Summer Vacation

by Zack Eustis

I get a week of summer vacation in June, and then a month in August this year.  I'm excited.  I'm starting a new job next week that is a fifteen minute drive from my apartment which means I probably will only commute to work by car.  I miss my old job already.  The IRONMAN chatter has started back up this week with the weekend of July 17th officially being declared as the IRONMAN date.  Last year the IRONMAN was the day after my birthday which was the greatest birthday present I've gotten since I got to play two baseball games (one under the lights) on my birthday when I was 16.  I can't imagine what will have to happen to make this birthday as awesome as last year's, but I invited Pat Neshek to my party because that would have been sweet.  He turned me down.  I don't know what it's like to write unrequited love letters to Rachel McAdams for 73 days, but this has to be way worse. 

For training lately I've been doing almost nothing but swimming and saunas.  Turns out that gets me in way better shape than jogging or power walking or anything else.  I have the knees of a 76 year old hockey player so swimming is a preferable workout activity for numerous reasons.  In other news, I saw The Hangover this past weekend which was pretty funny but I wouldn't call it the best comedy ever.  Ed Helms (aka Andy Bernard from The Office) is in it and is fast becoming one of my favorite actors (editor-that's because you and him are twins separated at birth).  I work out at the same gym where my old summer camp is run.  It is a really weird concept that I would be there working out while camp is going on, so I'm only going there after camp ends for the day, which is now, so I'm going to go swim now.  Hopefully nobody soiled the pool today.