It's raining -- steady, gray rain. The kind of day that makes me want to turn off every sound in the aparment -- music, dishwasher, vents, microwave -- and just lie on my bed, reading, sleeping, listening, sleeping some more. I feel like the whole semester has caught up with me, as if I had been running just fast enough to keep ahead of it and ( Read more... )

I'm sick of being here. Someone looking in on my life, through a window or from some fly-by plane would see a wonderland ... graduating senior with all kinds of honors and good grades and finishing up 4 years of crew and a long steady relationship with a great guy ... heading off for research in Africa, all paid for ... then to U of Cambridge, ( Read more... )

well holy cow it seems like years ago since i last wrote. i'm not sure what to say. i'm at a weird place right now emotionally. still adjusting to life at school. still adjusting to the fact that i'm 21 and am applying to graduate school this month. still not used to the intensity of rowing competitively, my body and brain are taking a beating ( Read more... )

i can't get my heart to slow down. he's coming tomorrow. i'm at work but every five minutes can't help imagining it. my whole body is alive with it, fluttery stomach, quick pulse, desire and anticipation like i've never known ...

Did a 5k today, just to see where I was at physically. Didn't really push myself too too hard, like I would if I were doing a test on the team, cause when I do I tend to get sick. Felt pretty good throughout the whole thing. Could definitely get back down to sub-20' with a little more training.

20:21.8
2:02.2
drag about 120?

so i've been bad and haven't put any of my workouts in here lately. gonna work on that ( Read more... )

whew, have been doing my darndest to get back in shape, feeling pretty good (though have a long way to go ( Read more... )

Have been keeping a different journal lately, since I've been traveling. Here are some excerpts ( Read more... )

You said it, U2. Been listening to a lot of good stuff lately, more rock than usual -- Rolling Stones, 3 Doors Down, Aerosmith, ACDC, Lifehouse, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band, The Cars, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Ozzy Osbourne, Incubus, etc. Have been in an energetic, fidgety mood lately. Absolutely sucked it up at frisbee today, was so ( Read more... )

Sounding like a broken record, but must say it ... have been so busy. Thursday went with some Butler people to try and have surfing lessons, but the wind blew up and we had to reschedule. Came back, went to crew meeting at campus bar (didn't drink), met some "inti" girls, found out that first practice was skedded for Sat morning, 6:30am. Was ( Read more... )