#56 - breakage

aah... i love the smell of freshly broken strings in the morning. okay, not really, but for some reason it's really fun when you break strings on your tennis racket... even more fun if you break it a la serena williams and smack it down into the court, but i broke mine the old fashioned way.

usually, i'm not really interested in tennis for competition, and i don't very much like playing with strangers (like, pick-up basketball or something), but for some reason i was at the courts on friday just serving and playing the backboard and this random guy asked if i wanted to hit with him for a bit. usually, i just say something like, "thanks, but i'm just practicing serving" or something and decline, but for some reason i guess i was feeling confident and i agreed. anyway, i guess i should stop being so awkward about things like that, but i guess all those D.A.R.E "stay away from strangers" things they bombarded me with in elementary school got etched in my brain somehow. anyway, the point is that the guy hit pretty hard with some wicked spin (and actually i was pretty proud of myself afterwards for hanging right with him in the rallies and little mini-games or whatever, since i never really get to compare myself with other tennis players), but then of course, hard-hitting = string busting.

but hey, that's what it's about eh? it feels pretty cool to be smacking consistently forcefully enough to break your strings. but then i had to do a rush job on the restringing to go to lessons on sunday, but thanks to that shop in pearl kai it was ready to go! yeah tennis!

ps - on a sidenote, today there was a mini-marathon of "tru calling" on the sci-fi channel today. i liked that show, it wasn't a good show, but it had a semi-interesting plot and a hottie for a star so it was a nice hour of tv during the weekdays. too bad it didn't last very long, i think they started running out of ideas so they brought on jason preistly (bad bad bad actor) and then from there on it was pretty damn crappy. but of course i'd still watch it for my weekly dose of eliza dushku (see above, re: hottie). anyway, it was kinda nice to see it back on tv, since it went off tv so quickly, but it was nice surprise.