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On why the Academy Awards and Basketball are both evil.
I think I may have said this before, but basketball is the worst sport ever created ever. It's fast, the people playing it look retarded, it involves a large group of people crowding around each other and running, it's too fast....
I know that I basically suck at every single thing we do in gym class, but basketball has got to be the worst. I mean, I can be athletic. Like with running, rock climbing, jump roping.... stuff like that. Anything that involves competition, though, that just makes me nervous. I don't really think it's an athletic ability issue, I think it's more like an I need tons and tons of medication and therapy issue.
When we started playing basketball in gym class today, I started out just standing still and moving occasionally. As the game progressed however, I began to make my way slowly towards the padded gym wall until finally, I was leaning against it. I spent the entire game like this, nervously watching the game going on in front of me, my attention span slipping as I daydreamed about being somewhere else. I did catch the ball once, when it was thrown thrown to my section of the wall, but I ended up tossing it back to a member of the opposite team.
I hardly ever do much physical activity in any gym class and I hardly ever break a sweat. But OH MY GOSH. For the minimal amount of moving my body was doing, I don't think I have ever been so hot or sweated so much in a gym class.
I know that I should probably be doing something and at least pretend that I have some idea of what the heck is going on, but as soon as the game starts, my mind just goes completely blank and the force of gravity coming from that wall is just so strong. My mind wants nothing at all to do with those nasty people looking like monkeys while dashing around throwing a ball around. I know that that sounds incredibly nerdy and lame, but that's how I feel about it. And I don't really know if I want to change. And I totally just realized that this entry is a complete repeat of this one.
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Along with having anxieties about physical education, I've also been having post Oscars anxiety, or POA. I should totally make that a new term, because I've experienced it more than once. I think it has to do with the fact that the Oscars is such a big event and that I get so excited about it. Then, when the ending comes, it's just like, "Okay, that's the winner! Good night!" I mean, that's so like.... CLIMAX! BOOM! DONE! Uh... yeah.... I mean, they could at least have some winner interviews or something afterwards.
One year, because I had missed the beginning of the Oscars, I actually called people to see if they had taped it. That's how crazy those awards get me. I must sound totally obsessed and dorky by saying this. I really don't have an exact reason why the Academy Awards cause me such anxiety, but they just do!
Okay, I'm officially nuts.
February 28, 2005 at 10:16 PM
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That is really interesting. I'm guessing your a teen. I haven't felt that much anxiety since I was in jr high. It's very normal teenage brain. It gets better- wayyyy better. I like your jazz and sorrow illos.
Yeah... soon you'll never have gym again and you can get fat eating ramen and sitting in front of your computer for the 20 hours a day you aren't in class.
I was cleaning the counters at work with pledge--they're not wood, but its all I had. And they were secretly filthy. So I couldn't stop cleaning them, and thought of you.
Wasn't Hillary Swank's dress miserable?
Well, I'm not sure it has to do with my age. I've been this way in gym class since I was like six.
And I actually did like Hillary Swank's dress. :P
Nope, I didn't like Hillary's dress either. The back was cool but the front was just too high.
Hey Ive always thought that too, same with any activity that involves bouncing or throwing things back and forth. Ive always thought they were boring and lack the uniqueness of sport. They are like some retarded game. Also for competetion, I also avoid them as well. It irks me to have a lot of sweating men jumping and getting bloody physical, pushing, shoving, kicking you in the nads if not on purpose.
I would love to rock climb one day, hang glide would be awesome, bungee jumping too.