Day 10

Hey folks, forgot to write this last night (er, well, I kind of konked out pretty early last night).

Today we had a casual meeting in the ping pong room. 2 people sat on the couch, 2 people stood, and I sat on an upside down orange bucket while Schiff talked.

Anyways, after that, I went out to get coffee with Matt and Ryan. I think this might turn into a daily thing. I'm all for drinking a mocha EVERY. MORNING. ♥ I found out that Matt also needs to eat breakfast every day, unlike some of the weirdos at Fetchnotes (Alex, Ryan ahem), so we headed to Au Bon Pain. I got another 2 Egg Sandwich, but THIS TIME with a sausage patty in it! There was some bald guy there that was taking orders for some reason and I had to give him a name so, of course, my instinct was to go for Debra. Ughhhhhh. Matt got a 2 Egg and Cheese Sandwich.

While we were walking back to the office, a homeless guy was like "Hey!" and then Matt goes "Heyyy!" back. This little exchange isn't as funny when it's written down, but it cracks me up because I'm very a little scared of homeless people.

So Giles seems to be quite the aficionado when it comes to 3D modelling! He brought a model for the guys at matter.io to print (a little dome shaped thing). The first time it tried to print, it didn't quite work out, so there were just a bunch of little plastic legs of the dome. While it was printing the second time, Giles gave me one of the legs to look at and it was super cool! This is not the point of the story though -- This is: When we went to back to our seats at the table, I handed Giles the leg again and said "Here's your leg back."

Giles: "Oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: *distracted by the internet* "What?"

Giles: "I said, oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: *distracted again* "What?"

Giles: "Oh my gosh, it's a terrible joke and you're making me repeat it again??"

Me: "I'm listening this time! I'm listening! Tell it again!"

Giles: "I SAID," *deadpan*, "Oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: "That was terrible."

Giles: "I KNOW. And you made me say it THREE TIMES."

Later, Matt taught me a some basics in ping pong! I improved a lot within that half hour 'session' with the coach. In the middle of our 'lesson', Kelsey (♂) , one of the managers of Koa Labs or something (I'm not really sure, but he plays a lot of ping pong) challenges Matt to a 1-1, Matt's serve. Whoever wins, gets $10. 

Matt: *laughing maniacally* "What? Yeah, sure!"

Matt serves the ball.

Kelsey hits it back.

Matt's face gets real serious for about half a second and he SLAMS the ball. 

Kelsey loses.

I never thought I'd get into the ping pong culture of the office, but now that I can actually hit the ball about 70% of the time, if you go slow, I want to start moving up and improving!! RARRRGHHHH!!!

Giles challenged me again today and I BEAT HIM!

#koalife "I won ping pong against Giles 11-10!" - @lubibul. "You have to win by 2…" - @matthewbrandly "GET UP. NOW." - @gilesvangruisen
— Alex Schiff (@alexschiff) May 17, 2013

Consistently the worst ping pong player in the office. Word.
— Giles Van Gruisen (@gilesvangruisen) May 17, 2013

Here's the abbreviated rankings list on the white board right now (or, something close to it. I have a bad memory. There's a reason I use Fetchnotes.)

1. Horak
2. Schiff
3. Matt
...
...
9. Giles
...
12. Lulu

I'm at the very bottom of the list. Even though I beat Giles, I can't move up because you can only count challenges within 2 ranks of you. DAMMIT GILES!!!!!

Earlier that day, this exchange happened:
Me: "I watched Iron Man 2 last night!"
Giles: "You should go out and explore the city more." = "You should really get out more."
Matt: *starts cracking up*

DAMMIT GILES!!!!!

I got home relatively early today, around 8:40 PM, dicked around on the internet for a bit, Hung Out with Joe, then took a 10 minute nap, which turned into an hour-long nap, which turned into sleep.