I wrote a longer post but it got deleted

it had funny anecdotes about my mom and snapping turtles and everything. But now I am frustrated and will give a quick summer recap:

• I am in Lake Placid, NY
• I wait on/make friends with old people and golfers
  
• I'm living with Sherborn all-stars Kyra Hill (Harvard '09 and my best friend's sister so basically my older sister) and Spencer Tweed (Wisconsin '09 and recent Ironman Kona qualifier)
• I swam 4.8 miles yesterday
• We hike mountains and train lots
• I have no furniture and basically live on the floor
• I haven't used shampoo since May 7th

Pictures:Atop Cascade

Kyra and a rainbow

Spencer in the Tupper Lake Tinman

Love,
Meri

Sooooooooo, seeing as no one will post on the blog, I will make another super post about my amazingly exciting life. Wait, wait, wait.....my life is damn boring, I forgot about that. So I've been working, like a lot. The other day i worked from 8:30 to 9:10 with two 1 hr breaks. It was pretty brutal. I've been trying to find time in between working for workouts and its not easy. The weather hasn't been helping either. I complained last time on the blog and the weather continues to mock me. I tried to find a good picture of the weather for the past month but I thought it would depress you guys too much.

On to more interesting topics I recently watched Public Enemies and it was pretty good. I enjoyed it. It was really really amusing because some woman brought her like 3 year old kid to see the movie. I figured she might leave after the first scene where some guy gets his head smashed in, but she didn't. She continued to watch with her little child and even commented, "don't worry, he's gonna get shot." It was interesting. She finally left when he had to pee.

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I've also taken up playing disc golf on occassion. It is a good time except for the small fact that I kinda suck. Its a really good excuse to go out in the back woods of Maine and throw a frisbee with some funny funny rednecks.

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I have also found that roller skiing on crowned roads really really sucks as my wheels are not higher than the crown.

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That's all I got for now. I'll try to update if anything interesting happens.

Snow Report from New Zealand

According to the locals, this the earliest snow has ever arrived in Wanaka. As soon as I landed about 2 weeks ago and found someone who owned both skinny skis and a car I've been literally up above the clouds skiing at the fabled Snow Farm as often as I can. Unfortunately, this is only on the weekend, when I'm off work and can get up the 12 km mountain road with enough daylight to spare for a good workout. This is a minor drawback, however, because during the week I can go on runs during my lunch break that look like this:


I've worked out a deal with the owners of the Snow Farm where I'm instructing in the mornings and can ski in the afternoons for free. So far it's been mostly little kids for a Bill Koch-like program on Saturday mornings and the odd private lesson. My respect for for whoever taught me to ski when I was 6 or 7 has increased exponentially in the 4 days I've been up there, but it's all worth it.

50k of groomed trails.

Necessary gymnast/rock star pose.

With high school teammate Mary (Williams 06) who was in town for a few days on vacation. I haven't quite got the hang of the self-timer.

To everyone back home: I want updates of your summers! Now!
-A

PS- when I was taking a break at work today I was catching up on my Johnny Klister and found this gem: