Not the Best Soccer Coach Ever

[przed]

Had my second game as coach tonight. Good news: we scored two goals! Bad news: the other team scored seven. :( Still, the kids had fun, and I think I've now figured out who our strong players are so I can tweak our lineup a bit. (I went with a mostly random order tonight, which led to all the strongest/biggest players being on one rotation, and all the smallest/weakest players on another. Shall definitely work at balancing it a bit.)

In other news, it's been a long, looooong day. It went a little something like this:

3 a.m., woken by surprise chronic pain flare

5 a.m., give up on sleep completely, get up and check email/LJ

5:30 a.m., start getting ready for Tae Kwan Do

6 to 7 a.m., Tae Kwan Do, in deference to the already brutal heat the instructor doesn't start with our usual jogging warm up, but the half hour of doing walking and horse stance punches and blocks across the dojo he settles on instead is actually more exhausting

7 to 7:30 a.m., run home and get ready for the day

8 a.m., work on not terribly exciting documentation

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., back to back meetings, with a break for lunch

5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner, prep for game

7:30 to 8:30 p.m., game

8:30 to 9 p.m., drop off nets at soccer club office, hightail it back home to drop off Ros and the Sweetie

9:30 to 11 p.m., acupuncture appointment (moved back from the usual 8:30 to accommodate soccer)

11:30 p.m., arrive back home, collapse

Apart from the chronic pain flare, which I hope I can knock back in the next day or so, this is pretty much what my Tuesdays are going to look like for the remainder of the summer. Oh. My.

In other news, I've made a generic footie icon from not-really-generic picture of a certain member of Take That. (Do try and look shocked.)

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Hah, I bet you just lazed around the house from 11:30pm to midnight, when you could have been doing something. *whistles*

It all sounds exhausting and interesting and exhausting...

[przed.livejournal.com]

You got me! Just lazing about in that spare half hour I had. ;-)

On the positive side, I've only got one day a week like this. Your schedule puts mine to shame. (Did I see you did 11 Spanish tests in a day?)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you did. Summer school is a bit of a bastard.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Whenever I have one of those "some day I'll go back and finish my Film Studies Ph.D., just for fun" moments, I'm going to go back and read one of your posts about this Master's and I'm sure the moment will pass. Quickly.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I like to think this would be different IF I wasn't working full time... and studying something that actually interests me as an area of study. Basically, skip the professional degrees. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I would love to have the leisure to study Mandarin and a few other Asian languages. But I think I've lost my stomach for both Film Studies and its critical pomposity, and professional degrees in my field. (I may in the next year or so finally do my professional designation, more to stay marketable than anything, but at least I've been assured that as long as you're reasonably sharp you can get through it in a few months and with minimal swatting up.)

Can I stop being an adult now? Pleeeeeze?