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ultimate

6:55am CST Thursday 30 March 2000

Last night ultimate was a little bit wacky. We played at 6:30 to 8:30; someone else had reserved the field during our preferred timeslot of 8:30 to 10:30.

When we arrived on the field, about 30 people were enagaged in softball practice as the season is apparently gearing up. We told them we had reserved the field, so they shrunk their practice to the infield only.

This worked relatively well, although at random intervals a softball would roll across our field. We continued playing if the ball was relatively far from the disc action, although on at least one occassion, we stopped play specifically to ensure none of our players would step on the ball stopped at their feet.

The middle of our field is essentially middle and left field for the softball field (that makes sense), and the grass is pretty much trampled down to just dirt. The corners of our field and along the side furthest from home plate, the grass and grass with burrs is growing happily.

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At 8:30, our time was up; we left the field. Four guys came on field, and ironically enough, they all had discs with them! They introduced me and Bill (also from ultimate) to a new game called Double Disc Court or DDC.

The rules are a bit strange compared to ultimate, but basically the field is 2 big squares with a square shape of 'dead space' between them. 2 players in each square, throwing discs back and forth, basically trying to make the disc land in the other square and not be caught, or to have both players in one square holding the discs at the same time.

I played two games with them, and would be interested in more if we happen to see them again.

Just as DDC was beginning, the softball players wacked a ball way into left field and almost hit Mark's vehicle. As a result, he began a verbal altercation with the batter. Nothing more than words, but I felt a bit of fear for him calling them names while the guy was presumably holding a bat. (I didn't watch (but later Mark came back and verified he walked "in between them while the guy behind me had a bat"))

I wonder what will happen next week.

As I went to sleep that evening, I knew I would have some sort of dream about fighting.

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