yikes! hard drive crashed today. got a new compy. im pretty happy with it. either way this week is going to suck! big time! cross yr fingeries for me and i'll update with the real deal later.

this morning on my way to class i walked past a little park between forsyth and christie, and just as i was putting in my earphones i heard something that sounded familiar... "i see you runnin through that open dooooor" what's that? i look over and see a homeless lady in sweatpants and a tank top singing r kelly to me. "i believe i can fly! i believe i can touch the sky!" all the weird shit happens at 8am in the park.

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I think this article is brilliant.

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thats the sound of a siren. i went to siren festival yesterday in coney island. coney island is kind of awesome. if you like all of your encased meats and doughs fried. anywhoozil, i managed to see scissor sisters (who were awesome) and some of she wants revenge. homeboy reminds me of kramer with large biceps. emily and i rescued our friend paul from the boardwalk. we found him wearing sunglasses at 9pm. his ship was two sails towards the wind. we stumbled back into manhattan to visit our friend the falafal man and then went to the annex to see spacehog?! yesterday was bizarre.

these past few weeks have made me proud to be a soccer player for so long.
today i watched france beat portugal in the world cup semi finals. i may have been on the eliptical but my mind was clear and i thought about exactly why it is that soccer's popularity exceeds any other sport. lets just talk about how after the game was over figo and zidane take off their jerseys and exchange them. they fucking exchange jerseys. two rival captains. does this happen in american football? no. does this happen in the olympics? nope. christiano ronaldo's tears almost broke my heart, but who was there to hug him instead of me after their loss? thierry henry. why the fuck is it that every other sport has a "world champion" every year, and soccer takes four? because it really fucking matters. some people's entire sports careers can begin and be done in four years, but not these players, because they are real ATHLETES. while skaters and surfers and hockey players are caught up in being anti-corporation, they spend hundreds of dollars on gear and what do soccer players do? they pick up a ball and kick it (can someone find me a study on how much $ is spent on soccer merchandise compared to other sports?). relative to its international popularity its no wonder america doesn't love soccer - we can't seem to make much money off of it, probably because most of its biggest fans don't have any. what other international sport schedules a world championship semi-final game on the USA's independence day? none. why? because soccer doesn't care about the united states. soccer is bigger than the united states, and for that i love it.

i'm pretty much over the summer in the city....i want it to be cold and snowy and i want to drink hot coffee and wake up early before biology exams and go to starbucks and listen to death cab for cutie and study and get nervous. why do i want that?
i went to my grandparents beach house in maryland this weekend, check out the jellyfish!!
i also went sailing a bunch

and this is the beach i laid on

and here's tim

yesterday i took a trip to asbury park nj where i hung out on a boardwalk with tim mark mark aj emily jessica and vinny the magician

check out this bike!

i had today "off" but that really just means i had papers and lab reports to write up... 4 more weeks of this BS and then i'm home for a full week... i really can't wait!