BASKETBALL DIARIES

As the weather gets cold, I get gimpy... lately, my ankle has been killing me! It was so bad today that I limped the whole 13 blocks home. It's the same ankle where I had a third degree tendon tear from a long time ago. I was supposed to be MIA for about 2 months after it happened. But at age 13 and dreaming about going into the NBA, I thought I was invincible. I think I stayed off my ankle for about 2 WEEKS! And now I'm paying the consequences. But whatever, it's like a battle scar and I cherish it and the memory dearly...

I had been going one-on-one with this guy, JB. He didn't think I could beat him in basketball. The score was 10-1, my lead. On my last point, I thought I'd get a little fancy and do a crazy crossover and hopefully break some ankles. Unfortunately, the only ankles that got "broken" that day were mine. I slipped on a puddle of water due to the rainy weather that day and ate it on the hardwood floor. I don't remember it hurting very much, though it swelled about five times my regular ankle size. It was so horrible looking that it made my mother cry, and she never cries. Needless to say, I never did get to finish that game... but we can reasonably infer that I won. :)

As an aside, I got my crap paper back today. The professor gave me an A. An A?!?!?! The one that I wrote in a rush so that I could go mingle with some hot boys?! I almost wanted to tell her to change it because I didn't deserve that high of a grade. Almost.