A to the CCs

Hellooo from Clemson. We just got back from an amazing practice on the course, and I’m currently killing time in my hotel room with Em. I'm so excited to race tomorrow! Actually, I’m just excited about life in general right now.

This past week was the week from hell. I don’t think I slept more than 3 hours a single night all week. It was like sophomore year all over again. When I got on the bus last night I was seriously on the brink of a nervous breakdown or something, but I passed out for a couple hours and was feeling infinitely better afterwards. Then as we were rolling through Charlotte, I got a call from my top choice internship saying that I’ve been ACCEPTED! Yay! I haven’t completely decided yet, but I’d say there’s a very good chance that I’ll be a resident of Los Angeles, California next year. No more freezing cold North Carolina winters for me. Woohoo. I am such a Texan. Anyway, it’s good to know that I won’t be moving into that cardboard box Mary and I have been talking about for at least another year now.

I still haven’t told my parents. I feel kind of guilty about it. I called Andie and a bunch of my friends immediately, but I have a feeling my parents might find this news more disappointing than exciting, and I don’t think I feel like dealing with that at the moment. So they can wait till Sunday.

Sooo, what else? Next week is the last week of classes. How depressing. I’ve definitely been in denial about the whole graduation thing all semester, but it’s finally starting to hit me that it really is ending and fast. Senior week was last week. I didn’t get to go to a single event because I was stuck in engineering hell all week and didn’t have time to eat or sleep, much less go out. I did get a very interesting IM from Carolyn after the pub crawl last night, though. Hehe.

It’s so weird to imagine leaving Duke forever. Duke is my whole life. I’m not even sure that I’ve managed to fully get my mind around the concept yet. Ahhh, I don’t want to think about it.

Anyway, I’m off to shower and nap for a while before we head back to the course to watch the 2V4+ and the coxswain race. I’m still debating about whether I should cox for the wee ones this afternoon. I’ve had coxswain envy for almost as long as I’ve been a rower, but I really think I would crash into something/one, and that would be bad. So we will see. Okaaay, showa time. Peace.

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Let my f-ing people go

Long time, no update. I'd like to say it's because I've been super busy and productive all week, but really that would be a big fat lie. I've pretty much been just as worthless as usual, but after spending hours on application essays, I was verrry sick of writing. So, quick recap of the past week:

FRIDAY: Spent all morning attempting to finish my 141 problem set. Was thoroughly unsuccessful in that venture, but did manage to stay awake for the whole lecture after turning in the half that I did do. Drove out to Raleigh to practice on the course. The water was ridiculously crappy, but we did what we needed to. Ate a team dinner in the football building, which reminded me of graduation and made me sad. Hung out by myself all night while everyone else was at Death Cab. How depressing. Actually it was kind of nice.

SATURDAY: Race day. There were thunderstorm warnings all day, so the coaches decided to compress the race schedule. The varsity 8+ heats and finals were back to back in the morning. Didn't really matter, though; if anything it benefited us. We ended up beating all seven crews by open water and got ACC crew of the week again. Mary and Carrie came to watch, which made me happy. Saturday night I went to Doug and Will's party with Mary and Carolyn. VERY random crowd, but I had fun. Saw a bunch of random people that I hadn't even run into since Southgate plus Nat and Josh who were apparently here for the weekend. There were a few basketball players there, too. They played country music for a decent portion of the night, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I capped off the night by doing some serious drunken IMing. Still not sure who all I talked to. How embarrassing.

SUNDAY: Woke up at 11 with a massive headache. Just a word of advice- if you haven't had alcohol in almost a month, it's probably not a good idea to drink 5 beers and take 7 shots. Ya know, in case you were wondering. Went to a service project at the EC for a few hours. Why does that place make me feel so awkward? haha, well I was glad I went anyway. Lissa gave a great sermon that got me really fired up to participate in Holy Week stuff. Unfortunately, I haven't actually done it. whoops. Well, I'll go to Maundy Thursday stuff tonight if we're back in time, and I'm def going to Good Friday stuff manana. After the service, went to a senior dinner and a sorority meeting. Felt guilty again for not going to to formal and realized how little I've actually hung out with the Chi O girls this year. Was a little bummed for the rest of the night.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY: Drove myself and my roomie/ pseudo-roomies half insane over application essays. Props to MCC and Char for putting up with me. Got the applications sent off. Unfortunately, the essays are still pretty bad, but at least they are done and in. Practice kicked my butt on Monday. Tuesday we got to run instead of erg for half the practice, which made me really happy despite having to run down Campus Drive in a uni. Collapsed at 9 pm on Tuesday after sleeping 5 hours in the previous 2 nights combined. I am officially way too old for that stuff.

WEDNESDAY: was pretty unproductive. Ran errands and cleaned all morning, then met with Tina. I hate that I'm so behind on my own project. I know my group is ready to kill me at this point, but I don't really know what I can do about it. Practice kicked my ass again. Robyn threatened beforehand to switch some people between boats, and though she never actually did it, I have a feeling my days in the varsity 8+ are numbered. Oh well, all I can do at this point is keep pulling my ass off and hope for the best.

TODAY: Typical Thursday. Class, weights, class, lab, and now practice. Had to leave lab early again to put in a rush transcript order before 3. Did you know that the registrar moved from Allen to Broad Street? How annoying. Felt bad about leaving my group, but once again, nothing I could do. Anyway, I'm excited for tonight. I'm still debating about whether to go to Big Beers, screw your sis, or something else. At the moment, it's looking like big beers is going to win, but it all depends on who I can convince to go with me to what. It should be a good night regardless.

okaaay, now that we're all caught up, off to practice.

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Aquachic5 (8:07:04 PM): poop on Clemens head