to every single person who complains about the music being too loud while you are swimming…SHUT UP. by the time you wander in around 8 or 9 for you’re lovely morning swim I will have already been at the pool for 3 hours and have another 5 to go…and i’m fucking tired and the volume of the music is really the only thing keeping me awake and you alive potentially. Oh, and the lane-lines are already tight enough, and playing mama mia for three weeks straight weeks makes me want to throw myself in front of on coming traffic…
This article appears in Oct 9-15, 2008.

