pep talks

remember in high school when there was always one person (who was kinda cute) you always seemed to do something stupid around? yeah, well guess who's back in high school. that's right, me. so you remember the debacle of the last swim practice when konrad had to flip me? right, well this was nowhere near as severe as that, but we were doing this set of 3x200, and i left the wall without putting my goggles on. of course, he was standing right there on the deck. i came back and was like, "what the hell am i doing?" marty, bless his heart asked if my goggles fell off. i just agreed, but konrad pipes up and asks me if i even put them on. i said no and felt retarded. whatever, i got a lot on my mind, bucko.

anyway, the practice passed without further incident, but i just can't shake these negative feelings that i've had all week that i'm going to do absolutely horrible in the tri, won't even be able to finish, or the doctors are going to tell me i can't do it. basically every worst case scenario i can think of has been running through my head for the past two weeks. they get stronger as i leave the pool and go into the locker room where i can't even look at anybody. i just feel awful. so after getting dressed, i'm walking out with doreen and donna, and telling them the story of my fall, and coach ian is walking along with us. he offers to fix the problem by kicking my other knee, then puts his arm around me and asks me what happened, and proceeds to give me a pep talk. says i need to keep icing, take anti-inflammatories, start slow, and that my body would surprise me and i would get back to my fitness level before this whole crisis began. at any rate, the talk was just what i needed (even though i almost started crying when i was talking to him). but he really made me feel better. so yay for coach ian!

now, we'll see what the orthopedist says tomorrow. stay tuned.

ps i just sang the whole theme of gilligan's island with joel. it's fun. joel has a theory about maryann... she represents the unemployed because of the following: the passengers of the minnow (excluding gilligan and the skipper) are referred to by their occupation: the millionnaire (businessman), and his wife (homemaker), the movie star, the professor and... maryann?? now, what does maryann do? NOTHING. she's unemployed.