Guarded this morning, early. Alarm went off (which has been iffy lately) and I got to see the pink highlighter sunrise. Freaked about getting from guarding (8:30) to breakfast to returning the pool key to class (9:00) on time, but made it okay. We're still drawing white boxes. Which are interesting, but slightly infuriating. We're only ( Read more... )

Have you ever gotten just a mental block? Writing/athletics/etc? I was not ready for practice today. *insert moaning, griping, and all around grousing here* And because of this, I didn't get the mental turnaround I usually get halfway through practice, where the 'halfway-there adrenaline' kicks in and I own the rest of practice. Instead I ( Read more... )

because what comes up, must fall down ( Read more... )

2hrs of practice (when main sets= 6x500s fast, I want to get nothing done the rest of the day). +1 hr lifeguarding. (+advil) +4 hours of fencing. +cramps. + a ling problem set that we didn't get taught ( Read more... )

I did go to morning. It actually started earlier than EHS; 5:30. The sick and twisted part was I woke up 10 minutes before my alarms were set. So I turned my 1st alarm off, snuck out of the room with my cell phone. Got interesting latino music on the way down to the pool. It wasn't too bad ( Read more... )

I set more alarms. I'm going to try waking up again.

And, um, I managed to think I had blown the outlet/the surge protector that everything is plugged into. And after spazzing at the bookstore, a nice lady reminded me that surge protectors have a switch. And if your feet kick it without telling you, everything goes off... /embarassing anecdote

...first day of real practice. I lived. (apart from a vague all-over soreness, I'm actually pretty happy... got a compliment on my "tuck" for fly turns, huzza. We had a rather odd drill, which I've done with freestyle, but not with stroke - every 4 strokes, you have to flip, or tuck, depending on what stroke you were doing. Breast & fly turns ( Read more... )

*flails* So... the person who stayed up (literally) ALL NIGHT long on Wed finishing Green Rider? She has informed me (along with the promise not to stay up that late on a school night for pleasure reading ever again... maybe.) that GREEN RIDER'S TRIQUEL IS COMING OUT IN NOVEMBER ( Read more... )

and tossing them to the wind ( Read more... )

So: I want to talk about a character's language, and it seems like he's yelling MINE all the time. Any good (or really awful) synonyms ( Read more... )