the pool opened today. i was an early-riser and cleaned for a long time this morning, but we opened on schedule, and besides the horrendous wind, it was great to be back in my lifeguard chair.

one of the best things about my job is that i get to listen and observe children all day. i love to watch their little imaginations grow and prosper. they come up with the most fascinating ways to occupy themselves. for instance, i heard this today: "hey you guys, let's play matrix!" i never got to see what "playing matrix" is but i'm looking forward to it. also, since i took last summer off, i had forgotten how confrontation-friendly one has to be as a lifeguard. i was very out of practice for spending so much time with adults as of late, but it was so freeing calling kids down for splashing and picking on the "special" kids. i love being able to tell the kids what they're doing is mean and why it's mean, opposed to my adult-observing routine: watch, get disgusted, and remember to relate the instance to ian later so we can both shake our heads at the world.

i did get sun-burned today. i don't know how that happened when it was super-cloudy and only 75. oh well. maybe it's a windburn--much more likely. ˇ