I'm Lame

My home meet went pretty well. My times were all pretty fast considering how tired I was, except I tanked the 500, which was my last event on Saturday. On Friday, there were a whole ton of students and parents who showed up to the meet. On Saturday there were less, but there were still a lot of people. On Friday, I pumped up the crowd, and just embarrassed myself.

Since my home meet, I’ve had a meet at like 4 other schools, and I have my final dual meet and home meet of the season this Saturday! Overall, I’ve been feeling sort of trashy, but my times haven’t showed that to be the case. Therefore, as soon as I rest a bit, I’ll be cruising! I talked to my coach about taper, and he and I feel pretty confident that my times will be pretty fast. I won’t share just yet what my goal times are…I’ll update y’all once I actually reach them.

Steve also said that if I time trial a certain 200 free time, I could be on the A 800 free relay!!! Super exciting. As of now, I’m just excited to compete at conference, but if I went to nationals that would just be insane. After all, I’ve been training all season just to see the times drop. We’re about 3 weeks away from conference, so that means that we’re slowly dropping the yardage and starting to sharpen up to swim fast. I can’t wait…I’m so tired of being tired, and going to bed early.

Jan term finished up well, I got an A in my African life and culture class. I was a bit concerned, because even though I participated well, did the readings, and felt I had pretty strong presentations, the tests were kinda hard. Well, I got an A on the two tests, but the final exam took me two and a half hours! It was really ridiculous because the class was only 100-level. I walked away from the class with a really informed view on Africa, though. I’m really glad I took it. Part of the liberal arts education is taking classes like this to make me a more well-rounded person, and it’s pretty sweet.

Currently, I’m in the Book of Revelation as my theology elective. Theology classes are notoriously hard, as in a lot of reading and difficult exams. We had a quiz on the second day and it was easy, but the test will have a lot of content. I also have to read between 40 and 80 pages from supplementary reading books just for this class two or three times a week. I’m also in Core, which is a reading-intensive class on worldviews. Last weekend I read an entire, depressing book called “Deep River” and wrote an essay about it…. and then read my Revelation assignment. My eyes hurt.

Over Jan term, I was pretty social. That’s probably the reason why I barely updated this blog. I’m really sorry for those of you who follow me closely-ish and who haven’t been sustained by my words. After Jan term, there was a one week break, which wasn’t really a break because we had regular practices and a swim meet.

However, that weekend was like swim team fun weekend! On one night, we had a 15-minute sci-fi themed dance party….and your costume had to be promiscuous. It was supposed to be a joke; a mockery of dance parties. It was pretty funny though. Me and Korey body painted with blue paint and wore booty shorts. Obviously, we were a couple of Na’vi from the movie Avatar. After this dance party, we washed the paint off, then stayed up allllll night at the guy’s swim house and played video games and ate junk food (just the guys, that is)! There was some conflict with the girls though. They were having their own shindig at the girls swim house. Apparently at one point, they took over the upstairs. But we took a girl hostage in the girls house while this occurred. Later, the girls stole straw from one of the coaches trucks and put it in front of our house…so we lifted one of their cars and put it underneath it.

The next day, I slept for a reaaaaally long time. Then I just kinda sat around all day. That night was the lip sync show, where a bunch of groups within the swim team formed to make little lip sync/dance performances. I didn’t participate though, because I was too lazy to practice with a group.

If anyone wants to keep in closer touch with me, e-mail me at asumnicht14@my.whitworth.edu. I check it often, so that’s a good way to get the scoop from me. Otherwise I’ll try to keep the ol blog updated more often. Kbye!