Well, I think the fall/winter season is here for Victoria. There's been fog the past two mornings; it lasted all day (well, on and off) on Monday and made me really wish I had brought my camera to school to take pictures. I think fog is my favorite weather.

Unfortunately, with the fog also came the rain. So now I won't see the sun until December, when I go home for Christmas. I don't mind the rain too much, but I think I have the slightest bit of seasonal affective disorder, since on the rare sunny days in Victoria winters I'll be bouncing off the walls. I guess I'm just used to having more sunshine year-round.

We played Ultimate in the rain last night. It was an interesting time. Playing in the rain wasn't nearly so bad as playing against a team that has come over, whole, from the Thursday night league (the most competitive, hard-core league). Now, we have a few players from the Thursday night league, but we certainly don't have a whole team. We've balanced it out with a few beginners (that would be Matt and me!) so we're not totally kicking every other team's ass. We have won all of our other games; but they've been pretty close. So for one team to come in and kick our asses 20-0 or whatever the score ended up being by the time our hour was up, it's a bit annoying. I think we barely even touched the frisbee for the first ten points. So, instead of playing a fun team game, we just chased the other team around in the rain for an hour, mostly.

I wonder what that team was even getting out of the Tuesday night league; did they need an ego boost because they're utterly destroying every team they come against? Who knows.

Anyway, I hope we don't have to play them again soon. Their bearded woman scares me.

Playing in the rain really isn't too bad; it's still warm enough that although you'll be soaked through (I decided not to wear my sweater so it would be dry after the game; I played in my t-shirt), you're still quite warm from all the running around. Even my shoes stood up OK, which I was surprised about. I had been told by a few people that when playing on the artificial turf in the rain, you'll wish for cleats because other shoes will just slide around. My trail runners did just fine though, and I'm certainly not spending $160 on shoes I'll only wear for 7 more months, unless we find a league in Calgary, where we'd only be able to play during the summer anyway.

Hmm, I guess I shouldn't be making so many assumptions about us coming back to Calgary or not since we really should see where we can both find jobs first!