I’ve decided to go on a trip to Malaysia. It’s part of the cultural studies class I’m going to take next semester. It’s 6 weeks long and after I’m done, with the exception of one applied studies class and the internship I’ll be done my degree. I’ll be pretty happy to finally be done school.
Anna’s Moving
On Wednesday morning Anna-Maria finished packing up her stuff and moved to Vancouver.
Seems pretty sudden? It was. It just started to really hit me today how serious this situation is. While it was happening I think I was suffering from a major case of denial. It’s going to be okay though, we’ll see each other soon enough.
Newspaper Article – Pronghorn Swimming
The Lethbridge Herald did a story about our team and our performance in Winnipeg last weekend. Check out a scanned copy of the swimming article.
Personal Best Times in Every Event
Here are my new times from the weekend in Winnipeg:
- 4×50 Free Relay 1:36.75 (With my lead time of 24.521)
- 50 Free 24.63
- 100 Free 56.09
- 200 Free 2:10.93
- 50 Breast 28.95
- 50 Fly 33.26
- The relay continued after my 50 free swim but because I was the lead swimmer the time counts as a new personal best.[↩]
Stories from PWI
The middle finger on my right hand is swollen. At the end of my 50 Breast I jammed it into the wall. Then at the end of my 200 free and 50 free I also finished with my right hand and hurt it again and again! I can’t tape it – because that would be cheating, but I’m not sure it would make much difference anyway.
I didn’t race this morning. I am looking forward to my finals tonight and the 4×100 relay. We have some really fast free-stylers so I’m hoping that we are going to get a team record – if not for the 4×100 tonight then the 4×50 tomorrow.
Winnipeg – Prairie Winter Invitational 2004
Yesterday at 6:00am a chartered bus left the University of Lethbridge and took the Swim Team to the airport in Calgary. By 2:30 we had arrived in Winnipeg and were in the pool warming up. I got two best times yesterday, one in the 50 Fly and another in the 50 Breast. I placed 14th in Fly and 7th in Breast.
Today I swam the 200 Free and got another best time. I placed 14th. I also swam the 50 Free and got 8th going into the semi-finals. After the finals I moved up one rank to 7th for the finals tomorrow. In the semi-finals I went my second fastest 50 Free time (24.80).
I’m having a great time here. My team has been having such great swims — there are a lot of us swimming personal bests.
Anyway for now I’m just chilling out in the hotel using their free high speed internet connection while watching The Princess Bride on TV. I think in the future all hotels should have free wireless.
Logos
Here are some Logo’s that Anna and I created for the ESL students that came to the University of Lethbridge last summer.
Richard Goes His Best Time
My roommate is swimming in the Nationals in Calgary this weekend. He is swimming against some big names like Rick Say and Matt Rose. He swam a personal best time this morning, placing 4th and going 23.03s in the 50 Free preliminaries. I haven’t heard how the finals went, but I’m definitely excited for him.
Update: The results are in, Richard went 23.36s in the finals taking 8th place in 50 Free at the Nationals. He swims again tomorrow and Sunday.
Hate Mail
I’ve been getting hate mail from a certain Mychal Homsley (either he doesn’t know how to spell his own name or his parents are great practical jokers). For those of you that don’t know, when he asks what I have against “Led Zeplyain” (sic) he is referring to my Stairway to Heaven Backwards page. Anyway I was telling some friends about these hate emails and they wanted to read them, so here they are:
Email #1 Subject: (no subject)
“Yo i just want to know what the HELL you have aginst Led Zeplyain, It’s pretty obvisis that ypu can’t stand a classic Rock N’ Roll band so you know give me the word on WHY you seem to hate them”
Email #2 Subject: Why do you Hate Zepplian
“Yo I want to know why you hate Zepplain so much…. It’s because of people like you This band has a bad repurtaion so take you’r damn FAKE song off you’r site if there is a problem with that E-Mail me back…………. But there should be no Problem right….”
Email #3 Subject: REPLY BACK
“You need to get a DAMN life. If you have nothing better to do then sit there and post lies among lies then that should tell you that you need to get a life or sometimg… I play for a band and i resent what you said Take it back or E-Mail me you DAMN PUSSY…”
Email #4 Subject: (no subject)
“Hey listen up i sent you about 4 diffrent E-Mails and i need to know why, why do you hate Rock are you going to bring up the inncident with ozzy and John Mcollen”
Email #5 Subject: (no subject)
“Replay back and i’ll stop E-Mailing you, or i can just make your life a living HELL you’r pick”
What Mychal Homsley fails to realize is that #1 I don’t hate “Led Zeplyain” (sic) or Rock ‘n Roll. He would know that if he would have bothered to read the text below on the site. #2 With all the homework that I have due in the next couple weeks my life is already a “living HELL” and that is why I haven’t had time to reply to his obviously well thought-out attack mail. Also #3 I have no idea what the incident with “Ozzy and John Mcollen” is all about.
Song Meanings
Songmeanings.net is a site dedicated to trying to parse what artists were trying to say through their lyrics. It contains the lyrics to close to 200,000 songs credited to about 15,000 artists and allows visitors to weigh in with their opinions about what it all means. I found the Stairway to Heaven interpretations of note. (If you can stand surfing through the idiotic posts of 300 stupid morons for a few gems). I still like my intrepretation best.