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I saw Dennis Haysbert in a restaurant this afternoon! He was just walking by my table, calm and cool as could be. I didn't say anything, I just sat and stared, unable to take my eyes off of him until he was out of sight, hopefully not too embarrassingly open-mouthed. This is not quite as exciting as it would have been 7 years ago when I was a full-blown "24" fangirl, but it was still really, really cool.

He was a lot taller than I imagined he would be, and his smile is even bigger in person.

In other news, I went to a baseball game tonight, and although no one threw a no hitter this time (curse my luck for picking a game one day too late!), it was still an enjoyable outing. Even though it rained on us a little bit. Rain? In San Francisco? In July? What is this world coming to? On the upside, I saw one of the most spectacular rainbows of my life, springing out of the scoreboard and covering the sky. T took some pictures, and if he decides any are worthy of posting, I will definitely link.
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Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum wins the Cy Young Award.

Maybe it's because, in an otherwise dismal time to be a Giants fan, Lincecum is a bright shining light of hope for the future -- and a lot of fun to watch right now. And it feels good to know that the rest of the baseball world sees it, too.

Anyway. Woo hoo!
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It's a perfect summer day, I'm playing hooky from work (with advance notice and permission, so maybe it's not real hooky, but I still feel like I'm getting away with something), and there's going to be a baseball game played just down the street from me in a couple of hours.

Yeah, I think I know what I'm doing this afternoon.

I don't remember the last time I took a long weekend just for the hell of it, with no agenda or travel or out-of-town guests or any other reason besides the fact that I've just been piled under work for weeks and I just needed a break. So far so good.
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First, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there, but most especially to [livejournal.com profile] peachespig!

Okay. Time to distract myself from this absolutely horrible baseball game (Giants down by 4, stupid anemic offense) by posting about my weekend.

[livejournal.com profile] amybang stayed a few days after the concert; she met me Friday after work and we went to see Pirates. Since it's been reviewing so poorly I went in with very low expectations -- I sat back, turned my brain off, and settled in to enjoyed a fun ride. Not long into the film, I found myself sitting forward and turning my brain back on. In the end, I found that I liked it rather a lot. Certainly better than the second film; it took all the threads that the second and even the first had left hanging, tossed a few more balls in the air, and then tied everything up in a way I found quite satisfying.

Interesting (if long) Henry Jenkins blog entry on Pirates 3 and why the critics got it wrong here. Some spoilers in there.

Yesterday ended up really busy. My mom had asked a few weeks ago whether she could come down and spend a day with me in the City. Then my new boss announced a retirement party for my former boss that same night. And then I learned that [livejournal.com profile] concertinette was flying into town, and Saturday afternoon might be my only chance to see her. So I choreographed my day carefully: after a quick breakfast, [livejournal.com profile] amybang and I picked up my mom, we spent a few hours hanging out at the Ferry Building and at home, and then I dropped her back at the bus station just in time to head for the airport. Then we did the Berkeley thing for a couple more hours (including crepes, a dangerous bead store, and wandering campus a bit), after which they gave me a ride to the party at my new boss's (huge, gorgeous, oh-i-am-so-jealous) house in the Berkeley hills. A fun day, but so busy.

So today, after dropping [livejournal.com profile] amybang at the airport this morning, I get my lazy sitting around the house day. With laundry. And poorly-played baseball. (But at least that part is finally over, and I can stop cringing at the television.)
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Commercial for a windowshade company overheard on the drive home from dinner:

"If it weren't for blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us!"

Ba-dump-bum.

Also, who leaves a baseball game in the bottom of the ninth inning when the score is tied? I swear, they were pouring out of the stadium as I was hurrying home to catch the end. And then I dragged my laptop downstairs (and how exciting is it that I can say that now?!) so I could check email and such while keeping an eye on the game. (5-5, heading into the top of the 11th as I type this.) It's one thing to skip out early on a blowout, but a tie?

First post from the unteathered laptop! LJ in the living room. Very cool.

ugly

Oct. 1st, 2006 11:42 pm
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I don't think I've ever been so glad to see a baseball season end.

Cut for whining and sports talk. )

P.S.: Go Mets! Go Detroit (because I love a worst-to-first story)! Go
everyone-who-is-not-the-Yankees-or-the-Dodgers! If we end up with a Yankees-Dodgers World Series, I think I may have to root for the Apocolypse, and we wouldn't want that, would we?

Popping in

Jun. 30th, 2006 08:43 am
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In Boston. Flight uneventful. Weather hot and muggy but not unbearably so. Red Sox yay. (Fenway was an aging, historic delight. Lots of fun.) Friends here.

Today, old houses in Newport, RI, assuming it decides not to thunderstorm.

