my spring break was awesome for several reasons:

day one - new york
-world trade center memorial
-coffee in the financial district
-wall street
-staten island (to see the statue of liberty)
-brooklyn bridge (walked half way across)
-coney island for a nathan's original hot dog
-greenwich village
-NYU
-soho (where i dropped lots of money at this great record store)
-empire state building
-madison square garden
-classic new york pizza

day two - new york
-today show, rockefeller center
-trip to the top of rockefeller plaza (amazing views of the city)
-radio city music hall
-st. patricks cathedral
-5th avenue
-trump towers
-sony store
-apple store (amazing)
-walk through central park
-the met
-harlem
-columbia university (loved this school)
-times square
-bryant park
-new york public library
-search for now closed CBGB's
-dinner at bubbies in tribeca

day three - travel from new york to boston
-stop at yale university
-drive to newport, rhode island
-drive to providence, rhode island
-stop at brown university
-drive to cape cod
-pull into boston around 8:00 p.m.

day four - boston
-breakfast at dunkin' donuts
-water shuttle to charleston
-climbed bunker hill memorial
-faneuil hall marketplace
-walk portion of freedom trail
-lunch at cheers (no one knew my name)
-public gardens and boston common
-walk down newbury street
-walk to beacon hill
-trip to boston college (in the pouring rain/sleet)
-dinner at giacomis (amazingly good italian food)
-mike's pastry's for some original boston cream pie

day five - boston
-northeastern university
-boston university
-cambridge
-harvard
-MIT
-shopping downtown
-fenway park to watch the red sox beat the angels

day six - travel home
-luggage lost by american airlines

day seven - home
-luggage still lost

day eight - still home
-luggage still lost

day nine - home, still
-luggage finally delivered

i'm pretty sure we say in five days what it takes many people a month to experience. great trip. glad to finally have my luggage back.

is this seat taken?

so - went to church this morning...

from the back of the church i spot a seat. it's on the end. i walk towards it as i approach i see a woman give me the evil eye. as i got even closer she stares me down and says "taken".

service is beginning. i see another open seat. i walk toward it. what is that? a bulletin on the seat and the one next to it... bulletins on the entire row. two men mid-row solemnly lift their heads to tell me they are all saved.

we are now half way through the first worship song. people are finding their seats. greeting family. i am alone. seemingly walking in circles to find an open spot.

out of the corner of my eye i spot an opening. but it is located in the middle of the row. i am committed, though. i'll climb over people. i'm here for church. the first worship song is ending. the pastor is greeting people. i begin to crawl over a row of annoyed church goers. as i begin my descent to the aforementioned seat someone gets to it from the other side. crap.

at this point i crawl back over the annoyed family. look around one last time. then - i sneak out the back.

easter service was spent at my favorite coffee shop near the hermosa pier sipping an orange dreamsicle drink and journaling about the easter season. thank you hope chapel for being too full for me and allowing me to be contemplative in a coffee shop with my favorite drink.


i leave for new york city tonight. spring break should be great. new york. then to boston. then home. plane leaves at nine o'clock tonight.

yeah.

ha ha ha ha hee hee hee

this made me laugh today...

four eyes

by the way - went to the eye doctor. i have been bad to my eyes and he is requiring three days without contacts. my one vanity out the window. how many students will call me "four eyes" today?