Friday, Friday

Hi, kids! How was your day?

1. Hosted our first prospie (a 'prospective student' for all you laymen)! My roommate and I were mother hens for a night. It was a nice experience.

2. The season premiere of Grey's Anatomy was heartbreaking. :( It was really good in the sense that the audience was able to feel the same emotions as the characters. For instance, Hunt kept noting how nothing was the same anymore and I honestly had the same icky feeling. Deep connections going on here, you guys. Poor Arizona.

3. Regatta on Sunday! Super duper-de-duper excited because it's also my first! The roommate warns that I'll be e x t r e m e l y bored with nothing to do the entire time. Which will probably be true considering I'm tagging along for kicks (kinda).

4. Totally rowed in the rain this morning. The boat was a lovely wide-mouthed bowl/rain catcher and I got to wear a wonderful highlighter suit. The suit was great. Also, let's try to not get distracted by birds while docking, ladies. I'll admit that it was pretty cool, but our docking was not.

5. I'm itching to take an art or architecture class... I miss drafting by hand and building butterboard models. Ah, those were my glory days.

There should be brownies for dessert every night.

Mother Nature Roller Coaster

It was a blazing 60 degrees this morning! Just kidding, I didn't think it was that hot but it actually was 60 degrees. It seems that the morning temperature determines how hot or cold I feel for the rest of the day, even if I take a hot shower every morning. Right now it's 66 and I feel comfortable in my shorts although 2200 other girls are wearing long pants. In contrast, I was freezing all day yesterday and even though it went up to 72, I kept my fuzzy jacket and wool scarf on all day without shedding a drop of sweat.

Enjoy this lovely table:

This really is quite interesting. I must investigate further...

Come in, the water's great!

When it's foggy on the river, it feels like you're in a hot spring and the water is so warm that it's creating steam in the air. But really, the water was quite warm. I would have much rather taken a dip than freeze to bits although I would have had to stay in the water until the temperature crawled up to 70. Or else I really would have frozen to bits.

The fog was so thick that I could barely see past 3 seat and once you could see the shore, you were definitely WAY too close. Plus the skeg was stuck and we were constantly drifting towards the right so I fully utilized my stroke and 2 seats and their holding-water abilities. My stroke seat and I have a special connection now. I can't even muster how many times I asked her to hold water.

On another note, today was supposed to be mountain day! Nearly everyone thought it was going to be today yet alas I still have class later. Madame President, your timing is a bit skewed. I just hope its not tomorrow.

Swackett says it's 59 degrees outside, but I don't believe it. In the morning it's extremely difficult to think that by 3:00 it'll be 70 degrees. New England, your weather is making me sick. (Literally)

L'Aviron

J'aime beaucoup l'aviron.
... is there a French noun for coxing?

Had a wonderful morning even though we had a shaky row. One of the assistant coaches came up to me while I was unplugging the coxbox and said she was really impressed with me, especially since I'm very new to the sport. That lifted my spirits a bit and it was nice to know that someone thought I was doing something right. Good mornings start with good rows.

Started learning sports in French which was a pleasant surprise because now I can profess my love for crew in a different language! But we're going to have to work on those rolling sixes, ladies.

Big Littles

The crew team is spectacular and I love us. White chocolate candy corn M&Ms are quite amazing. (Thanks, Big!)

My roommate and I have agreed to host a prospie next week! It seems like just yesterday that we were prospies ourselves, wandering the campus like lost puppies. One concern: morning practices. I hope she doesn't mind being rudely waken up by crude lighting before dawn. Plus, she'll have to join us for bed at 9. Poor child, I hope she doesn't hate our school based on our visit. We'll try to be very kind and accommodating! No boat tension at home, we promise.

Now I'm super curious as to whom we get... this is going to bother me until her arrival.

Mountain Day's just around the corner...

Firsts

8:28
College is the perfect time to commit all your first deeds, whatever they may be. Today was my first time coxing. I was terrified. Today is also my first sick day as a college student but I'll try not to miss any classes.

I feel like I need to keel over. More later.

10:00
I felt better during the latter half of my class as well as more awake, but while I was walking home I suddenly got a migraine and it sucks. And to add to the misery, I forgot my umbrella at Kendall on Saturday and haven't retrieved it yet. It's raining.

Anyway, despite my nauseous morning, coxing for the first time was definitely an experience. I'm glad Laura was there coaching me along and I apologize for not speaking very loud, I have a cold (it's official). I think I may WebMD that to double check. Tomorrow will be better.

To: Parents of Perspective College-ers

Hello, world. I have come across a magnificent realization... crew gets you into college. THINK ABOUT IT: Many of the top schools nationwide have excellent rowing teams like, for example, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. From that, we can deduce that in order for them to maintain their prestigious claims as rowing powerhouses, they must recruit excellent rowers! Therefore, if your child is an excellent rower (or coxswain) then they have a better chance of getting recruited by top schools without having to be a braniac genius child prodigy.

I suppose that applies to most sports, but crew sounds more awesome than football.

Man, this sounds like an advertisement for rowing clubs.