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Wednesday, October 22, 2008: Eleven years
to the doofus! I'm not just saying that because I discovered
his scrumptious birthday cake in the freezer; no, I'm saying
it because I am the nicest sister he could ever ask
for...not to say that I don't want the cake.
Alrighty, if my parents put up another gosh darned video of
me being a camera hog, I'll pull my hair out (bald heads are
attractive, anyway). You know, for someone who positively
hates getting filmed attention, I sure wanted a lot of it
when I was younger. Sure, sure, all little kids (or at least
most of them) are like that when they are younger...but I am
admittedly the worst.
Sunday, October 5, 2008: It's about seven
pm and I'm dog tired...takes a lot of discipline to go to
practice every day. Yesterday was a 'light day,' only about,
hmmmm...six thousand something hundred yards. Which is
pretty sad that is considered light, I guess, but a thousand
yard reprieve feels amazing. Can't wait for the middle of
the season when the yardage amounts to larger than the US
debt (Sarcasm). I was also sitting here looking at the
little videos from the olden days when I was but a four year
old tot.
All I have to say is, wow, I was a brat. A big, fat,
attention-hungry brat. Obviously I didn't understand why in
the world my parents were documenting Raymond's childhood
when they could be getting some shots of me, me, me!
I'm...ashamed. It's terrible. The terrible toddler tot
years, that's what they are.
Saturday, September 6, 2008: At the moment
I'm getting ready to hit the sack, for tomorrow I have my
first open-water swim after my month off. I've never taken
such a long period of time off from swimming, and, frankly,
I don't think I want to ever again. Coming back was just
awful...I feel like I've never swam before in my life.
Mainly it's my lungs and heart that feel significantly
weaker, but that can be fixed fairly easily. What will take
time are my muscles, flimsy and pathetic due to lack of use.
Oh well, no use complaining about it. I'm just excited to go
to La Jolla and enjoy the scenery.
So today I suddenly had the sudden impulse to
look up 'stitches' in Google images for whatever reason, and
was surprised to find that my one of my father's injuries
was on the very first page: his ever-famous Achilles
surgery. It's quite
a lovely photograph of my father's ankle stitched up
and I urge everyone to go look for it (if not aware of its
existence already).
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Significant events that happened around the world
during 1993 (the year I was born):
Apple introduces the Newton, the first version of
the first personal digital assistant (PDA). It is
not very successful.
Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as
President of the United States of America.
In New York City, a van bomb parked below the
North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off,
killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern
U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe
weather all the way from Cuba to Quιbec.
NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a
mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble
Space Telescope.
The World Wide Web was born at CERN (Conseil
Europeen pour la Recherchι Nucleaire, European
Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva,
Switzerland,
www.cern.ch).
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido, Japan
launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the
small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido. My father was in
Sendai at the time.
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