tennis ball!!
We also went to a ninja restaurant called Ninja New York:
The entrance to the restaurant was on the street level and we took an elevator down to the actual restaurant. The lights in the elevator dimmed so that it was pretty much dark when we arrived at our stop. Right when the elevator doors opened to let us out, we heard this huge thwacking noise, which made me jump. This ninja/waiter person had smacked his sword against the elevator. And then he said, "Would you like to take the ninja route or the shortcut?" And Bryan and I look at each other and said, "I think we pretty much have to take the ninja route since we're at the ninja restaurant." So we went down this really dark and windy hallway where ninjas jumped out at us once in a while and yelled, "HIYA!" Hahaha, anyway, we eventually got seated in the "Rock Garden." Then the ninja waiter came up and gave us a drink menu and a menu in a scroll! And we just got water and he said, "ninja water?!" And I was like... "sure..." Anyway, it was really entertaining.
Some of the dishes came with "ninja presentations" with smoke and fire. Our appetizer was raw scallops and king crab that came on this scallop half-shell, which was sitting on a bed of alcohol-infused salt, which the ninja waiter lit. So cool... And then there was another dish which was basically teriyaki beef over rice and it was inside a stump:
It was basically something like eggroll-wrappings or dumping wrappings draped and painted to look like a stump. Bryan had to karate-chop it before we could eat it. =P
I'm pretty excited about club sectionals, any excuse to play in a tournament is super. The last few weeks Hatch has been having double practices and scrimmaging ourselves, which gets kind of old.
This past weekend I went to the US Open in NYC :)
Bryan and I got a grounds pass so we were able to watch all the smaller courts (anything besides Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums). We watched a men's doubles' match and the a men's singles match between Robin Soderling and Sam Querrey. My brother actually played and beat Sam Querrey when they were kids (around 14 maybe?) and they played at the same tennis club. Then we watched Shahar Peer (5'7" and 130 lbs) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (5'9" and 160 lbs). Kuznetsova just had so much more power than Peer, no comparison.
Bryan and I with the tennis ball car. It actually feels fuzzy like a tennis ball!!
We also went to a ninja restaurant called Ninja New York:
The entrance to the restaurant was on the street level and we took an elevator down to the actual restaurant. The lights in the elevator dimmed so that it was pretty much dark when we arrived at our stop. Right when the elevator doors opened to let us out, we heard this huge thwacking noise, which made me jump. This ninja/waiter person had smacked his sword against the elevator. And then he said, "Would you like to take the ninja route or the shortcut?" And Bryan and I look at each other and said, "I think we pretty much have to take the ninja route since we're at the ninja restaurant." So we went down this really dark and windy hallway where ninjas jumped out at us once in a while and yelled, "HIYA!" Hahaha, anyway, we eventually got seated in the "Rock Garden." Then the ninja waiter came up and gave us a drink menu and a menu in a scroll! And we just got water and he said, "ninja water?!" And I was like... "sure..." Anyway, it was really entertaining.
Some of the dishes came with "ninja presentations" with smoke and fire. Our appetizer was raw scallops and king crab that came on this scallop half-shell, which was sitting on a bed of alcohol-infused salt, which the ninja waiter lit. So cool... And then there was another dish which was basically teriyaki beef over rice and it was inside a stump:
It was basically something like eggroll-wrappings or dumping wrappings draped and painted to look like a stump. Bryan had to karate-chop it before we could eat it. =P
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Larry visits Antrim
Two nights ago I was hanging out at Antrim and their neighbor's cat came in through the back door. Apparently he was just sitting at the screen door and then Keith opened the door and he walked in. And for some reason he really liked playing with boxes:
We weren't really sure what he wanted... Keith put out a dish of water but it didn't touch that. It kinda chased a string for a while but then eventually went back into his box.
We weren't really sure what he wanted... Keith put out a dish of water but it didn't touch that. It kinda chased a string for a while but then eventually went back into his box.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Winston Cup (Charlotte, NC)
I was really bitter/disappointed for a while about sMITe not making regionals so I didn't trust myself to blog, but it has been a few months now so I feel like I can look back and say that we really did our best, we fought our hardest, and we had a lot of great new recruits that will continue to build up our team in the upcoming year. The competition was much tougher in our section than in the past, and I'm really proud of how we did. Every player on the team stepped it up so much this year and I'm really looking forward to what this next year on sMITe will bring :) And yep, it will be my last year of eligibility this coming year. (As is Smeri's!)
In the last couple months, I've been playing summer league with Wuwu and also club with Hatch. This past weekend we went to North Carolina to play in Winston Cup, a small tournament with 10 women's teams. It was kind of a last minute decision to play in this tournament because we didn't get into Chesapeake, there was no Log Jam, and Chicago Heavyweights is the same weekend as sectionals and those were the three tournaments we went to last year. Luckily we got into Winston Cup or else we might've had to play each other for the rest of the summer.
