Busy

Today was probably one of the most busiest days ever. First, I had to go to swim practice and deal with children all day (but on a very positive note, I help three girls work on their back stroke fears and one of them swam backstroke in the meet tonight). We did trivia day at practice and the kids weren't the smartest kids I've ever know. Of course, I did work with like Drew and a couple of twelve and thirteen year olds answering trivial pursuit questions. My 9-10 group was full of little geniuses. They were really knowledgeable. I guess the brains as well as the point scoring power resides in the younger portion of our team.
After swim practice I ended up writing all the B meet cards since Zach was at work, Karel was getting hickeys from her "friend" Jason (he's the one before Andrew that I had a picture of at school), and Matt looked absolutely exhausted. Originally we were just going to print labels and then affix the labels to cards, but it turns out that the swim team did not buy the option to print out labels when it purchased the software. I tried to get the new printer we bought to work with the laptop, only to find out that the laptop is not so much able to read disks from the cd-rom drive. Since I need a dial up connection to get the laptop on line to download the driver, I am currently without the new printer. I hate the damn laptop and the damn printer. This is just another strike against laptops and makes me never want to get one again. If it were a computer, it would be much easier to just install another network card and then install the driver, or even install a new cd rom drive. I do have a network card from my busted laptop...maybe it'll work. I might try this tomorrow, if I don't throw it down the stairs. Oh wait, unless the driver for the card is on a floppy, I'm in the same stupid situation. Damn this stupid printer situation! Damn this stupid laptop!
The B Meet went incredibly quickly today. Go Strathmore Bel Pre. It was funny because I think like a majority of my team has swam for Terry at some point in their lives. It's funny to see the kid's reaction to Karel, Zach, and myself when we tell them that we still swim with Terry. And our practice on Tuesday night kicked my butt. I haven't felt that dead in my entire life, but Terry said I was doing much better with the intervals that I have been. I felt like I had been doing worse, but whatever. I guess I just felt slower because I wasn't skipping hundreds...
Zach, Karel, Matt, and I just finished doing our lineups for this weekend. Saturday morning B meet at our pool and then Sunday morning is Relay carnival at our pool. It's going to be a long weekend and next weekend is going to suck. We should get creamed by the pool we're swimming next weekend and no one will be at home to do anything with. My parents are going to Cape Cod, my sister is going to RPI with Jason, and Ben's going to be at the beach. I'm going to be all alone and that really sucks. Speaking of things that suck, my sucker fish died. It was interesting because my mom and I just had a conversation the night before he died about how good he looked. The next afternoon when I came back from swim practice, he was floating belly-up at the back of the tank. Maybe I'm just not meant to have an algae free tank, although I did get a bonus snail when I bought my java fern. I noticed the snail the other day and was surprised by this unexpected inhabitant.
Also, I think I'm going to go to grad school starting next summer to become a librarian.