PILLOWCASES AND A SOLAR (LUNAR) ECLIPSE
remember when we went to rushville?
"brr, its cold out here-we must be running at states"
and we listed nine pages of how we know we're cornwall cross country runners (and later an edited 45 reason version)and mer got me a great surprise shirt! and we thought a certain team was all men and then we saw a man in lynne's pants (and by the way, for all concerned, you can remember 7 things for 15 seconds. i forgot what the 7 was). and then there was our bathroom door that didnt close and the man who went to "get another one of those things"(which mer approved, though she was confused and maybe a little worried.) oh wait i forgot the maxim and the cosmo and how jul doesnt quite Rock like the Crew and muscles and matt with their post-love pancakes and delaney just getting over his breakup with muscles' mom. okay so green pasta and kajas twin man, and then PILLOWCASES with some interruptions (a hispanic lady from the front deskZACH and danny and bobby sketchily knocking). and then the big day was so much better than i had hoped, because you guys are the best ever. bagels and stolen knives that were sort of gifts, and chelsea, and our warmup that was 78923 laps of the same 3 feet of space...and then another half an hour and we were crying but happy in a huddle while they took the chute apart and we got dressed and stripped and regotdressed for pictures, and got really great hugs from creeden that made me cry again. then awards and i have NEVER BEEN SO PROUD of my friends.
and then back onto the INCREDIBLY HOT BUS and by hot i dont mean ADD-licious, and we stopped at yet another sbarro and roy rogers, and played with some silly string, and then played a crazy game of truth or dare (good clean headlicking fun) and occasionaly burst into song (every now and then i get a little bit scared, becasue youre still not definitely around) and watched the eclipse in human stacks in the back seats of the bus (although we had to rotate out of the back back seats, of course, because they were making my body temperature 99.9 degrees celsius).
and then we were at the twomeys and cath and i had notsosoft baked cookies and lynne and cathleen and natalie and i were asking each other insane trivial pursuit questions that none of us knew while mer and jul worked on pillowcases on the kitchen counter, and we had ice cream that cath smacked lynne to get her up for (even though she picked the flavor we all wouldve slept through.) and then in the morning nobody had to leave for practice and so we all ate bagels and muffins and donuts and the "played" more trivial pursuit and lounged around the living room upside down until it was time to leave, and i didnt want to take the ribbons out of my hair because that would mean it was actually over. i own more green and white ribbons than i do jewlery-thats mer's REAL favorite way to tell if you're a cornwall cross country runner;its the best one...maybe. or maybe its the whole teammates/sisters thing, or maybe its a combination of every time someone said tissue i hardly know you and every time someone gave you a sweaty hug under the tree at bear mountain and every time you looked up the hill in front of you and saw your best friend's green and white ribbons bobbing as she reached the top and there is no better way anyone could give you confidence at that moment, not even the voice of god vibrating the trees with DRIVE! or a cowbell or baby got back blasting. four long years are definitely ending, and i dont know how im going to deal without this team to joke with or bitch with or cry with every day next year, and the year after that, and every year after that, and..."the next time we go to the line for a cross country race, if we ever do again, our lives will be completely different then. we will be running with a completely different team..." -cath in the finish area right before we all cried. ohhhdaskjdlkasjd i usually love the idea of college. right now though, im so happy with yesterday. "i love our team"-all of us, all weekend.
"brr, its cold out here-we must be running at states"
and we listed nine pages of how we know we're cornwall cross country runners (and later an edited 45 reason version)and mer got me a great surprise shirt! and we thought a certain team was all men and then we saw a man in lynne's pants (and by the way, for all concerned, you can remember 7 things for 15 seconds. i forgot what the 7 was). and then there was our bathroom door that didnt close and the man who went to "get another one of those things"(which mer approved, though she was confused and maybe a little worried.) oh wait i forgot the maxim and the cosmo and how jul doesnt quite Rock like the Crew and muscles and matt with their post-love pancakes and delaney just getting over his breakup with muscles' mom. okay so green pasta and kajas twin man, and then PILLOWCASES with some interruptions (a hispanic lady from the front deskZACH and danny and bobby sketchily knocking). and then the big day was so much better than i had hoped, because you guys are the best ever. bagels and stolen knives that were sort of gifts, and chelsea, and our warmup that was 78923 laps of the same 3 feet of space...and then another half an hour and we were crying but happy in a huddle while they took the chute apart and we got dressed and stripped and regotdressed for pictures, and got really great hugs from creeden that made me cry again. then awards and i have NEVER BEEN SO PROUD of my friends.
and then back onto the INCREDIBLY HOT BUS and by hot i dont mean ADD-licious, and we stopped at yet another sbarro and roy rogers, and played with some silly string, and then played a crazy game of truth or dare (good clean headlicking fun) and occasionaly burst into song (every now and then i get a little bit scared, becasue youre still not definitely around) and watched the eclipse in human stacks in the back seats of the bus (although we had to rotate out of the back back seats, of course, because they were making my body temperature 99.9 degrees celsius).
and then we were at the twomeys and cath and i had notsosoft baked cookies and lynne and cathleen and natalie and i were asking each other insane trivial pursuit questions that none of us knew while mer and jul worked on pillowcases on the kitchen counter, and we had ice cream that cath smacked lynne to get her up for (even though she picked the flavor we all wouldve slept through.) and then in the morning nobody had to leave for practice and so we all ate bagels and muffins and donuts and the "played" more trivial pursuit and lounged around the living room upside down until it was time to leave, and i didnt want to take the ribbons out of my hair because that would mean it was actually over. i own more green and white ribbons than i do jewlery-thats mer's REAL favorite way to tell if you're a cornwall cross country runner;its the best one...maybe. or maybe its the whole teammates/sisters thing, or maybe its a combination of every time someone said tissue i hardly know you and every time someone gave you a sweaty hug under the tree at bear mountain and every time you looked up the hill in front of you and saw your best friend's green and white ribbons bobbing as she reached the top and there is no better way anyone could give you confidence at that moment, not even the voice of god vibrating the trees with DRIVE! or a cowbell or baby got back blasting. four long years are definitely ending, and i dont know how im going to deal without this team to joke with or bitch with or cry with every day next year, and the year after that, and every year after that, and..."the next time we go to the line for a cross country race, if we ever do again, our lives will be completely different then. we will be running with a completely different team..." -cath in the finish area right before we all cried. ohhhdaskjdlkasjd i usually love the idea of college. right now though, im so happy with yesterday. "i love our team"-all of us, all weekend.