Crash — A Personal Experience
No, this post will not document the most famous car crash in MagnUM history. It is the story of me at CCC last year. I invite anyone and everyone to post stories similar to the one I'm about to post in order to add some life to the MagnUM blog.
2005 CCC was a crazy one for me. It all started on the Thursday night before the tourney. I was supposed to fly out to New York City for a medical school interview that night. Unfortunately, I misread the departure time of my flight and missed it. I was forced to buy a cheap one-way out to NYC for early Friday morning. It left at 6AM, so I had to get out of bed around 4:30 and have Ian drive me to the airport (thanks Ian). Oh, there was a big controversy about Swigs driving me to the airport because Ian didn't really want to drive me, and Swigs said he would — but Swigs was going out drinking that night, and we all know Swigs' track record of being able to get out of bed in the morning, so I decided to convince Ian to take me. Anyhoo, Friday was a very long and stressful day for me. I eventually flew out of JFK to Atlanta to meet up with the team for the tourney. I didn't sleep very well on Friday night, so Saturday was a real struggle for me. As I recall, we dropped a couple of games — I think we lost a game to Georgia Tech which we really should have won.
Sunday was more of the same. Shit — what happened on Sunday? I think we beat Ohio State, but I'm not even sure about that. Yeah, I think we beat them, and then played Michigan State in the next game. We lost this one. I certainly played shitty, as I know some other guys on our team did. Not such a great tourney, though I think that's where we really started to turn the season around and make a strong push toward regionals.
Oh yeah, and I was on this medication which made my skin extra sensitive to the sun. So, even though I applied sunscreen at least seven times during the course of the tournament, I came back to Ann Arbor with a ridiculous sunburn, especially on my nose. My nose looked like a collection of physical landforms with peeling skin mixed with redness and irritation mixed with freckles. Good times.
I also crashed a van on the way home from the tournament on Saturday night. I took a turn too fast and lost control. The van came close to veering way off the road, but it ended up only half-off the road. The van came to a stop in a ditch in front on top of some rocks. There was some minor damage to the car, but nothing to write home about — certainly nothing to write to the university or my insurance company about. What upset me the most was that I had given Batey a scare because he'd already had enough scares to last a lifetime in the past year.
So that's my story. 2005 CCC was not the most fun ultimate tournament of my life, but certainly an eventful and memorable experience.
Like I said before, if you have a personal tournament experience that you would like to blog about, I encourage you to post it. Also, I'm sure I'm not the only almunus who'd like to hear about how Sprink Break 2K6 went. If anyone's having trouble posting or would like to become a contributing member, please contact me.
2005 CCC was a crazy one for me. It all started on the Thursday night before the tourney. I was supposed to fly out to New York City for a medical school interview that night. Unfortunately, I misread the departure time of my flight and missed it. I was forced to buy a cheap one-way out to NYC for early Friday morning. It left at 6AM, so I had to get out of bed around 4:30 and have Ian drive me to the airport (thanks Ian). Oh, there was a big controversy about Swigs driving me to the airport because Ian didn't really want to drive me, and Swigs said he would — but Swigs was going out drinking that night, and we all know Swigs' track record of being able to get out of bed in the morning, so I decided to convince Ian to take me. Anyhoo, Friday was a very long and stressful day for me. I eventually flew out of JFK to Atlanta to meet up with the team for the tourney. I didn't sleep very well on Friday night, so Saturday was a real struggle for me. As I recall, we dropped a couple of games — I think we lost a game to Georgia Tech which we really should have won.
Sunday was more of the same. Shit — what happened on Sunday? I think we beat Ohio State, but I'm not even sure about that. Yeah, I think we beat them, and then played Michigan State in the next game. We lost this one. I certainly played shitty, as I know some other guys on our team did. Not such a great tourney, though I think that's where we really started to turn the season around and make a strong push toward regionals.
Oh yeah, and I was on this medication which made my skin extra sensitive to the sun. So, even though I applied sunscreen at least seven times during the course of the tournament, I came back to Ann Arbor with a ridiculous sunburn, especially on my nose. My nose looked like a collection of physical landforms with peeling skin mixed with redness and irritation mixed with freckles. Good times.
I also crashed a van on the way home from the tournament on Saturday night. I took a turn too fast and lost control. The van came close to veering way off the road, but it ended up only half-off the road. The van came to a stop in a ditch in front on top of some rocks. There was some minor damage to the car, but nothing to write home about — certainly nothing to write to the university or my insurance company about. What upset me the most was that I had given Batey a scare because he'd already had enough scares to last a lifetime in the past year.
So that's my story. 2005 CCC was not the most fun ultimate tournament of my life, but certainly an eventful and memorable experience.
Like I said before, if you have a personal tournament experience that you would like to blog about, I encourage you to post it. Also, I'm sure I'm not the only almunus who'd like to hear about how Sprink Break 2K6 went. If anyone's having trouble posting or would like to become a contributing member, please contact me.
posted by Sam @ 9:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:03 PM,
Sam said…
oh whoops. It was terminus. I'm sure that's only one of many factual mistakes in my post. Thanks Colin.
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