| Writer's Block: Looking Back |
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Unlike Mark I was able to search through the LJ archives to find out what my first LJ post was about. I had kept a Blurty for a few months prior to being peer pressured to switch to LJ, so my first entry acknowledges that I did cave and switch to livejournal on April 3rd 2004.
This entry took place after a day of timing at the Junior Olympics to get some good community service hours. At the time of this entry, I had a big crush on Justin Rees, who couldn't date me because his mother thought I was a bad kid (I like how anyone who will read this now will at first instinct say, "Maddie, when were you ever a bad kid?" but yes I did have a mild rebellion in 7th grade which caused me to do a total 180 and not lie or do anything illegal all throughout high school). Also, he had a few months earlier broken up with my friend Melinda, and when Melinda found out that I liked him and he still had feelings for her, she thought I was mad at her and decided not to talk to me even though we shared the back seat of Tim's car on the drive back to Austin. When I got home I made sure Robbie and Mitchell didn't drown at the Jester Pool and called my ex-boyfriend Connor who decided he didn't want to talk and then called a guy David I met at swim camp and chatted with him while he was completely drunk.
Oh the joys of 8th grade blogging... And although that may not sound interesting, reading it I found it entertaining because back then, believe it or not, my livejournal was a hot thing. I had loyal readers and people who complained if it wasn't updated regularly, and I feel that my writing was better then, at least from a more entertaining and funny aspect.
And now on a more up-to-date note, I'll finish this entry discussing a favorite topic of the majority of teenage girls: boys!
And since this has become public, I'll have to speak in code. Let's just call these boys "1" and "2" (and this does not indicate that 1 is more important than 2, but rather than he came first chronologically speaking).
Over spring break, 1 and I talked a lot. I had just broken up with Chase, and he admitted that he had always found me attractive and was glad that now that I was boyfriend free who could flirt to his heart's content. We stayed up late talking each night over spring break, and although we didn't know each other that well, he came on pretty strong. He said things like, "You're definitely long-term girlfriend material," and, "I want to take you home next weekend to meet my family," and, "My friend said to do whatever makes me happy, and I think that's you." He also would call just to wish me a good morning, and the like. Well, the much anticipated hang out happened within 15 minutes of me getting back to Clemson after spring break. We went to his dorm, watched Wedding Crashers, went to Waffle House, and then made out and cuddled until 6 in the morning. He was a really nice guy, but he was high as a kite when we hung out, and apart from a mutual attraction towards each other, we really didn't have that much in common. I still wanted to be friends with him at the very least, and we talked a bit (not nearly as much as over spring break) the next week. However, that ended when after we had made plans to hang out on Friday, he never called and we haven't spoken since. Well, I sent him a facebook message today saying, "I'm not mad, I didn't know you well enough to be angry. But I did think that was rude and I didn't deserve to be treated like that. Also, you always complain that you're unlucky in love because you always end up as 'just a friend' and maybe if you didn't push people away after luring them in with your charms you would find someone that could make you happy." It was a bit longer than that, but you get the drift. I signed it with, "You don't have to respond, just wanted to say that." (That sound familiar Mark?).
Now for 2. After being devoted to one boy for 6 months, it's time for me to get my crush on. I've found this boy attractive from day one, when I saw him in class. Cara shares my taste in that he is really cute. After seeing him outside of class at Waffle House at 3 in the morning, I decided to take the plunge and add him on facebook (don't worry, we had spoken in person before that). Since then, I've facebook chatted him a couple of times, and I was the one he messaged when he missed class and wanted to know what we did. Don't worry, I'm not saying that these things indicate that he likes me, but more so though that you know how when you have a crush on someone, these little things make you happy? I mean obviously nothing is going to happen-there's less than three weeks of school left and he's graduating. But being that I have no shame I'm planning on telling him of my crush once our class ends.
And this is my life.
