The set from hell: 10 X 500's on 6:00. Basically a 5000 straight, yuck. Me on #5 *wheeze* *gasp* *wheeze* *wheeze* *wheeze* *gasp* *choke* *wheeze* finally I drag my sorry ass out of the pool...and sit out for most of #6 b/c I can't breathe. I'm almost in tears b/c I start to panic whenever I can't breathe. Next time I go home, I'm going to the ( Read more... )

Today was the last duel meet of the season. Only like 19 days until Conference!!!!! Pretty soon we'll be starting taper which will be amazing. My body is so broken down and hating me right now that I think I'm going to be super crazy when we're on taper b/c my energy is going to skyrocket. Even though I've felt really awesome in practice lately ( Read more... )

Here I am back in Oberlin enjoying a lovely abandoned campus over winter term. Not very many people are here so everything is pretty quiet other than the swim team drama that keeps life interesting. Swimming is going pretty well. Practices have been rough lately esp since my body has decided that it hates me and is going to wheeze everytime I ( Read more... )

So here I am in Florida. All I've done basically is swim, eat, go to the beach, swim, eat, sleep, pretty much in that order. I'm a little sore, but we haven't done anything totally horrible yet. I'm still sore though, although that's to be expected when were swimming over 10,000 METERS a day. Long course sucks and I hate it. We had a "meet" ( Read more... )

one down...one to go. now my brain needs to switch gears from chem to bio...oh how i loathe finals...chem was mmmkkk. I screwed up an easy prob as usual, but i think i did well. Prob not well enough though...oh well. really, it will be ok if i don't get an A in chem....

Quote from kiri "I just had a really positive thought. If I died today, I wouldn't have to take finals..." So here's what i did yesterday: woke up studied until I went to a study session, ate lunch, studied, ate dinner, went to see movie, studied went to bed. Here's what i did today: woke up studied, ate lunch, went to science center to study, ( Read more... )

Last night was the presentation of our swing final projects. We had to choreograph a dance w/ a partner and perform it for the everyone. My routine was awesome - it would have been better if I'd screwed up less but the really cool parts of our routine (there was one part where I slide underneath my partner's legs) made up for a few minor mishaps ( Read more... )

I broke up w/ Rick.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

I'm single again.

Yay for that. Boys are silly, I think I'm going to steer clear of relationships for a while...

Relationships are complicated.

That is all.

So last weekend was our big meet for the first half of the season. It was a shave and partial taper meet (for those of you who know what that means.) My times were ok. My sprint events were actually what I did best at which is weird b/c I don't really consider myself a sprinter. I'm kinda not happy w/ my distance times b/c I'm swimming my races ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving for me was highly relaxing and enjoyable. I Can't even remember the last time i've gotten to spend an entire morning doing nothing but curled up on the couhc reading a book. I haven't really had the time for that sort of self-indulgence in a long long long time. It also snowed over Thanksgiving which was kinda nice. Snow is still a ( Read more... )