phoenixastraea | Good News... (Reply)

...on the Nowitzki front! It came out just a few days ago that the Mav's have extended my dear Dirk's contract through the 2010-2011 season.

Why yes, my dear Dirk is worth $60 million. I wholeheartedly agree. *big smiles*

In other news, I've headed back to practice and as much as my muscles are screaming at me, I'm feeling pretty darn good. I've needed to get back in shape for a long time. I've needed to get back to club for a while and it feels good to pick up a sabre again and do it...for me.   Coaching has been one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life, but it is hard to find time for your own training when you're involved with everyone else. I do miss the VFC and hope to get back there sometime soon.

Work...is work. It feels strange to have family and friends ask about your day and all you can really say to them is...its fine. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, nothing unusual. Nothing exciting. I'm happy that I'm getting money...but its time for a career change. Actually, its time to get a career rather than simply being content with a job.

In other fandom news, I'm really wondering where they're going with the new House season. This past episode felt more like the House of old, but I am concerned with what they're doing to my House/Wilson relationship. They screwed around a bit with the trust between those two...and are hinting very strongly at some House/Cameron link, which is not appealing to me in the least. I'd rather see him with the 17 year old girl rather than Cameron. Ugh...I wonder if any series would have the cajones to defy convention and get two characters like that together. The closest we got was with WIllow and Tara, and they found a way to recontain her lesbianism and reinscribe her within a heterosexual world view with Tara's death and Willow's salvation via Xander.   I wonder if they'd even dare it with two men, much less the primary male friendship in the series. I know I could probably get criticized for seeing certain series through slash-colored lenses, but hell, its practically canon with those two. Or at least, it was more so last season...Either way, I'm eager to see what develops.

Also, WTF is up with murders being committed in Colorado schools? This shit is unbelievable considering heightened security. Seriously, if I was a kid in high school today, I'd want to be packing so much heat it wouldn't even be funny.