2/26/2006 10:11pm

You can say what you want, and i'll be the first to admit ive said some things in the past, but granville is the man.

Our swim team banquet was tonight, thus bringing an official final close to my career as a swimmer. Its sad b/c this is kinda the beginning of the end of high school for me, my first high school thing that has ended and won't ever come back.

I love rhs swimming though. I mean the morning practices suck, esp toward the end of the season when its 19 degrees outside and all you want to do is finish the season and sleep in, but the rest of it is great. The team is made up of some of the most mix-matched weirdest people in the school, who would never ordinarily hang out together, but are somehow bound to each other by the stench of chlorine and the innate urge to be a fish, though physically impossible. My theory is the swim team at roswell is made up of those who really truly can swim (ie: amanda) and the rest is a bunch of people who dont fit in anywhere else and figure they can at least survive in the water, even though they may suck at swimming. All i know is this: only at roswell high school can you be pretty much the worst swimmer on the team and be captain. i've come very far though, and im proud of myself...not many people can say they made it through four years of long cold morning practices, the wrath of granville, dangerous bus rides, and sketchy chemical levels and foreign materials in the pool water. plus i have swimming to thank for my bodacious upper back muscles of which i am very proud. i'm not an athlete. i never thought id do a sport. i never thought id be doing a twenty-lap race competitively on a regular basis and not completely sucking at it. sometimes just trying is enough.

i know when i look back on the team im just gonna have to laugh. i was never a good swimmer, so i prob wont remember any of the actual competitive aspects of the sport, but all the rest, i will remember, and i will have no choice but to laugh.

"and when i see you

i really see you upside down

but my brain knows better

it picks you up and turns you around

turns you around

turns you around."