Thanks for reconnecting me to the blog, Johes

As Don told us back at the beginning of TASP, technology is harmful to society and should be despised. While he had broad reasons for espousing that view, I think it applies very much to the Blogger-update fiasco, which kicked me off the blog for the past two months or so.

In that interval I have retired from swimming. Our high school season ended in February, and I really hadn't enjoyed it as much this year as I had in the nine years preceeding. Additionally, I swam much more slowly this season, and I was pretty apathetic about it, and it didn't help that my littlest sister rose to dominate the events in which I had previously excelled. So retirement is nice; I read more and actually socialize sometimes.

I'm working in my mother's law office from through the summer, which is ok, if a little bit tedious. Part of my job is going through old files, throwing away extra copies of documents, and then boxing them up and putting them in storage. Since my mom is a small town lawyer, I end up reading the histories of painful times in the lives of people with whom I am slightly aquainted. It's weird knowing these things about people--I am, of course, bound by a confidentiality agreement, so I don't tell anyone else about it--and also weird to think of lives being reduced (in some cases quite literally, because there are wills and things) to a series of documents in a cardboard box in a garage behind a law office.

I really hope to see lots and lots of you at the reunion, and also to hear about your final college decisions--and obviously about things in your lives that are more important/fun than college decisions.

Sarah