So hot. The traditional week around late May/early June that is hot as hell and made worse by high humidity? Is starting nowI just realized that I haven't talked about the end of the World Cup. (No, I'm not putting off cleaning my bathroom. Whyever would you say that ( Read more... )

Gave platelets today. Actually turned out perfectly: no rain, which meant I got to use the car instead of busing it back and forth from the Red Cross. Got there when they had a bit of a rush, so I waited and waited and waited in a question room. But this meant that I got to watch almost the entire Australia-Italy game; in fact, the nurse was ( Read more... )

Ridiculous game. U.S. all over the place for the first 24 minutes, pressing and attacking. Then BOOM: Italy scores. Then Italy scores again, but this time puts the ball in their own net. Whew. Then the first red card, putting us up a man. Then the second, on the U.S., for something I still don't understand. Did the ref see Mastroeni go in ( Read more... )

World Cup = love. The fact that the U.S. and Japan lost their opening games = ;_;

Also, no one does passive-aggressive snark as well as the Brits. Consider these bon mots from the France-Switzerland match:"If you like passing, you'll like this game. If you don't like passing that doesn't really go anywhere, you might get a bit bored with this ( Read more... )