Hey look.... it's me!

Complete with four bandages AND a backwards baseball cap. The backwards baseball cap because we won on Saturday and the bandages because Seattle's streets have too many potholes.

UW beat Fresno State 21-20 due to a blocked extra point in the beginning of the 4th quarter. I was deliriously happy that we blocked an extra point, and it just got better when that became the game winning point. I had just gotten finished telling the team (much to the amusement of the people around me) that it was NOT okay to slack off and not play in the 3rd quarter and that it was NOT okay to let Fresno State score, when they blocked the extra point. And then we managed to keep their offense curtailed enough that even though there was 4:30 left in the quarter, we won. I can't even begin to explain to you how exciting this is. We are 2-1 heading into real Pac-10 play and we gave Oklahoma a good fight last week (at least for the first half of the game). I have been mocked for being a Husky fan, but I have to say that I see enough improvement in this team to be able to hope for good things. This may not be *the* turn around season, but it is already way better than the past two years and we are headed in the right direction. So when we are back on top and are a big football contender once again, none of you better say that I wasn't a fan when we weren't doing well.

On to the four bandaids. Every Friday night before a home game, UW has a tradition of holding an all campus rally, of which the marching band is an integral part. We basically run around campus and the surrounding streets (read: Greek Row) playing stands tunes and getting excited for the game the next day. Most of the time I am VERY careful where I am walking as we are walking around old Seattle streets where long ago the streets got into a war with the roots of the surrounding trees and lost, creating many tripping hazards. So I managed to navigate all of the tree roots and other random obstacles in my way. We were running across 45th back onto campus cause the police had stopped traffic (we have a parade permit to do this) and I was thinking, "Hey, it's the middle of the street, what is there to trip on out here?" Yah, well I found the only thing left to trip on in the middle of the street... a giant pothole. My foot got caught (I was wearing TENNIS shoes for crying out loud) and I went flying across the street, landing on my hands and knees, but mostly my knees, on the other side. And to make matters worse, I was wearing shorts because it wasn't that cold outside and I knew that I would get hot once we started running around.

So I have four impact points and some massive bruising going on. I feel slightly like a 5 year old because I have two skinned knees. In the picture is the get-up I sported so that I could make it through game day. My knees are feeling better with less stinging, but cold air makes my bruises hurt (lame, I know), my knees are rather stiff, and my high knee marching leaves something to be desired at the moment. I never knew just how hard I was working until I did the last two practices with minimal effort put forward, everything is so easy when you don't march the right way =).