uphill battle

so today i realized something. i am not who i was in 8th grade, or high school for that matter. what i mean by that is - when i played sports whether it was soccer or what i very rarely came out of the game. not because i was the star or anything like that but because i never needed a break. i remember in indoor - i subbed out once and recalled it had been the first time all season (this was like one of the last games) that i actually came off the field.

tonight we played a 'half-court' style game of soccer and within 15 minutes i had a severe cramp that wasnt just like a strain but a sharp very debilitating pain. luckily after a lot of nonchalant playing it passed and i was fine, but that is a bad sign. i never claimed to be in any kind of shape but that is also pretty bad. hopefully this soccer thing will work out to be more than just something fun to do.

had my last of my first classes today - my biopsych lab. so far i'd say that the majority of the psych courses here have been friendly. mainly reading heavy in the assignments and very rarely more than one big paper and the mid term and final. biopsych is not friendly - it will be a real real challenge but one im excited for because this is basically what the biology course should have been for psych students instead of learning about kingdoms and extinctions.

also - im happy to see so many new posts today. id link them in here as a shout out but no one who id link isnt already reading/aware of the other peoples blogs so its really not worth it. it is however nice to have so many different new blog updates at once.

last bit - ran in to mike deasey prior to the soccer match. was coming from class and was wearing like non-mesh shorts and skate shoes and thought - ok i dont think i can get away with this, but deasey isnt probably serious about this so im sure ill be fine in this if hes coming - he was in shorts and a t-shirt and a pair of tigers - he informed me that he had to get changed for our scrimmage - apparently that wasnt sports-ready so i quickly realized that my skate shoes and non-mesh shorts wouldnt fly. so i donned the most sporty pair of shoes i had - my tigers. apparently not sporty enough for deasey but they are the best i got. and theyll do for the season - minus a slight traction problem. i did fall a bunch. but i've recently been told i seem to be off-balance alot so maybe its not the shoes.

the way you make-uh me feel.

tonight's blog post title is brought to you by mike's computer and the song playing from it that i can hear in my room. no im not complaining - im groovin to it and wishing i had gotten a chance to see the king of pop in my lifetime. unfortunate. but im not here to reflect on that.

today was great and totally filled up with the only thing youd want to follow a weekend like the one i had and the only thing you want to really wake up to on a sunday. and thats a day of football.

the nfl season is officially back, underway and to a great start. not only did the eagles win (understatement) but the colts also did (barely).

but today wasnt just a good day for my football teams or teams limited to football either. in regards to my roomates - san fran beat arizona ending a 2 season sweep of their own division. the jets took the W from the texans (which cost me a fantasy victory - but its ok). also - the pack pulled out a W in a perfectly orchestrated play in the final 2 minutes of the game. and in other sports - the phils took 2 from the mets (which isnt a feat these days) to sweep that series. so the picture that follows for today is of nothing unique or in any way something you wouldnt see if you came over here right now. but it does capture the location and activity of the day - on the couch (save for the eagles game at applebees) watching the games and doing nothing. great.

i apologize for my tardiness

i know no one cares about my plan to post a picture a day and its too late to count as september 12th despite the picture taking place then but im not at all upset about it. this has been great. absolutely.

old toys revisited

i get bored with things as quickly as i am excited by them. its a problem and a beautiful one. while it can be annoying to loose that spark of inspiration on an idea, project, or anything really - its also nice because it allows me the constant search and exploration of things. ive played nearly every sport one would typically play in childhood. ive tried different instruments. i have tried my hand at drawing, film making/editing, photography, music, etc. its been fruitful in the sense that in the unending search for inspiration and enjoyment i have tried many things.

last year i asked for a camera for my birthday as i have always loved photography and wanted to do it myself. since then its been used in serious efforts only a handful of times. today sparked a reemergence in photography. i broke out my camera finally decided to start understanding it. not allowing myself to use any preset settings like Portrait or Macro I put the camera on manual and manual focus and worked at, in a dimly lit room with no flash - trying to get the right shutter speed, aperature, etc to result in a decent photograph. thanks to the patience of my roommates/alex i was able to try this out on them as they played rock band (which made for long shutter exposure pictures to be a blur of color). below are some of the pictures that i kept that are decent at best but came at the hand of self discovery through adjusting settings and nothing automatic or preset.

thus:

the wonders of a trail left behind

i got a package from home today delivered. i found out that even if it isnt fedex the delivery man will buzz up and see if anyone is home to retrieve it. on the positive side - it was successfully delivered. on the negative side i still dont know what happens if no one is here to receive it. hmm.

more classes, more beatles rock band. had to fight the urge to follow the twitter feed and run from LC to 42nd street for an advanced and free screening of Zombieland. instead i sat in a 2.5 hour lecture on the history of trauma. im proud of me too.

finally - theres a place called The High Line. I guess its not so much a place as it is an old rail line that runs from below the numbered streets to 34th street around 10th ave (aka the west side) It was no longer being used and in jeopardy of being removed/knocked down - how ever you want to phrase it and people spoke up saying it could be used for other things - and that meant less costs for the city. In June of this year it was reopened as sort of a walking park.

I originally thought that the reopening combined the overgrowth and decay of the railroad with some new construction and planting, but I was wrong. Looking at photos they actually cleared the entire track and reconstructed it to look like, loosely, like an overgrown railway. While it is partially upsetting that the original track and the natural overgrowth was all removed, it is probably due to the lack of safety that probably existed with using a naturally decaying place as a park.

Info on the place can be found at The HighLine. There is an Images tab that I suggest you check out - documents in thumbnails different eras of the train: when it ran, from 1999-2006 in a gallery documenting the remnants and natural overgrowth taking place on an abandoned area an then the documentation of the clearing, construction, painting, etc of the new park. This is a place to visit for me before the weather makes it less desirable to walk around in the city for long periods of time.

the sun is up, the sky is blue

that was pretty much it today.

laziness, blurriness and the two AM mark creeping up

so the title is meant to be read in the melody/tempo of two coins. i know it doesnt really fit but the song is in my head despite having never actually listened to it. my roommates play it alot and whether id like it or not im enjoying their rendition - although thats typical.

i have more to say about the on goings of today and all that but lets leave this one short. tomorrow is everyones (for the most part) day off here at fordham and ill start it off by making this a breeze to get through.

cheers