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| i'm going to go to bed earlier than i have been! |
[05 Dec 2007|09:31pm] |
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I really wasn't planning on updated at all, but something I found mildly amusing happened so I felt the need to share... I missed the Government test on Monday, so Mr. Loeffler told me to make it up during 7th period with Shannon. He said he wouldn't be in his room because someone else was using his classroom that period, and that he'd probably just be wandering around the Social Studies wing or in the office and that if we didn't see him to wait on the bench outside the assistant principal's office. So we're sitting in a spot that's normally reserved for trouble makers, feeling like hoodlums, and Mr. Loeffler just walks by and doesn't acknowledge us. The assistant principal looks at us and asks if we're in trouble and he's saying it kind of sarcastically because we don't look like the kind of girls that would get in trouble. Mr. Carcione knows that we're waiting and he's like, "You know, it would look better if you guys had referrals... That way it would really look like y'all were in trouble." So he runs to his classroom and brings us back some referrals and then sure enough, this girl walks by and goes to Shannon and is like, "Oh my god what did you do!" and I was like, "They found pot in her locker. She also has a meth lab..." So it was fun pretending to be hoodlums, although all the teachers that walked by could tell we weren't bad but I think some kids were wondering what we did.
And speaking of that bench across from the assistant principal's office, the other day I walked by and this hoodfigger whistled at me. Flattering, and yet creepy.
But anywho, Shannon and I waited for like 35 minutes before he came back with our tests (we said at 3 we were going to leave, and at 2:57 he showed up). Oh well, at least that's out of the way.
I leave for what used to be known as San Antonio TISCA tomorrow! WOOHOO!
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[04 Dec 2007|08:54pm] |
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Florida was a lot of fun. I swam well, but not as well as I wanted to swim. Still, I have no complaints, just a feeling of being unsatisfied. I am really happy with the chemistry of the group though. Everyone gets along really well (for the most part, there's a few minor exceptions) and I really liked getting to know the National Development kids (the younger group that's like the prequel to National Focus Group, my group. Mid Bott and Keegan are my favorites).
And now I'm peeved because Robbie just came in and was like, "Maddie get off the computer now, I need to get on," because he has a project that he's known about forever but as usual he put it off until the last minute. And also, he listens to music really loud when he does it, so he can't be focusing fully on his project if he's jamming out to rap, ergo it takes him longer. Rawr.
So I have to wrap this up really quickly, because Robbie gave me a 4 minute notice (who knows, maybe I'll do my precal homework.... not likely). I'll just end this on how I went to Mitchell's choir concert. I asked my mom to help me with something and she said, "I'm about to go to Mitchell's choir concert," and Mitchell said, "Maddie, you should come!" So I did. Robbie went too (Andrew took him from wrestling practice-Andrew's little brother and sister are also in choir) and my dad showed up, so once again, all the Tarantolo's were out supporting one of their own (last week was Robbie's wrestling match). It was cute, and at the end Mrs. Erk (hill music teacher) said, "Okay, we'd now like to invite any former Hill Dillos to come up here and join the choir for this last song!" So Robbie and I went up there along with some other siblings and joined in. It was silly and I cracked up, and Andrew was a buttface and wouldn't join his brothers and sister on stage! Oh well.
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[27 Nov 2007|09:46pm] |
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In office aid today our phone was acting crazy. It rang and I answered, as usual, "Anderson High School," and then it was silent for a bit and then an automated voice came on and said, "I have a call for you. Please enjoy the music while your party is reached," and then elevator music started playing. About 3 seconds later I hear, "All our representatives are busy right now, but please hold. Thank you," and more music and then the line went dead. About 2 minutes later it rings again, I answer, and it rings twice after I've answered (like I called someone), and someone says, "Hello?" and I said, "uh, hi, the phone rang and I answered and then it rang again and you answered," and they just said, "Hello?" again in a really weird voice. I hung up. Is someone prank phone calling Anderson?
One of the more humor parts of my day was in pre-cal when Jackson Bradford turned to me and said, "So, I looked it up online. William Bradford started the first Thanksgiving... you're welcome." I giggled about that for a good portion of the day.
In government we have to show bureaucracy in a creative way. Coleman, Paige, and I are making Club Bureaucrat. Well, it amused us... And to show that Robbie and I are similar, he's doing the cell project I did freshman year (you have to creatively show parts of the cell), he's also doing a club. When I did that project freshman year, I did a church (the mitochondria was the communion, the dna was the bible...).
I will be shaving my legs in less than 48 hours :-).
