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The first week off after school is always tricky. Suddenly your routine, which pretty much rules your life for 10 months...is gone. Out the window. *kapowy*

Most of the time, I welcome this with open arms, and many mornings sleeping in. However, this year (or this week), I haven't had that same transition. I knew, by the end of the school year, that between teaching 500+ kids every week plus my tennis and workout schedule that I had built up a fair amount of fatigue. I expected to sleep like a rock for 3 days straight.

That just hasn't happened, even though I'm still *tired* and wanting it to happen. Hitting with Sup today, he said he's noticed, between lessons and clinics, that I'm tired. And not tired in 'oh, I overslept this morning', more as in fatigue. I need about a week off, I think, from lifting, from training, and from tennis. Only now, it looks very likely that my outdoor team is headed to districts, and there will be no tennis break until after that, at the very least.

Anyway, Sup rightly predicted that I would once again conk out this afternoon, and sure enough, I feel asleep in the middle of the day and just woke back up at 9pm. So, totally farked up now. But I'm a bit concerned, too, though luckily with being on break, I think I will be able to rectify this, and ignore the little voice telling me I need to go do a billion weighted step ups *rightnow*!!! Um, yeah, we'll see how that goes.

I usually put on weight on the summer, too, just because I'm moving around less. This week, I've dropped about 3 lbs! Mostly because, I can't keep anything in or down. So far so good with that today, but that combined with the fatigue does have me a bit concerned. Hopefully, once I get adjusted a bit more, this will all fall into place on its own? *crossing fingers*

Worked on some good stuff in my lesson today (which happened after a pretty pathetic plea for help after my last pathetic loss...3rd in a row now). Turns out my contact point on both sides has gotten later and later, and taken the weight and depth out of my shots. Sup also fed me some junk balls, as that seems to be one of my achilles. And we wrapped up by taking another look at my serve, which we both know is deficient, but we tried something new today with tucking in my right elbow (think the trophy position) and that seemed to help with the pronation. So, definitely something good to work on and get that serve beefed up.

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Sharapova got ousted from Wimby yesterday, and honestly, 'good riddance' is all I have to say. In all the recent press about shrieking, I find her's to be one of the most offensive...mostly because she does NOT do it in practice. It is ridiculous to watch one of her matches anymore. Sad to say, too, as I was looking forward to her comeback after her surgery to spice up and mix up the women's tour, but she is clearly not what she was...and louder than ever.

Little Melanie Oudin is trucking quietly along, keeping some hope alive (with Jesse Levine) for a future in American tennis.