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This weekend I had a very dear friend staying with me from England. She plays tennis so we were able to get in some games, I'm relieved to say that I beat her. Now I've been on diversity training but somewhere deep down, in a part of my psyche that is very primal I cannot let myself be beaten by a girl, well not at tennis anyway, so this was a very important match. My tennis game isn't bad as long as my serve gets in and the other person doesn't hit the ball to where I'm not standing. In other words if you can make me run for the ball you'll most likely win.

The first set was won by my female opponent, which really kicked in my competitive spirit, so that meant I had to win the following two sets. We did make a strategic mistake of playing the game at about 12.30 which meant that serving from one side of the court was really hard, as you'd throw the ball up to server and be blinded by the sun.

This is one of the great things Ilike about the USA, you can find hundreds of tennis courtys lying around the city that are free to use. In England it costs you an arm a leg to join a tennis club, and then you have to remember weeks ahead to book it, so it's never easy to go for a spontaneous game. Here you just go along and tell the kids playing on the court you want to use that their mother is looking for them and you can get a court straight away.

Along with playing tennis we went to see a couple of movies, the first one we went to see was "The secret life of dentists", now I'm not a big fan of dentists, so I'm not sure what came over me to pick this one, but it pretty much bored the pants of me (2 out of 5), Dennis Leary had a funny part, but otherwise I couldn't see why this movie ever got a budget to be produced, I would not recommend this really not that interesting. The other movie we went to see was Seabiscuit (4 out of 5), I liked this, it was a little slow for the first 40 minutes building up to the main story, but then once it got going there were a few goosebump moments, so I'd highly recommend it.

Has anyone noticed how I can post just the greatest pictures along with my topics in the blog? There's a couple of things in this picture I really like...that's right the tennis racquet and the striped top.