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| this is a REALLY weird music video |
[26 Nov 2007|09:19pm] |
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There is really no end to my Degrassi Mega Match addiction. This morning it was like 8 and I was all ready for school and even though I was planning on going in for tutoring I was like, "I still have time for a few rounds," so I played for like 20 minutes. I still went to tutoring, and I got done what I needed to get done, but I really love that game. After this entry, I'm going to go play it again. I hate myself.
In my launch music line up a song called, "Sewn" by The Feeling came on. I'm really random, I know.
I'm really viewing pretty much everyday as if there's a holiday or vacation coming up. What this means is that I'm not doing like any homework at night and doing it all at school the next day and then I think, "If I need to work I have a long weekend coming up to do it." So this is a combination of senioritis and the fact that I have a lot of long weekends. This week is only a 3 day week, and there's a good chance next week will only be like a 2.5 day week. I'm going to be busy throughout the entirety of the long weekend, but I don't know. I'm pretty much just talking about this because I'm online talking to my friend Alex and listening to music which means I can't really focus and recall actual events of interest so I just babble.
In English we got a, "Who are you?" assignment. Should be easy and fun, but the person that I am is a combination of funny and silly stuff with really weird and emo stuff. I really like laughing and making people laugh and being fun loving, but I'm not like that all the time. I let other people see that side of me because I have a compelling desire to make everyone like me and please everyone, but also I'm really sad a lot of the time. I don't really let my guard down completely with anyone, and for people who think they've seen me really down, they probably haven't seen me as low as my emotions can go. But I'm not going to share my depressing side with a bunch of people who aren't really close to me. So I don't know, I think I'm going to present myself as an oxymoron, because I don't even understand me. Although I do think I'm kind borderline mentally insane. I'll probably say something hilarious followed by a Brand New lyric. Any ideas?
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Because Zac is finally back in town (even though he's only been gone like 2 months...) I had to catch up on futon time. We hung out Friday night but sadly not much time was spent with the futon. We went to wal-mart and best buy and walked around a lot aimlessly, but man, yesterday was futonpalooza. I went over there at like 2:30 and Beert was there and we watched t.v. on the futon for a looong time. We also spent a good amount of time on addictinggames.com, and Beert and I put on Zac's clothes and went around his house posing as him. And then we went over to the Puryear's house to meet up with other people and had dinner. I would go into more detail, but at the risk of some of the stuff that was said being inappropriate, you'll just have to ask me about it in person.
I've been really tired lately, which is weird because I've been getting more sleep and since we're tapering we aren't training as hard. Maybe since my body is used to being tired and now it's not it is getting freaked out and making me MORE tired. Because that makes perfect sense.
The psyche party was tonight at Christine's. I went over fa few hours early to make a trivia game (we played jeopardy as usual, but this time it was just about random stuff, not people on the team). The food was good, and I'm excited for Florida. I hope I swim well (I always hope I swim well, so this is kind of redundant).
I should be going to bed, but I'll probably just end up on addictingames.com again. SO ADDICTING. THE SITE NAME DOES NOT LIE!!!.
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[22 Nov 2007|09:07pm] |
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I hope everyone had a delicious and filling thanksgiving and that no one ate themselves into a coma (which I came close to, as I do every year).
Last night my Aunt, Uncle, and two cousins got in. I have a fairly small house, and it barely holds 5 (I have my own room, my parents share, and my brothers share). With the addition of my grandparents, the cousins, and the aunt and uncle, our inhabitant amount more than doubled. I shared my room with my cousin Jill, my grandparents got my brothers' room, my aunt and uncle slept on the couch, my parents kept their own room, and Mitchell, Robbie, and my cousin Greg slept outside in a tent. We have another fold out couch in the computer room (where I am now, how about that?) but it's really tiny and could barely hold 2, so they decided it would be fun to sleep outside. It was cold, but with an extension cord they were able to get t.v. and video games out there. I felt bad for Jill though because I sleep with the room really cold, and I was hogging all the covers. At one point I had rolled myself a nice cocoon, and she was tugging at the covers to try and get some for herself. They gave way a little, but I was wrapped up in them too tightly. I woke up a little bit later and gave her one of the blankets I had on the bed, and this morning she said she didn't know that there was another sheet on my bed (that she hadn't used), so I didn't feel TOO bad.
