I do not like basketball. At all. Haven't since about sixth grade when I had an awful experience on my school's basketball team (yeah, I'm fully aware that I sucked, but IT WAS SIXTH GRADE! We were supposed to be learning how to play the game! How the hell was I supposed to learn when I played maybe two minutes the whole season and was always, ALWAYS the girl who had to sit out during practice drills? *Ahem* I digress...)
So anyway, I don't like basketball. Don't play it, don't watch it, don't follow it.
But.
B talked me into filling out an NCAA bracket for the pool at work. I've never done one before. I spent approximately 10 minutes making my picks and made more of them based on gut feelings than on any knowledge of the teams. I turned in mine and B's, paid my buy-in, and forgot about it for a couple of days.
Then Thursday afternoon I got curious. I used my handy dandy smartphone to look up the results thus far and it happened: I got sucked in.
I enjoy checking the standings far more than I should. I updated our brackets six times during the first round. I've book marked ESPN.com so I can quickly find out scores. I get irritated when the teams I picked lose. B spent all evening with basketball games on and it didn't even bother me. IIm antsy for second round scores to start rolling in. I'm getting far more joy out of being one point ahead of B than I should be (hey, I figure we're probably both out of the running for any money, so we might as well play for spousal bragging rights).
None of this means that I like basketball now. It simply means that I have a sickness. A sickness I won't get over it until April 4.
So anyway, I don't like basketball. Don't play it, don't watch it, don't follow it.
But.
B talked me into filling out an NCAA bracket for the pool at work. I've never done one before. I spent approximately 10 minutes making my picks and made more of them based on gut feelings than on any knowledge of the teams. I turned in mine and B's, paid my buy-in, and forgot about it for a couple of days.
Then Thursday afternoon I got curious. I used my handy dandy smartphone to look up the results thus far and it happened: I got sucked in.
I enjoy checking the standings far more than I should. I updated our brackets six times during the first round. I've book marked ESPN.com so I can quickly find out scores. I get irritated when the teams I picked lose. B spent all evening with basketball games on and it didn't even bother me. IIm antsy for second round scores to start rolling in. I'm getting far more joy out of being one point ahead of B than I should be (hey, I figure we're probably both out of the running for any money, so we might as well play for spousal bragging rights).
None of this means that I like basketball now. It simply means that I have a sickness. A sickness I won't get over it until April 4.
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