Swimming is an ass.
Ya know, I like being part of the swim team. I dont like the fact that Coach Henry practically kills me in the process. Like, today. It started out ok, I was actually putting a little effort into it. We had an interesting set in which we swam a bunch of 100 IM's, but that's to be expected. We have some sort of set like that everyday. But then he started yelling at us about sitting out 50's and stuff, which I'm proud to say I did NOT do as much as I used to. So he says "Swim 35 100's, dont stop!" And Leah says "Doesnt that mean its just a 3500?" And yes, it was but that's just too hard to count. So as I swam and counted my 100's, I dreamed of my perfect life. Going to college, being best friends with Maria, having everyone I love at a party after I graduated from college, where Jason would propose to me...but..ya know what? Life rarely turns out the way you want it to. It might form vaguely to the shape I want it to be in, but it wont be exactly the way I pictured it. And no matter what, my kids are growing up right. Growing up in a church and NOT moving around all their lives like I did. Because when I really think about it, the moment I would feel like I belonged somewhere, we would move. Do you know how much that sucks? It really really sucks. So my kids are going to stay in one place all their childhood, and then they can go wherever they want to when they grow up. But yeah, its probably not too interesting to listen to me go on and on about how I'd like my life to be. But do you realize that in 1 set, I swam more than 2 miles NON-STOP?!?! It just makes me so mad that my parents dont let me stay home, and then he works us like he hardly ever does. He's NEVER given us something that hard. EVER. The only time he got close was that one day that he gave us 4 500's, but even that only comes up to 2000, which is only a little more than a mile. I'll probably end up doing swimming this year and my junior year and that's it. Other then that, I'm sticking to my summer team. Its really easy, I know. But I'd rather not HAVE to get committed to something. And ya know what? I'd rather get my letter jacket for Choir anyway. Now THERE is sometime I'm good at and can be proud of. I love singing, and I would rather have my jacket show that off rather than my stupid swimming abilities. I even have a patch for it already..its from a contest we went to last year, but its special to me because I loved my choirs last year and we did so well. And we showed up that STUPID choir from Cedar Park in Austin that came to compete. Mrs. Allen and I heard them say we looked stupid in our tuxedo shirts and skirts, but at least we SOUNDED good. And we sounded mature. They sang 2 songs. One was really pretty good, but the other was a stupid and immature song, and they did horrible at it. So we did so totally much better than them. And it was great. I loved choir last year, and I cant wait to get into the varsity choirs again next year. I SHOULD be in the varsity choir this year, but because I'm a freshman, he turned me down. Next year he's not going to have a reason to turn me down, and he knows how well I've sing. He's heard me sing on my own DOZENS of times, for all-state rehearsals and the audition I had just last week for the Christmas concert. Unfortunatly, I dont get to find out if I made it until a week from now, when I have that class. But that's ok. I have the music to it, and when I look at the piano part now it looks so childish and easy. I had never realized how much the piano had helped us sing in our songs. But oh well, we made up for it by singing beautifully on our a cappella pieces. Well, I dont have too much more to say and I should be working on my biology paper as it is. Later!
~Mindy

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