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could use some coffee

Monday, September 27th, 2004

to make it through this and a problem set. i am jealous of the starbucks cups, but starbucks is expensive.

enough complaining. ok not really one more thing. they say 25% of the united states population attended, 27.5 million at the time, but earlier they say the population of the united states is 63 million. so which is the right figure? oh god research for papers. maybe some of these people are from other places in the world.

we are talking about progress. i hate sister carrie. but progress is cool. unfortunately i don’t feel like i’m making any, like i am regressing into stupidity. we are also talking about ferris wheels from 1893. ferris wheels rock.

judging from the video, half the people are showing up to lecture. haha i am such a slacker.

once you know you want it, go get it! a lesson for myself, and for others too! don’t wait for others too long, you could be waiting all day. that is the key to progress, action!

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my legs are about to fall off

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

despite a hat trick hero on our side, we lost our B+ match by five goals to three. we need to get tighter at the back but it was fun. it was also a bit more physical, those graduate students are huge–especially compared to me–but i held up okay. i had a huge defensive error in the last minute but they didn’t score, lucky me. boo on me. oh well.

i have forgotten a few of my footy skills. but you don’t forget certain things, like how to ride a bike. (something which i still have to learn haha.) or java. that’s what happens after 6.170. i miss running things overnight. less thinking, less coding, as long as it’s correct.

also saw the jazz instructor’s band. i think he used to smoke pot thirty years ago during the vietnam era, haha. in fact, i think he went out for a puff beforehand. maybe not. maybe we should ask him. anyway, (i hate people who type, “aniewayz” they should be slapped with hardened jello) the performance was great, a few times some of the people like the cornetist and the trombonist were so into it that they looked like they were going to fall over. some interesting instruments i’d never before seen appeared, like bass flute and conch shell and several other mutes and percussion instruments.

i think the most interesting thing about that concert was that it evoked memories i never would have thought about. weird. or maybe i was spaced out? that’s the magic of good music, i suppose.

i wanted to take pictures but i felt bad.

i also ate the biggest ice cream cone ever.

i never noticed the cushion on this chair comes off.

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take your vitamins

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

if you don’t you will end up like my grandmother who can no longer walk as of a few weeks ago. she fell, broke some bones, and that’s it, forever. low calcium means brittle bones, and my grandmother is not the best at taking care of herself. now she’s in a nursing home, which probably annoys the hell out of her.

plus they help you play football. a creditable 3-3 draw to start, we can tighten up in defence a little bit but we generally stayed compact. unlucky to concede a penalty from handball, that could have gone either way and we had no ref (sounds familiar, hmm). we had some great strikers today.

my best asshole moment today was during that match. i beat an attacker to the ball, looked down, lost my glasses, held him off while picking them up, and still managed to clear it, at which point i yelled, “yeah! i lost my glasses, picked them up, and still stuck with you! BOOYAH!”

otherwise not a great match for me but i managed to create a couple of half-chances and make some important stops. i’m a bit rusty, my passes are still errant. tomorrow i’ll improve.

there are two versions of me, the nice playful one and the bitchass. i feel like the bitchass right now. you have to care about the world and the people around you. i am mad at the ones who don’t, who make empty apologies for why they don’t, the ones who promise to change, or know in their hearts that they should, and don’t. some things never change. luckily for these people, i take things out on the pitch, and not to their faces. do you really feel bad or are you just saying that because it makes you feel better? i am thinking of two recent incidents in particular.

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