Ooooo today I turned on my computer for the first time since I got to Seattle!
Sorry for being such a blogging slacker! Tonight Ben has class though so I am playing catch-up… Lots of unread blogs, unread status messages, unchecked job listings, and of course tons of emails that I’d just as soon not receive. Including one from my now-former landlord in Tahoe saying bla bla bla disappointed in the cleanliness bla bla carpets bla bla boring. Ugh. Which, there was no inspection prior to my move-in, I left that place CLEAN, he is located in New York, so he had his dad go up to Tahoe from Sacramento to inspect, but by then I was already moved out and three states away, so really I’d just like to point out that there is really no ground for him to stand on here.
Hmm… hanging out in Seattle vs. turning on my computer and dealing with groan-worthy emails and a million to-do’s? I’ll happily take the former! Thus far the trip has involved lots of food (obvs, it being the holidays and all), lots of naps (so nice! and much-needed!), lots of sightseeing, a NEAR sighting of my teenage heartthrob but tickets to the Green River show were sold out, a medical volunteer stint at the finish of the Seattle Marathon (I am so not a medical person, this was Ben’s mom’s idea, all I did was stand there for hours and take a few finish line photos for some runners, and try not to let my jaw drop too much at some of the outfits and shoes that apparently made it for 26.2 miles, oh and they had some black eyed peas song that I now hate playing over the speakers on a constant loop, yet despite all this I’m all “ooooo i am going to race this next year”?!), lots of KEXP (god I love good radio!), AND AND AND a Christmas Boat Parade on Lake Union with Ben, Carrie, and Aaron! That’s what the photo is from – we had to go under a couple of bridges to get to the parade and one of them was a drawbridge!
The trip has also brought a re-commencement of my training. I took my off season in the three weeks since Silverman – I have done a couple workouts here and there just for fun and for skill work in the pool. Today was a sort of casual leap back into swim-bike-run. It was a nice sunny day, so we rode for a couple hours on some series of roads that I have no idea where or what they were but there were hardly any stoplights and it was beautiful! I think winter light in Seattle must be gorgeous all day long, thanks to the sun being low in the sky. Then a run along Lake Washington, then noon lap swim at a nearby pool. WHERE, omg omg omg, 100 yards into my swim this lady in my lane decided to enforce her own personal lap etiquette (wherein, if you swim faster than her 5:00 per 100 yard pace you need to get out of “medium”), and she GRABBED MY SWIMSUIT AND TRIED TO PULL IT OFF as I swam by, shouting “get in the FAST lane!”. Then since she was unsuccessful in disrobing me and in interrupting my swimming, when I headed back down the pool she GRABBED MY FOOT WITH BOTH HANDS AND PULLED and I just kicked real hard, got octopus lady off me, moved to another lane, and swam with nice people. Crazy lady was then talking to the lifeguard for I’m not even kidding you 20 minutes.
Ben says it’s not a boring story because I acted it out for him, including the disrobe attempt.
I say this is further proof that Seattle lap-swimmers are just their own brand of crazy.
Comments
This entry was posted on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pm and is filed under enjoy the blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
I need to swim with that lady. She’ll make me feel faster and that’s about 2% of the battle – i think. Seattle people are super aggressive about everything except when it comes to going over 50mph in the far left lane. What’s with all of the aggressiveness where Ben swims anyhow? I generally meet nice people at pools. Sure they’re called kiddie pools, but they’re all nice.
I sat next to your teenage hearthrob last time I flew to london for work. I wanted to tell him every album after the first one stunk but figured it was a long flight and all.
I’m in crappy Seattle for the next 3 days. I’ll tell you how great it is when I go run tomorrow at 4pm.
Me oh my you did find a crazy lady…did she *really* grab you? People so need to get over themselves.
Sounds like you are having a fab time in Seattle…thanks for the update! We miss you.
man that was your teenage heartthrob? you ARE old
this one time, this 60 year old guy punched me in the face during lap swim at cal, then i got a black eye and my boss thought steve was beating me because she really couldn’t get her head around the concept of lap swimming.
Ben says it’s not a boring story because I acted it out for him, including the disrobe attempt.
Video post next time.
You should have thrown a few elbows to her – GREAT for OW swim practice! BUT – how cool is it that you get to swim in the fast lane?!? Sweet! Happy that you’re in Seattle and things are settling down. I feel so behind with stuff from our move as well… so I kind of understand what you’re going through. Except that I haven’t been disrobed by a crazy lady at the pool.
[...] surrounded by palm trees and filled with laid back Santa Barbara folks (not like the evil lady Courtenay ran into at a pool in [...]
at least you know it’s a human grabbing you in a pool when ever I swim in the lagoon monsters (loren and ben) tend to grab me and pull me backward for the sheer joy ….
About people like that John always says: “She must suffer.”
I guess she didn’t really want to swim. . .
I’m glad you’re having so much fun! Happy Advent!
when I get pants, I pants back. and keep on “napping…”
That lady sounds crazy enough for my YMCA! Maybe next time you should swim naked and then she won’t have anything to disrobe. That would at least create some drama…
Oh dear. Crazy lady in the pool, alright. And yeah, Seattle is fun, except for traffic, and the requisite Volvo wagon or Minivan doing 50 mph in the fast lane, pretending they’re the sole speed-limit-enforcer, and bah. Way lame.
I didn’t know Jeff Ament was your teenage heart-throb. I ran into him in the post office when I used to live in Seattle. If I’d known you then, I’d have told him how hot you were and he should totally call you.
What are friends for?
Oh yeah. Christmas boat parade ROCKS! I so miss that about Seattle!
Ugh, I cannot STAND crazy pool people. SO, SO lame. I would given an extra hard kick. Then I would’ve yelled back. I just can’t tolerate that b.s. Really sets me off!
Glad you’re having such a great time!
HOly crazy lady. You should have kicked her. Glad you’re loving Seattle.. why oh why are you moving to the bay when you could be moving to Seattle, huh??