Basketball

Robert and I went to a bunch of the ACC men's basketball championship games this past weekend.  (He attended four games by himself on Friday while I stayed home and worked on my thesis, which now has a methods and results section 31 pages long.)

It'd been a very long time since I had seen a live basketball game, and it was awesome.  It's nice to watch people play a sport that you yourself have played (even if at a much lower level) - not only are you likely to know a lot of the rules (I called about 150% of the fouls the refs called), you can you appreciate the athleticism and skill involved (and the fuck-ups, too).  It's also great to watch sports with other people, especially in person - there's just a tremendous amount of energy and excitement. 

The part that sucks - it's really expensive.  We got our tickets cheap ($100 for a pass to the entire tournament) because Robert won a lottery at his previous employer (a corporate sponsor), but the value of our tickets (on the back row, where the view was still very good, however) was like $600 total.  And it was an extra $15 to park each day and a bottle of water was $4. 

Still, it was a really fun way to wrap up Spring Break without traveling very far.