I'm declaring golf the most frustrating sport in the world.
I recently decided I should start playing golf. My friend Eilis at home plays, and I always thought it was a kinda cool and different "young woman" sport. So I've taken it up. In general, I'm a pretty sporty person and I generally pick up a new sport without too much effort. But hell golf is difficult.
What's so frustrating about it is that I can take 2 seemingly identical (to me) swings, and the ball decides to do 2 totally different things. It doesn't make sense! I've worked out that being consistent is going to take quite a bit of practice...and then some more...and then just a little bit more.
I haven't worked out if it's helping or hindering that I've played camogie all my life. While I'm sure it's given me good ball eye coordination, the swing is totally different and I feel myself doing a camogie swing from time to time.
The other thing I've discovered in my golfing career thus far is that I'm a lefty. Although I write with my right hand, playing golf right handed feels really wrong to me. I believe I have a brother and a sister in the same boat. Is this normal?
After years of putting off creating a Bebo\Facebook\MySpace profile, I eventually gave in when a friend bribed me into it by uploading pics of her new baby **exclusively** to her Bebo account- so it's join Bebo, or don't see pics of baby Cillian. So I gave in.... embraced the modern world and become someone. It's like when I was in college and my friend Allie had a mobile phone, and I refused to give in and join the masses with this "phone craze"...... I guess I gave in on that one too.
Anyway, Bebo is addictive! I've spent way too much time today viewing people's profiles... people I haven't seen in years, checking out people's photos and philosophies on life! This thing is worse than any drug! I've found loads of people I went to school with through people's networks, "friends" of "friends" of "friends" ect.
I almost don’t need to bother going to my 10 year school reunion that’s coming up next month anymore. I know everything I need to know about everyone now. And OBVIOUSLY, if they have not made it to Bebo, they are not worth worrying about and are nobodies. And none seems to have changed much - at all. I’ve heard a lot of people say that 10 year school reunions are not really worth it – everyone still cares about how they look, who’s friends with who, who broke up\got married\how cool a job someone has and treat it as an excuse to show off how well they have done. They say after 20 years people are past all that crap, and are actually more genuinely interested in reuniting with their old school buddies. I don’t know, ping me in 10 years and I’ll let you know.