Irrelevant Frisbee Post

So another Drew ultimate alumni game has come and gone.  By all accounts it seems to have gone quite well.  I wouldn't know; I wasn't there.  And yet I've been straining all day to pick up snippets of comments and feedback like an eavesdropper.  Why do I still care?

The first time I ever blocked someone on AIM was my freshman year.  We had started kinda seeing each other (in that college quasi-relationship way) and then we had January break.  When we got back, he didn't talk to me for two weeks and then would IM me drunk, pretending nothing was up.  It's childish, I'll admit, but I was a freshman.  I blocked him.  Not so much because I didn't want to hear what he had to say.  On the contrary, I was terribly curious.  However, I just wanted him to know that I was blocking him more than I needed to know what he said.  I hoped he would get a message saying his IM wasn't delivered since he had been blocked.  But AOL doesn't do that.  So it just looks like you ignored them.

I wanted an effect of my not attending the alumni game and dance.  Or an effect from most of the alumni not attending the game.  I wanted someone to notice and someone to care.  I wanted people to think this was a problem that needed to be fixed.  I guess I haven't grown up much from freshman year.

I'm sure everyone had a better time without me there bitching about the highlight video or the decline of Bessie or anything else that I have been routinely vocal about.  And I'm not at college and I'm not on the team anymore, so there's probably no reason for me to voice my irrelevant opinion anyway.  Yet every time I try to distance myself from all of it so that I don't even know what's going on anymore, I can't quite do it.  I'm curious.  I want to know where everyone is and how things are going.  And perhaps a little part of me wants to feel vindicated.

I am on an amazing team right now.  And I just finished being on another fantastic, spirited team. My little world of Frisbee is headed in the right direction.  So it may be time to just let go after all.  I'm glad everyone who attended had fun at the game and dance.  That's what it was meant for.

Comments

[George]

I believe you are mistaken. The Alumni game in held April 1 in Fredricksburg, Madamn. You are in the spirit world now, can't go home again. I spoke to the undead witch Dr and he said 2 hours of sex listening to Oingo Boingo would cure you.

[Chris]

I second that! Drew Alumni Ultimate has as much to do with the physical school as french toast has to do with France (what does a french toaster look like? It must be very complicated). We all have great memories from Drew, but the school was the setting - the people are the key. It's a moveable feast!