I found not being able to float helped my swimming, as I had to learn to take action to stay above water.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Jan 05, 2006 7:27:50 am PST #7752 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aims - Jan 05, 2006 7:28:38 am PST #7753 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My sister is on her way to a charter school in Detroit for an interview.
The car in front of her has 3 people in it and they are passing a joint.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Daisy Jane - Jan 05, 2006 7:29:59 am PST #7754 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Is she rolling up the windows and turning off the AC, Aimee?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 05, 2006 7:31:06 am PST #7755 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I can't swim underwater - I've always bobbed right back up to the surface or pretty close to it, even when I was skin and bones at 145 lbs. Nowadays I'd probably float on the surface like cork.
Kalshane - Jan 05, 2006 7:32:52 am PST #7756 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
In a lake or a pool, I know I can get to land in any direction if I swim far enough. The ocean, NSM.
What ita and Brenda said. When I think "lake", I think Lake Michigan. Small and swimmable do not mesh with lake in my head.
I get weirder about lakes and oceans. Lakes because I fear various animals and oceans because I have nearly been drowned numerous times by powerful undertows (and because of animals).
This me, except for the undertow thing. I have this irrational fear being attacked by something under the water and not being able to plant my feet. I have no idea where it comes from. So I'm fine with a pond or lake until I can't touch bottom anymore.
I also nearly drowned in a creek when I was a kid. It wasn't super deep, but I fell in, inhaled a bunch of water as I landed and then the water was too murky to tell which way was up so I panicked. Luckily one of my friends pulled me out.
Swimming in a pool, I don't have a problem. Though I still can't make myself dive. I just can't force myself to leap headfirst into anything, water or no.
Aims - Jan 05, 2006 7:34:40 am PST #7757 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Is she rolling up the windows and turning off the AC, Aimee?
Heh. This is my sister - she's probably going to stop them and ask for a pass.
sarameg - Jan 05, 2006 7:37:15 am PST #7758 of 10002
My legs don't float but the rest of me sure does.
My mom can't swim, but that has nothing to do with her background and everything to do with her weird mental blocks when it came to her mother as a teacher.
sumi - Jan 05, 2006 7:39:37 am PST #7759 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
My mom loved to swim . . . she grew up in Japan. She made sure that my brothers and I all swam. I don't know if this was a Japanese thing or a middleclass thing or what.
Li'l Sphere and Lillian are killing me with teH Cute!
Jessica - Jan 05, 2006 7:45:28 am PST #7760 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Q&A with ED. (Total fluff, I'm afraid.)
Nutty - Jan 05, 2006 7:49:33 am PST #7761 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When do people learn to swim? There are pictures of me swimming as a toddler, at a point when we lived on the coast. I have not entirely wrapped my brain around the idea of municipal pools, even now -- the Arlington [municipal "pool"] Reservoir, where I swam as an older kid, was a set-aside section of a lake.
I know that some colleges still have swimming requirements before you can graduate, and I recall learning this fact with the same dumbfoundedness as if you had told me you had to pass a class in pat-your-head, rub-your-belly before graduating. Who can't do that (assuming physical capability)? And what bearing can it possibly have on your academic career?
Random: Eric Bana is on my tv talking about Munich (that's the movie right?) and it's increasing my Bana love.
He sure is pretty. Also, pulls off accents nicely.