MARINERS WIN!

I had an interview today. I think it went well? I guess I'll find out later.

It ended a little before 4pm, so I went to the library after it, and sat there reading about Roger Maris for a while. I had wanted to read the Sadaharu Oh biography I saw there last time I was there, but it wasn't there this time. They did have Warren Cromartie's biography, but I didn't notice it until I was putting back the Maris one... I guess I'll read that next time.

Walked down to the Mariners - Blue Jays game. Drew was running late so I just left him a ticket in Will Call and went in. Got my Ivar's and got up to my seat in time for lineups and everything. The guys who have the seats next to me were actually both there today, so I talked to them for a while, though I still think they think I'm some sort of freaky obnoxious girl. Drew showed up about ten minutes after the game started.

It was a great game! I ♥ PAT BORDERS! If I were Batgirl, Pat Borders would be my Boyfriend Of The Day every day, except for when... wait, I just realized, nobody else on the Mariners is really worth being Boyfriend of the Day. Yeesh. No wonder I've taken to rooting for other teams. Give me a John Olerud, a Joe Mauer, a Mark Teixeira, a Hank Blalock, a Jarrod Washburn, a Brendan Donnelly, a Jason Kendall, a Jason Varitek, a Mike Myers, hell, a Jason Bay or a Pat Burrell or a Jim Edmonds or David Eckstein... just... players I can actually care about and want to succeed! I guess I am kinda pulling for Randy Winn and Raul Ibanez this year -- they do consistently well but never really get the press for it. And I'm hoping Aaron Sele and Gil Meche can keep up their last few starts. Actually, come to think of it, Jeremy Reed is probably the best candidate for Backup Boyfriend of the Day at this point. If he continues to play like this he could very well end up AL Rookie of the Year.

Oh, so anyway, the Mariners won tonight, 3-0. Pat Borders was 2-2 and scored a run. Boone looked like a total slowpoke on the basepaths, getting caught running twice, though he did have a nice triple. Ichiro made some excellent plays, but sadly I think we're too used to those by now. However, we're not used to the Mariners winning by now, so that was nice. I need to go to another Tacoma game sometime (prolly when Oren is up here next weekend).

After the game Drew and I went to hang out with one of his friends; we sat around and ate some food and talked about 80's music and stuff. Was fun. Then Drew gave me a ride home, and I've been catching up on all the online things I ignored all day.

Stupid moldy spaghetti sauce

I went to the gym today and swam for 45 minutes with Heidi and Megan. I suck at swimming straight and I accidentally scraped my arm on the side of the pool while doing a lap of freestyle. It didn't look too bad at the time, but now it looks like I have a reasonably large gash in my arm. Sigh. I think I'll mostly stick to swimming on my back and either kicking or doing arm pulls.

D&D got cancelled today, but I didn't know that until this afternoon. I bought brownie mix for it, now I feel sort of silly -- guess I'll find some other excuse to make brownies. Anyone want me to bake you brownies?

I wanted to make tortellini for dinner, but I did the classic college kid thing of boiling the water, putting in the tortellini, and THEN noticing that there was a tiny bit of white mold gathering on the sauce stuck to the top of the sauce jar. Yuck. Well, I wiped off the mold and the rest of the sauce still looked and smelled good, but jgoodman forwarded me a link about how mold may only show a tiny bit but it gets little bits into all of your food and produce mycotoxins which could make you very very dead.

So I threw out the sauce and ate my tortellini plain. It wasn't actually that bad.


On another note, I think I may go to New York City for the Fourth of July unless there's somewhere else I'm supposed to be instead. The sad part is that it sounds like some of my NYC friends won't be around that weekend, but the good part is that it's one of the few times I could actually go see both the Mets and the Yankees on a week/weekend trip to NYC. I'd really like to just be in Yankees stadium for the historical aspect of it, you know? I'm not a Yankees fan, I swear... not this generation, anyway.

So, um, is there somewhere else I'm supposed to be for the fourth of July? Suggestions welcome.