I'm an adult

I apparently forgot to finish and post this, so it's about a week late...

Yes, I technically/legally became an adult 18 years after my birth at 4:39am on March 9, 2002...but today at 11:39 am, I officially became an adult. This is when my degree was deferred. I am now a college grad. Plus, since I'm not going to grad school, I must find a job and enter the real world. No more mooching off my 'rents (ok, maybe i still can get stuff when I go shopping with my dad and live, but) i gotta start paying my own damn bills and shit.

The worst part about this is I don't have a permanent job :( I have a temporary one during the summer, so that'll get me by for the next couple of months, but I need to find a job by the end of the summer. If not, I'm going to have to be a bum and live with my parents until i die.

I spent the day pretty much the same way I spent the rest of my college careerr--with Heather and Jay. I did get see a few other Brothers as well while waiting for the stupid ceremonies to start. I'm really glad I had friends to talk and bitch to during Adamany's and others' crappy speeches.

Philly Survey

1. Whats your favorite part of the city for partying? Olde city

2. Name the first club/bar you went to: Shampoo

3. Where were you first drunk in Philly? Matty D's house or 2029

4. Have you ever gotten lost in the city? probably

5. Have you ever gotten a parking ticket? yea, a couple

6. Pat's or Geno's? pat's

7. Be honest Have you ever bought a hot dog or pretzel from a vendor off the street? yea

8. Of the four major sports teams (Flyers, Phillies, Eagles, 76ers), who is your favorite? who ever is actually winning

9. Whats your favorite restaurant? Maxi's is pretty good and i can use Diamond Dollars

10. Where's the best place to shop? South Philly has those two shopping centers on Columbus Blvd

11. Hoagie or cheesesteak? cheesesteak

12. What's your favorite store on South Street? the mood

13. How often do you get into the city? not often enough

14. What's better NYC or Philly? i haven't really been to NYC

15. Have you ever been to the Philadelphia zoo? yea

16. Have you ever given money to a homeless person? probably

17. Have you ever been to Chickie's and Pete's? No, but I want to

18. How about Dave and Busters?yup
19. Which newspaper would you grab first Daily News, Inquirer or City paper? I don't really read newspapers, so Inquirer b/c I know someone who writes for it

20. If you could live anywhere in the city, where would you live? Center City or South Philly

21. How many teams have you seen play in person? 3 philly teams (phils, sixers, flyers...i've also seen the U.S. hockey team)

22. Do you hate T.O.? of course

23. Rendell or Street? isn't that like saying Clinton or Bush (rendell if you didn't get the comparison)

24. Ok last question Do you miss John Bolaris? he left?

25. The transit route you use the most/hate the most? Subway, and I thought you said the previous questions was the last

26. Favorite bike shop? What the hell kind of questions is that you lying sack of shit?

Europe in Review

Here's recap of my entire trip. Hopefully this will be fairly short, but I did do a lot. I have only included the fun stuff. Although I'm not writing about it here, I did some school work during the semester.

January:

9-10: Traveled from Philly to London to Rome, met my cousins for the first time, hung out with some people I met on the plane

11: Met my roommates; they seem cool

12: First trip to the market, walking tour of Roma, first gelato (amazing)

13: Went to the bars for the first time (in Campo dei Fiori)

15: Went to mass at St. Peter's

17: Bought my first Italian leather bag for about $15 (I still have and use it as a laptop case)

19: Bought Italian leather shoes for 19 Euros; sat on a bench in front of a McDonald's drinking

27-29: Geneva to hang out with Becky and her her boy; first time in a hostel, went to a sex shop and fed ducks coconut

February:

3-5: Florence--climbed 460+ steps to the top of the Duomo, saw the David and other art, ate great Tuscan food

11-13: Hung out with Beck and Richie--Colosseo, Palentine Hill (where we got in trouble for trying to get oranges)

12: Lunch at my Italian cousins' house--awesome food

14: Valentine's Day with the girls--after dinner we exchanged gifts

17-19: Torino (Olympics)--Odd B&B, Ski jumping, missing the train, 65 euro cab ride, scalping curling tickets with Californian, catching puck at USA vs. Slovakia hockey game

23: Courtney's B-day--'80s party and going out in our dresses

24-26: Venice for Carnivale--Court being sick on metro and train, masks, penguins, glass blowing, Guggenheim museum, overcrowded restuarant, drunk waitress, hot wine, gondola ride, wheels falling off luggage

26-27: 14-hour train ride (Venice to Prague)--6 "bed" cabin, no pillows, no blankets, no snack car, annoying teenagers

27-28: Prague--Castle, Coffee Heaven, cross-bow, torture chamber, hot dogs, Tex-Mex, martinis, snow

March:

1-3: Budapest--Buda side, Pest side, Hungarian Goulash, Prime, oldest Synagogue in Europe, STEX, Turkish Baths (Ugly, old, naked women), handle falling off luggage

4: Rome Sweet Rome

4-6: Hanging out with Jay--Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Colosseo, Forum, Palentine Hill

9: My Birthday--Flew to London (couldn't understand the signs that were writting in English), got interrogated for trying to stay in the country for 12 hours, dinner with Jay

10-11: Palermon--Gorgeous, translating for hostel owner and Scottish girls, apt-like hostel room, being rushed through a meal, amazing canoli, American-like pizza, rain

12: 12-hour train ride--pillows and blankets, random italian guys in our cabin

12-17: Celie--Villa Borghese, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Navona, St. Pual's, karaoke, 24-hr bakery, ass-crack-of-dawn trip to the airport

24-26: Siena and Florence--amazing Tuscan food, amazing company (got to know a Brother better), art by Donatello, Michelangelo, Giotto, and Cimabue; realizing how lucky I was to have the roommates and the friends I had

31: Beach

April:

1: Saw and took pics of the sites at night

4: Computer issues that ended with me paying $170 for a $70 chord.

7-9: Sociology trip: wine museum, Parmasaean Cheese museum, textile museum, Fabriano paper museum, Ferrari Factory

14: Good Friday--Stations of the Cross with the Pope at the Colosseum

16: Easter--mass at St. Peter's, dinner with my family, filleting fish, toga party

17: Beach for Easter Monday--kinda chilly and drizzly, jumping

18: Last dinner with the six of us

21: Good-bye cappuccini, Botticcella's, scholar's pub, lots of alcohol

22: Castel Sant'Angelo, Last minute shopping, a final dinner in Roma

23: Lunch and dinner at my cousins'

24: Traveled home, went to wawa, went to Big-L (diner) and hung out April, Josh, and Whit.