so we went climbing last night for the first time in a few weeks, jason, betsy, buzz and me. i was belaying jason, and he is just disgustingly spritely (that is the word we came up with for him–spritely). it’s like he’s just jumping up the wall. he makes it look so easy, as if he only weighs 20 pounds or something. while i have less upper body strength, and more weight to carry. sigh. 😉 but it was still a pretty good night. i took it a bit easy after finding myself (mainly my legs) surprisingly sore from soccer sunday night. i think it was all the sprinting; really, i did more sprinting than i usually do, and i felt it.
i wonder if anyone out there knows much about tendons and ligaments. based on the way my legs feel, i’m guessing there is one tendon or something that runs from my second toe up the top of my foot and then up the front of my leg. or maybe a series of them that are all connected. in any case, that corridor–second toe to top of foot to front of leg on the outside of my shinbone–is mega-sore. if i flex my foot (either one, because both legs feel the same), i can feel it all the way up to just below my knee. it is very, very weird.
but i climbed the yellow route. with help from the rope, but still. i am slowly, slowly, slowly getting better at that route.
i’m about to buy my plane ticket home for christmas. my boss has been nice enough to let me take a couple extra days off (using credit time) so i’ll be able to go home in time for my brother’s college graduation, which i’m excited about. all my siblings came to both my graduations (well, david didn’t make it to tech, but that’s ok), but i haven’t been to any of theirs so far because i was always in school or houston or out of the country. i’m excited i get to go to david’s. and i’ll have plenty of time to relax at home, and even catch a couple people in atlanta on the tail end. at least that is the idea, though it seems that new year’s plans are nebulous at best.
we had a huge storm yesterday afternoon and last night that dumped buckets of rain on houston. fortunately the most intense part of the storm was downtown, and not in the southeast part of the city, where i live. we got about 4.5 inches of rain, but closer to downtown saw more than 8 inches in a span of about 6 hours. so while clear lake escaped relatively unscathed, with little to no flooding, other parts of houston do not appear to have been so lucky. i saw a poor little nissan just like mine on the news last night under an overpass with water up to its roof. lesson to anyone considering starting a new city: don’t build it in a freaking flat flood plain!
though i do have to wonder why every time there’s a storm, some idiot decides to drive their car through the water. every time it floods, you see cars on the news where the driver thought they could make it though the water, but didn’t make it. you’d think people would learn…
