meh, and other onomatopoetic sounds

Ah yes, once again, it's 1 in the morning and another red-eye entry brought to you by the resident insomniac.

The weekend was decent. After returning from class Friday, a bunch of us went over to the Domain - one of the large parks in Auckland, and my apartment complex is more or less within it - and played touch rugby. I'm improving! By that, I'm no longer just standing around clueless or running half-assed to look like I'm actually involved - but my offense needs some work (probably my defense as well). When I got the ball, I was too consumed by the euphoria to actually do anything useful - like run forward...more or less I ended up handing it off (backwards passing only...) to the nearest teammate, as if it were coated in some lethal goo. Another barbecue followed - the ruined dish this time was pork sausages from the butcher down the road...cooked them way too fast on the outside...so by the time they weren't raw in the middle, the outsides were charred black. Yum.

My goal of getting out was...well technically achieved...and it was a fun time. Two of the girls came up from their apartment in center city, and well...there was some drinking, and we ended up heading down to Newmarket to a really nice bar, which I hadn't been to since late August when I went there with a girl I was interested in at the time. I really should start busting out my camera - IF ONLY I COULD GET MY COMPUTER TO READ MY FUCKING MEMORY CARD! That is easily going to be the biggest aggravation of this entire semester abroad.

Anyway, today was a lazy Sunday - watched some friends play volleyball from my balcony, while listening to the crushing (emotionally, not statistically...9-8 in 11 innings) defeat Boston suffered at the hands of Tampa Bay. All I can think about though, relating to this series, is that Papelbon better not be injured too badly - that was a bad deflection he took off his left side. And Timlin...gahh well the guy has to pitch sometime. Lets hope he retires this off season (don't be a hero...you're not qualified...)

Aight, that's enough of this for now.