A few things.

1) Fate is against me: after joining Lowell's IM Crew team three weeks ago, I have only been out on the river once. Immediately after that practice, our boat was cut (apparently we were too "inexperienced" and would "require constant supervision"), but after bargaining, we were allowed to go out again in mixed boats this week. Tuesday it rained, so practice was canceled. Today, we got as far as putting the boat in the water, and then we had to pick it right up again - apparently it was too windy for us, so we had a tank session. So, three weeks of being on the crew team has allotted to one hour on the water and two hours in the tanks. And the race is in...two weeks...

2) I lost my cell phone battery cover in the river today. It fell out of my pocket as we were moving the boat, and thankfully the phone itself fell onto the dock, but the battery cover snapped off and fell into the murky waters. Oops.

3) We won the housing lottery! I mean, there were only three senior quads, so it's not as big of an accomplishment, I guess, but we got our top choice room! Huzzah.