Geekdom, I've Arrived!

Yes, I've stated it before and I'll state it again... I'm a geek. A big one. Not only do I try & figure out what words go against our english rules of thumb, but last night for the first time since I was in grade school, I gathered in a gymnasium to play none other then Dodgeball....

woooooooo hoooooooo!

It took me a good 20 minutes to get over the fact that I was playing dodgeball. People, I'm 31.. You're a lawyer.. and you! you have 2 kids!

I did notice that I really started to really get into it. You see it all started out innocently enough, my friend phoned me up and asked if I wanted to come out as they were short a girl.

Oh that's right.... there's a league. There is not 1, not 2 not even 3 dodgeball leagues in Vancouver.... but a whopping 4!! Never knew adults got together and did this til about 2 weeks ago nevermind that there was a league.

It sounded very underground to me as though there is a collective out there that congregates together for one hour once a week & whomp the crap out of eachother but yet never reveals this to the outside. You know they just pass eachother on the street & give a slight nod. My friend was pointing out the 'good' players to me last night... "that guy's got a good arm" she'd say... What is it that I agreed to do here?

Seeing as I spent the entire day chained to my computer, the thought of running around & throwing balls as hard as I could at people sounded like a great idea... For the most part it was. Except the opposing team took the game, in my opinion, waaaaaay to seroiusly. I think they actually spent time recruiting. Every player had a pitcher arm & went way to many times for the head (against the rules)....

Can't say I'm going to rush out and do that again.... may be the game would be more fun if there was a higher beer quotient in the mix. It was remarkably absent last night (apparently, booze on school ground is prohibited)... But if there is room for 4 Dodgeball Leagues in Vancouver, I'm going to start up my own league... The Red Rover League it will convene at Tito's house every Sunday... very underground, very hush hush...

Til then I'll leave you with one word going out to C-Hatch: FREIGHT