Chrome

My friend, W, HATES Chrome, and my other friends keep trying to install it on his computer...
Suck it Chrome! Go IE 8!

I hate IE9&10. and Windows 8. Grrr.

I kinda wish that some of the total 110 viewers would have commented. I know that I don't ever post, but it would be nice if you people did.....


Now for old pics.

Hello. this is S

Daaaaawwww....



Thanks,

Jessie Winky (@GLADOS_16181)

Bubble

      The air quality in the bubble sucked today, and I could not stop coughing... On the bright side, I finally got to talk to R after about a month of radio silence. Boys. I wish that he at least went to my school, but alas, it was not to be. Anyway, I go to fancy shcmancy prestigious school of awesomeness.

OM NOM NOM PIZZA FOR LUNCH.  I almost forgot my lunch today, but I grabbed a slice of frozen Giovanni's this morning. Yummy! :P

Grrr face.





Byee! <(^-^)>

Sandy

YAY! No swimming! My club pool is closed b/c of hurricane Sandy.

I forgot that other people read this

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   back to swimming. I am going to my local YMCA, and doing some swimming there, but its mostly warm ups and kicking sets, because I have people in my lane who I actually DON'T want to hit while doing butterfly. There was a guy in my lane today who probably liked to swim, maybe he thought he was good, but his freestyle was ATROCIOUS! His hands went in the water probably 4 inches in front of his shoulders, and his kicks went sideways, hitting me. I didnt want to discourage him, so I didnt say anything, but it was bad. I did do some breststroke at the end, and that is (of course) when he got out.



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                                                                           Jessie W. (@GLADOS_16181) live long and prosper

NC

  I will be absent (slightly more than I already am) for a few days because I'm going to North Carolina To visit my friend Leena from camp. we went to Nike swim camp together 2 summers ago, and stayed in contact with each other. last summer, she came up and watched me at a swim meet, and I went down there in December for a swim meet with my team.
  The Nike swim camp was AWFUL! (except for Leena) It was in Tuscon, Arizona; It was 100+ degrees; and we had practice 3 times a day, an hour and a half each time. After the last practice each day (which ended at 9:00) we were given the option to go to Circle K which is similar to a 7/11 or a Sheetz. we WALKED about a mile there, and back, and got to the dorms it was about 10:00 and we were supposed to be in  bed, lights out  at 10:30. and the girls were on the 3rd floor. FUN.


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                                                                  Jessie W. @GLADOS_16181

 *pre-note GRAL is ******* ******** Aquatic League and is a league that NOVA and my team are not affiliated with. Our teams are in the USA swimming league, and we do not compete with our club teams at GRAL champs, but we compete with local or neighborhood teams.

   I have been at two swim meets over the past week (Friday-the next Sun) and I am pooped. I went to Age group champs, and then GRAL champs, and we got 9th(?) at AGC and pretty darn close to dead last at GRAL champs. My summer team, ********* sucks, and about 49 kids made it to champs, but 15 dropped out, and only 6 10&unders showed. And all 6 were 9-10. Surprisingly, I did worse this year than I did last year, despite the massive time drops and the fact that I am at the top of my age. I had at least 6 NOVA kids in each of my heats, and with 10 lanes, and one spot occupied by me, I think NOVA has an unfair monopoly on summer swim. I should probably add that NOVA has approximitely 1000 swimmers, ages 4 and up, and all of them up to age 18 can swim at champs. My home team has (at the absolute most) 200 swimmers, ages 5ish-19. obviously we don't have a lot of them at GRAL champs, OR AGC, so we don't win often, if at all. NOVA is a very rich team, with two 25 meter(?) pools, both indoor, and a swim shop in their facility. BUT their swimmers think that they are all that, just because they have a higher amount of fast swimmers. NOVA and my team probably have an equal percentage of fast swimmers, but because they have 5 times the swimmers, they probably have 5 times the number of fast swimmers.
   Despite the fact that their facility is large, and they have the money to do renovations, and the manpower to enforce rules, I have had many bad experiences, and I distinctly remember the "pee-spot". the "Pee-spot" is a depression in the floor of the locker room near the bathrooms (which are contained in the locker room) that stinks and is constantly full of "liquid". I have also had a creepy experience at a swim meet, (at the time I was a swimmer for NOVA); It was just after warm ups, and a group of us went to change into our Aquablades and Fastskins for competition, when two boys, probably 6 or 7 years old, walked in, stopped, looked at us with our towels wrapped around us as we changed, and walked towards the stalls. They did their buisness, and one of them walked out. I'm not sure what the other one did, because I left after that, but all of us were stunned. They were too old to be in there, and they didn't even have their Mom with them, as is the norm when small boys go in the girls restroom. This bathroom was not the only one in the facility, and the other one was cleaner, brighter, 50 feet away, and not filled with changing girls. I don't think they saw anything, but I can't be sure.
 

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                                           Jessie W. @GLADOS_16181

SORRY!!!

I have been in Blacksburg all weekend for my Age Group Champs, (which was OK) so I didn't post then. I also didn't post for almost 2(?) weeks before that, because I was LAZY. In case you haven't made the connection yet, or you are a first time reader, I am on twitter, and I am @GLADOS_16181. I use fake names for my friends when I blog, to keep their identities safe, and I do not disclose how I am related to those who I say are my relatives.

   In Blacksburg I swam 5 events and 4 relays, and I did not make finals in anything. I swam both Backstrokes, both Butterflies, and the 400 IM. I was on the B relay for all the relays, but our A relay girls broke at least 3 team records over the course of the meet. We had five swimmers on Thursday, and about 20 for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Thursday we had a nice big bleacher section. On Friday, we had second warm-ups, and we had to sit in a smaller bleacher section. On Sturday, we reclaimed the origional bleachers, but during our warm-ups, another team stole them and moved most of our stuff while a non-swimmer from our team repeatedly told them that the bleachers were taken. on Sunday we had to share the same bleachers with thte same team, but we didn't fight. By Sunday, I had screamed my head off to the point where I sounded like I was whispering when I was really screaming.



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@GLADOS_16181, Jessie Winky