Church Ball

I had my own little episode of "church ball" last night. I have been playing RS volleyball with our ward. At the first game of the season, our ward didn't have enough people there to do a team by ourselves, so we got combined with another ward in the same situation. The last couple of weeks have been fun and we've basically had the same people playing on our team. Last night was a whole new "ball game" -- there were 4, myself included, from our ward (it was the first time for the other 3) and the other ward had 5 show up (3 of them were there for the first time as well) So basically, we had a whole new team and we lost -- which really doesn't make me upset, its just for fun anyway. However, one of the new girls, from the other ward, was out to do serious volleyball (she probably played in high school) -- she kept swearing (under her breath, of course, but loud enough for anyone next to her in the lineup to hear) whenever she or anyone else goofed up. She was even worked up enough to go red in the face and work up a sweat. Good grief girl -- this is RS volleyball inside the church for heaven's sake! Come on! Anyway, I thought her behavior was over the top and it kind of put a damper on the evening. I liked volleyball the way it used to be -- a week ago!

Last night also fueled an idea for another list: I'm now keeping a list of mispronunciations of my first name. I hardly ever tell people my last name since the combination of the two puts people over the edge. And I hate having to do personal tutoring sessions on how to pronounce my name. However, I will say this -- I'd rather people try to say my name than totally avoid it or refer to me as "Hey, you!"