I recently had a day which once again saw work sidelined (nothing unusual there!)...alas..it'll be the undoing of me! Anyhow, despite the river being wayyy to high for us to do any training, the river was now low enough for torpid qualifying rounds and thus we went out having only done one (or two - I forget) river sessions in the term. I can't say that all our erging sessions helped much!
Anyway, the time trial itself went reasonably smoothly until one of our crew 'caught a crab' in the last 100m! Noooo! Hopefully it wasn't the reason why we *just* missed out on qualifying for Torpids. Although I only took up rowing as it was an 'Oxford' thing (and I like trying new stuff), I was very disappointed having immersed myself in rowing culture. Oh well...hopefully come summer eights, we'll be more fined tuned to race! Ha ha..and maybe the photos of me rowing won't look so..'constipated' as one friend commented :/
After a quick change, it was off to the Oriental Ball (held at Freud's cafe) to sort out the dancing area for the dancesport pairs which were performing on behalf of OXCIA - ha ha, not exactly demonstrating 'Chinesey-ness' but my committee certainly wasn't going to do an act (despite my own enthusiasm!). The ball itself was *ok* but a bit lacklustre at the end true to the sad truth that..well...Asian people don't really do the whole 'UV-light raving' scene and so I left earlier than I usually would from a black tie event!
Tired and exhausted as usual, I couldn't muster enough energy to look at another e-journal on refugias and so I just went to sleep. Oh dear. I can already see myself in a pre-tute essay frenzy come Wednesday night/Thursday morning :( and then the now obligatory moaning post about essays! It's all become rather routine for me!
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