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Soccer, christmas music, and abstract questions

We played soccer last thursday and we lost, but it was SO much fun to play.  It would have been a whole lot more fun if I hadn’t pulled an all-nighter before hand, but details are irrelevant at the end…

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Weekend, thus far

On Thursday night, after an intense two-hour soccer practice, I went out to have a tame, adult drink and conversation with a friend.  Honestly, the whole “let’s get drunk and lose our minds and common sense” deal isn’t really my…

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Portfolio Day and Cooking Lessons

I started off the day at 9am waking up to get to portfolio day.  I worked at the school until 1pm, then went to the cooking lesson/poetry reading held by Matt Hart, Ken Henson, and Mark Thomas at Julio’s apartment. …

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Freshman Orientation

What a few couple of days it has been. Freshman orientation had its ups and downs, mostly good. Anyway you look at it, though you can say it was an adventure. Waking up after move-in to be at school the…

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Home again, home again!

We’re finally back in the land of milk and honey!!!  I’m so happy to be home   Let me, however, comment on the inadequacies of transportation once more (if you’ve seen the post about the Greyhound debacle to Detroit from…

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When in Rome…

…do the tourist thing and look agog at the sites. Julio and I went to Roma on Saturday, and it was incredible.  We saw, among other things, the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. …

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let slip the dogs of war

Well, I can see now that there is no escaping sleepless nights in one’s haste to get tons of work done at the last minute.  The end of the semester is the same everywhere, I say I’ve not had a…

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Picnic in Pisa

Today was a great day!  I woke up and went running around the river Arno, and the temperature was a splendid 75 degrees   I got back home and, after showering and dressing, Kayla and I decided that a picnic…

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Cheers to Multi-Tasking! and the ramblings of a coffee fiend

If I could lay down my life for a personified multi-tasking, I would seriously entertain the idea.  Modern technology is genius, of course, and allows such feats to be possible, and here’s how:  Without modern technology, I couldn’t be blogging,…

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A Spontaneous Simple Sunday

Since I spent my Saturday being mostly unproductive, I decided to take a spontaneous trip on Sunday.  I’ve not traveled nearly as much as I believe I should, and so after researching train trips for half an hour, I decided…

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