A Little Change

It's been a bit over an year that I started this blog. What an intense year it's been. My free time to write and reflect has varied greatly, but I figured that a little change never hurt anyone.

As a bit of a throwback, here's my first post ever on the blog from last year:

It's starting to sink in... I'm going back to school, this time, for an MBA at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. After four years out in the working world, I'm jumping back in. I'll once again have to brush up on Calc, Stats, Accounting and Econ. But first, I have to move from DC to Boston... That's happening this weekend. There's so much to do before then..

This is a robot

I wonder what other tech projects Japan is cooking up that don't make prime-time outside of its borders.

He Who Can Sell Ice To Eskimos

Ex-Pres. Clinton shows up to North Korea, chit-chats with Kim Jong Il, and goes home with two detained U.S. citizens. Amazing.

Keep on truckin' Bill.

Making it Tough

Last night was the last kickball game of the season (the tourney is on tap now), and the band at our post-game haunt was heating the place up. You could tell they were really enjoying themselves, but, when some girls next to me started yelling for the Pixies, I realized... huh, this band's setup would be perfect to cover the Pixies. So, I got in on the action as well, shouting for the Pixies.

One of the girls yelling for the Pixies then suggested that we write it into their setlist while the band took a break... She hooked up the pen, and I put it in, with a message that we'd go nuts if they played it. Apparently, we hit on the one band's songs that this band didn't know, as my female teammates related to me that the singer was hanging out nervously in the ladies bathroom, explaining to whoever would listen that they didn't know any Pixies songs...

Hah, now that I wrote it down, it seemed a lot more poignant last night.

Amazing Bread

I decided to buy the "seed loaf" at Whole Foods yesterday. It's amazing! Flax seeds, sesame, poppy, and who knows what else baked right into the bread. I could eat the whole loaf in one sitting.

Last Night

Whoa. Didn't expect last night to end up how it did. Highlights:

• Barbecuing a smorgasbord for ~20 people, only took 3 wardrobe changes
• First time grilling chicken hearts - marinated them in wine and soy sauce, and then rubbed in garlic and ginger and skewered them. Turned out great!
  
• Beer pong all around with nifty plastic cup holders to maintain formations
  
• Deepak being lame
• Ash taking a nap between beer pong games sitting on our driveway, leaned up against the house
  
• People being picked up from the train/bus/wherever and brought over
• Kicking out a bum poet who wandered into the party. He made a major scene when I asked him to leave
• The cops politely asking us to take the party inside because they didn't want to come back and have to give us a ticket (whoa, that never happens)
• The leftovers make a major comeback as we head inside
• Talking the bouncer into letting Thomas into a bar despite him not having ID
• Taking over the "hippie bar"
• Ravi jumping on stage
  
• Giving tips to some hippie girl about how she should go about seducing her male roommate who is across the room, which she's been trying to do for some weeks now
• Trying to kill the keg back at our place with new friends from the bar after the bar kicked us out
  

Strokes Sunday

The Strokes make the perfect background music for a Sunday morning.