There were two pools of five and we were third seed in a pool with (1) Ozone, (2) Wildcard, (4) Missconnduct and (5) Wahine. As usual, I don't really remember anything specific for any of the games. But I think we did get better throughout the day and throughout the tournament. The weather in NC was disgusting. In the afternoon it felt like it was 90 degrees with 90% humidity. We had a styrofoam cooler with ice and towels in it that people were using to cool themselves off, which worked really well, until LFein decided to use the cooler as a chair and broke it.
There was this girl on Ozone who, when marking, would start screaming her stall count after five: "FIVE!!! SIX!!! SEVEN!!!" It wasn't your normal "project-from-your-diaphragm-because-it's-fun-to-be-loud" kind of scream; it was more like "I'm-dying-and-I-need-immediate-medical-attention" kind of scream. The first time it happened to me she scared the crap out of me, and I gave her this bewildered look, like, "You've got to be kidding me" and threw the disc. And then I learned that she did it every time she marked. She did it once to Bernie and Bernie couldn't take it and said, "OMG stop stop stop stop, you have to stop, I can't hear anymore, there's buzzing in my ears" (which was totally true, I could identify, my ears were ringing on the sideline after she screamed in my ear too). So the screammer stopped stalling but her teammate was like, "that's not a legit call, you can keep stalling." I don't know, that's got to be a spirit foul or something. Or else I could just hit her over the head as she's marking me and get her to shut up. Other than that our Ozone game wasn't bad. We won the first point of the first half but then lost 8-1 at half. The second half we traded points and the final score was 15-7 Ozone. We score a lot on desparation hucks from Shira/Michelle to Doris/Jenny. =P
First game on Sunday was against Godiva. The pull goes off and everyone runs down the field. The pull goes to about 3/4 of the field and hits one of Godiva's players and everyone just stops on the field, not knowing what to do. The sideline says that the pull should be a re-do. So we all go back to our respective end zones and Tracy is about to pull again but then the sideline is looking up the rulebook and declares that the disc should start where it hit the person. So everyone goes back again and we play on. Weirdest thing ever... never saw that happen before. =P
Hatch is a really fun team :) Pics from the weekend:
http://picasaweb.google.com/karenshu/2009_08_01WinstonCup?authkey=Gv1sRgCP_ui9ncj-e-lgE#
In the last couple months, I've been playing summer league with Wuwu and also club with Hatch. This past weekend we went to North Carolina to play in Winston Cup, a small tournament with 10 women's teams. It was kind of a last minute decision to play in this tournament because we didn't get into Chesapeake, there was no Log Jam, and Chicago Heavyweights is the same weekend as sectionals and those were the three tournaments we went to last year. Luckily we got into Winston Cup or else we might've had to play each other for the rest of the summer.
There were two pools of five and we were third seed in a pool with (1) Ozone, (2) Wildcard, (4) Missconnduct and (5) Wahine. As usual, I don't really remember anything specific for any of the games. But I think we did get better throughout the day and throughout the tournament. The weather in NC was disgusting. In the afternoon it felt like it was 90 degrees with 90% humidity. We had a styrofoam cooler with ice and towels in it that people were using to cool themselves off, which worked really well, until LFein decided to use the cooler as a chair and broke it.
There was this girl on Ozone who, when marking, would start screaming her stall count after five: "FIVE!!! SIX!!! SEVEN!!!" It wasn't your normal "project-from-your-diaphragm-because-it's-fun-to-be-loud" kind of scream; it was more like "I'm-dying-and-I-need-immediate-medical-attention" kind of scream. The first time it happened to me she scared the crap out of me, and I gave her this bewildered look, like, "You've got to be kidding me" and threw the disc. And then I learned that she did it every time she marked. She did it once to Bernie and Bernie couldn't take it and said, "OMG stop stop stop stop, you have to stop, I can't hear anymore, there's buzzing in my ears" (which was totally true, I could identify, my ears were ringing on the sideline after she screamed in my ear too). So the screammer stopped stalling but her teammate was like, "that's not a legit call, you can keep stalling." I don't know, that's got to be a spirit foul or something. Or else I could just hit her over the head as she's marking me and get her to shut up. Other than that our Ozone game wasn't bad. We won the first point of the first half but then lost 8-1 at half. The second half we traded points and the final score was 15-7 Ozone. We score a lot on desparation hucks from Shira/Michelle to Doris/Jenny. =P
First game on Sunday was against Godiva. The pull goes off and everyone runs down the field. The pull goes to about 3/4 of the field and hits one of Godiva's players and everyone just stops on the field, not knowing what to do. The sideline says that the pull should be a re-do. So we all go back to our respective end zones and Tracy is about to pull again but then the sideline is looking up the rulebook and declares that the disc should start where it hit the person. So everyone goes back again and we play on. Weirdest thing ever... never saw that happen before. =P
Hatch is a really fun team :) Pics from the weekend:
http://picasaweb.google.com/karenshu/2009_08_01WinstonCup?authkey=Gv1sRgCP_ui9ncj-e-lgE#
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