Friday was the last day of school. I went to Pizza Gourmet with Kimble and Nate afterwards, then Nate took me home and we listened to School's Out the entire way as loud as the speakers would allow, because that's just how cool we are. Got home, called Ken, went out there. Randy was there too. We decided to take the sailboat out, because it was nice and windy and the boat was right there and it was just tempting. First five minutes, almost tipped the boat. Lost my headband and almost lost my hat. It was a sad time, circling the same spot with an oar in hand, trying to get my hat. The headband eventually sank, but the hat was grabbed by Ken just as it was going under. Then we got going well and went way out to the very middle of the lake. It was then that I discovered there was a leech on my leg, and I freaked for about 10 seconds then got it off, and the leech stayed with us in the sailboat until I got it out with an oar about an hour later. We were having fun in the middle of the lake, but eventually decided we should head back. So we tried. For about half an hour. And could not do it. So, in the middle of the lake, Ken jumped out and tried to pull. Then Randy jumped out and tried to help. Obviously I could not stay in the boat and be pulled, so I jumped out too. The water was absolutely freezing (I should've figured it'd be so, being the middle of a lake on a breezy June day in Maine, but whatev), and I instantly lost my breath and began to go under, but regained myself and went back up. I grabbed hold of the front rope with Ken, and we began to swim. It took us about an hour or two to get back to Ken's landing, but eventually got there, Randy in the boat for the last 10 minutes or so, and Ken hanging onto the side while I pushed from behind with everything I had for the last 14 minutes or so. We got the boat hooked up and walked up to Ken's house, soaking wet with our toes squishing in our oh-so-fashionable watershoes. I had no extra clothes, and Randy had no extra clean clothes, so we were a bit out of luck. but I borrowed a pair of Ken's pants and a teeshirt his mom handed me, and I was alright. We threw our clothes in the drier and played darts. I owned. Good thing my uncle taught me how to throw darts. Whoo. After the clothes were partially dry, we drove to my house, got money, ate casserole, and I played my keyboard for a bit. Then we went to Movie Gallery, rented Along Came Polly and Elephant, and headed back to Ken's. I watched Elephant on the portable DVD player while Randy and Ken played Morrowind, and I eventually fell asleep. Whoo. I stayed there last night too, but don't really remember much of what we did, except playing Tetris Worlds on the Xbox and me showing up everyone. Today we found a turtle, put him in a wheelbarrow, named him Sheldon, and then brought him back to the lake. Now I'm going to take a shower and go to Sam's, and probably stay there for the night. Le fin. Out: Gretchen P.S. This is in the process of remodeling, so...don't complain about how horribly ugly it is right now. Thanks.