I Tamed the Tiger

And got like, maimed for life. o.o;
I should've mentioned this before I left for the retreat, but hey--I forgot. Or maybe I just overslept. That's dependent on perspective, you know?
I'm happy to see people are still on Blogger!
I didn't have a chance last time I posted to check out the other blogs, so I had no idea.
Now, back to the title...
We got t-shirts with 'I Tamed the Tiger' on the back after we ran (well, I walked) up Tiger mountain. (It was painful)
I feel better now, though.
I gained a pound.
It makes me sad.
I'm telling myself it's 'cause muscle is denser than fat.
Anyways.
Enough about my weigh-gaining-ness. (ugh.)
I think I ran about 10 miles in the past four days.
I know, it doesn't sound like much.
It feels like a lot, though.
I'm rather sore.
Well, more like reduced to a quivering lump of lard.
What is lard, anyways?
...
The MIXC people are very nice.
Well, to me at least.
It makes me feel bad.
I'm a ridiculously slow runner.
Did you know that I've never run more than a mile before this?
And even then, I have to stop and walk.
(I still do)
Be proud.
XD

Alright! On to the retreat info.
I was really bored at the beginning, 'cause I didn't know anyone.
Here's the stuff I typed on my cellphone during the retreat.
Oh wait.
Did you know that Fort Worden used to be a naval base?
Their sleeping areas are actually pretty nice.
Except for the urinals.
o.o;
Here's the stuff: (It's really random and more than a tad dull)
"Bored out of my bloody mind. Typing on my cell on the bus, with a i-dunno-what-year-girl [Senior] called Jordin on the aisle row. Oh joy, we're stuck in traffic now. My lefs are really sore form yesterday and Mother wouldn't let me bring the ipod. Not to mention that I'm losing the circulation to my legs, which is rather uncomfortable."
"I'm on the ferry now! Whee! Huh. Everyone appears to have left to...the upper deck I think. Ugh. Wind. I should really talk to someone. -feels lazy-"
"Alright! A long exhausting day has passed, and I suppose it was fun... We played group games, and initiate-the-freshmen-guys stuff (lol, their idiocy makes me laugh)."
"Just finished breakfast after a run. I feel ridiculously slow--oh well, my blood pressure is lowering, yes? (It better be). Last night during dinner I saw Adrian and said hi to Griffin. Today before breakfast I talked to Robin. Bellevue XC leaves today, and I don't know if we'll be doing anything as a group. The MI coach is married to the Bellevue coach. Ttfn."
"Finished lunch and created a skit with my group (ugh I suck with names) [Phoebe, Robbie, Jacob, Molly] and tried icing my dead-cell legs. Icing is supposed to make soreness fade faster and not be as...ugh-ful...so I'll do that after the afternoon run. I think. Tomorrow we wake up early again for more running (dying here...) and then we go back to the high school. The conditions here are pretty good, I must add. Considerably good good and very roomy living quarters with very clean mattresses."

Alright, that's all I've got.
They have this evil workout thing called "7 minutes in hell" (or, rather, that's the students' nickname for it) where you do core conditioning for seven minutes.
Now, because I never, ever, (ever!) do push-ups, my arms are dyinggg! Ungh. Stupid evil people.

I feel really stupid.
When I got home, I did the little 10-minute jog-thing on the Wii fit. (It's a lot easier now that before--I hope that means I improved .__.) It was really, really boring just staring at my Mii jog (god, those things are ugh-ly) so I started going up and down the midget stairs at my house.
Well, like the idiot that I am, I ran straight into a chair and now have a slightly bloodied skin-peeling dent on my thigh.
It's kind of gross.
It doesn't hurt anymore though, so that's nice.
It's still quite disgusting.

Yesyesyes.
I stop blabbering about the ugliness of my ugly, lame, pitiful dent-thing with lots of peeling skin.

Now to respond to comments! (This is the fun part :D)
Xue-bi: It does hurt! Yay! Feel my joyous (not really) pain!

Briseis: I'd think 'maim you for life' counts...as more than a technicality. Eww, football conditioning. Glad to see you're still breathing...and more than as a vegetable hooked up to lots of tubes and drugged with...um...stuff. And yeah, I do need to get clothes. I'm wearing my mom's stuff for running .__.; It's a little big (I'm not that fat yet ><;)I can barely move forward, let alone think about posture. But thanks for the suggestions--I'll use them when, well, I can actually run. That might take a while... Merci (sp?) and good luck to you too.

Da penguin: Lol--great rhyme. XD Do XC! I'll see you (if I live and join again next year) at the meets. We made a skit making fun of Newport colors (-laughs nervously and hides-) and the MIXC people do not like Newport (like, at all .__.;) (scary rivalries) (it's the same with Bellevue) so it'd be fun to talk to someone recognizable. XD Interlake was moved down a level though, so I wouldn't see them at meets anyways :/

Ohh. You know what I discovered?
No, you don't.
Well, you will soon.
I discovered the Mercer Island school mascot!
The mascot is...-dundundun- a snail.
.__.;
Great for races, eh?
Well, I'm not too sure, actually.
'Cause it's 'Mercer Island Islanders' (isn't that LAME? LAMELAMELAMELAME. LAME!)
but the picture is a snail with three islands clumped together as the shell, waves for the body and an 'i' as the head. I'll get you a picture as soon as I find an online one.

Edit:
http://www.misd.k12.wa.us/news/frontpage/back_to_school/default.html
If you click the link, the snail-island-water-i-thing is on the uppermost left corner of the page. It's a bit on the small side, but I think that's good enough...
-twitches at the lameness of the really lame mascot and the really lame name-

Hey, at least the school colors aren't McDonald themed.