Posts by Megan Wegan
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No no! I love the game, not the playa! And if you knew how many red and pink clothes I own as opposed to my single piece of leopardskin, you'd know how incredibly hard that is for me to be this committed to the team, but I am!
Jo is a textbook example of:
It's the sport for women, for geeks, for rock-a-billys, for punks, and for anyone who might not like sport
She rolled her eyes extravagantly at me and Hadyn talking about rugby at lunch a few weeks ago, and yet, she's as animated as anything about derby.
Maybe she just doesn't realise it is sport...
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It was basketball, but yeah, 11 and 12 year olds.
I understood what they were saying, and tried as much as I could to give every player as much court time as I could. But if the choice came down to winning, or leaving my best players on the bench? Come on.
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I can declare that the kids are as competitive now as they've ever been and my school provides ample opportunities for them to play rugby, league, cricket, netball, curling, bowls, badminton etc etc etc
When I coached a number of years ago, I was told in no uncertain terms, by the parents, that the most important thing was HAVING FUN.
To which I responded, "yeah, you know what's fun? Winning".
The problem was never the kids, or the teachers, administrators, etc, it was the parents who felt every kid should get equal time on the court, no matter their ability or fitness, or whether they wanted to be there at all.
But my father, who started coaching more than 40 years ago, says it has always been thus.
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That Wikipedia list is blowing my mind. Deenie? The one about the impossibly attractive teen with scoliosis? What... oh, that's right. Wanking. There's wanking in Deenie.
Oh Danielle, Judy Blume is the most dangerous author of them all.
I've been doing a thing where I've been rereading the books I read as a child...including quite a lot of Judy Blume.
I'm definitely feeling a lot more subversive. And I haven't even got to Forever yet.
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The Azzurri would need new uniforms too
And it would settle that argument we had about whether women or men are better at artistic gymnastics.
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Do they have shoes and margaritas in hell? Because that sounds like it could be OK. I'll come with you.
I'm so there. Although, for the record they have both those things in Wellington too. Just sayin'.
Though I think I get some karma-credit for not hitting on Megan when she fed me that fabulous straight line up there.
I'm a little hurt you didn't...
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And shallow is bad, right?
If it is, I am in biiiiig trouble. Oh, screw it, I'm going to Hell anyway.
Honestly Jackie, you've worked hard to develop those muscles. Nothing wrong with wanting to show them off. It's not shallow vanity, it's justifiable pride. I take pride in my rack, and I did nothing to get it.
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I remember when Hadyn was all excited about this email from this guy in South Africa and how he'd found the book.
And we joked about how Trix Truter was (aside from having one of the greatest names of all time) possibly all the bad South African stereotypes we could muster.
But even if that is true, this is a lovely story, well written.
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I'll be taking my Dad to Sweet Mother's Kitchen for lunch tomorrow for those reasons.
Please have some curly fries on my behalf.
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But while I have your hardy attention: where should I take my mum for lunch in Wellington tomorrow? I'm thinking: special without being overbearingly flash.
My go to Mum restaurant is Floriditas.