Aaaaahhh...

Those were, quite possibly, the most awesome 8 kilometers I've ever run in my life. Endorphines are a wonderful thing. Rowing went awesome too, we are definitely getting the rhythm down and are starting to row in sync. But bad thing: while we were setting our first boat in the water - the 53-year-old wooden legend Deutschland - one of our teammates' knee punched a hole in the keel and she now needs to be repaired because she's taking on water (the boat, not our teammate). For those of you who didn't know, crew boats are practically PAPER thin. So that sucked. She (our teammate) felt so bad, and we felt bad that she felt bad cause it was an accident.

Still, I feel so good today! In fact I feel good most days these days due to this wonderful weather and a much more manageable semester experience the second time around.

Funny story from last night. Around 2am I opened my eyes - whether I was still dreaming or not I don't know - and was certain I saw a winged/eight-legged/extremely large and imposing insect (spider from hell? huge fly?) dangling over my face, about to land on it. I yelled "Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!" and flung my arms around and the next thing I knew I had leaped out of bed and was in the bathroom swatting my hair and torso and checking in the mirror to make sure it wasn't on me. In the 0.4 seconds it took me to reach the bathroom I also somehow tore my comforter right off the bed and didn't trip over it. Amazing. I spent 10 minutes tearing my room apart to make sure the phantom insect didn't exist (I am DEATHLY afraid of spiders), but I think I might have just dreamed it and woken up at a very inopportune time.