You know, I wasn't as excited for this Women's World Cup this year. Maybe it was a sign. Because I can't believe thisI thought Solo's comments were a poor choice of words borne out of disappointment, pain, and frustration. Not to mention a asshole PR guy trying to muzzle her. Even though I happen to agree with her 100%, maybe it wasn't the right ( Read more... )

Twice I drove over 600 miles one way to see United States National soccer teams play a match. Once for the men and once for the women. 600 miles for events which last around two hours. 600 miles home. Many of those miles by myself. $80 for the ticket plus lodging and fuel. All using money I had saved on the budget of a student and waitress. I didn' ( Read more... )

Wow ( Read more... )

I had my very first yoga class today. Apparently when you work in hip big cities, they offer you yoga classes over your lunch hour. Well, I say OFFER, but I am paying for them ( Read more... )

The Greatest Team You've Never Heard Of.... and this is why ( Read more... )

Being a Graduate Student means not having to take classes that are essentially a waste of your time, right? I'm in an information technology course right now and it looks like we're just covering light programming for the web, things you can learn by spending five hours listening to TWiT podcasts, and things that were covered extensively in my Data ( Read more... )

My dad called me today while I was at the organic food mart. Strange, because I had thought of him in the car on the way there. Wondering if the primary emotion he feels about me is guilt ( Read more... )

Maryland is bigger than School of Mines... so much much bigger.

This is what happens when I get bored at work. I pull a book from the nearby stacks and start reading ( Read more... )

Journal is renamed. I thought about deleting, but remembered that Terrence is too nice.