ATTENTION...ATTENTION... AN ATHLETE HAS ENTERED OUR PRESENCE!!!!!

Athlete's. Aren't college athlete's the most amazing people in the world?! They are like - inhuman. Perfect in every way.... HAHAHAHA!!!!! They wish! And I think some other people wish too. LOL. I recently returned from living in Washington DC for about 19 months. One of the things I was excited to get back into was going to school basketball games! Whoop Whoop! Well I started going to the basketball games and it took one game to realize what I had been missing out on while in DC... watching the school's star player... AC Merrill. I watched student's in the crowd bow down to this guy like he was some sort of royalty or greek god over basketball... what!? Everyone was in love with him and ya... he was good but he did NOT make up the whole team. So I decided to pick-a-player that was going to be my favorite... That's when I fell in love with #10 - Clark Kent. Oh he was a joy to watch! He always had a huge smile and his face and he had some skills! Gosh, basketball was something NOT to miss.

Well in February I was sitting in one of my classes at school. You know the general ed classes that everyone saves till their senior year and so there are like a gazillion students in the class and they are typically way easy...!? That's the class I was in. It was a sports class. One day the teacher began talking about basketball and brought up AC Merrill. I was about to say, "Oh no! Not him again!" When AC began talking back. I turned around and he was sitting a couple of rows behind me! Wow! Good thing I didn't say anything. Then the teacher started talking about Clark Kent... Oh man! Somebody stop me - but before I could cheer, Clark made a comment... Teacher say what!? Kent is in our class?! AAAAHHHHH!!!!! I texted my friend who was going to marry him with me - we decided we could share a husband if it were him lol... and said, "You'll never believe who is in my class!!!" We went on texting and she was like, "Talk to him! Talk to him!! Take one for the team!" I was like, "Uh... I can't just talk to him... I need him to talk to me first..." I guess I am old fashioned in that way! ;^)

BUT I did put forth effort... I think that both people need to put forth effort. Like I started getting more ready lol... and I was ready & willing to smile & make eye contact... flirt I guess... I am not very good at that but I did my best. It really was just like a week later that I was sitting in class and he came in the back door. He sat on the back row and then walked to the front of class and grabbed a paper from the teacher. On his way back to his seat he walked past my desk. He looked down, I looked up and we made eye contact and smiled at each other. The lights really sent fireworks into the room, lol... Not really but obviously we had a moment because he finished walking past me, went back to his desk, grabbed his backpack, and walked back to me and sat in the desk right by me!!! Whoop Whoop!!!! We talked, we laughed, and he got my number! We started doing things and to this day, still chattin!... So I like athlete's but I like it when we both put in effort! :)

Well, Friday night my friend Kristen and I met some basketball players at our University gym. Ew-la-la. They play on the school team, but for some reason were hoopin' it up elsewhere (against the rules). Well I had to leave early to go work but she stayed and did some sprints. Another school sponsored athlete (a football player) got her number and wanted to hang out.

So friday night we went dancing with some friends. Not tons of people but we made it fun. Afterwards (about midnight) we went back to Kristen's house to watch a movie. Now, after the gym and around 9:00 pm we were still trying to decide what to do. Party or dancin? So Kristen began talking to Russ, the football player, again and asked about watching a movie because they had talked about it earlier at like 7. He said he was game, get some friends together, I will too and we'll do it. So she texts him around 10:00 and says something about starting the movie. Well no response until 1:00 am. They say, "Hey we are gonna come over, cool?" We were in the middle of the movie so they come on over and make their grand enterance. Now athlete's are great people. GREAT people. ;^) They just have to remember that they are normal people too. NOT celebrities or professional athlete's. Just students. I think that they are so used to getting special treatment and attention from other students that sometimes their heads get up in the clouds. My friends and I are still open to doing things with them, but we aren't gonna treat them like celebrities. Now I have some good lookin friends. Not just "great personalites" but inside and out. People have even commented to me, "Dang! Do guys just fall all over them?" Yes. But when these 5 football players came, they didn't even give them the time of day. Lucky for us my friends are nice and they were talkin' to them, bein' all polite, etc. but these guys were so lame. 2 of them sat there not saying a thing. 1 of them laid down on the floor and feel asleep and the other 2... they were funny. I'll give them that. Near the end of the movie and not TOO long after they all got settled in the kid on the floor woke up (like he was really asleep) and ran into Kristen's kitchen saying, "I'm starving! I'm starving! I need food, where's the fridge!" His friend Marcos (a funny one) ran in after him saying, "He really will take your food." Well for the next 15-20 minutes (literally and honestly) the kid "Little Johnny" as his friends called him couldn't even stand up straight. He was swaggering and doubled over holding his stomach as though he was gonna die. He would fall to the floor and roll around on his back for a while holding his stomach, the whole time complaining about his need for food. Then he would stand up, fall back as though fainting into the wall again, and eventually end up on the floor. I was like, "This is ridiculous." I said, "Somebody needs to take this kid home and get him out of here. Where does he live?" It was SO LAME! Nobody was doing a thing and the football players just sat there ignoring him and despite all our protests didn't get the kid out of our house and on his way to food or quieted down! Ugh! I finally went into the other room and about every 30 seconds another girl came in to get away from the nonsense until all 5 of us were chillin' in a whole other room. Within 2 minutes the guys were like, "Uh... okay... we are gonna go get some food." We were like, "See ya!" But honestly who does that? Why do athlete's decide 1:00 am is the time to start hanging out and why do they think they can show up and have other people put forth all the effort? AND WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND goes somewhere new, meets new people, and acts like a baby! I haven't even ever seen a child act so ridiculous so I think he topped the all time "are you kidding" charts.

LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME

So my friend is dating a football player at our school. For the longest time her boyfriend has been wanting to set me up with one of his friends. It finally worked out tonight and it may have been the lamest date I have been on in a really long time. (Besides the fact that I feel like it is the ONLY date I have been on in a really long time!) Well, so I get the text yesterday that says, "How about a little date tomorrow?" I was like, "Sounds good." She texted, "They say bowling at 8. Is that good." and I say, "Good."

This morning I get a text again, "Still good for tonight?" I am like, "Yep." Then she texts, "Ok. Bowling at 7:30 then." I am like, "Yep, but why did they change it to 7:30?" She texts back, "Because I guess Tim has somewhere to be at 9." (LAME #1) I am like, THAT IS SO STUPID!!!!! So I text, "That is lame." I had to give a presentation at 6:30 and at 7:00 so I said I have a presentation at 7, it should be over by 7:30 so I might be a couple minutes late, but that's good." I realized to a while after texting her that he had just created an out for himself. I can safetly bet that he didn't have anything and that just in case he didn't think I was cute or we didn't get along, he had just created an out for himself. WHATEVER. Way to go guy!

So I go do my presentations and I text her at like 7:25 to say, "Okay I am done. You can come over whenever." So 5 minutes later she calls me and says, "Okay I guess that I am going to come pick you up and we are just going to meet them at Chris's house. That good?" I am like (LAME #2) "Sure. Whatever." So she comes and picks me up and we go to her boyfriend Chris's house. Tim had already gotten there so we walked in and they were sitting on the couch playing PS 2 football. (Hardcore football players... ye-ah! so stupid.) Anyways, we said hey to each other and then they were so into this game that they couldn't talk to us. (LAME #3) So after 10 minutes they decided we can go now. So we walk out together, and get in my friends car. Tim and I sit in the backseat. You all know blind dates right? Awkward. You can't really be yourself when you don't know the person... Maybe it's just me, but I am kinda shy until I get to know the person. I felt like he kinda was too.

Well we got to the bowling alley without really talking to each other and it was league bowling that night so we couldn't bowl. So we went to another bowling alley and on the way out of Lindon Lanes my friend said, "Why don't you sit in the front with me?" This was LAME on my part but I did. And Tim didn't hear her ask so he was probably like, "Why is she switching to the front?" Whatever. On the way to the Fun Jungle I turned around and said, "Oh by the way Tim, I think that it is great that you created an out for yourself by saying that you had something at 9." (You know, lightening the mood. - haha) And he was like, "huh? what? Who told you that? I don't have to be gone by 9..." So I look at Chris & Marissa, like uh... they told me... what's going on here? And Chris was like, "Oh I thought that was tonight, but he had something another night." So by the way they were acting it was like it had just been an out, but apparently he didn't want to use it. YES!!! (GOOD THING #1.) We talked a little more on the way to the bowling alley and it went really good. We laughed and smiled and it was just nice. (You know, good date.) We got to the the Fun Jungle though and stood in line for a while and talked. It wasn't amazing but it was fine. He paid for me to bowl (which is what you expect on a date right?) but I guess that since that doesn't always happen that was GOOD THING #2. We were given lane #12. We sat by each other and that was nice because then we could talk. However, they plit us up into teams and me and Marissa were against him & Chris. That was lame because we couldn't cheer for each other. Blah. But he got like 4 strikes in a row. I am not a bowler. Oh well.

The game ended and Marissa, Chris, and I were ready to go but Tim wanted to play another game. I was like, This is good. He doesn't want to leave. We even got kicked off our lane and had to move to Lane 10. But he still agreed and then he and Chris went to pay and Marissa and I went and sat down. I sat down on the end where I was last time and this time Marissa sat down by me, then Chris came back and sat down by her, and the only place left for Tim to sit was on the clear other end. LAME #4 because we couldn't talk to each other. Well it was a pretty boring game and 1/2 way through we decided to leave. Without thinking I just sat in the front seat again, LAME #2 on my behalf. We went to the Pita Pit and he ordered and paid for himself. Uh... not me. LAME #5 and AWKWARD!!!!!!!!! Chris paid for me and Marissa and then we sat down to dinner. Tim had been on his phone while bowling so I got on my phone too. Lame for both of us but oh well, what can you do? During dinner he answered the phone and said, "Okay, give me five minutes." LAME #6 So we finished dinner, left the restraunt and he says by to Chris, nice to meet you marci and Doree he says, "it was fun we should hang out again sometime" as he gives me a hug and asks for my number! Are you KIDDING!?!?!!?!? I am so lame and gave it to him but he is not going to call. That was an awful, horrible date and that is not the type of person I want to date anyway. Someone who doesn't pay for dinner and who leaves at the restraunt. Ugh!! Horrible horrible horrible. Lame lame lame.