w-w-w-weekend recap
Guten Tag, meine Freunde/Familie! This was a busy week/weekend. I’ll get to the point – Dave and Keller came up to New York along with UC’s cross country team for the Big East Cross Country championships! UC dudes got 6th and females got 9th. You can read about it here. I don’t feel the need to go deeper, except shout out to Eric Fine-face for his superb race.
Thursday night Dave and Keller flew in and we, along with Ben Wietmarschen and Christine, watched UC dominate South Florida. And got our picture taken at the bar wearing fake mustaches and funny hats. That picture will surely be posted. But that means I have to scan it in. Lame-sauce.
Friday night we went out with the team and ate at a pizzeria before going down to the Greenwich Village Halloween parade! What a good, solid time. I went as a milk carton (I know, amazing) dave went as a cow, and keller went as, well, you can see it below. We got asked to take our pictures so many times by foreign people with their cameras around their neck and their “safe” ninja or Minnie mouse costume (you know who you are, wusses!) The streets were all closed down to embrace the thousands and thousands of people who dressed up and walked around in a purely “frightening” group. We walked around all night just seeing the crazies dressed up and watching the parade. It was a lot of fun – will be in attendance again next year as milk and cookies.
Saturday we ran in Central Park and just hung out until we went out to Blockheads, where we drank cheap Margaritas and Keller left his number for the waitress as “the tall, dark, and handsome guy.” (she actually texted him later!! Omg omg!) after we were done acting like 12-year olds, we went back down to St. Mark’s place and hung out at Grassroots tavern waiting for Ben and Jeremy (who didn’t come, you jerks) until we went home.
Sunday we got to watch the marathon and watch it we did. Congratulations, Omar! You finished it! Then we watched the Bengals (gasp!) win?!?! See below.
Song of the Week/Weekend
“Life is a highway” – That’s right, kids. The Office blessed our ears a staggering 4 times with it in last week’s episode, and it’s one of those songs that will etch itself into your head like that scar I got the time I fell and cracked my head on the fireplace. I prefer the Rascal Flats version, because their lead singer’s voice is “dreamy.”
Van Cortlandt Park. Easy choice. This run is the run of any week that you run it – it’s that good. Also, I didn’t race it this weekend, so it was substantially more enjoyable than the last time I ran it – in which I felt like the wrath of God was thrown on me at the 2 mile mark. This course is amazing when you’re not racing.
Quote of the Week
A guy down at the parade to me about my costume – “Hey you should put a missing person on your milk carton. Oh you’re the missing person! That’s sooooo fabulous!”
Even though us Cincinnatians “celebrate” another loss for the Bengals….What? The Bengals won this week?!? Holy smokes, it’s a miracle!!
My hat goes off (it was really never on to begin with) to Chad “Ocho Cinco” Johnson or Chad “Johnson” Ocho Cinco” (whatever) for actually catching some passes this week. For the small portion I watched off the game, I saw Jonathan Joseph do some work hitting people and making plays. He actually played well and didn’t weakly two-hand-tag the offender as a “tackle”. C’mon JonJoe, this is the NFL, you actually have to hit other people.
I was not correct in 2 of 4 predictions last week. If you can do math, that’s 50%, or failing. The Bengals won, and a Kenyan did not win the marathon. But, I enjoy trying, and it’s my blog, so I can do whatever I want. And in this blog, 50% is passing.
Bengals are off. No loss here.
UC 24-WVU 23. Last second field goal heroics by Jake the Snake. I took Speech class with him, and brought him to AIA, so he basically owes me everything he’s ever done, so in turnaround, I kick the winning field goal this weekend.
Notre Dame 27 – Boston College 17 – mainly because I like Notre Dame. And Jimmy Clausen is “one good dude.” Especially when he had his long hair.
Me – I will run 5 times. Fact.
Crazy/Awesome Public Transportation Moment of the Week
This happened last night on the Subway coming home from Christine’s to apartment. I was sitting on the subway, and I hear a soft singing, which eventually kept getting louder, and louder. All of a sudden, a giant, “Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!” was being shouted to the ends of the subway car, followed directly by a “Mother F%^#$er!”It seems this very lovely lady had tourrete’s, and she enjoyed praising the Lord, followed immediately by cursing. Needlesstosay, it gathered a few snickers and grins throughout the car.
Also, a man absolutely blasted Tom Petty from a handheld boombox on the train uptown. Good thing it was good music.
Conveniently this post is being posted on election day. (maybe not "conveniently") I'm not by any means going to represent a candidate and get on a soapbox (mainly because not many people read this and I could guess their votes). I did vote today, and I voted for who I thought was the best candidate. This election, it seems, at least from a right-to-life viewpoint, Christians are arguing over whether the Right abortion stances or the Left social justice stance is more important in our world. Historically, the Christian vote has gone the way of the Conservative Republican, no questions asked. We're seeing a new "trend" this year, and I think it's people kind of fed up that we as Christians have to be put into a certain category and have to deal with some of the Republican ideals we may not like. There are points from both sides of the spectrum that are good and flat out wrong. As a Christian, I want to move away from the "pro-life" stance and move towards a "whole-life" stance. This doesn't just mean we should fight for unborn babies, but for every single human being from conception till death. A single presidential candidate isn't going to change or do anything for this country if the people don't do something also. As we vote, let us vote for who we feel will make this country a better place for everyone - and let US work towards that.
3 comments:
i know this is a bit late but excuuuuuuse me.... i believe I was the one who fell and hit my head on the brick fireplace thankyouverymuch.
both of us are dumb.
mom and dad must have been worried when we were younger
Emily ...You BOTH are dumb and hit your head on the fireplace. Eric's was in the back of the head and yours was in the front. And yes, I was worried about you two and your clumsiness!!
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