decidedlyodd

After getting up this morning and checking my email, I ended up giving Sarah a ride over to the place where she was getting her car inspected. I managed to make it back home in time to catch the bus to campus for late lunch. We went to Aladdin’s, which had a Mediterrainean buffet for $7.50. For a buffet, it was pretty good actually and I walked away impressed. Then came the GAMMA meeting, which like usual stretched out to an obscene length. Maybe I just have a short attention span, but we need to work on keeping the talks short and to the point. Endless questions about minutiae drive me nuts! Plus, my neck was hurting from having to turn my head to watch the presentation. There are only a couple of seats in that room that face straight forward at the screen and they were taken by the 3 faculty members. At one point, I stood up to watch so that I could look straight ahead.

From there I went to Kaffeestunde and got my weekly German speaking fix. Then I went to Bowman-Gray and got in 1550m (mostly crawl, but a couple laps of breast stroke were in there too). While there, I did a lot of flip turns and I can feel myself getting better at them. I started out in a 25m lane, but moved to a 50m lane after 750m (hence the extra 50m). At the very end, I swam 300m without stopping at all (flip turns at each point), which was awesome as well.

Tonight I’m planning to go out to the Wine Bar at 9 for an event put on by CAMP, which is basically a mailing list for GLBT grad and professional students at UNC. We’ll see how it goes, but there are at least 2 people going who I’ve met before so there should be somebody for me to talk to.

Tomorrow, is the big day of driving to West Virginia for river rafting. The plan is to leave around noon so that we can get to the campsite well before sundown. We raft on Sunday morning. It might be cold and wet, but I’m gonna have a good time regardless.