Taken out

May. 27th, 2006 09:12 pm
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On impulse, I cruised by the SF Giants website to see if there were decent seats left for tonight's game. Lo and behold, there were. So we got them. And we went.

Baseball blather )

It was fun. I don't have plans to go again until my annual family game with my parents and uncle in August (or maybe it's September), but I should try to get to at least one more.
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Baseball starts today! More blathering about baseball here. )

This week is my school's spring break. Normally we would work through it, but my boss decided that everyone needed a rest, and so she's shut down the library tomorrow. Three day weekend! It is a pure and glorious coincidence that Kingdom Hearts II is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I hope UPS comes early enough that I actually get some time to play it....

In honor of my day off, I think I'm going to pull together a song lyrics game. Probably sometime in the morning. Whee!
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Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] peachespig.

Guessing Game

Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.

I wouldn't say I have an obsessive love of most of these, but they are all things I like or have liked an awful lot. Coming up with the list was actually a fairly interesting exercise. I can't believe I actually got 20. Some of these are pretty obvious; in others, my choice may seem more obscure.

Here's the list. )
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Some of you may have noticed the lack of comments on baseball throughout this season.

There is one simple reason for this. )

Bleah. Is it next spring yet?
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Ding dong, the amazing choking reliever is gone!

Really, his numbers are there, usually he gets the job done, but whenever he takes the mound I just cringe inside, because I just know I'm going to see him make a blunder of colossal proportions. The day he started the beginning of the end in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series, I lost all faith in him. I wish the Phillies the best of luck with him (because anyone who can beat the Braves is okay in my book), but frankly I don't expect much.

It's interesting, though, the Phillies are slowly reconstructing that 2002 World Series team -- David Bell, Tim Worrell, now Felix. I wonder who will be next?
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It is not possible to sing along to a jazz band performance of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".
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In other news, hats off to Randy Johnson. A perfect game, wow! I wish I had been watching; an online friend was actually *at* the game and she posted about her experience. It sounds like it was absolutely amazing. I was listening to a different ballgame on the radio at the time. Normally, I would have been enthralled by a one-hit shutout, but under the circumstances it didn't seem like anything special.
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It's been one of those rare days in San Francisco -- gloriously hot. One of the few things I don't like about living here is that we don't get really hot summers. I can live without the humidity of Iowa and the East Coast, but the heat I miss. So I relish the few heatwaves we get every year. This is our second -- the other was an unseasonably hot week in March, which coincided perfectly with my first week of unemployment. Tonight, I was perfectly comfortable walking home from my parking garage at 10pm in shorts and a t-shirt. Anyone who knows SF summer weather will understand how miraculous this is. Weather reports suggest that tomorrow will be the last day of the high temperatures, so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

Caught the last couple innings of the Giants game while I was driving home from chorus tonight, a win for once. I've been starting to worry that San Francisco had somehow angered the baseball gods, but perhaps tonight's victory, over the Braves no less, is a sign that they have been appeased, at least for now. It is never wise to get on the wrong side of the baseball gods. Of course there are baseball gods -- why else would we have rituals where we provide burnt offerings of sausages and hot dogs, otherwise known as "tailgate parties"? It's like Anya said on the Thanksgiving episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "To commemorate [an] event, you cook and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice. With pie." Only in this case it's with beer and chips. Okay, maybe it's stretching it to call a hot dog an animal. But it was part of an animal. Once. Partly. If you buy good ones.

strike two

Apr. 22nd, 2004 11:02 pm
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I love my city, even if its baseball team is looking a little hapless these days. Every year, the day Giants single-game tickets go on sale, T and I buy seats for half a dozen games or so. This was one of those days, but at the last minute T couldn't get away from work. So I convinced IC to play hooky and come to the game with me. Despite the rather dismal final score, it was an entertaining game. But I'm getting worried for the boys in orange and black. I'm starting to get the feeling that I picked the wrong summer to be unemployed as far as baseball watching is concerned.

Still, the worst day spent at the ballpark is better than any day spent at work, or sitting around the house doing nothing. And this was far from the worst baseball park day I've ever had. The weather was near-perfect -- sunny, warm but not too hot, only occasional gusts of wind, not a cloud in the sky. From our seats, we had a great view of the Bay Bridge and downtown Oakland (sometimes haze obscures the latter, but not today). And like I said earlier, the game was entertaining if a bit lopsided -- some nice defensive plays, a little comedy of errors (between them, the two teams committed 5 and it probably should have been 6 or 7), and the Giants rarely went quietly.

This is the second game I've been to this year. I caught one on my own opening week, picking up a ticket on impulse the day before, and I'm going with LW to next Thursday's day game. That's a game a week since the home opener; not too shabby. Let's hope the team starts playing a little less shabbily as well. Third time's the charm and all that.

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