It was a weekend of sports, and it was a weekend of losses. Friday night, Husband and I watched the Mets blow their first game against Philadelphia thanks to lazy and sloppy play. We did, however, get a kick out of the free fake mustaches distributed to 20,000 extremely lucky fans in honor of Keith Hernandez, former Mets player and cokehead, and current TV announcer who sometimes talks with food in his mouth. Saturday, we attended the game in person to encourage them. Other than the free cute hats that were given to a lucky group of 25,000 fans and the quality time I spent with Husband and the in-laws, I would say it was not the best use of my time. Sitting in a windy, shady part of the stadium, I froze my ass off as the Mets once again played like shit. Finally, on Sunday, I witnessed the Giants suck ass, although at least the seats we had (second row behind the 20 yard line on the Giants' side) were excellent and I got a free useless calendar that I threw out immediately. Also, being at the Giants game prevented me from watching the Mets play worse than your local Little League team, so that was some avoided aggravation. Good times.
This weekend also saw a personal kick-off to the GRE season. To apply to the Hunter College MFA program, I must face my nemesis. I did answered 125 questions from the verbal portion (I haven't faced my biggest challenge yet, which is the quantitative section) and did mostly OK. I played the antonyms section like the Mets, though. It's bit hard to identify the correct antonym when I don't recognize the word at all. Out of 30 words, I didn't even have the foggiest idea what 15 of them meant. I guessed well on one of those. Yeah.
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The Cubs won three out of four against the Cardinals, which makes me happy because I have gloating rights over my Cardinals fan friend. For now.
ReplyDeleteThis Friday is my first game at Wrigley Field!!
Football wise, my Steelers won, so I guess I had the opposite sports weekend. Here's hoping next weekend will be good for both of us!
g-d, i have absolutely no desire to think about taking the gre again. and i did it my senior year in college. ugh!
ReplyDeleteand go cubs! (i wanna go to wrigley!)
I found taking the GREs on the computer a lot easier than taking paper and pencil tests. Definitely practice taking it on a computer though.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to hear that the wifebeater's (Brett Myers) is doing well although I had no idea until you wrote about it. How much would I give to be a commentator who talks with food in her mouth? Can you imagine how irreverent my commentary would be? I wouldn't even mention the sporting even at hand - except possibly to discuss any scandal in the personal lives of the athletes.
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