I said I liked fireworks. I also like free T-shirts. I've joined clubs, raised money, volunteered, and done other variously difficult things in order to accumulate some great t-shirts. Tonight was probably the stupidest though...
Every year Queens, one of the Colleges, hosts a "race" for novice rowers. It's called Queen's Ergs, and the reason I said race in quotation marks is that it's actually an erging race (i.e., on the rowing machines, not the actual boat). It's a relay, and each member of a boat does 500 m (500 x 8 people = 4000 k total). It's in a gym and everyone is screaming and music is on really loud, and it is good fun. Even though 500s are miserable, it's really only 2 minutes of pain, which would ordinarily be fine. So, as I was promised a free t-shirt, I of course signed up.
Problem: I am still sick. Bigger problem: since it is a team competition, if one person drops out, no one in the boat can race. So I still really wanted to compete to make sure that everyone else had a chance too. My set was fine, but afterwards I started coughing and couldn't stop for maybe 30 minutes. I'm good now, but it was pretty scary, and now I'm hoarse and can't talk :(
Plan for the next few days: sleep. sleep some more. work (maybe). sleep. get better (hopefully)!!!
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