Wasn't that an unnecessary long explanation of where everyone slept last night? Yes. But this morning Brittany, Christine, and I went to Zac's house to wake up him! I shook him violently and he didn't look too happy (although we knew of course he was thrilled to see us). And then at the optional warmup at the NSC, we saw Patrick and Kristen and Kevin as well. All the college kids are visiting, hoorah.
Food today was delicious. Everyone in my house was involved in the feast, plus some very distant relatives that just moved here from out of town (my second cousin once removed, and his wife and two kids). I LOVE FOOD.
But now of course I feel very large and very very sleepy.
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| i'm going to bed soon, i swear |
[20 Nov 2007|10:46pm] |
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It's always a bummer waking up early to go to practice, but when you wake up and think, "Taper has started. Practice won't be that bad," it becomes bearable. And once you get there and find out you're only doing 3,500... PHENOMENAL!
My signing was during first period this morning. In addition to Anderson Swimmers being there, Evin and Becca came, Coleman and his mommy came, and Mrs. Frankenfeld came (this doesn't include my family, obviously). Also, Duncan was signing with Texas Tech for baseball so he had some people there too. There was the KEYE news guy there, and he filmed a lot of stuff and I felt awkward but he interviewed me for a bit and everyone said I did really well with that. My grandma was like, "You were so natural! You did so much better than I would have," and I was like, "What would you have done if I had said, 'Hey, this is my Grammy. Talk to her!'" and she laughed and said, "They'd probably be thinking, 'How does a girl this normal have a grandmother so insane?'" hehe.
I did another coded message for Z today. This time it was more difficult for her to translate because I made the code in alphabet letters. So "A" was written as "F" which is really hard to comprehend.
At practice tonight we continued talking in British accents. Brittany said we could be the "ABPL" (Awesome British People Lane). And I randomly started singing in this weird almost opera voice, and afterwards I was able to talk normally again (my voice has been raspy the past few days). Sadly now I can't...
The 6 o'clock news was recorded, so I watched myself on t.v. :-).
And CHRISTINE and I went to the Anderson vs Vista Ridge wrestling match. We missed Robbie wrestle, but watched some other people. It was fun and silly.
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| how come there is no boy in this song? |
[19 Nov 2007|10:00pm] |
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Not going to lie, in watching this music video I was expecting to see a hot country boy. Nope. Just Taylor Swift. I want a hot country boy...
My voice has been sketchy since returning from TISCA. I haven't lost my voice in quite some time, and I wasn't expecting to, but oh well, I was wrong.
I didn't really have any homework this weekend, and normally in office aid that's when I catch up on all my homework. And the phone wasn't ringing that much, so I was bored.. What did I do? I made up a code. I wrote down all the letters of the alphabet, and put a symbol next to it to signify that it represented that letter. For example "]" was the symbol for "T". I then wrote a letter to Z in code and stuck it in her box. I have no life, but I'm okay with it. Is that any nerdier than when I used to skip around the halls delivering notes for office aid?
Also, I got called into the principal's office today! That's never happened before! I mean, it was just so that she could confirm that the newspaper got my bio for the press release statement about Clemson, but still, shocking (well, I guess not really, since I wasn't in trouble).
David was glum today, so I wrote him a poem. I used the word "trollop" in it, FANTABULOUS.
Swim practice was enjoyable because taper began! And also because my lane decided to talk in English accents for the majority of practice, and because Kimmy and I gave ourselves a celebrity couple name. You've heard of Brangelina? Or Bennifer? Here's one for you: Mimmy Ballantolo (me and Kimmy's names combined).
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| i swam badly :-( |
[18 Nov 2007|09:42pm] |
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TISCA was fun as usual, but sadly it was the worst I've ever swum there this year. Prelims everything was pretty disgraceful, and in finals there were few highlights (my 50 back was decent, as was my 50 free, but my 50 free would've been better had I not slipped on the wall). The meet was also painfully long. We got to the swim center at 10 on Friday morning, and didn't leave until about 7:30. OUCH. And the bus ride down to corpus took almost 5 hours because we left at the height of rush hour traffic. But on both bus rides I got a nice little nap in, except (Vanessa, I originally typed 'accept' but I knew you would correct me, so I went back and changed it and added this shout out) coming home Alison decided that I looked silly and took pictures of me sleeping. :-(. But dinner Friday night was definitely one of the most enjoyable dinners of all time. Ever.
