Vinh Watch 2012 Day 9-15

June 10, 2012 Day 9
Book Count:7

June 11, 2012 Day 10
- 11:08 A.M. Vinh notices his sparse facial hair and makes a mental note that he needs to shave. He realizes that he doesn't really need to, but he should to prevent looking like a pubescent teen...well some things cannot be helped. Wonders what he'd look like with a nice full beard.

- 12:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Vinh is worthless at work as fatigue and soreness from Tennis the night before has left his body reluctant and immobile. Highlights from work include: swinging and missing on a U-12's second serve, being responsbile for creating a line-up for Tuesday's match, and debating between an adult small t-shirt or a youth extra large t-shirt. After much deliberation Vinh decides he would rather have his shirt be wider than run a little long and selects a youth extra large.

- 5:30 P.M. Loses a large portion of his pasta dinner after he drops it in the sink while straining the pasta. Wonders what he did to invoke God's wrath.

June 12, 2012 Day 11
-12:00 P.M. Vinh makes his coaching debut for USTA Team Tennis. Disaster ensues as Vinh is unsure of the match format and he realizes half way through winners are determined by total games won rather than matches won. Despite this Vinh's  team manages to win by one game. Vinh laughs at his good fortune.

June 13, 2012 Day 12
-11:29 A.M Vinh attempts to set a lineup for today's U12 math. He still has no idea what he is doing. Laughs that some U12 boys will have to play girls doubles. Laughs that they may face possible ridicule from other U12 boys. Laughs that this may give him a small advantage over the other team. Wonders if he is sexist.

-11:38 A.M. Vinh realizes it is raining and that he may not have to coach/work today while watering his Mother's plants.

-1:00 P.M. Vinh has to work.

June 14, 2012 Day 13
-10:02 A.M. Vinh wakes up and notices an extremely dark overcast sky. Vinh wonders if he will have to work.

-12:40 P.M. Vinh has to work. His match against Apple Valley is indoors. He arrives feeling confident that he could go 3-0 this first week coaching. Soon after arriving and seeing the opponents Vinh feels all hope vanish and feels as if he has led these innocent kids into a fucking ambush.

-1:15-2:45 P.M. It was a fucking ambush. Vinh watches helplessly as his team gets rocked. He does his best to help and encourage them, but the other team proves to be too skilled. Vinh's team wins a total of 8 games. Apple Valley wins 48. Vinh now knows how Judas felt betraying Jesus to the Romans.

-6:40 P.M. Vinh goes to move his car as the parking lot near his apartment is flooding. The water reaches mid-calf on Vinh.

-8:43 P.M.Vinh returns after driving around town. Many of the roads are flooded and he cannot get to a friend's house despite trying three different routes. While he is driving he does not notice a high water area until he has already entered it. He proceeds through slowly praying his car makes it through. Vinh counts his lucky charms that he made it through. Realizes he is not Irish and probably should not count lucky charms. As he is washing dishes Vinh reflects on the near incident and nearly drops his pint glass from Division 3 nationals. No one will believe him, but he swears he felt a guardian angel help him hold onto that pint glass.

June 15, 2012 Day 14
- 1:59 A.M. While trying to go to sleep Vinh begins thinking of bad instances to have a +1. After much internal debate Vinh decides the idea is funny enough and he gets up to write down some of them so that he will not forget them after going to sleep.After many attempts of recollection, Vinh cannot remember the funniest one he had thought of, the one that he had decided it was worth it to turn the light on for. Feels a significant hollowness. The bad instances he thought of include: your own wedding, your child's birth, a court appearance, an execution, a surgery, going to the bathroom, a Cheaters confrontation (both sides), and meeting Chris Hanson.

-4:54 P.M. Vinh sees his life flash before his eyes as he is attacked by a wasp in his car. The wasp flew in through an open window and Vinh was instantly paralyzed with fear. He cowers in his seat as he watches the wasp fly back and forth through his car. The wasp seems to be growing frustrated with its inability to escape the car despite the fact that there are two wide open windows. Vinh fears the wasp will sting him out of frustration. At long last the terror subsides and Vinh takes a moment to regroup. He has stared into the eyes of Death today. Vinh is relieved he was attacked by a wasp, the insect, and not a White Anglo Saxon Protestant for he knows that that is a WASP attack he surely would not have survived.

June 16, 2012 Day 15
-4:29 P.M. Vinh catches up on updating Vinh Watch 2012. He knows there is something funny here...