Tomorrow, the Dream return to Philips Arena to play Connecticut. The Dream have dropped their last four games and have the longest active losing streak in the W. Connecticut has lost their last two, so somebody needs a win.
After that, the Dream are off from July 24th to August 3rd! That's a 10-day layoff, and they go to Phoenix. Then a 7-day layoff after that with a game on August 10th against Indiana. The good news? Atlanta will get a chance to heal. The bad news? The Dream will be rustier than a old hinge at a swap meet coming off those long layoffs. There hasn't been a team in the W this season that's had a 10 day layoff. Angel McCoughtry will get a chance to firm up her travel plans and Erika de Souza will tweet pictures of Brazilian food, but what's going to happen to any kind of cohesiveness? A good question to ask Señor Fred.
Truly, the schedule gods hate us.
I have to get over the issue of getting to these games. I usually leave after work and fight my way through the traffic, then end up paying for a parking spot that I don't want because the other options aren't available. I've decided that I'm going to increase my discretionary cash fund and just suck it up and deal.
I have a new article for Swish Appeal on women's vs. men's basketball attendance that I have to get finished. I have the data, but it hasn't been started yet.
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In my internet life, I have three hobbies/obligations:
a) women's basketball
b) an on-line baseball sim, and
c) an Internet writing forum. What are we writing? It's three syllables, and two of those syllables start with the letter "F". I'll give you the definition:
"is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a
certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, tv show, movie, etc, and
create their own story based on it."
And no, I'm not going to tell you what that novel/TV show/movie/etc. is.
Right now, I'm thinking about ditching two of these hobbies - b) and c). I hate to ditch b) because I basically begged to be a part of b). I managed to turn a 67-95 team around to finish 80-82 in the first year that I managed the team, but...well, I think my time could be better spent elsewhere. My current plan is to do three sim seasons with the team, and then split.
The other obligation is more problematic, as I've been with it for about 14 years. I met my wife in that forum. (She split lonnnnnnnng ago.) It's becoming a forum of old people, as the novel/TV show/movie/etc hasn't been popular for years now. I know two people on that forum who have actually died since I started following it. That's scary.
I've also been writing a massive serialized thing-that-I've-been-writing for about 3 years now. It's about 145 parts long and about the size of five Gone With The Winds. I'd like to finish it, but I don't really see what the point of finishing it is, because:
a) I'm basically writing it for a bunch of acquaintances now, and
b) editing it for publication for realsies would take months.
Work has now added a fourth obligation - studying for a job advancement exam. I don't need to pass it - my continued employment isn't contingent on it - but management has indicated that they'd like to see me study for it, and I'd like to please them as I like my job more or less.
But trust me - when I can ditch b) and c) for good, they're gone.
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