Today was the dual meet against North Texas Nadadores, and because of TISCA I only swam the 200 medley relay and the 200 IM, and I definitely swam better than I did at TISCA (25.2 fly split, and Tim had me at a 2:07.8 for my 200 IM). And there's no practice tomorrow and Tim said at afternoon practice we're only swimming 5000! He said, "We're going to taper your ass off," and I'm so ready for it. I also saw my friend Drew who I met on my Clemson trip at the meet (he swims for NTN) and I really hope he signs with Clemson because he's really cool and it would be awesome.
And I've been on yahoo music, and I have some comments and concerns.
+"Tattoo" by Jordin Sparks is AMAZING
+Taylor Swift is GORGEOUS. I want to look like her.
+So Spice Girls are back together... and Geri is included?? WTF.
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[14 Nov 2007|10:02pm] |
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Yes, I do realize that I'm involved in a sport that does not get much recognition. Apart from current swimmers and swimmers who have retired, there are only a handful of people who take interest in the sport. Still, swimming deserves recognition. Swimming is the hardest sport there is (It's open to debate, but anyone who has ever experienced swimming will concede to it's difficulty), and one of the most honest. In team sports such as basketball and football, should someone not perform to their potential, the team might still be able to succeed. In swimming, if one messes up and performs poorly, then it is they alone who must suffer the pain of defeat. Also, it baffles me that even though swimming is by far America's best sport (number one in the world for almost 50 years now), why does no one care? I'm pretty sure on the international level we suck at baseball (America's past time) considering Japan can whoop us up and down the field.
Oh well, mindless rampages.
And also, somewhat related to swimming, but not really, I feel like I never get just credit for the things I do.
But enough ranting, TISCA TOMORROW!!!
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I'm online chatting with my friend Joe and I just realized that ambiguous is a weird word to spell. I had to stare at it for awhile to make sure it was correct before I sent it.
Since there was no school today there was no reason to rush to get home from practice. I took my time warming down, did some pull ups, chatted with the Trents, Daniel, Evin, and Avery, swept the pool with Christine so that our Nitro swim center can look pristine, and then finally made it home an hour and a half after practice was over. And what did I do with my Monday off from school? I completed last week's two hour episode of Prisonbreak, took a two hour nap, ate lunch while flipping back and forth between America's Most Smartest Model and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (which is not really entertaining at all. And I seriously thought Dani was a dude), did some reading for English, took an hour nap, and then went to practice.
And speaking of practice tonight, my lane went crazy. My lane is me, Beert, Christine, and Kimmy, and today for some reason we were all really hyper and laughing at stupid things and being really loud and annoying. Example: Beert and I always say, "Drill tech build" really fast in honor of Zac (you wouldn't understand unless you spent time with Zac at practice), and then today we said, "Drill fa buil" instead of "Drill fast build" and for some reason that was hilarious? Also, it helps that we're cutting down yardage because Florida (!!) is so close, so we have more energy. I can't wait for taper... and I can't wait to hopefully swim really really fast in Florida.
The other day coming home from practice I saw a red pickup truck with one Mexican in the back. Where were all his amigos?
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| it's crazy how much i love this song |
[11 Nov 2007|09:54pm] |
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What a lazy, lazy weekend (hoorah!). Swim practice Saturday morning really wasn't that bad at all, and when I went home I slept and ate and watched t.v. pretty much all day. I mean, I had to catch up on all the t.v. I haven't been watching. But my day was not a complete couch potato fest. I went out to Fridays with Anna, Alison, Mote, Vanessa, Kathleen, and Max Lang and then Anna, Kathleen and I went to go see Across the Universe. I love it when guys can sing. I got home at around midnight and wasn't tired at all and then just watched t.v. and ate (I'm going to get fat) until like 2:30. I found something on the news about these people who live in the streets and this one girl (she was 19) had just had a baby and one of the older girls in the group was saying that they should try and find someplace inside for the baby's sake and the mother was like, "Hell no, my baby is going to live on the streets with us! Nothing wrong with that!" Depressing.
Today was also fairly lazy (as in apart from showering I was in my pjs all day), watching more t.v. but I did get my English paper done (8 pages, 2,523 words, thank you very much) and I did my Clemson application. It was so much easier than the Washington one. This one was only 4 pages (Washington was 12) and there were no essays. Caching!
