congratulations to the CSU Fullerton baseball team, who swept texas in the college world series. i'm not really sure why i got caught up in that (maybe because of taylor?), but it was fun to watch.

what is the deal with the a's bullpen? hello? yesterday they were called upon to help out in a time of need-- starting pitcher rich harden went out in the top of the third with a partially dislocated shoulder, and the bullpen had to finish up. duchscherer did okay for a few innings, but allowed the game to tie up. octavio dotel, the new closer recently acquired from the astros, pitched a good 8th and then the a's upped the score to 7-3. then dotel came back and allowed 4 runs in the top of the 9th! argh! marco scutaro saved the game with an rbi single in the 10th, but still. and the game before, barry zito had five unearned runs against him in the first inning! *sigh* and now huddy is on the DL and harden may join him... again, *sigh*

went climbing at PG with kat and sete on saturday, which was fun! kat climbed a 5.10-, which totally rocked. she blew out her forearms pretty badly but she made it to the top. pretty hardcore. sete did pretty well for her first time out, and i continued to suck it up as usual. i really enjoy climbing, but i'm really bad at it :( i'm stuck on the 5.7s... i need to add climbing gear to my REI wishlist. wealthy benefactor, anyone? :D

i'm going through that thing again where i wonder how much i really do mean to my friends... some of my friends mean so much to me, and i feel like i go out of my way to plan things for/around them. but then i get really frustrated when those same people don't bother to plan for/around me or include me... i'm sure some of it is just circumstance, but i really wish that people would take me into consideration, too. it's just a jolt when i realize i've been left out of something, or circumvented for some reason, and i can't understand why that has happened. i don't often doubt my good friendships, but sometimes things like this happen and i feel really lonely about it. meh.