Topic Archive: Tennis

Tucson, Wildcat Winter Invitational

So, I’m back from Tucson, and missed the internet. The event was really awesome; most organized of all the events I’ve ever been to. I started off, first day, really hurting my arm in my first doubles match against Utah State. Don’t know what is wrong, it just hurt really bad. So, after that, I got to play a total of three full matches: I lost in singles to UofA (6-3), my first match after hurting my arm. First serve gone, kind of a wimpy serve for the whole match. My slices really hurt to hit and he caught on quick. I lost in singles against UTEP (6-2) on the second day, but I was in total pain the entire time. We started early morning, had no time to really down some pills and stretch it out. After some pain relievers kicked in the second match, against ASU, was more promising. Although I did not have a good serve, I still was playing well otherwise. But again, the slices weren’t working as well, and the guy liked to come in alot. Also, lobs weren’t my (or my shoulders) forte, so he got lots of overheads to smash when I was on the defense. The match with ASU was still a good one, the shots I could hit were working well. We got last place, 11th.

But, the trip was still worth it. I had good friends to go with, which made it way more fun. The hotel was a nice stay, got to relax in the hot tub, etc.

There will be pictures up soon on this page (watch Twitter)…

This Weekend

So, it’s Monday, and I should be working, but I’m not, yet. I just thought maybe writing a post might make me feel better – you know, I hope some people read these!

Anyways, this weekend was a blast. I haven’t had an entertaining weekend in a while! I hung out with friends, went to a birthday party, watched and played way too much tennis (I’m sunburned). But, it was just what I needed to start off the summer, usually they start off with really nothing.

But work, man, I do have a lot of work ahead of me, and since this weekend went so well, I am not in rhythm – but I will get back to it, the beautiful thing about work is that once I get started (coding, etc) I just keep going and it makes the day fly by pretty fast.

I woke up today thinking, again, about where I am going in my life. I know, I think about it a lot. But, over the last few days I’ve really discovered (re) how different I am, and that although I love that I do thing and believe things differently, I am also always fighting the feeling of fitting in. But, that was a random thought, just something on my mind this morning…

I also start a new job this summer, doing website stuff of course, so that’s new. Here at NMSU also, so no problems I forshadow happening. I’m really looking forward to the time I will get to spend with Ashley. She’s out doing her thing of course, but we’ve set some time to do some fun things, and I just hope we get to do them and they aren’t … stressful at all.

But, other than that, here are some pictures from my phone…

Campus Championships, 2009