One of my future teammates added me on Facebook and we've been chatting which is cool. I'm so excited for next year.
I'm currently making the list of jam songs for corpus TISCA. If you have suggestions, feel free to, well, suggest them. I think it's just me, Al, and Anna in a room, and we are going to PARTY!. I'm so excited for the next few weeks. Example:
+Tomorrow there is no school, so that makes it a 3-day week because I leave for TISCA Thursday afternoon.
+TISCA THIS WEEKEND!
+Sunday is the Nitro NTN duel meet
+My signing is Tuesday, November 20th
+Thanksgiving is next week, so that's a two day week
+Taper will be in full swing soon
+Florida is the week after Thanksgiving, so another three day week followed by a three day week after that because I won't be at school on Monday
+We leave for what used to be known as San Antonio TISCA that Thursday afternoon.
Lack of school? Yessss.
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Once again I will not be able to attend the NHS induction ceremony (I didn't go last year and I cannot for the life of remember why), and this year I have TISCA on Friday and Saturday and then I'm doing the Nitro duel meet vs North Texas Nadadores plus my homework on Sunday. But anywho, the point of this story is that since I won't be going I have to somehow contribute (because I'm an officer.... even though I'm just the peer tutoring coordinator), so I am writing a speech on character for someone to read at the ceremony. Hold onto your hats, should be an exciting read.
And to add on to my list of creativity, I came up with a spectacular pickup line today. "Is there a phone in your butt? Because I'm about to make a booty call!". I.AM.FABULOUS.
After school I called Kelsey to inform her that Max, Christine, and myself would not be participating in the carpool today (well, we would all be driving, but not with her) because of the NHS meeting. I got her voicemail, and I got, "Hey this is Kelsey I'm not here right now," and then all of a sudden there was a beep and it said, "Kelsey Krug," followed by a machine voice saying, "Please enter your password," so somehow by calling Kelsey I hacked into her voicemail? Had I known her password, I could've listened to her messages. But rather than be snoopy I just hung up and called back because I was just trying to leave her a message!
My stomach started hurting really badly at practice tonight. It was fine during practice, but once we started doing dryland I couldn't do anything. It was a really sharp pain in my side and I ended up just lying down on the ground for about 20 minutes and then on the car ride home I just lied down in the backseat of Max's car and didn't speak because it hurt so bad. All in all the pain lasted for about an hour and then went away, so it will remain a mystery. This sort of thing has happened before a few times (very few times). All of a sudden I'll get horrible pain and I won't be able to move at all without crippling over. This time it wasn't nearly as bad, but what the heck is going on?
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| sorry for the delay vanessa |
[08 Nov 2007|09:59pm] |
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I was going to update Sunday about my trip, but then events happened and I kept having to delay so I'll talk about my trip and then say my announcement although the majority of the people that read this already know. But yes, my trip.
- Early flight, and normally I would sleep on the plane and get charged up for a weekend of little sleep, but Derek was going to Clemson also and we were on the same flight so we chatted and read Cosmo.
- When all the recruits got together, the assistant coach (Lance) was like, "It's too quiet, we need something to break the silence. Maddie, tell a joke!" so I drew the thing Mr. Beaver showed us in pre-cal (I'll show it to you in person, it's funny)
- Almost fell asleep in my academic meetings, which one of the guys on the team said he did when he was a freshman
- Ate some goooood ice cream
- Toured the campus
- Went to eat BBQ with the team
- Some people on the team took me and 2 of the other recruits to a haunted mil. It wasn't like a run attraction, it was a mil that was rumored to have once been a meth lab and has since been abandoned. CREEPY!
- Chilled Saturday morning, and then went out to eat lunch with the recruits and some Clemson kids.
- Watched the Clemson vs USC meet. The women lost but the men won (USC being south carolina, not southern cal). It was some good time to talk with the other recruits because unlike my Washington trip we didn't all click instantly and we didn't see each other that much, but I got to talk to them more and they were pretty cool. The boy recruits were: Derek (whom I already knew), Drew (from North Texas Nadadores club team, great guy), Major (from Montana. His name was Major and he was from Montana. How cool is that? They swim in Montana?), Lee (didn't talk to him much, he was from South Carolina), and Chace (transfer from Indiana. Didn't talk to him much either). And the girls were me, Alyssa (from Deleware), and Paige (from Tennessee).
