I'm writing this from home (San Jose), as we get the week off for Thanksgiving =). It's been a fun week - got to (wrong level of enthusiasm?) go to my first 49ers game last Sunday (against St. Louis), as well as the Sharks-Anaheim game and Cal-Nicholls State hoops ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't believe how long I've neglected this page. I've started life as a graduate student at the Unviersity of Connecticut. UConn is a nice place, but it's definitely the most rural area I've ever been in. I'm trying to find a car so I can get from my place to campus and back, and also be able ot leave the area on some days. There are buses ( Read more... )

I'm bummed about the Sharks being eliminated in 6 games. The overtime loss in game 4, in which they gave up 2 goals in the last minute of a period twice, was the beginning of the end. The ot goal was a punch in the gut. In game 5, the Sharks came out playing well, but imploded after Evegni Nabokov played the puck directly to Pavel Datsyuk...who ( Read more... )

It's been 13 days since I last posted, and a lot has changed. The University of Connecticut also accepted me, with a teaching assistantship, for their sociology Ph.D. program. At first I was really leaning strongly towards Miami (nicer area, and they've made one hell of a push to get me), but now I'm leaning towards UConn. Yeah, the transportation ( Read more... )

The NHL playoffs are finally here!!!! The second season kicks off with the opener to the Pittsburgh-Ottawa seried. It should be fun seeing Pittsburgh's young guys - Crosby, Staal, Malkin, and Fleury - in their first postseason series. The Sharks' playoffs begin an hour after the Pittsburgh-Ottawa game begins. There's an odd sense of deja vu, with ( Read more... )

NHL trading deadline came and went with a bang. The Sharks acquired veteran defenseman Craig Rivet from Montreal for a young defenseman (Josh Gorges), and acquired Bill Guerin from St. Louis for Ville Nieminnen and a first-round draft pick. Other draft picks (in both deals) were involved, I'm just too lazy to look up which year/round. They also ( Read more... )

Thursday I went to the Sharks' 41st game of the season, marking the halway point for them as far as games played. The opponent: the dreaded Detroit Red Wings. Granted, the Wings have a ton of aging players (defensemen Nicklas Lidstrom, member of the tribe Mathieu Schneider, and goaltender Dominik Hasek) leading the way, but they are still highly ( Read more... )

Happy New Year (this was edited after Jan. 1 ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted/nervous after finishing (most) of the applications due this Friday. I've sent 3 out of the 4 in (the only one left is Chicago), but am worried about letters of recommendation being sent in time (and if they're not, hoping that the schools don't penalize me for it; the letters are out of my control). UCLA should be completed the other ( Read more... )

I went with Daniel and Joe to the 109th Big Game (Cal-Stanfurd, for clarity's sake). I was a bit annoyed because kickoff was at noon (generally early kickoffs are at 12:30pm for Pac 10 games, and because the only other Pac 10 game - U$C vs. UCLA - was at 5pm, I was hoping for a later kickoff (maybe around 2pm or so?). On the ride up to Berkeley, ( Read more... )