Busy Busy

took a swim test tonight for crew. it was fun. i hadn't been swimming since...since catalina i guess, back in june. it wasn't hard, though i did get a little breathless: swim a couple lengths, dive for a brick, tread a little water, and we're done. our first race is tomorrow, and we'd better win it. half the eight has conflicts with the repechage time tomorrow, so if we lose we'll probably have to forfeit our next race as well, and that will be it. but we're going to win it, so that should be all right. also, the river's up to blue flag again, which means our fearless cox jeremias can't cox for the race tomorrow. so we need to win (and the river needs to go down) so jeremias can cox on friday or saturday.

in other news, thursday is thanksgiving. and the stanford house yanks are gonna celebrate it, dadgum, national holiday or no national holiday. there will still be tutorials and classes roughly as normal, but in the thick of things we'll be whipping up a feast to put the pilgrims to shame. yeehaw.

in addition, the fact that i have other classes besides my tutorial is beginning to loom darkly. as in, i actually have to start doing research and stuff. so the next couple of weeks promise to keep me hopping. oh, and the choir has a carol service coming up, too. so i'm gonna be accelerating right to the finish line. time flies when you're having funne. that's british for "fun". really. ok, not really. i'm donne now.