VOTE!

ok, i don't care whether you are for obama/biden or mccain/palin, but go out and VOTE tomorrow! I don't know if there will be an election that is as critical as this one again in my lifetime and it is so important for people to get out and vote!

six flags and navy day...

so tomorrow i am going to six flags... FOR FREE! somehow my school is sponsoring this so all we had to do was put in a deposit, which we will get back... it is going to be so much fun! and then saturday is the navy day regatta! which will also be awesome because our boats have been improving exponentially since the last race and also this time we will have three freshmen boats instead of just one- and i get to race again! then i will sleep all day sunday having gotten no sleep all the rest of the weekend...

just can't do it...

i can not get my life to take on a pattern and a routine... every time i try- like quitting my two jobs that took all my time and getting a new, more flexible one- something else comes up! anyone got any suggestions? i realize this is a weird question...

today...

since 7 AM i have walked the two miles to campus, driven to baltimore with the crew team, helped rig two boats, rowed about ten miles, derigged a boat, driven back to philly, helped rig and carry four boats, and gotten back to my apartment.... with ten monster blisters... and now i am going to college day on the parkway... ugh...

rowing... again...

is kicking my ass... though i do have the strongest stroke of the novices...

rowing....

so i decided i wanted to do something new this year- last semester i had way too much time on my hands and i got bored a lot... i was thinking about cap and bells, our school theater society, when i saw a poster for rowing.... which sounded cool, so i am going out for rowing- which is a lot harder to do properly than it looks... i should feel the erg in my legs, but i feel it in my back... i should be steady on the machine but i am constantly in danger of throwing myself off the end... you'd think rafting and kayaking would prepare me more for this, but its way hard... tomorrow i get on the water for the first time and hopefully i will be able to coordinate the whole thing better... but its way fun! even if i am the oldest novice...

school...

i am officially back at school and all moved in! i have a whole apartment to myself, provided by wonderful college... and now i have finally started classes... YAY!