Swimming like a Mermaid....Who Just Got Caught in an Exxon Oil Spill

I am trying to swim more consistently...well I want to swim a lot before my half iron man. Whenever I do the swim portion of any triathlon I always think to myself - 'You idiot why didn't you just train for the swim. You know you hate the swim, so you'd think you would have trained just to make this moment in you life a little more bearable.' Well Miss. Split Personality I am training to make my swim more bearable and perhaps a little less pathetic. However my swim coach has made no such promise. So today I went swimming and I think I may have made some serious improvements on my stroke. My coach said it look beautiful. Now lets just hope it will beautiful when I am in open water with 300 other swimmers fighting for dear life. I have no doubt that I will resort to a panicked look and very ugly swim/float/try not to die stroke. Yes I know, I keep my expectation bar pretty high.