Crowds

I went to my first college basketball game tonight. A friend wanted to go and had no one to go with, so I went, and I actually liked it. I don't want to repeat it, but I was happy to be there.

It was a women's game, so it wasn't packed the way a men's game might be, my friend told me. Tickets were a dollar if you paid. Tech vs. Baylor, and Baylor was winning by a good 20 points by the 2nd period.

It was funny. I kept accidentally clapping for the wrong team. I just find it exciting when someone scores.

Something unexpected happened--there was a fight on the court. My friend says that's really rare in basketball. A Tech girl fouled a Baylor girl, and the Baylor girl swung around punched her in the face.

Of course, the crowd went into an absolute frenzy.

I wish the magician had come with me. He didn't say a thing. At that moment, I felt... an absence.

I wonder... if he would have said anything anyway... He's been meaning to tell me something about crowds for a long time. Why not then, when the room was a cacophony of shouting, angry red faces, people booing and threatening as if the punch had landed on their own noses? Why not then?

I'm not sure what to think. It's good, but it's bad.

I miss him.

I have so much more to say, but I think I can sleep now. Goodnight.