Quick! The Internet ate my day!

Yeah, today wasn't as productive a day as it could have been...I have a midterm tomorrow evening, so I had planned to study for the better part of the morning and early afternoon, but...you know how me and studying are.  (Hint: not friends.)  So I spent the morning writing blog posts for later, changing my desktop background to one with a direwolf on it, changing my chrome theme to one that matched the direwolf, and pretending I had important emails to answer.  Then I studied for about two hours.  Wuph.

In the afternoon, I took Annabelle to swimming class.  We have a little kiddie pool that we put out on the porch on nice days, and Annabelle really loves it, so I figured swim class at Birchwood would be like the pinnacle of existence for her.  And she did really like bouncing in the water and immediately after her class was over, she wanted to be the teacher (this is a habit of hers; she's a bit of a control freak for one so young) but she was way more scared of water than I remember being at her age.  I guess I probably was, though, because most of the kids in that class were.  And when I think about it, it's completely normal.  I mean, I'm still scared of water, just more rationally.  I have water-in-the-ear problems when I go swimming now, and drowning is one of my biggest fears, and sharks aren't my favorite.  How much more would a little kid be scared of water?  They have no reason to trust it; they haven't been in water long enough to know that they float, and no matter how much we tell them we're going to hold them up and make sure they don't get stuck underwater, why should they believe us?  For all they know, we might not be strong enough to fight the water.

Anyway, Annabelle was not too keen about kicking or scooping or...anything but bouncing and bossing me around, really.  I hope she grows out of that.  She likely will, I think, it just makes me sad to think that she might not.  I loved summers when I was a kid specifically because I could swim in the pool.

So after swim class, we came home and had dinner, and then my mom, Annabelle, and I went to Kohl's to return some of the stuff we got on Sunday and use our Kohl's cash to buy more things!  Yay consumerism!  Then I cleaned my room and my mom and I watched Much Ado About Nothing.

That was Tuesday.  I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought...though I still have a ton of studying to do.

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