Yea, that's right !!! Saw more than 2 songs of 9 bands today, got introduced to 3 really cool bands I didn't know about before, I finally got to see Jack White live (with a better drummer than Meg White ... ), Shook the hand of Sleater-Kinney's drummer, heard "Sodom, South Georgia sung by Iron and Wine live, hung with Robin, Laurel, Matt Lawlor and ( Read more... )

Man. Today was certainly interesting ( Read more... )

Nothing like a 30 mile bike ride to kick start my day. I felt really strong today, like I could have done many more miles. Man, I should have just gone for longer, but I've already taken a shower, and it's supposed to be super hot so I think I'll wait and do a speed workout tomorrow ( Read more... )

SWIMMING !!!!! IN COLD WATER !!!!! IN 90 DEGREE WEATHER !!!!!

Equals GOLDEN.

Margaret was definitely the better swimmer, but we both had a great time. Met some chick from Florida really excited to discover the sand on the bottom. That was a very anti-climatic ending, so I'll end there.

I got runner's high today and it was glorious.

I realized a few days back that I really like Santiago Calatrava's designs, and the thing is, he has both a strong artistic and engineering background. One of the reasons why I chose UIUC is because it has a good architecture as well as engineering program, but also, one of the reasons why I chose architecture in the first place is because I like ( Read more... )

Good times on the lakepath yesterday. One of those days that calls for a dip in the lake right after the ride: jump right in with the bike uniform. Not that I did, but Adam and Sean sure did ( Read more... )

I got a job, and it's with the son of Hud who is called Emily ! I bought chocolate chips at the Co-Op today with ET, baked 10 cookies for Adam and then played badminton in our backyard. I'm having trouble convincing ET to play Bocce ball with me. I think I need to get her to play it with me just once to get her hooked ... and it doesn't involve ( Read more... )

Last year, I was in Korea being very not-American and very Korean in stead.

There are all these movies I want to see like, the devil wears prada (ashamed to admit) and the new richard linklater one called a scanner darkly. and mirrormask and 2046 and i wanna rewatch v for vendetta toooooo

Anyway, happy fourth of july to everyone out there.

there are fireflies !