My Diet is Poor.

I got a letter from grandma today and that just made my day! And encouraged me to steal a few minutes from the day to write another blog post.

The meet last weekend was rough, to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, as a team, we completely destroyed the other teams. One of our team goals is to win the conference meet by over 200 points, which is an insane amount. We won the second dual meet 170-something to 30-something, so I think we’re well on our way. However, personally, I realized that I have only been training for three weeks, and on Thursday I lifted with extra vigor. So, on Friday, I swam the 1000. I kept up with their guy for like a 400 but then the heat of the pool and my numb forearms gave out. I got 4th place, out of 4 people hahahahahahh. Next was the 400 IM, and I got a decent time and won the exhibition heat with a time that would have placed me 4th (out of more than 4 people this time). Then I led off the 200 Free B Relay and we got 3rd.

The next day, we had some crappy hotel food for breakfast, and then took off to arrive at the meet 2 hours early again. Steve loves being early. Andrew likes sitting around for an hour stretching and sleeping, so I guess it kind of works out. I definitely was hurting from the 1000 and 4im the previous day, so my 200IM and 500 free were kind of pretty bad, but not bad in the grand perspective of where I’m at and where I will be down the road. However, I had a solid split in the 400 Free A Relay, and we won that. And as I mentioned earlier, we totally crushed the other team, no offense to them. They were really nice guys!

On the bus ride down to the meet, I was so productive. I spent 3 hours doing my cell bio lab report, which, by the way, is so frickin good. I had better get my ten points! On the way back home, I also did most of my chemistry take-home test. Did I mention that chemistry is going better now? The professor is learning how to teach better, and this was our second take-home test. Sweet.

So, Sunday was an awesome recovery day, and I checked out a new church called Branches which I liked. There are too many good churches here, and I can’t decide which one to consistently attend. The pastor was pretty funny, and apparently he teaches a leadership class at Whitworth. He went on a practiced five-minute imitation of a black revivalist preacher. I laughed. Also, in small group, we read the first two chapters of Jonah. Chapter two is really good, it’s Jonah’s prayer and I really loved the wording of it, you should check it out.

The next day, Steve had prepared a little speech for us. For such a kind, Godly man with a warm smile, he can be completely cold and soulless! He basically told us that we swam crappy at the meet and so he was going to make us do a bunch more distance crap at practice. Also, we upped the weights by a significant amount and got rid of the aerobic circuit. On Monday we did all these 1000s and on Tuesday we randomly pulled out a mile. Oh, and on Wednesday we did all these 400s at a high intensity. He’s killing us! I had a good practice today though. I think I had a backstroke epiphany, because I did 7x200 backstroke descending 1-3 and 4-7 and I swam them really well. I surprised myself.

Tomorrow night, a whole bunch of swimmers have gotten tickets to go see Harry Potter (including me). I’m so excited! I wasn’t really that excited a few days ago when I said I would go with the group, but this last movie provides total closure on the Harry Potter part of my life. I’ve read all the books, and after tomorrow, I’ll have seen all the movies.

Did I ever mention my girls night? Yeah, me and some girls exfoliated and ate pizza and watched “Ten Things I Hate About You”. And I think this weekend we’re going to do back massages and watch “500 Days of Summer”. I hear it’s a must-see. Eeeeek! (that’s my imitation of a girl’s excited squeal)

Look what college has done to me!

In other news, I’m really excited for Thanksgiving break. I’m still doing well in school, but it’s exhausting me mentally and I’m feeling a bit burnt out. So burnt out, in fact, that I just spelled feeling “fealing” the first time. It’ll be nice to rest, enjoy the company of my relatives in California, and only swim once a day. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll study a little bit for finals. But I probably won’t. But I’ll bring my stuff to say I tried.

What else…My mom sent me Alpha Centauri in the mail, which should arrive tomorrow. That’s a really sweet computer game made like ten or more years ago that Korey and I have been getting the itch to play. And a week ago I got cookies, a card, and $20 in the mail from her! Sorry grandma, you’ll have to beat that next time you send me mail.

……………………..kbye!