fun with ice: 2 -> bind what aches

i think i nearly got into my first fight ever tonight. sadly, it was while doing one of my favorite things - soccering. it was a well-matched game, except that we had lots of subs, and they only a few. they were tired, and so maybe a little cranky. and they (well, mostly just one of the white demons) were playing a rough and dirty game - drawing fouls, playing the ball from the prone position, generally knocking and pulling, and making a big fuss over the normal scuffles of the game... near the end (they were down a point, and by now maybe frustrated?) i stepped in front of her at the boards to knock the ball back to my player. the play moved on, but while the ref's back was to us, she gave me a good two-handed shove from behind! this is ADULT women's soccer!! tier II!! i (impolitely) told her not to do that again (frankly, i was appalled, and the ref was watching us by now). i may have raised my voice and told her again. i came off the field, fuming. i think i actually wanted to make contact with her roughly - she'd been getting away with it all game! but instead, from the side i shouted that this game was just not worth that kind of dirty play. and it was over. she was the only one who wouldn't shake hands at the end of the game.

now i'm trying to write a grant proposal for to get me some bucks for a summer's worth of sublime research on health and literacy, with a nice bag of frozen vegetables tensored to my knee!