So I played my first MIT intramural game today: basketball. As always, I’m out of shape. I think I should just stop telling people that I used to play basketball in high school. I never was very good even when I was on the team, and I’ve only gotten worse since then. Oh yeah, all except that one time I beat David Chu in one-on-one second year at UVA :) My team lost our first game of the IM season, by one point in double overtime. It was so sad.

After the game, Ryan and I walked to building 56 to turn in my late assignments. On the way, I ran into a stone pillar, one of those waist-high ones placed strategically on sidewalks so that cars can’t drive through. Well, they not only stopped cars; they stopped me. I literally ran straight into it, didn’t even see it at all, banged up my knee pretty good. I can’t bend my left knee now, nor exert any force with my left leg. Beautifully stupid, huh?

So Jerry dressed up as a Mormon for Halloween, you know one of those Mormons who knock on your door and ask if you’d like to have one of their “Book of Mormons.” I thought it was fabulously clever, and he looked the part too! All except apparently a Mormon was slightly offended at a party Friday night. I guess I can understand? I can’t exactly say how I’d feel if I were Mormon … but honestly if somebody dressed up like they were Chinese (slanty, slitty eyes, black hair, whatnot), I don’t think I’d be all that offended. It’s like those white guys who supposedly donned blackface to dress up as Serena and Venus Williams at UVA. I still think that must have been a really funny costume, but maybe that’s why people call me insensitive sometimes.

You know you’re all grown up when you realize Halloween costumes have the ability to offend. You know you’ve gone too far when you analyze every possible Halloween costume for possibilities of offensiveness. Just live life for once and go with it.