SATURDAY!! :D

i had a high point to anticipate this week - an afternoon spent dancing with friends! :D and it lived up to my expectations entirely.

a group of us went to one of the fitness centers in the area to break the world record for most couples dancing the tango for five consecutive minutes. registration started at one; the first attempt began at four. from 1-3:30, free tango lessons were held for those who did not already know how to tango. there were not many kids on the floor (and by kids, i mean under-18s); just myself and my partner, finwe; my sister ann and her partner blair; a friend from swim team and her partner; and her little sister (who was dancing with her dad). it was overall a very good time. well, when you can spend close to three hours dancing with your friends, do you really expect it to be a *bad* time? ;) i'm not ready for it to be over!

anyway, i'll post more pictures later.

-enna

Zephanaia

here, ladies and gentlemen, is a map of Zephanaia and Nemlac as of the year 961, during the reign of Azuan and Draila Setsoj.

update continuation

saturday, i had a swim meet. yes, that is how i spent valentine's day - in my swimsuit by a pool. got a problem with that? ;) it was actually another chance to spend time with huor and his two brothers before they left. anyway, here's my events and the time lost/gained breakdown:
50 free: stagnate. :P
100 fly: -8.5 seconds. (yes, that is a *huge* drop for a 100)
500 free: -23.5 seconds (another *huge* drop)
100 breaststroke: stagnate. :P
and then a free relay.

that was a *long* meet. they tried something new at the meet, and this new something meant they couldn't combine events. so we had 3 events in a row that had two people in each event. X_X we finally got home about 7...

then i had staff meeting sunday. *sigh* i did get re-certified in CPR/AED for the professional rescuer, which was something i needed to do before april.

then monday, we had no band and no art. presidents' day stinks. i like band, and i like art. i did get to sleep in, though, which was nice. :D which for me, equates to 7 AM, but hey...i take what i can get. ;)

tuesday, i worked all day like i normally do. and *finally* got a sub for work on saturday. more on that after saturday...

yesterday was a typical wednesday. well, ish. after art, i hung out on campus for about another 15 minutes or so. which was when i wrote most of the previous update. ;) then i picked up one of my little sisters (louise, if you want to know) from the Y after her service project and took her home. and found out when i got the mail that i received lots and lots of letters from colleges, and got 4 more in the mail today...for those who want to know where i'm going, i'm not sure yet. it will probably end up being the college with the best communications program that gives me the most money.

swim practice today got cancelled, so i stayed home.

that be the end of my update! later, all!

-enna

here you go...

update. this will be long, so i don't know if i'll finish it all in one sitting.

the day after my last post, mom and dad did a day-long talk at a local Catholic church on Theology of the Body. so i got to babysit my little sisters except for while i was at work. that was interesting. ;) i'm just kidding...they behaved themselves quite nicely.

last week was pretty crazy...well, i dunno that crazy is the right word. it was just busy. monday and tuesday were what they normally are - work and class on monday, and work all day tuesday. wednesday was also pretty much the same. thursday i was forced to take part in a math competition before swim practice. it was not easy, to say the least. :P i was also the only girl there. more mothers need to make their daughters take math competitions. it was six guys and me. *sigh* oh well. i also managed to show those boys a thing or two about geometry. ;)

on friday, after coop, i went to finwe's house for games and pizza. huor left for abu dhabi on sunday, so the three of us spent several hours playing nerts, risk, and munchkin and eating pizza.

and i shall leave it there. for now. ;)

-enna

i promise

i promise that a good, long update with various little tidbits is coming. just not right now. when i actually have some *time* (yes, that elusive thing), i will give you the update covering the past week and a half that also has music reviews and swim meet results and movie reviews...a little bit of everything. ;) so, just a teaser. >:D

-enna

something is changing...

i'm sorry, folks, but i don't know how often i'll be posting anymore. so - i'll post when i can. sorry. but i don't know that i can keep up the post-a-day thing.

anyway, picking up with my update...after work on saturday, we had tango class again. :D i love to dance...i may not be able to walk across a flat surface without tripping (my indian name should be "trips on sunlight"), but i can dance gracefully.

anyway, on sunday we didn't do much of anything. sunday is my day to *relax*.

monday, we had band. and then i had art class. that was interesting, as we started contour line drawing and received our first homework assignment. after class, i went to work. *shrug* typical monday. well, except for the fact that one of my dad's employees called in sick with strep throat. that sort of threw me into a germaphobic mess. if my immune system is down at all and i'm exposed, i get strep. X_X and i don't have time to get sick. (sounds odd, but it's true. i've got too much to do.)

