- my guards are so sweet and so young and just amazing
- the guy guard loves small kids and is so good with them and his student saying she got the yellow lifejacket because "lellow is my favourite colour. and light pink."
- also his other baby student crying in a lifejacket saying "hold me, don't let me go," as he tries to convince her to swim
- the way they know me already "the heart sunglasses are so you."
- k.b. who is the sweetest co-supervisor ever and brings freezies to boiling lifeguards in the heat
- the way she'd called me like 7 times on the phone before we ever officially met
- smythe reunions and bre crying when art showed up at her birthday bc it's a fam
- weird incestual fam & the new guards learning my nickname, i cry
- bonding w liz w. when the tree fell into smythe and we had to ziptie the fence back up. we talked about psychotherapy and coping and being a guard at smythe bc she started there, and she told me i had a good way with the staff
- bonding w smythe by covering a 3 hour shift there
- lucy returning to be my child again
- s.r thinking she really was my child when i said it
- l.p braiding my hair
- knowing these people are the next generation
- when w.s held a kid's hand as they walked over to the baby pool
- driving jonny home & talking in my car for 2 hours afterward
- jonny "i really just wanna see the old smythe" murray
- kim told me "you're an amazing pic" & she's the best so
- underwater sit-ups
- the pool family drawing & going on pool outings
- kim's love life stories
- kurt's explanation of pronouncing my name "like mermaid without the second m" to e.k
jul 22 2016 ∞
may 3 2017 +
