Shohoku / Dinner with Angelo

On Wednesday during lunch I went for a jog. I went down the lifts with Julianne and she was like "oh it looks like it might rain". I said "makes you run faster". I didn't actually think it was going to rain, even though I wore my black long sleeve trainer. But sure enough, it started to rain as I was about halfway in. It wasn't just light rain, it got pretty heavy at one stage, and I thought this was sure to give me a cold. I'm sure I'd be regretting it afterwards.

I got to the top of the hill and then the rain stopped. Usually I walk back at least most of the way, but this time I ran back most of the way.

At the end of the day, I was at my desk facing my door, reading. I heard Nunjo leave, and she said "bye Ogre". WTF? Did she just deliberately ignore me? Ah fuck it, don't care anymore.

I got a call from Clare on my mobile. She had just left. She asked me to get something from the fridge and bring it down to her. For some reason I was more than happy to oblige. I found a bag in the fridge and took it down. She was pretty grateful and said she wasn't being lazy, but her mother was waiting.

I got back into the lift to go up, and guess who gets in after me? Katie. God that was awkward. I looked at her and gave a soft "hey" and she said "hi" quite loudly. I bit my lip trying (and failing) not to make an awkward face. So awkward.

When I got back to my room, I wondered if I had slipped into "nice guy, easy to manipulate and use" territory with Clare.

Anyway, I did a bit more work before leaving for bball. Nick and Bo were supposed to do duty, but when I got there, I didn't see either of them. Some guy who works there was doing it, and quickly handed it over to me when I approached. I did duty by myself for a while before some guy volunteered to help me. His name was Clint and we talked a bit before it was halftime. Then Nick and Bo arrived, saying they had been stuck in traffic.

I wasn't really looking forward to our game. We were playing the Pistons, the team of rugby players. Not only are they built like rugy players, but they play like them as well. Only thing is, they're surprisingly good. To make things worse, Bo was out due to his ankle from last week, and Aris was out as well. And One came late.

I kept thinking about how earlier in the season I asked to play reduced minutes because of my knee, yet it seems that ever since then, I've been playing maximum minutes. Hmmm.

Anyway, the game wasn't as bad as I had thought. We were a lot closer than I expected, mainly because Angelo was on fire. Also, they weren't as 'unstoppable' as I thought. Watching them in previous games, I just thought I could not keep up with them, but I didn't fare too badly in terms of strength and speed. I think I underestimate myself a lot.

I kept telling myself to score, and thought it'd be really bad if I didn't score when we only had 5 players. I took a few shots and in the second half ran a few fatsbreaks. The first one their big guy was running with me and told everyone to leave me, and then completely swatted my left handed lay up attempt. I was just glad I didn't hurt my knee. I actually thought it was a pretty good attempt.

My second one, I had run off when they took a shot, and One threw it up to me. I was a bit scared of the fat guy on my tail, scared enough to miss it. I grabbed the rebound and popped it back up but missed that too. Oh well.

I also crossed a guy over to make him fall. I was taking the ball up towards the right side of the halfway line and he was forcing me right. I sped up right and he followed, then I quickly stopped and went left, and he slipped and fell, lol. But I don't think he fell because of me, the court was pretty slippery.

We lost by 12, which was a lot better than I expected.

After the game we went to dinner, and I was surprised Angelo came along. It was me, Bo, Mike and Angelo, and we went to a pho restaurant. I wasn't looking forward to it because of Angelo, but did realise he was making an attempt with us.

We were talking about the game of course, and I brought up my failed left handed lay up attempt, and Angelo mimicked the playing of a violin in silence. I wasn't sure, but it seemed like he was mocking me. It was confirmed when he broke out in laughter saying just kidding. Hmmmm.

The rest of the dinner wasn't too good. Bo went quiet, and I felt like I had to keep up the convo with Angelo. And Mike was...Mike. So glad to get out of there.