by | September 13, 2010 · 8:35 pm

Friends, Food and Football

Mo, Me and Kelly Luken.

Finally, I went to my first football game of the season! Unfortunately, it was one of the most disappointing losses I’ve ever seen at Michie Stadium. Despite coming back from a 21-0 start, the Black Knights were unable to hold on to the ball with less than a minute to go, and Hawaii broke the tie with a field goal, winning the game. Ugh. But alas, this is what tailgates are for, as Army fans know best.

Also helping was having two of my favorite BC girls in tow – Mo Cooke and Kelly Luken! Mo came up to West Point on a work field trip (which are awesome by the way, every office should have them), and Kelly came from Long Island with her family for their annual West Point visit. A perfect storm of Eagles! I even got to show Mo and her work buddies South Gate. No trip to an Army football game is complete without a trip to the best bar in town (sorry Fireside, you’re second).

Hopefully Army can pull out a few more wins this season (they are 1-1), because they did look good on Saturday, despite the loss. ‘Til the next game cadets!

For more photos, click here.

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by | September 11, 2010 · 8:28 am

September 11: Nine Years Later

Nine years ago today I was taking a calculus test in a classroom at James I. O’Neill High School in Highland Falls, NY, about 2 miles from the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point. My teacher stopped us all to tell us that something terrible had happened, but that he wasn’t going to elaborate and we should finish our tests. Bullshit. You can’t drop news like that and assume everything will go on as planned. I was doing pretty bad in that class though, so I probably wouldn’t have finished the test under normal circumstances anyway.

When the bell rang, I left my classroom only to hear my classmates on the phone with their parents, many of whom worked on West Point, or were officers in the Army. A friend of mine, on the phone with his father, a colonel, handed me the phone, because his dad was with my mom. I still hadn’t been told exactly what happened. “Mom? What’s going on?” And the line went dead. It was at that moment the Pentagon had been hit. The Towers would fall a little while later.

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by | September 9, 2010 · 12:36 pm

Quote of the Day

Don’t tell me I can’t do something. I will devote my entire life to it, until I prove you wrong. Yeah, I’m looking at you Shutterfly. And I WILL find that missing photobook.

Audrey: I love your tenacity
me: it’s really just spite

Seriously. I’ve called all the post offices in Western Mass. UPS has their Mail Innovations “investigating” the situation. I don’t know what Mail Innovations is (presumably they’re something like Vocal Adrenaline), but you will not win Shutterfly. You won’t.

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