As I was getting ready for my Fall Bacchanalia on Saturday with a Star Wars marathon (the good trilogy, in its unadulterated original release form), I realized that September’s been a pretty busy month for me.
DISCLAIMER: The bottom (right) edge of my camera lens is scratched up from spinning and sliding my phone around on various surfaces, so some of these pictures may look a little hazy in spots. Someday I’ll have a (5G Sprint?) iPhone with a recessed lens and I won’t have this problem.
Labor Day weekend was kicked off in 90-degree heat at the U of M/WMU football game.
It was very hot and sticky, and then all of a sudden it was very wet and the game got rained out. Whoops.
The next weekend, I found myself getting up at an obscenely early hour for another noon game. This one was in much cooler weather in East Lansing. I went with three friends, two of which were Spartans. I loved tailgating with my friend’s family and watching the game. MSU stadium is a completely different feel from the Big House.
The weekend after that was the WMU/CMU football game. That one I watched at my parents house while they were out of town (someone’s got to feed the cats). Western won the first game against Central in 5 years, and we pretty much spanked them. I almost felt bad for my brother and my mom, both of whom went to Central. It’s going to be a fun Thanksgiving this year.
After that weekend, there was…you guessed it…more football. CMU went up against MSU, and I watched it with her at a bar where we got served by the worst waitress I’ve had in a while. We were in no man’s land, and it was pretty bad. When it takes 20 minutes to get a beer in a slow section, something’s not right. Prior to the football, though, was the Park 2 Park run. As I’ve written before, I was still nursing an injury and was limited to the 5K. Even that proved a little on the hard side; I finished in 30:50, for my second worst pace of the year. My friend, however, who spent the previous 3 months training finished her half marathon. I was beyond proud of her!
4 straight weekends of football demanded some kind of counter-balance, hence the Star Wars marathon. I had come down with some kind of cold in the week prior, and although hitting the Airborne hard seemed to do the trick, it meant that my Fall Bacchanalia was postponed. I rounded up what Oberon could be had at Meijer, threw together some killer garlic shrimp, and had a little gathering with a few friends. Sam later staked his claim to the empty beer bucket.
All in all, a good month. How was September for the rest of you? Anybody else ready for fall?
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