We won the championships last night! Our basketball team is number one, for the fifth time!! There truly is no other spectator sport such as basketball; no other sport that is so fast-paced, can't-look-away-for-a-split-second, hair-raising, expletive-shouting, blood-pumping incredible. Even the Series doesn't get people as riled up!
It would have been better if all my friends were there, but some just didn't go and some couldn't; but I gather that they enjoyd themselves, no matter what they were doing. That's the important thing.
I have thought up an idea for a film script for next year! I think it would be told with a lot of flashback; the plot will center around a young woman who travels to a foreign (and possibly war-torn) country as a photojournalist, or some other such profession. She is fleeing an undesirable husband back in the States. While there, she catches a glimpse of someone in a crowd who looks strangely familiar to her--the scene flashes back to his face, years before. She doesn't get a chance to pursue him and figure out who it was, so, a little puzzled, she continues on to whatever is her destination. To make a hopefully long story short, she meets this stranger again, and realizes, to her incredible surprise, that it is someone whom she met in that very country many years before. Insert flashback--our heroine, as a teenager, travels to Europe and meets a handsome young man. Although they do not speak the same language and can barely communicate, there is a strong attraction between them. They have one night together; the next day he leaves the city. As a joke, she gives him a cheap plastic ring she got out of a vending machine at the airport. She returns to America believing that she will never see him again, but treasuring the short amount of time they had together.
Returning to the present, there is a problem standing in the way of the resumption of their romance. The heroine's husband arrives in search of his wife; he has reformed himself, and wants to heal things between them. The woman truly loves her husband, yet she feels a powerful connection to someone who seems to be just as drawn to her. Her long-lost lover believes that fate meant for them to be together; he believed that from the moment he laid eyes on her, so many years before. He has never married because he has always believed in his heart that they would find each other again someday. Obviously a decision must be made; the down-to-earth love of her husband, or the passion of the man who just might be her soul mate? The choice, unfortunately, turns out not to be hers to make. She is pregnant with her husband's child; she knew that when she took the assignment abroad. Ultimately she cannot bring herself to abandon the man whom she has sworn to love, and whose child she carries; she chooses to leave her former lover behind forever. At their last meeting, he presents her with a gift--the cheap blue ring which she gave him, and which he has saved all these years. He tells her that he hoped to use it to propose to her one day; since that will never be, he will give it to her to remember him by. The film ends on the plane; snuggled next to her sleeping husband, she fingers the plastic ring, and gazes, expresionless, out the window.

That's my idea! Now I hope I can actually develop it into a story, script, or other item.