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Dec. 14th, 2003 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWell, I am unexpectedly back in Harrisonburg. The evening forecast called for snow, so they cancelled the last day of the bridge tournament. Smart move, if you ask me. Too many old people would've tried to drive and it would not have been pretty. The thing that sucks is I don't make nearly as much money now. Oh well. It does give me a day to do some Christmas shopping. I have no clue what to get my roommates. Justin got me chocolates, which was really sweet but such a copout because guys can ALWAYS give chicks chocolates, but if a chick gives a guy chocolates it's just weird, unless he's her father. I have one idea but they're either going to think, "Hey, cool!" or "This is totally lame."
At the bridge tournament, I was asked to play as a fill in for all three sessions. The first session, I played with a William and Mary math professor in a novice game. We got third place. I feel like we had a respectable game; it's just hard to tell what's gonna happen to you when you play in a novice game...nothing goes according to plan. Anyhow I liked playing with him. Then all day yesterday I was paired up with this guy Pete, who I'd played with once before. Pete's a really nice guy, but he has so many "suggestions" it drives me up the walls. And frankly, I know exactly what I'm doing, and I have a few suggestions for him, but because I'm so young, I must be the one that needs teaching. Harumph. Anyway I enjoyed playing because I played well, but I'd really rather have played with someone else. We finished in the upper middle of the pack in the open (non-novice) game, earning another 1.5 masterpoints to add to my .80 from Friday night. The idea behind masterpoints is if you win, you get a few, if you place you get a few less, and so on. There are different "colors" of masterpoints, and once you've collected a certain number of each color for a total of 300 or more, you are a life master. Most people who play in tournaments regularly but not frequently will achieve life master in around 10 years, if they are any good. I don't play frequently at all, nor do I have a regular partner, but over the years of filling in, I've racked up about 30 points. If I were to play as much as I caddy, I'd probably make life master in two or three years. Anyhow this is boring.
The snow on the ground is quite pretty, but it reminds me that today is a good day to be lazy, so back to bed I go.
Peace.
At the bridge tournament, I was asked to play as a fill in for all three sessions. The first session, I played with a William and Mary math professor in a novice game. We got third place. I feel like we had a respectable game; it's just hard to tell what's gonna happen to you when you play in a novice game...nothing goes according to plan. Anyhow I liked playing with him. Then all day yesterday I was paired up with this guy Pete, who I'd played with once before. Pete's a really nice guy, but he has so many "suggestions" it drives me up the walls. And frankly, I know exactly what I'm doing, and I have a few suggestions for him, but because I'm so young, I must be the one that needs teaching. Harumph. Anyway I enjoyed playing because I played well, but I'd really rather have played with someone else. We finished in the upper middle of the pack in the open (non-novice) game, earning another 1.5 masterpoints to add to my .80 from Friday night. The idea behind masterpoints is if you win, you get a few, if you place you get a few less, and so on. There are different "colors" of masterpoints, and once you've collected a certain number of each color for a total of 300 or more, you are a life master. Most people who play in tournaments regularly but not frequently will achieve life master in around 10 years, if they are any good. I don't play frequently at all, nor do I have a regular partner, but over the years of filling in, I've racked up about 30 points. If I were to play as much as I caddy, I'd probably make life master in two or three years. Anyhow this is boring.
The snow on the ground is quite pretty, but it reminds me that today is a good day to be lazy, so back to bed I go.
Peace.
