And for the umpteenth time...

The swim club team got steamrollered in water polo last night... We were saved from the extreme disgrace that is a shut-out only by the kindly ref handing us a goal when the ball was only questionably close to being in the net.

On the plus side, our team has had 2 victories this season! welloksotheywereforfeitswhocares.

The Cabin

Its snowing, yay!

For the first time in 21 years....

I can touch my toes! Yes really. Monday night during my post-workout stretching I managed to touch my toes without bending my knees for the very first time ever. Sweet huh.

Just so you patient people out there know, starting now I will be posting at least once a week. I do miss doing this. I just need to make it happen.

DONE!

Thursday afternoon just before 2:00 I finished my 3M paper, the absolute last paper I had to write for my college career! No more homework!

Next, I get to work for the college maintenance departement working on cars all spring semester while living in a nice little cabin on Rushford lake :)

Latenight On Victory Expressway(?)

So once again its been a long break. Chloe, what happened to your incessant pestering for new posts? I will, by the way, be sticking around for the spring semester, having secured a job here at the college.

Anyway. The reason for this post is similar to the reason for the last. Its late, I'm avoiding my work, I'm zoned out, and my thought process was shifted towards the idea of... well you'll figure it out. (thanks my dear anonymous friend) But I will do my best to make it not sound repetitive or boring, etc.

Perfection. Its impossible they say
except for God.
But I don't see any flaws
no matter where I look
I might be blind
or deaf
or dumb
I don't know
avoidance hasn't worked
indeed its made it worse
if that was even possible

proscribe that pitiful parole!
oh pray I prefer I perpetually
did proximately perceive
that phrase!

But now I must learn it
no choice have I
though desperately paths
around it I seek

perhaps it will one day
turn out the way I
have hoped all this time
but I am sure all the same
I will survive and be better for it

but oh, the turmoil that writhes inside
vamoose!

Tripping

Yup, first post in a wee while... just figured I'd share my (un)enlightened state with y'all right now...

Crying out, I dash my head against the wall
trying not to fall
I hold my head up high
way up in the sky
but there are clouds up there
ever so thin
I can feel the sun so close
but I can not quite grasp it
this aching hole I feel
I need to sooth and fill
but am not sure how
not quite pain
not quite joy
somewhere in the hazy fringe I roam
longing for a way out
too blind to see the door
right before my very eye
the end is near
but I lengthen the path
not wanting to let go
weary though I am
I grip with all the strength I have
the existence I've always had
will I never know
that which I always thought was best
or do I only tease myself
with false hope of something new
when all I have is all I need
but weary, I stumble
soon I will fall
but I will still crawl
for the end is very near
but every new beginning
is some other beginning's end
and that which follows
brings great promise and great dread
I only wish
for that one little piece of knowledge
that I have sought after for so long
but what will I find when I grasp it?
I can only guess, for my skill there falls short
fading into the future...

Lord, be thou my comfort
for I know You are all I need

21!

So I turned 21 on Monday :) Since I had such a long night writing a paper for class, I took a nice nap and then bought myself some goodies to treat myself since I have cut back severely on my dessert food intake recently. But to make sure I didn't get fat, I still went for a 4 mile run lol. And I took some nice pics of what must be the largest tree in the county, if not the state. Oh, and I got a nice phone call from Lindsay that was quite entertaining but left me longing for the home state... only a few days left... well, enjoy the tree pics and the only pic that exists of me on my 21st Birthday :)

35 Yards away

10 feet away

Arm's length

Free Time

What does one do on a lazy Saturday afternoon with no pressing homework? Well, I went to Moss Lake. I got to see views like this...



And this...



Lookit all the bullheads!!



And there's the freaky hole in the bog... only 2 feet in diameter but a solid 10+ feet deep! (yep I got a long stick)



Oh dear... I discovered a hollow stump...



Never been in one of those before... no, I'm not kneeling, that opening is about 6 feet off the ground...



And here's looking up the other side... that hole is probably 15 feet up.




Gotta love free time! :)

In related news...

... I banged my head at least a dozen times (add another couple dozen instances for pinched fingers) on various vehicular parts today as I helped take out the toasted transmission from one of the college's crappy, poor excuses for transportation... oh oops, I meant the college's '95 Chevy work van...



...but despite Mitch's sarcastic comment that auto mechanics was obviously an easy career, my resolve was unshaken and I perhaps... just maybe... enjoyed myself...

um yeah, I, uh, bit off more than I bargained for...

230 pages of reading in 3 days of class... including 100 pages that had to be read before the first class!... but its good, I can run thru the stuff without real comprehension cuz we can't possibly discuss ALL those details in 3 hours of class...