Brains!

So I am sitting in a computer lab typing and not bothering with very much. I have a mini scene due in about 50 mins, but I have only chicken scratched a few lines for it. I don’t think that’s going to get done in time.

I guess I should say that we went kayaking around Arcata Marsh, I got a blister and hope to god I don’t get freaking Staph. infection from the water. It’s not uncommon. But being out on the water is incredibly relaxing. The pool session before allowed me to get comfortable in the kayak, being strapped into a boat that won’t flip upright as easily as it flips upside down is a test of nerves. I never liked the idea of drowning for a death, too panicky. But anyways after I learned a “wet exit” or a “bow rescue” I was able to just float out there on the bay just listening to the water lapping at my boat now and then. We were in river kayaks on the bay though which made for extreme work paddling. You see river kayaks are meant to have a river pushing you along and all you really have to do is turn. But on the ocean is different, the boats don’t go anywhere and when you put your paddle in and you’re immediately going to the left rather then straight. I was constantly towards the end of the group.
As for James on the other hand, he took to it quickly. I don’t know why I ever doubt him. Physical activities come natural to him, even though he doesn’t really do any of them. He was great at fencing, is good at billiards, bowling, weight training or any simple games all the way up to complex video games etc. Anything that might require a finer touch to make the action one is performing go right, he seems to excel at. All the finer paddle strokes we learned he caught onto almost immediately and could speed around easily in his kayak. I wasn’t jealous as much as I was happy that he was getting in a boat and actually getting some kind of new and exciting experience, (just as I was for myself). Either way I was quite proud of him, he was confident doing all the rolls upside down in the pool even though he doesn’t have an aquatic background. He seemed to just fit in. I on the other hand did a billion years of junior lifeguards and practically lived in a pool everyday when I was a kid, but I still looked like a wet dog and had to scrounge up courage to let myself flip under a huge kayak. Maybe that comes from the fact that in Junior Lifeguards the last thing you want is to be attached to a plastic thing on top of you when you’re swimming in to oncoming waves. Either way the mental part for me was both enjoyable and challenging, which is a good thing. James seems to just be good at everything the bugger.
Anyways the end result of the physical part of the adventure was that I got dehydrated and totally strained my arms and shoulders as well as the part of the hand between the thumb and index finger. It was so bad that if I moved them too fast I would get extreme nausea and nearly pass out from the pain. This resulted in me being practically bed ridden all of Sunday night and most of Monday morning. I skipped out on leaving the house for school or work and spent the day at home wondering why I let myself get so weak in the first place. I hardly did any homework, except studying for a test that I go postponed to Wednesday. But as for anything else-zip. So here I am waiting and wondering what I’ll say in my next class when I am called on to hand out my non-existent scene for people to read.

On another note I got my job back partially, well till the end of September at least, and I will get paid for the work I’ve done. Cross your fingers that I will get a chance to get in on the left of work-study monies.