honey, honey, come and dance with me

i had an urge to write, but now that i am here, i don't know what i was planning on writing.

it has been a long 7 weeks. only one left and this stage of my summer will be over. it hasn't been as good or as bad as i had expected. what matters is that it hasn't been painful. 7 more days and i'll be home (for a few hours). five more days of work at the lab. three more days of class. one more day working at the golf course.

its a shame that brian never got a chance to come out here for a day or two. maybe he never really intended to, but it just sounded like a good idea. who knows. no regrets though.

i am ready to go home. i talked to ben last night. it was a short conversation, but it still increased my desire to be home by quite a bit. he's got me on the schedule, so that is a relief. and i will get to see both him and paul next friday. it will be a good time. i can't wait to see them, despite how much they drive me crazy sometimes.

i am excited for my trip with jay. i wish brian could be there with us because that would be such a blast to just be the three of us. i can only hope that one day the three of us will go somewhere together and perhaps by that time we'll all be able to get along for the most part.

my tickets to the concert on friday night aren't doing so well on ebay right now. that scares me a lot, especially since we won't even be in boston to scalp them before the show. i had never guessed that i wouldn't have been able to sell them. i don't even care about making money on them anymore - i just don't want to be out $140. i guess that means i need to lower my reserve price....later. keep your fingers crossed for me.

i am glad to have an iPod that works again. i just don't know how long that will last. i can only assume that one day i will have to buy a brand new one...and when that happens, i'll make sure to get the extended warranty. i'm tired of fighting with apple about fixing their crappy products...yet, i continue buying them. oh well.

yesterday, i got to get back out on the lake in a four. joy called me on tuesday and asked me if i could cox, and there was no way i could turn down the opportunity, even though i am already out of the habit of waking up at 5am and had a bit of trouble with it. it was a good time though. the sunrise was gorgeous, i can't remember seeing a more beautiful sunrise at carter than yesterday's. plus, not having to correct technique all the time, but instead let the rowers feel it themselves was an added bonus. and i got to look at jill one last time. we might go out again this week before i leave for home, but i'll have to wait and see if joy calls me again. i had almost forgotten how much i enjoy being out there. i can't wait for spring break (fall is just not as much fun as spring sprints) even though i am already nervous about who will be coxing the top eight. we shall see, but perhaps ultimately it doesn't matter that much. what matters is that there's a connection between a boat. i think that was the reason i was so attached to my boat this year, not necessarily entirely because it was the top boat. it was by far the best boat i've ever gotten to cox and i will miss them a lot.

time to go relax some more.

"never doubt. never look back."

milo iv

just arrived.

a must-see

hilarious video brian clued me into...

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/06/world_cup.html

watch it!

carry on

only 11 days and 15 hours left until i am headed for the airport.
my flight leaves on friday the 7th at 1:45 and arrives in denver at 2:15.

jay and i fly out of DIA at 11:40pm that night and get to boston at 5:20 on saturday morning.
i am incredibly excited for our trip, especially now that i know we have a place to stay (an international hostel on the boston university campus one mile from fenway). i need to put my tickets to the friday night dave show on ebay as soon as i get a few minutes to spare. i also need to figure out the details of where i'm going to leave my car while i'm gone and how i'm going to get to the airport after class on friday.

my iPod broke again. i'm getting tired of it. i knew it was outside the warranty and figured i was just going to have to buy a new one, in which case i was going to buy a 2 gig black nano (a few things i was thinking about having engraved on it are below). somehow, i convinced the apple customer relations guy to authorize a free replacement (as long as they find it to be broken, which it is) and free shipping. i know they'll just send me another refurbished piece of crap old 20 gig, but we'll see how long it lasts. besides, i've been spending quite enough money on this trip to boston without needing to spend another $200 or so on a new ipod.

i am currently in the middle of writing my 12 page research paper for genetics. it has been hard for me to get moving on it, but now that i am already on the 5th or 6th page, i'll just keep trying to plow through before tourgasm (one of my new favorite shows. dane cook = amazing.) comes on at 10.

now, for the short one-liners i was contemplating...

I am guided by a force much greater than luck. (Lucas, from Empire Records)

The words she knows, the tune she hums. (lyrics from Tiny Dancer)

Eat, drink, and be merry. (a Dave lyric, of course)

How am I not myself? (from I Heart Huckabees)

Last words: I dig music. (Russell, from Almost Famous)

I am who I am, who I am. Well, who am I? (another Dave lyric, from Dancing Nancies)

You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N. (from Dazed and Confused)

one down, one to go

my physiology class is officially done. i'm not sure when grades will be up, but soon probably since there were only 10 people in the class and dr. lambert was always really good about having our exams back to us the next day. i'm definitely glad it is over. i hadn't expected it to be so intense...i guess i was being naive about how difficult it was going to be, or perhaps i just underestimated the brevity of three weeks.

the bright side (if finishing a 4 credit class in three weeks isn't enough) is that i am now three weeks closer to being home and that is definitely a good thing.

genetics is scaring me and the class hasn't even started yet. last week, i was told some bad news about the professor and her teaching style. and on wednesday, i received an email containing the assignment for our first class on monday. never a good sign. we'll see how it goes. only 5 weeks.

these three weeks have gone by so fast i can hardly believe it. some highlights:
work at 8am for three hours
four hours of class after that
endless studying
some work at the golf course
a few sonic runs with glow and bree
lots of csi episodes
a great deal of reading
seeing x-men 3
talking to some old friends
new music

i can only hope the next 5 go by half as quickly as the first 3 did. things to look forward to:
crew reunion/get-together tonight...even if it is just a few people
only having an hour and a half of class each day
hopefully getting in some golf now that i might have a little bit more time
more reading and relaxing
getting everything unpacked eventually
going home either for father's day or for the chicago/huey lewis concert (i need to make a decision soon)

i'm restless now. there are more things to say, but that will wait until later.