Hot day and pick-up soccer

Check out my snazzy new shin guards. When I was a kid they were ugly white plastic. Or if you were lucky, blue cloth with a sponge thing stuck in there. Now I sound like I'm 80...when I was a kid, we used pieces of brick for shin guards, etc.

Today was the first day in five months where I've shown my arms! My roomate shrieked that I HAD to go one the room because she'd just gotten sun burned up there! So I grabbed magazines and my phone. I sat up there and looked at the empire state building and watched my skin turn from albino to pasty shade #1. A good thing.

The city is alive now. It's waking up. The parks are full. I was warm today! I actually was relieved to go in a store and feel AC. It was great! Flowers in the parks. Kids running everywhre. Everyone sitting at outdoor cafes wearing big sunglasses. AWESOME.

I went to a meet up pick-up soccer game. The weather was GORGEOUS! At first the field was full w/ what looked like pro players. I asked if they were the meet up group. "the what?" "um...meet up group?" "I dunno. you can play though" the guy said in broken english. It was a violent game. One goal post got tipped over. Soon after, the cops came to break up a fight with one guy running away bloody. Hmm...Was this the meet up group? I was waling away pissed when a girl waved. The meet up group was sitting outside the fence moping. I didn't buy those shin guards for nothing.

"Wasn't there another field down there?" I said. There was talk it might be locked, fence-jumping may be involved, etc.

Still, they agreed to go. Fence was open. Field was too!

So we had about 12 people. I hadn't played soccer in 9 years. At first one of the guys asked if I played in grade school because I seemed at that "level." As I warmed up, I got better though. I eventually scored 5 goals, despite the bastards that didn't pass to me and would kick wild shots way too far from the goal. I hate guys like that. You can tell a LOT about someone from how they play soccer. I got knocked down once by the girl and again by a guy, but not badly.

One guy on the opposite team even complimented one of my goals, and he was a very good player.

WAS FUN!! :)

and last night we went salsa dancing for 5 HOURS straight at two places. It ROCKEd.