Geeky Yet Waterproof

Although I neither go to school, nor would I be a Junior if I did, last Saturday was Prom. Because Iza, being an exchange student, has certain superpowers here, we went as sophomores.

I met up with Iza and Allison at Iza’s house for Photos Round I. After that we drove over to Trevor’s house (Allison’s date) for italian sodas and then Photos Round II.

After this, we rode in a Cadillac to Corvallis where we had dinner at The Gables, then we went back to Salem where the dance was.
The McNary school regulations were comical. There were teachers wearing identical blue shirts stationed every 10ft on the wall, with the principle standing on a chair (of authority?). There was a rule that the lights had to stay on, but that rule was broken after about 45 minutes. At one point the principal actually went up to the microphone and demanded that everyone “spread out”!
Despite these factors, it was still a lot of fun. At about 10:30 we went back to Trevor’s house to watch a movie before splitting up, and then we all desperately avoided the Keizer cops until safely home (well past curfew).

The next morning we had to get up early for a swim meet in Corvallis, but the last night was worth the 15 second add in my race…

Last week I did my first triathlon since last year: The Gator Grinder. It was a 500y swim, 12mi bike, and 5k run. Unfortunately I don’t have time to post a full race report, but for the record I won my age group and the next two up (up to 35), with 1:08:27.

If you’ve been reading my blog regularly for the past two weeks or so, I’m sure you’ve noticed there has been nothing to read (for two weeks or so). After my vacation, it was quite necessary that I take a vacation from writing: on each of the 21 days of our cruise, I spent hours recording what we had spent hours doing, and while sore feet were one small side-effect of the endless fun we had, sore fingers were one big side-effect of the endless blogging I performed. (Not really, but I know you know what I mean.)

Enough of this folly. You see what happens when I don’t write for a while? “Creative” things. To write is to vent one’s thoughts, which is to expel one’s madness. I just expelled two weeks’ worth.

Life after the cruise took some getting used to. Not only is the ground violently still, but we have to do everything for ourselves: cooking (well, I guess I don’t have to do that), laundry (OK, so I don’t have to do that either), room cleaning (hey, just because I don’t - ! )… But besides all this, The Homework is back. Fortunately I still remembered how to speak Latin, but as for the other subjects… well, I couldn’t even remember how Zygotes are produced differently from members of Basidiomycota and other fungi!
But besides all that, it was tough getting back to swim practice. My first day back was an OhNoDoubleTroubleTwoPracticesInOneDay day (ONDTTPIODD for short), and I found it challenging just to swim a 300 straight.

However, after two weeks of fighting to survive each practice (which builds character!), I’m almost back to normal now. From this we can deduce the most probable result of my recent productivity throughput which predicts that you will soon be reading more of my Wonderful blog posts — if this one hasn’t driven you away completely.