Some of Today, Some of Yesterday, Some of Tomorrow

Sooo what's worth posting these days. As previously written, I finished my paper last night and picked up Alex and Mark. They boh got put in the 8 today along with Jesse Johnson and Andy something from Yale. The boat was set up and moving pretty well, better and easier than I'd say it has been other days. Will England, Dave Naughton, Derek Rasmussen and I made up the rest of the boat. Silas and some other folks were in a 4. I had to be worse than I've ever had to throughout 3/4 of the practice, but unlike some I find it impossible to pee out of the boat, so it was a test in bladder pain tolerance and trying to focus at the same time. Dave Naughton was in the same boat (HA) as me, and once we docked we both ran to the bathroom and were there for a while. If only I were like Donny or Silas and was a master of boat urination... ANYWAYS.

Yesterday was pretty relaxing, the paper came pretty painlessly though it did take a bit of time. I was in much better form than Dave, who was slept until 3pm and was hung over for most of the day... and even some this morning. Rough. Great stories of havoc caused on Saturday are still coming out from the various factions that split off during the night. We won't have too many opportunities to go out, so it was fun to get that done with. Found out that Fritz Hagerman, the VO2 testing guy, will be coming on the 19th... the day I get back after a redeye flight. That should do great things for my 2k test, which I'm already really excited about. Lovely. I am excited to go back to Stanford though, it will be great to see Coop and Caroline and the Family, though I'm a little anxious to have to pack up my entire room/life, but so it goes. Hopefully that will go smoothly and painlessly so that there can still be plenty of time for fun. And I'll probably have to work out while I'm back there too... yuck. Too many things, too little time, as opposed to here, where there's too much time and not enough things. It's fun to see the Stanford guys here, I think they're looking good at least for the first day.

So, catching up on things I said I would write about previously: Will England and I were put in a pair on Saturday morning to do 2k pieces, which was pretty fun. We had some pretty good run although the steering (Will's job in the bow, I was stroking), did not go particularly well, and we kind of bounced back and forth between the shores of the river. We stayed ahead of the 4 on all the pieces but the last, which we were happy about. Probably won't be too much more time in pairs as we're starting to get a significant number of people here, but it was fun to have a little introduction to pairs racing as I know that's pretty much all the senior team does for most of the year.

Back even further... The drive up with the Siani's was a lot of fun, they're an amazing family and I was feeling very talkative, partially due to nerves from just finishing the big race, partially due to the energetic/inebriating effects of the Sparks we drank in the hotel. Andrea and Sergio both went to Evergreen, which was an interesting coincidence. They were fun and kind and very welcoming when I stayed at their house. That night Amelia and I went to a section of Boston where she was meeting a friend at a restaurant/pub called the Sunset that had 112 beers on tap and 400 different beers in all. We tried several, including a 21% beer that had quite a bit of kick to it... The next day everyone slept in and then Amelia and I eventually drove up here to Dartmouth. I stayed in an empty room at her house for a while. She has a few house mates, I think I described them a little in my first post. I miss hanging out with them, it was fun to be around mellow people. I was in gradual contact with Debbie and then eventually moved in and here I am... hanging out in the Nelson house. It's definitely nice here, I'm starting to feel comfortable and getting into the rhythm of things here, if there is one... they've been having tons of guests in addition to us coming through so it's been pretty hectic. I at least know where dishes are/go, where to put things, what not to do, etc.

Probably nap time now, I might revise my paper a little and send it in, which will be awesome to have it gone and done with. I was just talking to Donny online and apparently Mike Teti was bitching about us leaving for graduation... me included. "Fuckin Stanford guys, you're not that good. The guys that are that good are going to be here training while you're gone for a week. Who needs a fuckin week to graduate?" Thanks, Mike. Apparently he also told Greg to cut me... I don't know how much that was in jest or seriousness, but I'm not cut yet...