Writing dreams

[jethrien]

Last night, I dreamt that trinityvixen had the writing group over to her house for a sleepover. (Not her actual apartment, her parents' house. Like we were all 13 or something. Not that I've ever been to her house, or even met her parents.) I kept waking up, but no one else was awake yet. Finally, I ended up pulling books off her shelf and reading them. There was a story she'd written when she was younger - it showed promise, but was pretty bad. Anakin Skywalker made a cameo appearance. There was also a series of books on writing. I'd just pulled the first one, on plot, when everyone else woke up. I was going to make waffles, but trinityvixen's mom beat me to it. (I've never met trinityvixen's mom. But in the dream, she was a very nice lady. Trinityvixen is very nice, so I'm sure her real mom is, too.) There were waffles and muffins and danish. I was a little worried that I was eating too much, but I didn't have the willpower to turn down the double-chocolate muffin

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

This was why I was always fantastic at soccer and basketball. I'd run at girls, and they run the hell away. It helps being the tallest.

Also why I loved fencing and lacrosse (but only with the boys' rules).

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Wait, there were different rules for lacross for boys and girls in gym class? I vaguely recall there being a few differences in the actual college sports, but don't recall there being that many rules that could be changed when I was in gym class. Of course, the only rule back then seemed to be "hurl the ball with as much force as you can towards someone else". My body blocked an awful lot of lacross balls in those days.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Ivy went to a prep school. I suspect they were more serious about using the right rules than we were. My school did lacrosse for about a week, and when no one could catch the damn ball, gave up.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

True - in high school, they had a men's lacrosse team and a women's lacrosse team (my brother played - in most games after the first quarter they checked each other enough that you couldn't see the uniforms anymore - it was always the browns versus the browns).

I didn't have gym in high school, though. We had one semester of traditional "gym," which had three units - fitness center, ropes course and swimming. The rest of the time, you just had to do a sport.

In middle school I think we did some lacrosse, but I doubt it was by any uniform rules.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Men's and women's lacrosse have hugely different rules. For one - there is no out of bounds in women's; there is in men's. The pouch of the lacrosse stick in women's is required to be shallow enough so that you can see the ball over the top of the plastic. In men's, it can be deep enough that you can almost see the top of the ball below the plastic. This means that in women's and men's, cradling is an entirely different thing - it's a lot harder to drop the ball in men's.

The biggest difference, though, is that checking is allowed in men's, but not in women's. This means that men's lacrosse is a rough-and-tumble sport (fun, in a painful sort of way), and women's lacrosse is all about technique and strategy.

Give me men's lacrosse anyday. Cause if I can't check, I have no advantage at all.