- Some Clemson girls and the girl recruits made our own sushi and then got more ice cream where the guy taking my order was kind of amazed at how much ice cream I ordered...
- Went to some guys house to hang out with the team and some Clemson students not on the team
- There was a recruit send off and the Clemson swimmers all hugged us goodbye
- Flight back home I didn't sit near Derek and actually got some reading done.
So yes, fun trip, most excellent indeed! And now for the news...
I COMMITTED TO CLEMSON! The assistant coach called Monday night and offered me a full scholarship (which is 5 years and tuition for out of state is like $30,000 a year, so that's like $150,000) and a laptop computer and I accepted! Hooray! Lance told me that he would tell the team, but I don't think he has yet because I'm still getting facebook comments like, "Hey, hope you decide on Clemson!" whereas a lot of people that don't go to Clemson are like, "Hey, congrats on deciding on Clemson!"
And for everyone that doesn't know, Clemson is in South Carolina.
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[01 Nov 2007|10:10pm] |
I LEAVE FOR CLEMSON TOMORROW MORNING!!! HOORAH!
I'll put a detailed update of my trip (well, an attempted detailed one) when I return.
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[29 Oct 2007|10:33pm] |
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This weekend I really didn't do much of anything. Aside from taking the ACT, going out to dinner with my family, and doing a makeup practice Sunday night (I'm excluding Friday from my weekend recap because I already talked about that), all I did was watch t.v. Saturday I devoted myself to the tv because I had taken the ACT all morning and had earned some brain dead time, but Sunday I told myself I was going to do homework (although really I only had to finish reading LTMK and do some On Chesil Beach reading). Well, I decided to watch the Halloween movies instead (Halloween H2O and Halloween Resurrection). Then I'm pretty sure I did something college related, but after that I went to start homework and realized that I had my entire government review. Argggggh. The point of this stupid story is that I wasn't as prepared for the government tests as I usually am, and I don't know if it was because I wasn't prepared or if it was actually the hardest test we've taken in that class, but still, ouch. Probably not going to do well on that...
And chatting with Vanessa online right now reminds me that she came over to try on a swimsuit (HELLO VANESSA!. I figured since I talked about how I did nothing all weekend you would mention that you stopped by, so I beat you to it!).
Nothing of real interest happened today however. Well, 3 college coaches called. The new Washington assistant coach called the other day, and we've been playing phone tag for awhile, and he called again tonight and when I called back he answered so we chatted. The South Carolina coach also called, but I wasn't home for that but they said they'd call back sometime later this week. And then I was in the midst of my stretching when I get a call from Incarnate Word and I was like, "How did he get my number?" and then he mentioned Lesley gave it to him so HI LESLEY. And I also e-mailed the UNC coach tonight. So yeah, busy night for college stuff...
CLEMSON THIS WEEKEND!
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[27 Oct 2007|09:42pm] |
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Because of the RR invite which lasted alllllllllllllllll day, I got slightly sun burned. However, the slightly sun kissed look was surpassed by the excessive amount of dryness. I used more moisterizer today than I usually use in one week. And my face still looks like the first layer is just going to fall off (it's not peeling, just really dry). Speaking of the RR invite, the pool was heated to perfection (although some weenies argued it was too hot, psh, I love swimming in a bathtub), and it was cold but not too unbearable. I got a best time in my 200 IM (2:08.66)-well, best time short course, still not long course converted time, and my 50 free and 50 back were pretty good, and my 100 fly was disgraceful. But the best part of the meet was when I got to hibernate in Max's sleeping bag for a good hour, although it was really hard to wake up afterwards.
Last night was Evin's surprise party, and although he didn't look too surprised it was still fun. And I still suck at bowling (nothing has changed since my pathetic score when I visited UW, but I did get a strike this time).
