Bounce, Set, Spike!!!

Spending most of my weeks, as I do, at the lab bench, the weekends are beginning to come something of the exercise part of my week. Saturday afternoon soccer (sorry, football!) games are now a regular thing and there is usually enough of us to play 6 a side and get a decent run about at the same time. Last night, the group all stayed after in the moonlight and had a BBQ - was very pleasant indeed. Well, to add to that, Sunday's now looks set to become volleyball day. This goes back to the BIochemistry Department picnic when a few of us got together to play a bit of a game and one of the number - a Dr in the BSB building (where the other half of the Biochem. department is located) by the name of Jeff Hansen told us that he was trying to get a game together to play in the annual Intramural league that they have here at MUSC.

This is split into two sections - the "serious" competition and the recreational one. As you can guess, we fell into the latter category. So today was our first match - owing to schedules, we had been unable to meet to have a practice so this was one heck of a way to have a dry run. Basically, there was 5 of us on the team (I believe a team of more than 4 is required - some of those who had expressed an interest were unable to make it this time) and we were playing against a team of 6 (who also had a 7th man as substitute). Considering it was the first time that our team had been in the same room, and we had a few minutes to warm up and practice, I think we did pretty well. Ok, so we didn't win, alas - we lost 2 games to 0 by 30-26 and 30-24 - but as you can see, the scores were close. So its encouraging. And, of course, with my height, you can bet that i'm good at blocking and spiking! If only I could stay in that position!!!