May 23, 2006
Guilty Pleasures
One Word-Kelly Osbourne
First-Lindsay Lohan
Ok, good for working out to.
Nothing more.
Really.
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May 15, 2006
Doug Flutie and Patrick Ewing
Doug Flutie announced his retirement from football today. I read the article in the NY Times because I remember when he won the Heisman trophy and thought that he had done so when I was in college. He won in 1984.
It’s sort of ironic that while my career is on it’s way up, professional athletes my age are retiring. Patrick Ewing graduated a year after I did but has retired.
In college they said it was likely that my generation would be one where over the course of our working lives we would probably have several careers.
Personally, I retired from the career of not knowing what I wanted to do with my life in my late twenties. Fortunately in my current career being 43 or 44 does not make one ready to be put out to pasture. It’s only when your brain starts to decline is it suggested that your time is past. Of course, that could happen at 43 or 44 but so far so good.
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New York City skyline
Last month I drove up to New York City for Easter. Throughout college and then for several years after college, before I had a car, I took the train from DC to NYC. I almost always sat on the right side of whatever car in the train I was on. On every trip, there was a moment where the NYC skyline would come into view.
The main landmark of the skyline from the train tracks was, of course, the World Trade Center. I’m not sure I ever referred to the buildings as the Twin Towers, although now it is common to do so. In my mind, it was the World Trade Center, those buildings that had risen when I was growing up. The buildings where once my junior high friends and I went up the top floor and then out to the roof, back when they still let you do that.
After I bought my first car and got a dog, I started driving to NYC whenever I went to visit my family. There’s also a moment on the highway where the City comes into view. It’s more noticeable at night when the lights of the City are so visible.
On this trip, I decided to note the mile marker on the Turnpike where the City first came into view. It seems harder to spot the City now that the WTC is gone. In fact, I have a hard time picturing the exact location of the two buildings. Nevertheless, at mile marker 96, the New York City skyline appeared. My home town.