I hate Sports

I hurt. In many places all at the same time. I'm not entirely sure why. I know it's because I'm sick and this is a part of it but I'm not entirely sure if there was anything to trigger this outbreak. I was looking for boots... more on that later... when my entire left foot was really in a lot of pain, for no apparent reason. So I came home and other parts also began to hurt. A lot. Whatever.

Jeff came today. Jeff is my family councilor. Sometimes I like him and sometimes I don't. I haven't been seeing him much in the past few months because I've been sleeping till 2 and he's usually gone by then but since the increase in my meds, my sleep schedule's become more normalized (which is a bitter-sweet thing I suppose, since I'm now sleepy by Lupin III) and so this morning I was actually up around 11:30. Also Brian stayed home sick today so he also was in the meeting. Long story short, the meeting with Jeff was rather iffy on a whole but did accomplish one thing in that it made Brian recognize that lately he has been acting obstinately and it was ticking me off. :)

Also one more thing should be mentioned before I continue. Last Saturday night my Dad announced that we were now allowed to get a Video game system. Allow me to explain something, my Dad has been morally against video games for the past 17 years. Yes, since I was born. He has NEVER allowed us to have video games. He refused to even let other people buy them for us. The only reason we ended up with gameboys was because when my sister went into foster care she was bought one by her foster parents and brought it back with her. And after that my Dad couldn't stop them. So for him to decide to allow a video game system in the house would be like Saddam Hussein announcing of his own free will that George W. Bush is his best friend and that he is now a Christian. It's possible, there may even be reasons for it but it's VERY unlikely and quite shocking if it ever would happen. I think my Dad had an about-face of views though because he played Pokemon Stadium at the Peterson's during New Years and became addicted to it. Funny though that is.

So yeah, I now get to have an N64. Not that I know how to hook up... and I don't think it even actually DOES hook up to the upstairs TV because it's so old... But it's an exciting prospect nevertheless. If only there wasn't a hocky game on tonight...

I would just like to say that I hate sports. Not usually the games themselves, just that they're televised. Don't get me wrong, I *love* Baseball. I've played baseball, I understand it and I enjoy it. I used to be a big Phillies fan except when I moved here and slowly lost the idea of identifying myself as a Pennsylvanian -- then I became a Yankees fan to piss off my Dad. (Who's been a Red Sox fan since he was a kid) And around 7th/8th grade I became a Red Sox fan. And there's nothing like going to a baseball game. But there is no way that I would memorize all the different coaches, players, etc of the past 20 years even of just the Red Sox, nvm the rest of the teams. And while during the season I'll watch maybe 60-75% of the games, I would not ever attempt to watch every single one. Also, I wouldn't bother to watch a baseball game outside of the Red Sox unless it was a) important from a Red Sox standpoint (such as if the Yankees lose they don't get to go to playoffs) or b) the World Series. And I would never watch a televised version of any other league. And baseball is my favorite sport. My Dad though is not a huge baseball fan and while he likes the Red Sox, he doesn't love them. Yet he still watches more games, knows more stats, and actually watches games other than Red Sox ones. Which is somewhat of an enigma to me. Now let's move onto another sport; hockey. I like hockey. I've been to an Ice Cats game, I know the rules I understand what's going on. I do not however know the names of players, plays, and I don't have a favorite NHL team. Also, while I'm ok with going to a game in person, watching one on TV is beyond me. But at least I don't generally want to scream just because it's on. My Dad though... He likes hockey like I like Inuyasha. He goes out of his way to see every single Bruin's match, knows all the players, past and present, all the coaches, players of other teams and would rather watch a hockey match (even one without the Bruins in it) than well, anything else. To me it makes no sense. And then there's football... I hate football with a passion. I probably wouldn't be so passionately against football except that I'm a color guard Captain and after 4 years of having to be at virtually every single freaking game. . . Yeah. That, and my Dad is obsessed with it. He watches every single college, and NFL match. Schedules on the calendar all of the Patriot's games (which he also does with Bruin games by the way) and knows about 50% of the players in the entire leagues. It scares me. I hate football. Normally my thought would be that I don't like it because I don't understand it, but the more I learn about it, the more I can't stand it. I hate football. But what's even scarier -- my Dad is probably only an average sports fan and there are guys out there even more obsessed than he is.

I have to assume however that sport is more or less a guy thing. While I've met many women sports fans, there are none who are really like guy sports fans and none who know as much about their favorite sport as a guy would. This is because for whatever strange reason guys have this different section in their brains that causes them to like sports a lot and while they can't even remember what they had for breakfast they can recall who was the coach of the Denver Broncos during 1986. And if you're a girl, 9 times out of ten you'd look at that and just be like, "why?" and if you're a guy you're probably silently thinking the answer or looking it up. Of course I say *probably*, there are of course exceptions to this idea just as not every single guy is obsessed with sports. I'm just pointing out that as a general rule guys are much more likely to be interested in sports to a very large degree than girls are. I don't know why. But then, there are probably many things that guys don't get about girls.

In any case, I'm just venting because my Dad has become increasingly obsessed with sports and it bugs me. (Mostly because it interferes with the things I want to do and he wants to talk to me about it) Also, I think it's more of a genetic thing than environmental because many girls grow up in Sports-oriented envrionments and while they may be more inclined to like sports than most girls, they still won't enjoy them as much as guys. (Again I overgeneralize things. This is a habit of mine that often gets me into trouble, especially with my father but at the same time serves as a very a good literary tool and thus I haven't made a big effort to change it, only to be aware that I do it.)

Well I think that's enough for now. I'm going to go play something. Or do some writing. Whichever.

~CC