Basketball- Things are slowly changing for the better. I reclaimed my starting spot this past week, and have been making a real effort to be more aggressive. I’m working out all the time, my body feels good and my shot feels good, so I’m hoping it’s just a matter of time before I have a breakout game. Our one game a week schedule is inching along, and we are currently in 5th place. Playoffs start in April. The top 8 make the playoffs, and the top 2 from that have the opportunity to move up to the first division next year. In related news, during a crucial timeout last game my coach got fed up with our softness, and erupted with this: “There eeiz a goood hospital very close!!! PUT DEM ON THA FLOOR!” I think he was dead serious. Continue reading “Some Updates”
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Dorm Stories: The Fruit Flies Make Their Play for Total Domination
I am not sure about the exact time frame for this incident, all I know is that it happened sometime during sophomore year. That was the year that I lived in a 7 man split level suite with 6 people living downstairs and one in an upstairs bedroom. The suite had an extra, windowless room situated in the middle of the 6 downstairs bedrooms. At the beginning of the year one of the dominant topics of conversation amidst me and my roommates was what to do with this extra room. There was talk of making it a video game haven or a comfortable reading area. Unsurprisingly, what it ended up becoming was a mass storage/trash room. And by “storage,” I mean throwing anything in there that happened to be in the way. Eventually the trash disposal part of the room extended to the unused closets across the hall. These closets became the dumping ground of choice out of some combination of convenience and maintaining a shred of decency by not wanting to put all our trash amidst our stored items. Continue reading “Dorm Stories: The Fruit Flies Make Their Play for Total Domination”
Almost Burned Down My Apartment
Last night I had a harrowing experience, but to figure out how it all started I have to go back a little bit. As I am sure I have mentioned before, my room is cold. Like wear a sweat shirt, pants, socks, sleep underneath 3 blankets, use a space heater and still feel like you are in an igloo cold. (Come to think of it, maybe part of the reason behind my surge in weight was my body reacting in order to insulate itself.) I knew that these temperatures would stay roughly the same at least through February, so while I was home I purchased an electric blanket. I know I could have just waited until I got back and bought one here, but I am lazy and my mom was paying. As I said last post, the blanket did not work. I now think that the problem was I was not using my converter plug, I was only trying it with the basic European adapters. I am not positive this was the problem, but I am pretty pissed I didn’t get to at least try to find out before disaster struck. Continue reading “Almost Burned Down My Apartment”
Trip to Jerusalem/ Update
I think it was the 4th day of my dad’s trip that we slated as our day to spend in Jerusalem. Our sightseeing up to that point had consisted of seeing the Bahai Gardens in Haifa. Unless you count looking out the window on the drive from the airport as a cultural experience, my dad and I had not accomplished much in terms of seeing this ancient, famous country. Thus, that Sunday we woke up early and headed off for the Holy City. Continue reading “Trip to Jerusalem/ Update”
Harvard Dining Halls
Because everyone lives on campus and has a meal plan, a significant chunk of an undergrads life is spent in one of the many dining halls sprinkled around campus. The meals become a time for relaxing, catching up with friends, and finding things to make fun of.
Every freshman generally eats at Annenberg, the cafeteria with the best location that only first years are allowed to use. It is the largest and most picturesque of all the dining halls. Too bad it was also the noisiest, had the longest lines and served the worst food. If you came during peak lunch hours there would be a line wrapped around the building. It advanced painfully slow, because the security to this place was like god damn Fort Knox. The staff was absolutely petrified that an upperclassmen was trying to sneak in, as if it was every older students dream to relive their freshman glory, one bite of runny eggs at a time. In contrast, if someone wanted to rob a dorm room, really all it takes is someone smart enough to slide their foot into the door of the building as someone exits. There is one old, tired guard handling dorm security. But, try and sneak into Annenberg, even just to get a glimpse of the decor, and 15 workers are sprinting at you like you breached the pentagon. Continue reading “Harvard Dining Halls”
My Night As A Bum
It all began around 10:30 at night, when I decided to get out of my apartment for some fresh air. I had not left the apartment all day, and figured I would just go to the little park nearby for some stretching and maybe a few jumping exercises. So I head downstairs, but just as I get to the bottom I realized there were trash bags in the kitchen that I wanted to throw in the dumpster. I went back upstairs, got the trash, disposed of it outside, and headed over to the park. I did some stretches, proceeded over to the grass to jump a little, then reached into my pocket to change the song on my ipod. That is when everything fell apart. Continue reading “My Night As A Bum”
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