As predicted, I’ve already lost one basketball player to grades, and another quit on Monday. What I did not foresee was my adding two new players, which bumped me back to 18. The sheer number hasn’t been a problem, but apparently we’re three jerseys short (there’s some sort of budget issue), and not only are we short uniforms, but the ones we have are hand-me-downs from the GIRLS JV team. Eighth grade boys with girls uniforms, ouch. I am now struck by the ratio of consonants to vowels at the end of “eighth”. Look at all of them. Look! It doesn’t make any sense.