Disembowelment

I received my letter of response to my graduation application that I submitted in October. The letter informed me that I have to retake English 201 as I had taken it at a different college and it would not transfer over. In saying so, I'm afraid all of my literary creativity is being sucked up for papers to submit online. It's sad for my blog, but happy come June and graduation time.

In saying so, here are some highlights on what I have learned lately.

1. Having your car hit in a parking garage can be very very expensive. For doing absolutely nothing in and of myself to cause the damage, I'm out $300 and my insurance company another $400. Stupid people. I've often wondered lately, does this mean that I can smash up someones car and as long as they don't know who did it they will have to pay for the damage? I mean, it would make sense right? I have just never realized this option before. This opens up a whole new world for me. Moving on....

2. Pools are required to have two drains in them now ever since last year when a 6-year-old girl had 21 feet of her intestine sucked out of her when she sat on the drain in a wading pool. She just died in March. This is horribly sad for me. I didn't realize that a swimming pool....no a wading pool could be so dangerous.

3. Outdoor Recreation majors are stupid. No offense to anyone who is one, but you all don't give off a very intelligent impression. For instance, in my Pool Management class, we are studying filters. Today it was sand filters (riveting I know). Coach drew a picture of a large 8 foot container filled from the bottom up with large stones, gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, open section for water to come in. He then turns to the class and says, "What is this like that is all over the world? A universal filter? Something that is everywhere?" A girl who I didn't get a good look at to see exactly who she was pipes up with, "The Britta water filter!" WHA...??? The Britta water filter is universal? Hmm....try the surface of the earth and the aquifers. Please tell me she's not graduating and getting a job in the real world any time soon.

4. Ironman is inspiring. I was inspired once again yesterday watching the live feed for Ironman Arizona. My fiance is definitely sick of hearing me talk about Ironman everything from race splits to my crazy messed up pre-ironman dreams where I can't find my wetsuit and there are Tsunami-like waves, to the giddiness I get from tracking an athlete online. It's us next. CDA is racing next and it's "go time" as he would say. I was able to get out on my bike for the first time outside this season this weekend and it was delightful. I can tell the hills are a little bit harder than I remember, but I just need to get out and ride them more. It didn't help that from mile 55-60 all I could think about was every kind of food possible. Even gels sounded good to me. I was hungry and out of sustenance. I have a bad habit of losing food on a certain downhill on the course. It is bumpy and when you are going fast and hit bumps, everything in the Bento Box goes flying off of your bike and you're not about to turn around, climb the hill, for 100 calories of warm strawberry banana gel. Yuck. I need a different flavor. It tastes like a hot banana on the road. I used them for all of Ironman last year and it wasn't until recently that I have even been able to train with that flavor again. It's like when you're pregnant and smells bother you. I couldn't use the lavender baby lotion for about two years after I was pregnant. Everytime I smelled it I wanted to puke. I've digressed.

That's all for now. My mind is boring and distracted. I need to keep reading for my English class. Advice for the day: Never sit on the drain at the bottom of a pool.