219-212...the score that matters!

Well, it's Saturday! And what are Saturdays for? Catching up on things you didn't do during the week! Such as clean your room, do the laundry (neither of which I have done as of 2:30), and catch up on blog posts for the week!

Last time I posted I had just come off of a Colin Powell-Dick van Dyke-seeing the President high, which managed to last all the way through work the next day! Especially since that night, Monday, was the much-awaited RNC-DNC softball game! We were all pretty excited about it, despite the fact that we hadn't won in a few years. The communications department assigned interns to come up with slogans for signs and to make them...of course, they had to be approved, and some of our more interesting ones were vetoed. But we still had some pretty good ones to work with! So after work, we all donned our AWESOME "Team 44" jerseys (as in, 44th president...), and made the somewhat interesting journey to the softball field.

After an interesting 7 innings, the Dems lost 15-3...which was pretty bleak. But I don't think anyone can deny the fact that we had the most spirited fans, the best signs, and the most awesome cheers! The sign that I held said: "RNC Softball Equipment: $2000. After-party at the Voyeur: $1946.25. DNC Domination: Priceless." Another said "219-212...the score that matters" (which in case you were wondering was the House vote on the healthcare bill). When it became pretty apparent that we weren't going to recover from our horrible loss, we just started trying to irritate the Repubs as much as we could! From chanting "We Passed Healthcare" (to which they responded "Repeal Healthcare," to which we counter-responded, "It Still Passed") to cheering "Oooooooo-bama!" when a batter swung to the slightly more obnoxious "O-O-O-Obama, O-O-Barack Obama," we definitely had a great time! Even though we lost by 12 points, we were encouraged by the fact that empirical evidence shows that when we lose the softball game we win the subsequent election, and I'm assuming that the magnitude of our loss will transfer into November! But don't quote me on that! :)

However, after the game was over both sides decided to go to the same place, which is always interesting. It was basically like a junior high dance...the red shirts were on one side and the blue shirts were on the other, with a "no man's land" by the bathrooms! I guess not even the most American of sports can trump partisanship!

In other sports-related news, in case you didn't know both the NBA Finals and the FIFA World Cup are occurring at the same time! Which means that it is very difficult to get any work done without becoming distracted by sports talk. Everyone in my department has filled out a bracket for the World Cup (GO USA AND VIVA ESPANA!), and I'm finding that I'm quickly becoming a soccer fan. As far as the NBA Finals go, I really couldn't care less about basketball, but I have to rep the East Coast since I'm surrounded by LA-ers and cheer for the Celts!

I guess that's all for now...this whole catching-up-on-my-blog thing is harder than it looks!