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So… the last several years the people on the football season ticket waitlist have been offered ticket packages. This year, they didn’t offer us anything. I don’t know if this is because of their stupid new pay-for-your-seat plan or what. I figure they probably did offer stuff to people who gave them money or something. Anyway, so single game tickets go on sale today at 5. I go there, all prepared to buy my tickets when the clock hits five, so I can get all the games I want. But apparently you can’t get tickets to the Ohio State game or the Notre Dame game at all. So now I’m really annoyed. I don’t care that much if I can’t go to the Notre Dame game. That rivalry has just become blah to me, so, even though I’d rather go to the game, I’m not crushed that I can’t. But I really want to go to the OSU game. I might not give the stupid athletic department money, but I give them a lot of time and effort in the alumni pep band, so I think I at least deserve football tickets. Sigh.

Update: Well, at this rate we’re not going to get any tickets at all. The website is basically trashed from all the people trying to connect to it at once, so I can’t even get in. I will keep trying periodically, but I’m not really optimistic at this point.

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Last night, while coming up from the basement, I somehow managed to smash my elbow really hard on the railing. I am not entirely sure how I managed this. It left me with this little gash on my arm and I had to sit and hold ice on my elbow until it felt enough better that I could move my arm around without going, “Ow, ow ow.” Anyway, the icing helped a lot, although it was still a bit sore when I went to bed, so I tried to be careful how I slept so that it would get better. I apparently managed (although I didn’t manage the sleeping part very well) because this morning it felt fine, unless you actually went and touched it. Then, not too long ago, I was stepping over the baby gate, and I whacked my elbow on the wall… right in the same spot I hit it last night. So, now the whole night’s healing was pretty much for nothing, as it hurts again. I’m such a klutz.

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The Michigan softball team has become the first team east of the Mississippi to win the national championship. After losing to UCLA in the first game of the best-of-three, we won yesterday 5-2 and then today 4-1 in the 10th inning (a normal softball game only goes 7 innings.) Today’s game was amazing. We went down 0-1 early, but managed to tie it up in the 6th. In the ninth inning we faltered a bit defensively and let them get the bases loaded. But we managed to step up and play some great defense to keep the score tied. In the 10th, freshman Samantha Findlay hit a 3-run homer to take the lead. Then we just played some nice defense, led by pitcher Jennie Ritter, who played great throughout the tournament, despite the fact that she pitched nearly the whole time. Tomorrow I will go and greet the team with softball band. Congratulations to the Wolverines. They had an amazing season and really deserve to be the champs. Go Blue!

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