From Downtown...

Intramurals was even more fun than usual last night, as it consisted of the Battle of the Bigs, i.e. the so far winless teams both at 0-5. :) Maybe it was the more competitive skill levels, but my team really had our act together last night. From the opening jump ball that I managed to bring down to our first lead of the season at 1-0, everyone was working hard. Going into halftime we were down by 3 (guys shots count 1 and 2 for a three pointer and girls count 2 out 3) but we had much more confidence than usual. I buried my first three pointer (2 in this case) of the season to tie it up a few minutes into the second half, and did my part in snaggin a few power rebounds and steals along the way. I managed 8 points, which is almost double my total from the entire previous 5 games. As a team our best score had been 17, but this time we managed 29 for a large victory margin going away. Quite fun stuff.

Later that night we headed over to the UCen where a sorority was holding casino night, which was also great entertainment. The only bad part of it was me twitching every time the dealer dealt or tried to shuffle, as they had a lot of people filling in who had never played the game before and had just learned the rules, so it went awwwwwwfuly slowly. I finally persuaded them to let me shuffle when it was necessary, and although I would have had even more fun dealing, I managed to refrain. Although the chips were fake, I ended up with ten times what I started with, figures that the one time the money isn't real I'd rake it in. Below average night at Chumash on Monday unfortunately, although the potential was huge, with two of us making it to the semifinals of the tournament. For some strange reason they decided to seat the semis randomly instead of based on time, so my friend and I both ended up on the same table, something that is usually prevented. Also annoying was the strangely large amount of ties that took place in the first rounds, so our table ended up with 6 instead of the usual 5, with 2 going on to the finals. As it ended up a dealer blackjack on the last hand killed both me and my friend, and we took 3rd and 4th respectively, with no one moving on to the finals to pocket the big cash. Given you win $50 just for winning your initial table though, that brings my tournament winnings up to about $400. Given I've spent $25 to enter combined, I'd say that's a pretty good ratio.

Felt more tired than usual running this morning, probably because I felt pretty dead after the game last night and hadn't had a meal anywhere in between. The long weeked put me on a Tue/Thur/Sat set this week, but will be able to go right into the normal Mon/Wed/Fri situation starting next week. Two day gaps are annoying anyway. Why'd someone have to go and make the week an odd number of days way back when?