tuesday, i worked all day. like i do every tuesday. tuesday is rather boring. but life got mixed up just a little at the end of work. i do leg strengthening exercises with a little girl for the last hour of my work day in the pool. she's got CP. (yes, i do know what disease that stands for, but i can't remember right now.) but she got sick. in the pool. in the first fifteen minutes. SOOO...she went home early. and i made a (possibly foolhardy) decision - in addition to doing the 500 yd freestyle at the upcoming swim meet, i am *also* going to do the 100 yd butterfly. not only is this my least favorite event, but i haven't swum butterfly in competition since the summer, and i did not swim it at all for a month. not to mention it's my worst stroke...oh well. i'm also swimming in the medley relay, 100 yd breaststroke, another event which i cannot remember at the moment, and the freestyle relay. and that is a week from saturday.

wednesday, i didn't have my bible study class...the teacher had a meeting. we did have art class, and we worked most of the period on a pen-and-ink contour line drawing. after art class, finwe stayed at my house until he, my sister ann, and i went to our guitar teacher's senior recital. so we got to listen to about fifty minutes worth of incredible classical guitar. :D all told, i was very glad i was able to go.

yesterday *would* have been just another day...should have been just an average day. i've only got latin class and swim practice on thursday. but i got rear-ended en route to swim practice. that jarred me, to say the least. i'm fine, and so's the car, but (if it were possible) i drive even more carefully. that was *one* experience i could have done without.

as per the post title, life is catching up with me very quickly. i had been posting every day last semester for the most part, sometimes two or three times a day. i can't keep doing that. part of it is my schedule. part of it is that i'm currently going through major preparation for the publication of The Battle of Zephanaia in the beginning of june. but there's another factor in there. i really can't describe it. but this semester has been a real change for me, even moreso than last semester. which is kind of odd...last semester, i added two jobs and college into my life. this semester, i've cut down on the number of hours that i spent at work, but other than that, i really haven't changed much. my theory (probably faulty) is that the closer i get to graduation, the faster life seems to move. i graduate in a year and a half. i've taken the SAT already, and i'll be taking the ACT sometime this spring. i fill out college applications next fall. i'm moving so quickly towards independence...all i want to do is dig in my heels and enjoy life, whatever it throws. i think this involves living in the moment, something that i find myself doing much more after TEC 219. i can fully appreciate everything: the joys and the trials, the pain and the relief, the hunger and the fulfillment, the search and the destination, the potholes and the smooth stretches, the good and the bad.

-enna

wow, i've been *really* bad about this...this is a far cry from when i was posting two or three times a day. anyway, friday was not typical...i didn't have band. :( other than that though, it was very enjoyable. :D we love those days...although my guitar teacher *still* hasn't brought my footstool yet...i've got the money; now i just need the stool! but this is a minor annoyance. :D i'm really enjoying guitar class this semester (even if we do have homework *gasp*).

yesterday, we had our first 4H meeting of the year. yes, it is a little late to have the first meeting...our leader got a new job and is now travelling a *lot* more than he was. so we hadn't met yet. so we had lots of stuff to do...fill out reenrollment forms, elect officers, decide if we wanted to do a group project...we did the reenrollment forms, and i am only doing three: visual arts, breads and cereals (basically baking for those who don't speak 4H), and public speaking. i personally like public speaking the best. yes, i am just a *little* strange...public speaking is the number one fear of people in the world. it's not drowning, or the dark, or death...it's standing up in front of a bunch of people and having to talk to them. yet *i* can just stand up there and go for it. i don't really get all that stressed over it...i don't sweat with nervousness or anything. (although, when i did the cremation of sam mcgee by robert w. service, i did sweat - because i was wearing my winter coat in august. X_X) i actually *enjoy* public speaking. :D 'tis fun. anyway, i got elected president. (methinks it has something to do with the fact that i've been in 4H for 7 years and am also the oldest member in the club by several years.)

after 4H, i had work. and something happened that made me *totally* forget about what happened at 4H...someone almost drowned. and i went in after him for the first time ever. my first rescue...and i didn't even realize the impact that it had until about an hour later. then i realized, "wait a sec - if i hadn't gone in, he woulda drowned..." wow. i mean, it's what i'm trained to do, but i hadn't had to save anyone before...it's a different experience, realizing that you've saved someone's life. that's all i can say about it.

i shall finish the update later today...i must go get ready for church now.

-enna