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Aww shit, freaking awesome evening! XDD Hahaha, epic in a hilarious and adorable and fun way.
So work!bff!Alison and I went to play darts because she needed to let off some steam. And we hadn't played darts in a while because we've been all into shuffleboard, but the darts place is way more laid back than the shuffleboard place and we had a stressful sb time last time (or Alison did) so we wanted to do something that would be easy.
So we're playing and all, and I had one awesome turn but Alison pulled through and won the game in the end. Then these other guys showed up with darts, and the other board was occupied as well, and we were in between games so they were like "Are you still playing?" And they were totally nice and chill about us playing another game. Which I won!! :D
So we told them we were tied, and they were all, "Well why don't you play another so there's an ultimate winner" which was really nice of them. They were like "hey, we got this pitcher of beer, we're chillaxing" (not their exact words). And the one that looked like Joseph Gordon Levitt bet on me, because he said I had good form. XD Aka they only saw the game I won but that's cool. (The other one was hunky too but in a less obvious way. Not sure who he looked like.)
Anyway, I did win the second game, woo hoo! Happy not to let that guy down. XD Oh man, winning at darts. We're not that great so we don't play a precision game, we're not trying for the triple 20s or anything, but you need precision to win b/c you have to get to 300 exactly, and it feels SO GOOD. Even if it takes a few tries.
Anyway, the guys were playing. The one who looked like Joseph Gordon Levitt turned out to be named Joe. And other hunky one is named Iggy. Ignatius. No joke. And they were really good. Especially Iggy. God damn. He aimed for the 19 because he felt like he had a better chance than the 20, and a triple 19 is still 57 points, so what the hell. And oh my god, he was good. It was hard core. Joe said they'd played 8 times and he'd never won. (He kept that streak alive.)
So they were so nice and Alison is very friendly, so we got to chatting and Iggy was saying he's a good clutch player, and I said "You'd be a great curler" and it turns out HE'S FROM CANADA AND DOES CURL AND IS A CURLING FAN. And when I said I was a fan of curling and Kevin Martin now because of the Olympics, he was like "oh yeah, K-Mart."
WHAAAAAAT I MET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS OF K-MART IN A BAR IN NYC. BEST CITY EVER.
So like, they keep playing darts but I keep wanting to just talk about curling. XD I tried to restrain myself. Joe is from Detroit or something, I think, so he was like "I'm basically Canadian". And I asked Iggy who he was supporting at the Brier and he was confused for a sec because he was totally not expecting me to bring up the Brier. As if I would become a fan of something and not go whole hog, come on guys! So he said he's from Toronto and wants to support Ontario but they never ever win. And I was like "wait, that's Howard, right? He's totally going to win! Kevin's not there this year!" And Iggy was like "Ontario never wins" and I was like "I'm totally rooting for Koe." And he was like "Buh? . . . I can't believe you're a fan of men's curling, of all things! Not even women's curling?" And I was like "JOHNNY. MO." XDDD
OH MY GOD AWESOME. Then he said he's managed to curl a couple times since he's been here and I was like O_O And he said out on Long Island and Katie had just found this so I was all "oh yeeeah!" but I thought they didn't have dedicated ice and he said it totally was but he can't remember where exactly. OH MAN. I want to find him again so he can take me curling. (But he seemed even older than Joe and Joe just turned 30 - which is about Alison's age, I'm always so young at the places we go.)
Um, so yeah, eventually they were like "hey do you want to play teams, so you can do something other than just distract us?" (And I was all "could we play teams let's talk about curling?") And we agreed as long as it wasn't us vs them. So I ended up with Joe because I was the stronger player (hahaha.) and Iggy was the stronger player. And of course, he beat us - Alison got really psyched out and really annoyed at how badly she was doing, but I knew expectations were low, plus I was throwing right after her, plus Joe messed up a couple times so I knew I wasn't the only one. But I did manage to get some points, and we didn't lose toooo badly. XD
And Iggy wrapped up the game at 9, which was very important because I had to go to awesome Jordan Malone's awesome short track speedskating online streaming fan interview.
