Running On Empty

I got sent home from practice today. I don't know how I feel about that. After I had stopped about three times to cough up my lungs, Todd had me climb out of the pool and swim a 1000 cool down in the short lanes. I think that's a bad sign. Well, at least I got to help some JV swimmers who stayed late with their flip-turns. Little Gee says it feels a lot better, and she isn't flapping her arms anymore.

Anyhow, I just feel crappy. Whenever I try to do kick sets, my legs feel like we've been doing leg-intensive workouts for the past three days. Too bad I haven't even been practicing for the last three days, so that theory's dead. My cough's getting worse too. I've been sick for three months, and I'm taking a dip in my health. And I've hit my late-November/early-December low a little early. No big surprise there, given the circumstances. I'm stressed. Nothing new. But I'll post my l-N/e-D theme song, just because. Not all lines apply, obviously. But the chorus definitely does, and quite a few other lines.


Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind

Regardless of the song, I'm gonna be all right. Really. I get through this slump every year. Just because it's more intense doesn't mean I can't handle it.