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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

-Kerouac

Entries in sports (5)

Saturday
Jul032010

Italian Fans (in Disguise)

DateSaturday, July 3, 2010 at 14:46 | CommentPost a Comment | | in , | |
Tuesday
Jun082010

Coach John Wooden's Seven Points (iPhone)

DateTuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:09 | CommentPost a Comment | | in , , | |

1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make each day your masterpiece.
3. Help others.
4. Drink deeply from good books, including the Good Book.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

Not too bad of a plan to live by, changes required for people not of the Book, of course.

Saturday
Jun092007

Bachelorette of Arts

DateSaturday, June 9, 2007 at 13:30 | Comment2 Comments | | in , , | |

In seven days I will be a 2007 UCLA graduate.

    Possible summer activities:

  • learn how to translate (waiting to hear if I got in the class)
  • travel to Italy to look at manuscripts in Roman archives (waiting to hear if I got the fellowship)
  • learn ancient Greek (if the other two don't work out)

    Definite summer activities:

  • show Lauren, Katherine, and Jim around LA because they are all coming to visit at the same time!
  • get back into playing tennis
  • learn how to write a book review
  • get my CA real estate license

    Long term goals (within the next ten years):

  • win the New Yorker caption test
  • make lots of money and become really famous
Sunday
Aug132006

Stefano Rosa aka Steven Pink

DateSunday, August 13, 2006 at 12:18 | CommentPost a Comment | | in | |

Stefano is the Italian.
Arrival: September
Location: UC Santa Barbara
Majors: Mechanical Engineering and Piano
How we met: At the Centro Studi Christmas Party. The Americans were there to talk to Italians who are planning to study abroad. Interesting conversation about Olympic Curling over some Panettone di Verona and spumante.

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Thursday
Aug102006

World Cup 2006

DateThursday, August 10, 2006 at 09:09 | CommentPost a Comment | | in | |

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According to my good friend Amanda Wayne, who took a class on the history of the Venetian Empire, Galileo used gondolas and canals to smuggle the bodies of criminals from Venice to his anatomical theater at the Università degli Studi di Padova. They rowed by moonlight since human dissection was still forbidden.

There is still a water route from Padova to Venice, but most of the internal canals of the city have been filled in to make roads. One of the port termini is at Porta Portello, a large, stone gate that dates back to the 1500’s. Because of its marble steps that lead into the canal and the park area around it, the Portello is used for outdoor activities like the Portello River Festival that occurs every summer.

This year, the community set up a floating stage in the canal, next to the Portello, so that Paduans could sit on the steps and watch World Cup games. June 19th was the Italy vs. USA game, so most of the Americans went to the Portello to represent our country. Since I was leaving Italy in less than a week, and I had managed to connect myself with it immensely, I arrived at the game ready to cheer for the Italians – besides, they had a better chance of winning than the Americans did. As soon as I got there, I switched back to the USA again.