I marked it close to zero

Yesterday, Prof. Mark West delivered his SFF-auction service/event ("Mark it Zero") by hanging out with us at the bowling alley(for pictures refer here). He was fashionably twenty minutes late. I don't really know how to blog about yesterdays so bear with me. We all had a fabulous time. The outing lasted about five hours -- we parted ways when it become a chore to speak with each other around 2AM. Prof. West was pretty amazing. He sent us an e-mail after the outing with a youtube video related to each one of us. For me, he sent a link to a video titled "arashi laugh" from the conversation we had about my favorite j-pop band. The embarrassing thing about this is that I have seen most of the shows that make up that edited version of the video of Arashi members laughing. What an otaku I am.

I drank quite a bit and was gloomy by the end of the night. I can be a happy drunk or a pensive one. Too bad I was pensive last night even though I did have a great time! People were wondering if I was okay. I was definitely okay. Just glooms.

The bowling aspect of the event was a disaster for me. I had no intention of bowling or even bidding for the event...because it had the word "bowling."  If you know me, you know...anything that has to do with sports (yes, even bowling) is a no-no. Ben Potter had a great time watching me "bowl." This was our connection moment, I think. Prof. West and Joe kept teasing me asking me if I knew the point of the game was to knock down the pins...not throw the ball. Messed up. I told them to shut up. It was all good.Tina and Stephanie Yoshida were amazing bowlers! What the flip! Evan, Joe, Prof. West...I didn't really pay attention to. Average. Ben was pretty good. Sally was not bad at all! How?!

I think everybody was a little astonished at how consistently terrible I was -- maybe if Nick was there, I would have learned how to bowl properly (last year, he taught me how to play ping pong-- he is a patient teacher). This morning, I asked Sally what she thought of my bowling. She said, you were really really bad. Consistently bad. Hahah. I was really really terrible.  I knocked down 6 pins in one game (as in...the entire game...ten times you bowl or whatever, single digit score).  I improved to about 20-30 in the later games (all coincidence). Yeah.

Well, the embarrassing part of the story is from here (I don't know enough about bowling to feel shameful about my single digit score). After awhile, people didn't care to watch me bowl -- how many times can you watch a person suck? Even though it was a chore, I kept on bowling when my turn came up. If there's one thing Lily Kim is good at -- it's showing up.  So, during one turn, I went a little too close to the bowling lane...and as I threw the ball down the lane...I SLIPPED and fell on my ankle/butt! UGH. Major humiliation. According to Sally, Tina's mouth dropped and everyone was shocked (but dying...laughing). Woes. I stumbled back with a smile. It would be weird if something like that didn't happen in my woe-ful life. My ankle was fine last night (due to alcohol) but when I woke up this morning, half-drunk...I knew my ankle wasn't okay. Hopefully it's not too bad.

I must now take my limping self to the library to SPARTA.