It's five past twelve and for the first time in this month I've gotten around to writing the daily journal on about the day the events occurred. Exciting. I'm also very tired due to the swimming but generally so this is going to be short.
Getting up was not as easy as I hoped, I lazied around. Still got some stuff written, work was productive, but the work I've been doing had to be shelved. Lunch was the same thing I've been having for the last three days. Except this time I added a bunch of cheese to it. Realized really stinky cheese goes so well with bean shakshuka, something to experiment with later.
JD helped me take photos of my room for the vacancy ad. Talked to folks on the phone, don't remember who. Worked out in the morning. Chilled a lot. Wrote and did work until 5 when SS (Phd) said they were ready. Biked my way to his house, where we used his bike-repair equipment to tighten my brakes. We packed water, coke, and clothes, and headed out to the mystic lakes in a convoy of three bikes. SS is a pretty decent biker, JM likes to keep it slow, I was in the middle. It felt like they were escorting me, but apparently that's their biking strategy.
Went to our destination through the scenic route though it took us a couple of extra minutes it was so worth it. Nice houses of North Medford and Winchester, the trees, the people, riding through baseball parks and mountains. Pleasure.
We got there, not right at the beach because it's too busy and a little boring but in the middle of the woods, parked our bikes took off our clothes and jumped into water. The guys swam and played around I waddled about and eventually learned to swim on my back thanks to SS's guidance. There were so many ducks in the water, I got a little concerned we were swimming in duckshit but then I remembered they were swimming in humanpiss too so that made me feel better.
The weather was crazy. It got very dark and stormy the clouds looked menacing we thought there was going to be thunder lightning possibly hail. Nothing happened. We thought we'd at least get a heavy rain as we swam, that didn't happen either. A light shower that didn't even wet my backpack. We talked about families things we've been upto future plans between taking laps, diving in.
SS saw a single red leaf on a tree. THE FALL IS BEGINNING ALREADY AND IT'S NOT EVEN AUGUST YET.
We swam a lot more, the skies cleared the scenery wasn't as crazy anymore the other families were packing up and it got dark so we packed up and biked back home. Left SS and JM at their homes, came to mine. Wrote a post, cooled myself down in front of the fan, looked at a bunch of housing postings for Philly. Talked to NG about my future plans, selling my room, and moving to Philly and we tried figuring logistics. Friend-of-the-house ND is over here too, before retiring into my room said hi to her, we carried down all the trash and recyclables. House is a little bit more clean.
My arms hurt my body aches. Regardless, I'll do fifteen pushups now before going to bed.
Ta-ta
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