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So yesterday was the day. Awesome. Glorious, kinda. But hella fun anyways.

We had the first home Soka Swim meet. I bet siobhan would be so happy. It was a lot of fun. There were three teams involved: Mills College (Oakland, CA), Chapman University, and us--Soka University. It was a three-way meet scored with three dual meets, for the girls, and for the guys it was a head-to-head dual meet. We won! The guys won! I think everyone did a good job in their races. I can see that everyone has improved quite a bit, even from just last week. Really it is all about doing it a few times, until your a bit more comfortable with it (I'm talkin about competing, hier). Personally, I don't think I got personal bests--but I did better than I thought I would on a few races. My events were the 200 Free Relay--anchor position, 200 Medley Relay--free/anchor position, 200 Free, and 100 Breaststroke. The total time for the 200 Free relay was 1:36:00 or something crazy like that--I've never seen that time before. Sadly, I can only say that I anchored the that relay like nothing else--I probably pulled the average time down. Hehe...no really. I swam with Ankur, Nate, and Jarvis--they're definitely faster than I am. The 200 medley was the same people--I want to check out my times to see if I'm getting better in any of them. This meet was the first one where I've swum "individual" events--the 200 Free and the 100 Breast. I did a lot better on the 200 Free than I thought I would: a 2:07 or something like that. I don't even want to know what my 100 Breast time was. What sucked was that the only Chapman guy that was in the event beat me by a second or so. I felt good the first bit and then around yard 75 I just puttered out. Sadly, I think it was a mental breakdown, not being focused on the race at hand that was the leading cause to my defeat there. I started thinking about the race that I would have to do in just one heat--the 200 free relay. I need to keep that in check for any other individual 100 Breasts I do, cuz that's the place it's usually at. Ojo!

So, now to today. The morning started early with an SGI meeting--planning for the November 18th District General Meeting. This was the youth division being crazy and planning out the meeting. I have to speak to Masa Mochizuki btw. Remember this andy, remember! Anyways, we had to plan out the presentation of the part on the Soka Gakkai's history. We worked out what I hope will be an awesome self-reflecting question session. The meeting is on the 20th--in two weeks! Wow! We also came up with bodhisattiva names. Hopefully we can get everyone to make up bodhisattiva names at that meeting too.

I spent a lot of the day studying. I've had a continuous break from 7:45 to now though. We had Indian Curry, made by rekha. May the she be showered with great respect...the food was amazing. Not enough curry, but still it was a gloobery slice of heaven.

Afterwards we watched the Simpsons and Family Guy. I have a new name for "fellatio," by the way: "a trouser-friendly kiss." And right now I just had a bit of El Pollo Loco. I feel good. Like you should on a Sunday.

this is going to be a tough week. There's so much to do. I have a "Final" Capstone Proposal due.