SLEEPING AT OXFORD

My house, Oxford House, seems nice. It's a little odd because I'm gone all day and here at night which the opposite of the majority of everyone else. They have nothing to do all day (classes don't start until Monday) except bum around the house and then all the activities happen at night when I'm winding down and going to sleep. I'm interested to see how stuff plays out with my study room mates. One seems nice enough, but a little stand offish to meeting people. The second seems a little lonely. She spends a lot of time on her computer and doesn't really think to take it into a public room where she might run into people to talk to. and the third I've seen for all of ten minutes. The sleeping porch seems to be working out well. The bunk beds are fairly new so they don't creak and shake therefore you don't hear/feel everyone moving around all night. And people are good about being quiet.

Crew has also started. Today was day two and I am exhausted. In fact I want to be in bed right now. But I am writing for you folks. Anyways, it's going well. We've had two assessments: a long cardio one (60 min L4 if you know OSU crew lingo) and a weightroom one. The two easiest of the five total assessments. I did really well on both. I hit my goal exactly for the L4 and I did on the high end of good in the weight room (various flexibility tests, pull-ups, sit-ups, push-ups, wall sits, planks). Today they took out two eights full of the people who had achieved their goal for L4 (that leaves about 20 people erging). The water was lovely! and I had total "ah ha!" moment in the boat on a technical part of the stroke I have been working on all last year.

I haven't seen much of GregUr though. We went bowling together on Monday night. That was fun. I've been insanely busy with crew stuff which makes it hard to see him. I hope to rectify this situation soon.

I have made an effort to play my fiddle everyday. I'm actually playing stuff that sounds like a melody! In fact just today I spent a chunk of time figuring out to play a Irish tune called Spootiskeery. I just listened to the song bit by bit and worked it out. It was very satisfying. Ok so I only figured out the first bit but that's something, right?

I also bought $460 worth of books today. Actually the athletic department bought them for me but still that's a lot of books! I was biking home with a bag on each handle bar and I could quite literally feel my bike being dragged downwards. Getting all my books and looking at my syllabuses, I've come to realize I have the work cut out for me. Most people only take four classes a term (about 14-15 credits). I'm taking five (17 credits) and all them are upper division classes. (The only other upper division class I've taken so far is the one class I didn't get an A in. I got an A-. Horrors of Horrors! :) ) Anyways I talked to the Katrina, the athletic academic adviser, and she said to try it out for the first week or so and see how it goes. If it's going to be insane I can drop one. I have room in my schedule to pick it up later.

Ok I think that's a long enough update for now. Sleep time!
Yesterday evening, we had a team get together and filled out little bios that we hang on our lockers. One of the things we had to say was what we liked to do. I said "Sleep"
I thought Dad would get a kick out of that.