11-02-2001 - 9:52 p.m. - the joy of communal forced swimming

in PE, our class started the pool unit. oh joy, oh rapture, I simply cannot express how much I adore prancing around in a swimsuit in front of 60 strangers. I'm not crazy about sharing the jiggle.

not to mention that the water looks quite diseased (ah, public school <3). I was standing on the edge debating on whether it would be in my best interest to jump into a pool of blue sludge. when the PE teacher finally threw me in, I sputtered and splashed like a drowning ferret. there were band-aids, clumps of hair and soggy discarded food floating around me.

the most disconcerting aspect was when I was ordered to tread water for 20 minutes. 20 MINUTES! no floating allowed! after 10 minutes of scissor kicking to keep my head above water, I was just praying to drown. in between mutterings about cruel and unusual punishment being illegal and my uncanny tendency to cramp, I swallowed a good liter or two of that scummy chlorine saturated water.

if I die suddenly in the next 24 hours, you will all know why.

the other thing that worries me... two showers later, I still reek like a pool maintenance man that did a slow marinade in chlorine concentrate.

list of things to do:

* shower repeatedly until I don't smell like liquid drano...

* buy aloe-rid shampoo, unless want to change name to greenfox.