Random Update (10.16.12)

Some of the anonymous commenters have been wondering about the blog not being updated for a while, and while I cannot give a reason, I can give an update. 

So the Friday of the Northeastern game my phone got soaked and for the next 9.5 days I was sans iPhone. Which I thought might be bad. Which was not bad. On the contrary it was kind of liberating and I would not have minded going for another few weeks... except other people started complaining and it was probably best I had a phone. So I got a new iPhone 4S on Columbus day. Oh, and I don't know why the iPhone 5 is so awesome. Also went into Boston on Sunday with some friends to buy a new pair of shoes and just hang out, which was really fun. 

From Monday night up until this past Friday, I was pretty overwhelmed with school work. I had two papers, one history and one Spanish literature, each that kept me up late two nights. I had a Physics midterm last Tuesday and an Econ midterm last Thursday. And I spent all Friday afternoon doing a pain-in-the-posterior physics lab with Mike, one of my roommates who's in Waves and Vibrations with me. This week is pretty laid back, thankfully. Oh, and what with overloading classes and club soccer, I decided not to do 4Boston this semester... I do not have a free day and I have so much to do it just wouldn't make sense this semester. 

Soccer is going really well. We played BU at home two weekends ago and a whole bunch of friends came to watch. I played the whole game (hamstring felt pretty ok) and almost scored! Had a shot that got saved and parried off to the side, and then quickly finished by Smeallie to put us ahead right before half. This was a league game and we ended up winning 3-0, which was crucial to qualifying for the regional tournament that's going down this coming weekend in Downington, PA. As a warmup, we also played Harvard again last Saturday and won 3-1, which was sweet (hamstring 98.46% recovered). Now for some photos, which is the only part of the blog I'd probably look at if I didn't write it.

Lineup for Regionals. We are seeded #7.

Red Bandanna run. Got 18:12 to finish 4th place. Top three ran sub-17! Crazy.

Rita has arrived. Pat and I got a poster.

He's from Macklemore's song, "Thrift Shop". Inspiring. Just inspiring. 

Brie.

Fall.

Pumas.

Dempsey is the man.

Random Update (10.1.12)

Weekend of September 21st-23rd recap: 

Pat was gone home to Maine for an ultimate frisbee tournament on Saturday and Sunday. There was a club soccer party at some of the guys' off-campus place on Friday, which was entertaining. The BC varsity soccer game on Saturday was nuts: 2-1 win over USanFran in 2x overtime with 11 seconds left! The Acapellafest concert later that night was also a success; a couple of friends are in various singing groups... Garrett and our RA Steven to name a couple. Saturday night saw an ordering in of delicious Indian food which was slightly too spicy, to which Mike can attest. Sunday the club team played Harvard in the afternoon at their place. Their field is terribly tiny and terrible in general. I started at central defense and played the whole game, which was outstanding. It's far more than I expected to be playing so much my first year on the team! We ended up drawing 1-1.

Last week recap:

Nothing really stands out... I read some cool short stories in Spanish... yeah. OHHH and FIFA 13 came out on Tuesday so I went with Zach, Alex, John, and Miguel to get it from Gamestop. That game has a bad influence on my schedule. 

This weekend recap:

We played Northeastern on Friday night in the rain on their very nice, FIFA regulation sized field. I got the start again and we were miraculously up 0-2 within 15 minutes! Unfortunately, I tweaked my left hamstring about 4 minutes before halftime and could not sprint without fear of more serious injury. Anywho, Northeastern really turned up the heat second half, getting a goal back and almost stealing a tie in the last few seconds. Our goalie foiled these efforts, however, and we won 1-2 to take 1st place in our division, a big step towards going to the regional tournament later this fall. The rest of the weekend was pretty non-eventful... I have a lot of work this upcoming week so I got a head start. The whole weekend was rainy, but today looks to be sunny and in the 70's.