all hail vic

debates at 3 a.m.

so, i don't really have much to say today. i woke up at 3 a.m. this morning so that i could watch the final U.S. presidential debate live. it seems to me that both candidates missed some large opportunities to hurt the other in the playing field of the debate.

that's all i have to say about that.

thanks to jen for cleaning up this blog and enacting the code of comment-posting upon this land of blog.

as for the past, my frisbee team played in an open tournament this weekend - "open" tournaments mean that a team can field 7 men, if so desired. alternatively, if a team feels like fielding 7 women, that's their choice.

we, on the other hand, mixed it up. we played with 4 men and 3 women the entire time. and we only had 7 players total for the entire tournament - one of whom is nearing 50 years of age and, suffice it to say, does not have significant stamina (in comparison to somebody my age, that is).

and we finished 5th out of 10, beating many teams who had multiple subs. (our first game against a decent team ended up with us winning 15-0. our second game was 15-2. we were sufficiently excited by that.

anyway...

as for the present, i taught an absolute beginner today. the beauty of teaching absolute beginners is that you can tell if progress is being made right off the bat. when you teach intermediates or above, it can be very difficult to make any sort of improvement in language ability...

plus, at the end of today's lesson the beginner said "you are a good teacher." the fact that she had the definite article ("a") was a good sign, since czech has no definite articles.

anyway...

as for the future, this weekend i'm going to hungary to pick grapes. one of the players on my frisbee team happens to belong to a family that owns a vineyard. he invited the team to participate in the tradition this year - i'm going to hungary to pick grapes and drink a lot of wine... and if i ate pork, eat a lot of pork.

the following weekend is the final outdoor tournament of the year. it's in kimle, hungary. said player from the team sponsors the alcohol for the event, which includes mulled wine - that's hot spiced wine for those of you unfamiliar with the term - on the sidelines. at the same tournament last year, one of our players was so inebriated by the end of the first day that he couldn't play. you have to keep in mind that it was extremely cold last year and the wine was a guaranteed way to warm you up.

anyway...

as for hypotheticals, what if i was to star in a lottery commercial in the czech republic? would i get famous?

maybe i'll find out. maybe i won't. (i'm not cast yet...)

apparently i'm very photogenic.

who knew?

Posted by iain at October 14, 2004 01:39 PM