And today I took the ACT. The math section started off so easy and I was like, "Call me crazy, but I think I might actually be able to get a perfect score on the math," and then it got incredibly hard. And the science section was hell from the start. I was also disappointed with the essay because for the SAT I felt I sounded intellectual and awesome and for this one (the prompt was should students be required to participate in team sports to meet graduation requirements) and I couldn't really make it sound as good as I wanted to. Plus when he said, "5 minutes left," I wasn't near to finishing with everything I wanted to say, and then my handwriting got really sloppy, I cut out a few of my points, and ended it a few seconds before he told us to stop. Fabulous.
My brain turned to mush after that, and I spent a good 6 hours on the couch watching tv. I have no ambition, I know... Tomorrow I'll sleep in, finish reading some LTMK and dabble a bit in Chesil Beach, finish my government assignment, possibly take a whack at the Clemson app (GOING THERE NEXT WEEK!!!), and then try to have a good makeup practice tomorrow night.
I'm close to something that could potentially make me really happy or really sad. I try not to dabble to much in matters of these because I usually end up upset, and also by telling people about it it makes whatever charm the feeling had go away. I guess I'll just stick to my overactive imagination.
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[24 Oct 2007|10:34pm] |
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While I was at UW two guys were goofing around and were like "yeah, i'm the Hiphopopotamus," and the other was like, "And I'm the Rhymenoceros." I thought it was hilarious, and now I'm seeing that they probably watched this. It's kind of like how Coleman says something hilarious and then I find out it's from a movie... That doesn't happen a lot, but I just hold Coleman to such a higher standard of hilariousness that I feel betrayed when he does steal something from a movie.
Because the blue team won the Blue vs. Gold meet we had last week, we got to get out nice and early :-). So that meant a nice, long, hot shower. MMMM showers...
I got a 97 on my pre-cal test :-). HOORAH! Hopefully that will balance out my soon to be less than stellar quiz grade... Also, lately I've been falling asleep in that class (I might've touched on it in an earlier entry?). Well last night I had a dream that I was in his class taking notes, so I guess all the time I spent sleeping in his class is being made up for by me dreaming about it. Too bad I didn't learn anything from my dream.
I liked our practice tonight. It was a stress curve set which Tim says we've done before but I don't recall. Anywho, it was a ladder starting at 25 and going up by a 25 each time to 150 and then back down, 3 times through, and the intervals were really random and one would be amazingly hard and then the next would be really easy but it was awesome. Good practice :-).
Gah I should've been in bed forever ago, but I got distracted! The South Carolina coach called and we chatted and then I had to talk to other people about stuff and I didn't do any homework but it's not like it matters because I won't be at school tomorrow (RR INVITE).
And this weekend should be fun :-).
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[22 Oct 2007|10:22pm] |
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I pretty much only like the chorus of this song, and it's been stuck in my head on repeat for several hours, but I'm okay with it. And you know how songs make you think of people sometimes? I seriously have no idea why I'm thinking of the person I'm thinking now for this song...
Last night I was thinking, "Wow, my shoulders haven't hurt in a really long time, these new shoulder exercises are awesome!" and then this morning the second I started swimming fly it hurt. I jinxed myself. It was also astounding to see the temperature drop 12 degrees in 15 minutes. CHILLY!!! I was not adequately prepared for school (flip flops+rain+cold+wind=not good). Jackson was funny though, because when my dad came in to drop off my shoes, as he was leaving Jackson comes up and says, "Who's the creepy guy in red?" and Reed goes, "You mean Maddie's dad?" Way to put your foot in your mouth bud. He was like, "No, I meant it was just creepy because he like came out of nowhere..." Yeah, riiiight.
I slept through the majority of pre-cal today. He was going over a new lesson plan, and for the life of me I could not stay awake. Every couple of minutes or so Mr. Beaver would say, "Maddie, you understand?" because he knew I was asleep and I would tune in for just enough time to say, "yes sir," and then drift back off. And as I've mentioned before, when I get tired, I start getting delirious. I started having weird dreams and I would open my eyes and see the classroom in front of me but then I'd close them and be off at like a water park or something random. After class Mr. Beaver was like, "Long weekend?", assuming I'd been out partying all weekend because of homecoming. Ha. I said, "Nah, I just got up at 4:40 for practice."
I'm drifting into a world of major apathy. I guess it's kind of good because it stops me from overreacting about some things, but I'm also not really feeling happy as I used to. I simply just don't care.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ivTUbGRHgB0. Despite my apathy, that video is hilarious.
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