SO AWESOME. Such an unbelievably nice thing to do. Oh my god. I need to go to sleep except I'm still so pumped about how cute it was. I can't believe how nice and positive and generous that kid is - his teammates also, but him in particular. Travis Jayner helped out too, he's a fucking cutie. They all just seem like good guys, and the more they share of themselves, the more they seem like good guys, which is. . . not usual. OK, so Malone is a John Mayer fan but whatever. XD He's already been posting these amazing Olympics videos on his Facebook fan page and generally being precious and taking a lot of time to give back to his fans. But now he actually set up a Ustream live video chat thing, where we could message them questions.
Of course some of the fans were idiots and people kept asking for JR, which is the dumbest, most obnoxious thing ever. And yet, both Jordan and Travis kept incredibly good-humored throughout the whole thing, and never were sarcastic or anything like that, always with the positive attitude. So, so nice. I was just cooing. I was very happy I cut my darts evening short, well worth it! (Also, the subways cooperated with me beautifully, it was the best thing ever!)
They talked for like 2 and a half hours - that is, Jordan talked, Travis was mostly there to monitor the questions coming in and ask them, which was a really great idea because he could be scanning and Jordan could just talk. And he can talk! Hahaha, so cute. The littlest question would get him off on a big tangent, which was fantastic - he was just sharing stuff, rather than just limiting himself to what people asked. Also at the end Travis spoke in French which was unbelievably hot. Oh, and we got to see Jordan's absurdly lovable dog, Oly.
It was great. I love being a short track fan. The sport is so much fun to watch, and Team USA are sort of. . . wholesome? But not in a manufactured way? Just in a way we're they're all a basically nice bunch, they all get along and are pleasant. And it's great to be a fan because Jordan (and others to a much lesser extent, although all the boys are on twitter - girls seem less active there) shares so much behind the scenes stuff! Makes me happy. Even though some of them are older than me I wanna be like "Aww, they're good kids" you know?
OK I don't think I got all the alcohol out of my system. . . or maybe it is pure joy running through me at my Olympics fandom run-ins this evening. XDDD
So work!bff!Alison and I went to play darts because she needed to let off some steam. And we hadn't played darts in a while because we've been all into shuffleboard, but the darts place is way more laid back than the shuffleboard place and we had a stressful sb time last time (or Alison did) so we wanted to do something that would be easy.
So we're playing and all, and I had one awesome turn but Alison pulled through and won the game in the end. Then these other guys showed up with darts, and the other board was occupied as well, and we were in between games so they were like "Are you still playing?" And they were totally nice and chill about us playing another game. Which I won!! :D
So we told them we were tied, and they were all, "Well why don't you play another so there's an ultimate winner" which was really nice of them. They were like "hey, we got this pitcher of beer, we're chillaxing" (not their exact words). And the one that looked like Joseph Gordon Levitt bet on me, because he said I had good form. XD Aka they only saw the game I won but that's cool. (The other one was hunky too but in a less obvious way. Not sure who he looked like.)
Anyway, I did win the second game, woo hoo! Happy not to let that guy down. XD Oh man, winning at darts. We're not that great so we don't play a precision game, we're not trying for the triple 20s or anything, but you need precision to win b/c you have to get to 300 exactly, and it feels SO GOOD. Even if it takes a few tries.
Anyway, the guys were playing. The one who looked like Joseph Gordon Levitt turned out to be named Joe. And other hunky one is named Iggy. Ignatius. No joke. And they were really good. Especially Iggy. God damn. He aimed for the 19 because he felt like he had a better chance than the 20, and a triple 19 is still 57 points, so what the hell. And oh my god, he was good. It was hard core. Joe said they'd played 8 times and he'd never won. (He kept that streak alive.)
So they were so nice and Alison is very friendly, so we got to chatting and Iggy was saying he's a good clutch player, and I said "You'd be a great curler" and it turns out HE'S FROM CANADA AND DOES CURL AND IS A CURLING FAN. And when I said I was a fan of curling and Kevin Martin now because of the Olympics, he was like "oh yeah, K-Mart."
