12:29 am greencastle, june 24; 01:29 pm taipei, june 24

currently listening to young team, mogwai. still haven't heard all of the album, partly because the cd lose and failed to play in the car's cd player. it read without problem in my computer (and ripped okay), so mp3 player, it is.

...got back from swimming a short time ago--with the twins, of course. well, only helped them float around with their floatie-arm-things, kickboards, and these foam things that they strapped to their backs to keep them afloat. so they were pretty much fine on their own, but i kinda led them around the pool a few times, then left them with the caretakers and swam a few laps. so this pool...wait, lemme check and see if i actually wrote about it or was just thinking about what i would say or what i could talk about. sec...mmkay, i did write a bit about it. the water comes up to...about...my chest, so that's probably a meter. and it must be 25 meters, because it's definitely more than that many yards. i think that, normally, i would be able to flip in the pool, but it's designed in a horrible oval shape (about three lanes wide--there are the black lines on the bottom), and if i were to try to swim in the middle where it would be mostly flat when i turn, there are these convenient pillars in the middle...ugh. you know, these pillars *built over the bloody lane marking lines.* i was pretty upset about that. no, wait; i am pretty upset about that. meh...not much i can do.

hey, so wanna hear something cool? my battery lasts like %20 longer when i don't have things like my firewall, virus scanner, etc. running. you know...stuff that i keep going in the background when i'm online. not surprising, but just thought i'd let you know.

...that mogwai? ambient rock, methinks. definitely. it's good, though. i like it.

hey, yeah, so if all goes according to plan, i'm going to watch a movie later today. and i was correct to those of you to whom i told about the movie theaters; they seem only to have one screen. makes sense, though, what with the extraordinary crowdedness. or density of everything, i suppose you could say...but where's the fun in making sense? or something...the movie, though. it's, apparently, made after an anime or a manga or something, and it stars jay, "the one," the biggest pop star in taiwan and probably china, but i'm not positive. the guy also, apparently, had an affair of some sort a short time ago, losing a large part of his fan base. now that he's expanding to movies in addition to his music, a lot of people are hoping that he fails now. hah...i'd almost feel bad for the guy, but i'm sure that even if i cared, it'd be against him.

...nope, i guess i can't quite get the kind of sigh that i want into text. something like...hnnnn. *sigh* will have to suffice. i'm kinda tired. tried to just look out the window and take in the scene earlier, but the little girls kept running up to me and asking at what i was looking. ah, well...mebbe i'll just take a nap or something.