Sunday, August 12, 2007
the party never stops
(this just in for ms. mimms, our nemesis correspondant)
It’s been an exciting week to be a Nemesis player.
Last Friday, the eleven of us that got into Boulder early went on a rafting trip where we almost, but not quite, managed to launch Candice out of the raft going over a class IV rapid. That girl is tenacious.
Saturday we mostly got whooped on by other teams (ok, all our games were actually close but we only won one, grrrr), but that night featured a pre-hot tub group shower and an exciting 45-minutes of full-contact pool keep-away. During keep-away, we learned that Candice “has no off switch” and that Val thinks it’s amusing to pretend to lick the ball.
Sunday brought one more win (Layuma - avenging a Boston Invite loss), and two other losses by small margins. It’s clear that we need to learn to close games. That night 6 of us didn’t get into Midway until 2am due to a delayed flight. Thanks to Brownbear, Bill Finn, and other Machine boyz for making the time fly by.
Wednesday featured practice followed by the Beefster’s 21st birthday celebration. I think she said it best, so I’ll just reproduce her “morning-after” email verbatim:
“First and foremost, thanks to everyone who came out and bought me drinks last night. I had a great time and it just reminded me how much I love Nemesis. Seriously. I love you guys and couldn’t have asked for better teammates.
But now to recap:
From 9pm to around 10pm I consumed more shots than I can remember. I tried to count them this morning and came to the conclusion that I consumed AT LEAST 10 drinks between 9 and a little after 10.
10:30 - Ended up in the Black Beetle bathroom (that was inevitable) at which point Yaya decides it’s a good time to head home. Good call, Yaya. So we head home and I’m going to assume we teleported back to Hyde Park because I don’t remember the 30 minute drive home AT ALL.
The next thing I know it’s 4 in the morning and I’m waking up on my bathroom floor. So, I crawl into bed and wake up 3 hours later at 7am to get ready for work. While walking to the bathroom I was shocked to discover that I didn’t have a headache and wasn’t feeling nauseous.
And that’s when I realized I was still drunk.”
Finally, Thursday involved an email exchange with the TD’s to Cooler, at which point we realized that Nemesis does not in fact have a bid. They won’t just add us because 9 teams is wacky, so we’re now exploring a situation where we split into two teams. We have no idea whether that will work out, but opposing team names are being solicited nonetheless. Meagles favors Autobots and Decepticons. Beef’s suggestions include: Unicron and Primus (more transformers), Apocalypse, nemesis of Cable (more X-Men), Ares and Cheetah, nemesises of Wonder Woman, Deacon Frost, nemesis of Blade, Doctor Doom, nemesis of the Fantastic Four, Judge Death, nemesis of Judge Dredd, Sabretooth, nemesis of Wolverine (X-Men, again), The Legion of Doom, nemesises of the Justice League. Candice votes for Dumb and Dumber. Your suggestions appreciated.
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August 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
really? you *just* learned that candice has no off switch?
August 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
i think the real question is how are you splitting up teams?!! Is there gonna be a draft? Who are the captains? Who would you pick first Sally? Last? Can I be there for the draft and provide color commentary? Or, no commentary at all. i seriously wanna be there though.
Names: Team Good, Team Bad
August 12th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
team aniston, team jolie
August 12th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
carlo voted for team aniston, team jolie, too. still haven’t heard back from the cooler folks, though… cross your fingers.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:01 am
i *cannot* believe they are giving you a hard time about # of teams. they should be begging you to attend and happily taking your money. they ran that tourney with 7 teams more years than not. team cheese, team cows. guaranteed victory!
August 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Last I checked, Cooler is primarily a camping competition. Maybe the TD doesn’t respect Nemesis’s’s camping skills.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
agreed that i was surprised to be given such a hard time about it. but, as chuck pointed out, we do suck at camping. anyhow we heard last late night that we are in. as two teams. with about 10 ppl per team, that’s gonna be a lot of running. what was that crazy caffeine stuff shelly peyton used to take?
August 14th, 2007 at 11:44 am
heyyyyy, ms. ultimate - what’s that supposed to mean!??! i’m not a fembot, i guess is what that means. which seems good, maybe…?!
August 14th, 2007 at 11:46 am
oh and yeah i guess i almost went in the class iv rapid except for our college sophomore guide paul who grabbed my life vest as i completely lost contact with the raft. he’s single, ladies!
August 15th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Believe it or not, Cooler has like 64 teams this year… go figure.