fancy seeing you here
So much for "still keeping blogger". I still receive those weekly page visit summaries and it turns out that after over a month of no new entries, people are still visiting here. usually in the disgusting hours of the day, probably after visiting all other journals and seeing no new entries and feeling desperate to read something. or am i the only one who does that?
I must admit, i felt a twinge of nostalgia clicking the "remember me?" box while logging into blogger.
so here's to nostalgia. it's great. aMAZing. GORgeous. GLORious.
(i hope you didn't just think "mazgorglor" and wonder what it meant)
speaking of (nostalgia), i must take this time to reiterate how much better mid-90s music is than any other kind. (yes, i did actually type out "grunge is glorious!" but i've wisely taken it out... then put it back in.. just now.. hum).
so what has changed since the last time i've posted?
going by what i wrote about before:
- i don't like alastair anymore. in fact i'm starting to find him annoying.
- swimming season is over (there is still practice though)
- next year's captains are going to be kimmy and kat for the girls, scott and kevin for the guys. very good choices, i think
.. more than that has changed, but i'm assuming the people who visit here also visit my lj so i won't bother with the re-cap.
i WILL however, recap tgso to the best of my wanting to.
tgso - Thank God Swimming's Over
It was fun.
I found out something somewhat shocking the other day. We paid $100 towards "team funds" earlier in the year. and guess what this goes to. supplying alcohol to the team parties! i was taken aback and verging on offended. If i had known this i would have gone to more parties. and brought thermos's.
dee has been irritating me like the world's worst rash lately. i realize that it is not at all her fault, but that doesn't stop me from avoiding her. this morning, the rookies and second years took out some of the recruits to breakfast at commons. on my way out i saw allison from sci centre, and so i sat with her for a while. i'm really happy about how we can be away from each other for such a long time, but it doesn't affect our dynamic. but anyway, it turned out leah and steph c had been waiting for me the whole time, and so we left together but when steph c went to go to her rez, leah and i walked home, us off- campus bums. I also saw christian (a swimmer) at commons, and we had maybe our first real conversation.
on the way home, we were passed by kim and her twin chrissy on bikes, and alli, who was on the handlebars of chrissy's bike. it looked straight out of the eighties. they were all wearing bummy clothes and it was just all so campy and hilarious.
allison told leah that we should go over to her house (she lives with carly, naomi, jenne, carolyn (all swimmers), and jess - a girl who swam last year) before going to tgso, which was to be at colin h's house.
dee messages me: "steph dude! where did you go too?"
i was annoyed right away. see? she didn't even do anything wrong. it's just that she cared, that she wanted to know where i had disappeared to after commons, etc etc.
she tells me she'll call me later and we'll walk over to colin's together.
this annoyed me because she assumed i'd walk with her. see? nothing wrong again.
i told her i heard people were meeting at alli's. she says oh. i say i'll see her there.
later, dee messages me: "dude no one is meeting at alli's"
i think maybe that it was open to only a select crowd and alli didn't want dee there.
i ask who said that, and she says alli did.
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so i go to alli's at around 7:45 as is planned (this may seem early, but we were warned that the boys had been drinking since noon) and sit around. dee comes in eventually. i'm not sure what she thought. she said that she was supposed to meet alli at 8 and when no one contacted her she decided to just come over and see what she saw. i guess she was unhappily surprised, but glad she found us. hurt? i dont know.
the party itself was good, i thought, but later kat said that it was the worst tgso she had been to. because the captains didn't care anymore, and alumni weren't there and so on? jeff b was there, and kipp.. who i guess counts as alumni?
to be honest, i had been looking forward to this night. i had planned on getting drunk and being stupid. i didn't do anything that i regret or out of character, but it was out of character anyway. i spent a lot of time with kipp and leah. i talked to christian a lot. he's in biomedical engineering and is going for medicine. gabe (the most hilarious/disgusting/annoying/entertaining drunk ever) spoke german to me. then he told me he knew some chinese and he spoke what he knew. it was fucking disgusting what he was saying. jane and i had some good stupid talks. i think she just wants a release from stuff she's been feeling lately. she's not the kind to go out to get really drunk, but she was. she's taking a break from swimming and i think she's just been burnt out. steph c promised not to do anything insane like rookie night, or pimp n' hoe, but i remember watching her dance with gord's hoodie strings while gord was wearing the hoodie. it was pulled so tight he couldn't see but he was dancing nonetheless. gord kept spilling everywhere and noticed my "algebra is for lovers shirt" so told me that his "favourite is 9 divided by 3". he also likes remainders. people would ask me how i'm doing and i'd tell them great. "just great?" "AMAZing. GORgeous"
i think i've always harboured a secret crush on kipp. i used to take it seriously, but not anymore. when you talk for a long time with anyone, people start to worry you two will suddenly begin to make out. maybe this has some truth to it. but i thought people were just too worried about me yesterday. i'm sure while talking to christian people thought something. we were sitting on a chair together. then with kipp much through the night. we went to quarters together with leah but it seemed too long a wait so we came back. when back i was talking to jim for quite a while. i think he was trying to be insightful. he asked me what happened sunday night. i said i don't know, i didn't go to the CIs afterparty. and i guess that was what he was talking about. he was telling me i have to live for the now and say "yes more please!" because this is GLORious. and so on and so on. kipp was making faces at me from behind jim's head so i was distracted some of the time. katrina appeared abruptly and took me up, and brought me back to her house with sam, geoff, and leah. we were hungry and like to go to her house after parties. she makes us good food. katrina doesn't have the most respect for jim and told me he was just hoping to get me in his pants. perhaps true. but i was having fun anyway. but i'm glad it didnt' end badly, and that she was looking out for me.
so geoff showed up! he's a great guy. he impressed me a lot last night, the things he was saying. he's very level-headed and hilarious and sensitive and understanding and just the best kind of friend you could hope for. he was saying how incredibly teamcesteous the swim team is. compared to his rowing team, where there's only maybe one boy who tries to make out with all the girls, our team was gross. sam commented on how once everyone was drunk, all they want to do is make out with each other. she made some remark implying i had been the target of many people. well maybe i wanted to make out with everyone, but i didn't say that. and it wouldn't have been the wittiest of retorts.
so we were watching pretty woman and eating ice cream and chips. sam was antsy. i think she was unhappy about the party as well as worried about jane, who had been brought back to her rez by adam. adam, she said, was one of the only people she'd trust with jane right now. of course, jane does like adam. and adam doesn't like jane that way.
it's a complicated world.
