Current Ramblings
Monday, December 13, 2004
SO TIRED...
We had the Columbus area Half-Price Christmas Party tonight. Awesome stuff. Walky went with, since Graham's not all that thrilled with big social groups of people he doesn't know. Like the last two years I've been there, we had it at Dave and Buster's. There was catering and free drinks (which I didn't partake in, being the driver), game cards, and a big heaping pile of door prizes. They had everything from T-shirts to gift cards (for other stores) to...well, I won a night out, with a $50 gift certificate to Outback and (*drum roll*) tickets to the opening night of Riverdance here in Columbus in April. Graham is less than amused, sadly, but I hope he'll be a good sport about it. We'll get to dress up! And then...I played DDR. Well, not DDR actually, but a game called Excess, which is basically DDR with five panels instead of four, at the corners and in the middle. And I rocked. I discovered my latent talent for DDR when Walky, Maggie, Steve-o and I went to GameWorks a couple months ago. I clearly had rhythm in abundance, but I still needed - and even now I would say I still need, though I have improved even more - to improve my ability to interpret the arrows on the screen into commands to my body. I spent something close to two hours working on this skill, intermittently at first, then with not only dedication but also an audience of coworkers, friends of coworkers, and even our district manager, all of whom were quite impressed with the madness of my skillz by the end of the night. I broke quite a sweat, drenching the knit cap I was using to keep my newly shortened hair out of my face. I can certainly see how people lose a lot of weight doing this. And it's always a huge thrill finding something new you're good at. I'm still not nearly as good as that guy at GameWorks that night, whose feet barely touched the ground, but maybe someday I can be. You just watch.
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