A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou

Well, it's over. Two games today, both losses for me. They weren't shut-outs like I thought I was going to receive. ("Hey, you're an imposter, what are you going here?! Get out!!!) I held my own (despite the second game's misleading score.)

First game of the day, fourth for the weekend, I played with the undead. The coach for that team was awesome! He was informed. He new the rules and was all around pretty cool.

You know, there's someone in every crowd who knows the rules (or policies or gossip or whatever) and has to tell you what's going on. Someone who can't keep their goddamn mouth shut. People who you wonder, "Why must you open your mouth? Is it to show off? Is it to prove you know more than me? Is it to bolster your own ego?" But this guy was the antithesis of all that. In fact, most of the poeple I played were as cool as this guy. (If you guessed Stinky-breath was the exception, you get a cookie.) Anyhoo, this guy was fantastic to play. He had ideas and strategy. And it was neat to play against his team which contained a dracula-wannabee character, some mummies and some "whites" (I'm still not sure who those guys were...KKK?). Final score: 2-4

The last game of the day (number five) and the last game of the weekend, I played a man I later found out has a Coach Ranking of 13 out of 71 in the U.S., and 169 out of 693 world wide! He was brilliant. He had all the rules memorized, and he wasn't at all know-it-all-y. He just knew stuff. He knew when a rule had been changed, what edition and what the rule was before it was changed. He was friendly, and soooo helpful. I can't give him enough praise. It feels good to know I held my own with him... and I am proud to say that the final score was 0-3.

It sounds bad, but if I figure that the third player I was up against has been playing for many years, though she admitted to having not played much lately "what with the new baby, and all", I scored 6-0. A 0-3 isn't that bad. It's also not bad, because he later said that I played well "but a bit unconventional(ly)". That's me, Miss Unconventional.

Overall wins-losses: 2-3.


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I'm sad to see Cordelia dead. I really liked Charisma's Cordelia and knowing she won't be back leaves me... speechless.