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azure-clockwork · 4 months ago

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Why you want me on your company dragon boat team (made up of true amateurs, including yours truly):

I have been deeply mediocre at like. Most sports over the course of my life leading to general medium athleticism and transferable passable skills. Specifically, I have done most of the paddling ones (save for formal crew. But I have canoed quite a bit)

I can yell. Really well. Shockingly well. I don’t need a megaphone to count strokes to the whole boat

I am a ‘pro’ musician in the sense that I have made $15 in tips playing at a bar once a month. I am also a rhythm game enjoyer and general music liker. My timing is pretty good

I can count strokes in four languages (English German, Chinese, and Spanish, though counting is the only Spanish I know), five with prep time (Japanese). Is this helpful? No

I can go off about the dead politician/poet guy this whole thing is based on. Oops actually nobody was that interested and they’re now walking away. Alas

Sheer goddamn zest. I’m about to puke from doing cardio while wasting 90% of my oxygen on screaming because heaven knows we’re not keeping time without it and as first seat that’s My Job (no drummer today lol) and I’m dying? So help me God, I *will* stay on time and I *will* keep the count so long as there is air in my fucking lungs and life in my body

#This is honestly why you want me on your sports team #I’ll do the job nobody wants and I’ll do it decently and with such stubbornness that it’s actually an alright go of it #This is why I was first base in softball (wouldn’t flinch to the point of playing with a black eye from a ball; would do anything to tag)#This is why I was lax goalie (you bet your whole ass I’m stopping that ball even if that means taking it with my body instead of stick)#This is why I’m pseudo libero in volleyball (I will eat a beach’s worth of sand before that damn ball hits the ground)#I’m decently competent; easily trained; full of competitive spirit; and absolutely fearless #I may end up as drummer if nobody wants it or else I will paddle my absolute heart out #And no I didn’t end up puking because I’m not quite that crazy #But it’s another Jay Athletics moment where people go ‘wtf’

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