WHAAAAAAT I MET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS OF K-MART IN A BAR IN NYC. BEST CITY EVER.
So like, they keep playing darts but I keep wanting to just talk about curling. XD I tried to restrain myself. Joe is from Detroit or something, I think, so he was like "I'm basically Canadian". And I asked Iggy who he was supporting at the Brier and he was confused for a sec because he was totally not expecting me to bring up the Brier. As if I would become a fan of something and not go whole hog, come on guys! So he said he's from Toronto and wants to support Ontario but they never ever win. And I was like "wait, that's Howard, right? He's totally going to win! Kevin's not there this year!" And Iggy was like "Ontario never wins" and I was like "I'm totally rooting for Koe." And he was like "Buh? . . . I can't believe you're a fan of men's curling, of all things! Not even women's curling?" And I was like "JOHNNY. MO." XDDD
OH MY GOD AWESOME. Then he said he's managed to curl a couple times since he's been here and I was like O_O And he said out on Long Island and Katie had just found this so I was all "oh yeeeah!" but I thought they didn't have dedicated ice and he said it totally was but he can't remember where exactly. OH MAN. I want to find him again so he can take me curling. (But he seemed even older than Joe and Joe just turned 30 - which is about Alison's age, I'm always so young at the places we go.)
Um, so yeah, eventually they were like "hey do you want to play teams, so you can do something other than just distract us?" (And I was all "could we play teams let's talk about curling?") And we agreed as long as it wasn't us vs them. So I ended up with Joe because I was the stronger player (hahaha.) and Iggy was the stronger player. And of course, he beat us - Alison got really psyched out and really annoyed at how badly she was doing, but I knew expectations were low, plus I was throwing right after her, plus Joe messed up a couple times so I knew I wasn't the only one. But I did manage to get some points, and we didn't lose toooo badly. XD
And Iggy wrapped up the game at 9, which was very important because I had to go to awesome Jordan Malone's awesome short track speedskating online streaming fan interview.
SO AWESOME. Such an unbelievably nice thing to do. Oh my god. I need to go to sleep except I'm still so pumped about how cute it was. I can't believe how nice and positive and generous that kid is - his teammates also, but him in particular. Travis Jayner helped out too, he's a fucking cutie. They all just seem like good guys, and the more they share of themselves, the more they seem like good guys, which is. . . not usual. OK, so Malone is a John Mayer fan but whatever. XD He's already been posting these amazing Olympics videos on his Facebook fan page and generally being precious and taking a lot of time to give back to his fans. But now he actually set up a Ustream live video chat thing, where we could message them questions.
Of course some of the fans were idiots and people kept asking for JR, which is the dumbest, most obnoxious thing ever. And yet, both Jordan and Travis kept incredibly good-humored throughout the whole thing, and never were sarcastic or anything like that, always with the positive attitude. So, so nice. I was just cooing. I was very happy I cut my darts evening short, well worth it! (Also, the subways cooperated with me beautifully, it was the best thing ever!)
They talked for like 2 and a half hours - that is, Jordan talked, Travis was mostly there to monitor the questions coming in and ask them, which was a really great idea because he could be scanning and Jordan could just talk. And he can talk! Hahaha, so cute. The littlest question would get him off on a big tangent, which was fantastic - he was just sharing stuff, rather than just limiting himself to what people asked. Also at the end Travis spoke in French which was unbelievably hot. Oh, and we got to see Jordan's absurdly lovable dog, Oly.
It was great. I love being a short track fan. The sport is so much fun to watch, and Team USA are sort of. . . wholesome? But not in a manufactured way? Just in a way we're they're all a basically nice bunch, they all get along and are pleasant. And it's great to be a fan because Jordan (and others to a much lesser extent, although all the boys are on twitter - girls seem less active there) shares so much behind the scenes stuff! Makes me happy. Even though some of them are older than me I wanna be like "Aww, they're good kids" you know?
OK I don't think I got all the alcohol out of my system. . . or maybe it is pure joy running through me at my Olympics fandom run-ins this evening. XDDD
