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Name: Tiffany
Gender: Female
Interests: waterskiing, wakeboarding, photography, writing, reading, tennis, gardening, teenagers, theology, experiential worship, 24, Lost, Ugly Betty
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3/1/2005
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| Tonight I played tennis with a former student, my gay neighbor, and a random middle schooler we met at the courts. Bizarro combination, but it worked... and hopefully some seeds were planted. | | |
| It's middle school lake day. The water that had earlier been smooth and barely rippled was now covered in turbulent whitecaps. In the boat with me are two male chaperones and four middle schoolers (3 girls and 1 boy). The kids have decided to ride the tube because of the rough water. We laugh as feet flop above heads and bellies bounce clear of the inflated ride. One tuber gets tired and lets go. Turning my boat around to retrieve the kid is more challenging than usual. The boat is made for smooth water. It's made to pull slalom skiers through a bouy course. It sets low in the water--even lower when 7 people are onboard. As the boat approaches the student, I slow down and allow the boat to coast on momentum the rest of the way. At least, that was the plan. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. When a ski boat slows down suddenly and there are 3 people sitting in the front of the low-riding boat, the bow of the boat dips. When the bow of the boat dips in wavy water, the waves tend to enter the boat. By the time the fourth wave washed over the front seats and onto the floor, I calmly told those sitting in the front to move to the back so that the tip would quit dipping. I flipped on the bilge pump to remove the 2 inches of water that had accumulated on the floor of my boat. Tuber retrieved? Check. Weight in boat redistributed? Check. Bilge pump removing water from boat? Check. Minnow washed in with waves returned to native environment? Check. (After a brief toss by male chaperone in general direction of middle school girls who shriek.) Cell phone out of bag on floor of boat now submerged in lake water? Didn't even cross my mind until it was too late. Attempt to dry out cell phone with blow dryer? Check. Attempt to dry out cell phone inside sock with load of laundry in clothes dryer per instructions of cell provider technical support? Check. Cell phone resuscitated? Nope. | | |
| Wanna read something inspirational? Check out this link. Melody and I went to college together. And her church in Austin knows how to do small groups better than any other church I've seen. | | |
| I've just discovered that my nose twitches when I get really mad--kinda like a tic caused by boiling blood. | | |
| So, I might be addicted to Facebook. Perhaps I should have stuck to xanga, where I don't spend countless hours looking up people from my past--most of whom are too "old" to know about Facebook or who have changed their names because of something called marriage. Maiden names should be required. | | |
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