I'm going away for a week...

[aldrea279]

Not that I want to.  I'm still waay behind both here and on the Main 
List from my three-day weekend excursion(from a swim meet like it is 
this time).  But I'm going to be gone all the same.  

I know this list is huge and that I probably won't be missed, but I 
just want to explain why messages that are a week or so old might be 
getting replied to by me when I return.  Because I don't want to miss 
any of the interesting discussions that take place here, so when I 
get back I'll probably try to catch up without missing messages for 
awhile.  Maybe, lol, we'll see how impossible that is. =P

Where am I going?  Off on a two-day drive to swim in the Junior 
Olympics. A five day meet, and I only swim for...well, I know two 
days.  I have yet to find out how many relays I'm doing, so I'll see 
on what day I swim those when I get here.  But it's really not that 
big of a thing, I don't feel like I deserve to go(and if you knew all 
the details...*sighs*)  but I'm going all the same.  I'll get dead 
last in the two events I'm swimming(and even though my mom gives me 
all that blah-blah-blah about with that attitude, I won't win 
anyways, I really don't want to get my hopes up like I usually do.  
I've done that before with competitions, and it doesn't work for 
me.), but maybe I have a shot of getting a nice big medal in any 
relays I'll be able to swim. Who knows, I did that two years ago and 
I have a big 'ol shiny silver medal in my room.

Anyways, as I never posted a sort of intro message, I'll try a bit of 
it now.  I'm fifteen, female, and living in Arkansas.  I picked up 
the Harry Potter books just in the beginning of this year.  I wasn't 
reading any other books at the time, and I decided to see just what 
the big hype was about.  And, of course, I couldn't put the book 
down.  Infact, I sped through them all in less than a week.  Did the 
same thing when I re-read them shortly after.

~Aldrea, trying to quickly get songs so as to burn a CD for the very 
very long trip ahead of her.