Still Here

Gone and probably forgotten by most everybody, but actually I'm NOT gone. After nationals, my focus had to switch to school and work in such a riveting way that it gave me time to recover from my "breakup" with Small Rackages. I can't, I won't stop loving her, and maybe one day I'll be able to return, but my priorities seem to have shifted themselves, or been shifted by outside forces. We'll still be friends, and I want her to do well, but it hurts to think of not being with her.

This semester (will there ever be a time in my life that isn't divided into semesters?) I'll have plenty to post about Woman Scorned, whom I will gladly be coaching again "full time". If I allow myself to daydream about it, I get caught up in planning practices, offenses, discussions, and lectures. I won't have quite the same amount of time as 2 years ago, but I think it will be enough; and I think this year, there is more internal energy from the team, so I won't have to expend as much of mine to get the results I want.

I cannot talk much about Nationals. It is too painful, too private. If I had another year, I could discuss it, because when goals are NOT achieved, that can be the most motivation one can ask. But if there is no chance at redemption, there is no hope. To let people down is one thing; to not be able to make it up to them is another. That's as much as I can say right now.

Everything else I want to talk about I'll have to break into other posts, but you can look forward to such topics as:
Ultimate Offensive Strategies
The Ups & Downs of Coaching Scorned
Scorned Results
Recipe Results (I got "The Joy of Cooking" for Christmas, as well as an Indian recipe book)
Shennanigans