So I decided to start playing water polo. My new trend is apparently to decide to do something, whatever it may be, and then just go do it before I have a chance to talk myself out of it. I looked up a club on the internet, and showed up in the same week.

Drawbacks to the spur of the moment method, as they pertain to water polo in particular:

I knew nothing about water polo – apparently the pool is at least 7′ deep end-to-end. Which means you swim for the entire length of practice. At one time (like, 2 weeks ago) I thought I was a good swimmer.

When you’re an adult, people expect that you’re able to do certain things – throw a ball, swim, etc. Unfortunately for me, starting water polo by jumping in the pool and just giving it a whirl, I felt like a 6-year-old on the first day of swimming lessons.

Upsides to aforementioned method:

Water polo is fun and ridiculously good exercise.

The conversations about how you got there are always fun – So have you played before? No, actually. Oh, so why did you decide to play water polo? I don’t know, I just wanted a team sport, and it’s really hot outside so the water seemed like a good idea. How did you find out about our club? When you google “water polo” with “(name of locality),” you end up here.

Oh.

The Bio page has been added. To learn more about me, or burn about 10 minutes, take a look! I’ll work on enabling comments later.

Day 1 of website experiment.