I've just finished watching Spain vs the USA in the confederates cup. it's so weird to watch football with US commentators whose commentary is peppered with phrases from NFL and NBA on top of the standard sprinkling of time filling inanities. Some examples include ( Read more... )

If the hours of my day are left with an impression of the events held therein then slicing through them you would see strange colours in a repeating pattern of late. Underscoring all of this for the past 24 hours would be a definitely brightening as mandellebrotte has arrived back in Chicago. But let me focus for the moment on the concentric rings of weirdness ( Read more... )

i cracked open our last jar of vegemite today and it was an unexpectedly sad moment. as I sit here munching it down on sweetened 'heathly grain' bread it occurs to me that I can't wait for winter be over, or at least to let up a little so that I feel like going outside again. In a city that has so much potential I'm not really taking much advantage ( Read more... )

Euro2008 kicks off in a couple of hours and I still cant decide who to go for. Probably portugal, but I also like to watch france and i really wish the netherlands would get up... but they never really seem to quite get it together for the big matches. Well I'm going to be watching the Portugal - Turkey game later today and I cant wait ( Read more... )

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so the weather is warming - it's 1°C outside which ironically is worse than if it was slightly colder because snow is much more fun than rain. Strangely enough I'm kind of liking the cold weather and the snow it brings. Every surface which can support it is coated with a thick layer of snow at the moment and it looks great. Admittedly my ( Read more... )

it snowed yesterday which is cool because my massive jacket got here on Saturday... yay!! Still after walking around for about half an hour I lost feeling in my arse and thighs so I think i needs to buy some thermals. mandellebrotte and I took shelter in a bar and watched some of the NFL final game between the dallas cowboys and the new york giants. It took me ( Read more... )