softball, Luns, and busy days.

[katster]

tired, bed, but first the softball update.

I went 1-3 in the first game, and 1-2 with a walk in the second. I also got knocked over both games. In the first game, I was fielding a throw at first and trying to get control of the ball when the runner just smacked right into me. She was safe in the end, I didn't have control of the ball when I fell over.

Second incident occurs at first as well, only this time I was running after my walk. The player at the plate slams the ball hard and I start going thinking it's going ot be a grounder. Nope, sharp line drive right to the shortstop, and he nearly picks me off first. That time, I got a glove in my face for my troubles, just under the right eye. Under the glasses, somehow. And an elbow to the shoulder. I was lucky, he was trying desperately to deflect the ball away from me. So I ended up safe, but...

Ah well, it ain't softball unless somebody gets dirty. ;)

And then I had a bit of dinner with Luns, and he noticed the book I'm reading (which is the Illuminatus trilogy, but I've only just started so no spoilers...), and made a comment about American society being the illiterati. ;) ...for some reason that amused me, so I figured I'd share.

and now it is time for me to go to bed, and ignore these papers I've printed out for proofing, because I have to be up at six AM. It's going to be brutal, the next couple of days. ;) (Wednesday is up at five-thirty AM, because I have to be to UCSF by eight-thirty. Family meeting about my mother.)

anyway, this here is the katster, signing off.

Comments

[mindme.livejournal.com]

I've tried to read the Illuminatus trilogy twice. It's one of those books where if you can get past 100 pages you're a better man (or woman). It starts off pretty coherent but then the narrative just becomes unhinged and it's like the rest was written by the authors after they dropped a lot of acid.

[chamelaeon.livejournal.com]

I personally consider it to be one of the best books I've ever read - not really due to the literature's sake, obviously. The literary sources it draws from are many and varied, from Joyce to Lovecraft to perhaps a tiny bit of Hunter S. Thompson, but it's not that impressive a book, in terms of just a writing critic's point of view.
I feel it shines first in its ability to be coherently incoherent, which is a neat trick but you've got to be willing to ride along with the chaos for a while, and definitely put up with some rereadings. And then it also functions as a kind of literary Rorschach test. Not to the extent of Joyce's Ulysses - which is a book you can throw any metaphor ever at and make it stick - but more along the lines of drawing to the surface and revealing tendencies due to what you expect to happen in the book.

Which all sounds like a buch of hooey, I guess. I don't know, but I flew through Illuminatus! and I'm still stuck on page three of Atlas Shrugged, so take this as you will. ^_~

[ladycalliope.livejournal.com]

I think I might have made it past page 100 before I said to myself, "WTF am I reading this drivel?"

I will never get those hours back again.

Hah!

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

I can't read either of them, so there!

And thanks for telling us how you are, Kat. I had noticed your absence, as it were, but figgered it was due to school.

You got hit at first?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Maybe the rules are different in softball, but in baseball, the runner cannot slam into the baseman. Slide hard to distract him, yes.

Collisions are acceptable at home, as Ray Fosse can attest to after having Pete Rose try to knock him into next week.

So give us some stats! How do you bat? Do you play anything other than first?

Illuminatus is one of the greatest books I've ever read.

Re: You got hit at first?

[katster.livejournal.com]

Maybe the rules are different in softball, but in baseball, the runner cannot slam into the baseman. Slide hard to distract him, yes.

Was an accident, I was scrabbling around by the base trying to get my hands on the ball (which somebody had thrown in the dirt), and she accidentally whammed me. It being an accident, and because I didn't have control of the ball, she was safe.

Collisions are acceptable at home, as Ray Fosse can attest to after having Pete Rose try to knock him into next week.

Yeah, this is the one base we're we're careful about collisions. All plays at the plate are forces, and runners run to a different base than the fielder makes forces at. Trying to avoid bone-crunching collisions as much as possible, since the catchers in softball wear no gear.

So give us some stats! How do you bat? Do you play anything other than first?

Well, stats aren't really kept in our league, my hitting stats I report here are highly unofficial. We're a very easygoing softball league, even if we have screwy league rules.

I am right handed all the way around (both bat and field). I'm not the best hitter, but I'm not the worst either, I've hit the ball out of the infield a few times, and while I'm a slow baserunner, I'm also a savvy one and have managed to take an extra base despite my slowness. :)

First is my position, and nine times out of ten, that's where I'm playing. I catch most things thrown at me, and those I don't catch, I'm usually good at containing so the runner doesn't get further than first. If I'm not playing first, I'm usually at third or catcher (although catcher has been fscking with my knees as of late). First is my absolute favourite, though. (It's probably no surprise Will Clark was by far my favourite player in baseball growing up.)

Illuminatus is one of the greatest books I've ever read.

I'm seeing it's relatively hit and miss so far, y'either really like it or really hate it. So far, I'm finding myself on the really like side of the fence, but I'm still not even one hundred pages in yet.

-kat