Check out these videos from the MTVu Woodie Awards (I'm in them!):

http://woodies.mtvu.com/video/1599024/317049 (about 3 mins in)

The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

http://www.mtvu.com/videos/1599538/317982 (about 30 secs in)

The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

Black Friday

Today I hung out w/ the math team boys, well the math team boys minus TJ. I got to the train station early, so I went to Macy's and got 2 pairs of shoes, pumps to be exact... One of them was really cute pair from Nine West, it was very cute and party-esque, hard to describe, and the other was a brown alligator skin pump.

We chilled in the 42nd Street area. I thought I was going to be late, but I was the first one in that area ironically. I texted Ganesh telling him that I would be 7 mins late (I knew it would be more than 5, but less than 10 mins), and I was surprisingly right!

Konstantin and Alex were going to be late, so we went to the comic book store and got Alex a comic book for his bday then went to get lunch at McDonalds. Eventually Konstantin came, but we still had no idea what we wanted to do. We walked aroun the shops in Bryant Park, and eventaully headed down 5th ave towards Circuit City. On the way there, I saw a Kira Plastinina store, I had heard about them so had to stop in. I knew this would torture the boys, so I told them I'd meet them in Circuit City. Some how I ended up buying 4 pairs of shoes... but I only spent $50 :)

Eventually Alex came, then we went to the Regal theater to see Quantum of Solace. The movie was really good, not as awesome as Casino Royale, but still awesome! I jumped in my seat quite a few times, so many times that Alex started to make comments while we were watching the movie lol.

Afterward we went to look for a place to eat dinner. Alex mentioned this Mac & Cheese place, that Ganesh and I really wanted to go to, but Konstantin wouldn't have it... So we ended up going to some random deli for dinner, where we just chilled and talked for the rest of the night.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

As part of tradition, Chrissy, Katherine, Yiyi and Uncle Steve came over for Thanksgiving dinner! There was so much food!!! :)

This year I'm thankful for my wonderful family and friends! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISSY!!!

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY CHRISSY!!!

Today Chrissy turns the big 21!!! I hope all your wishes come true, and you don't get too drunk ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!

Fordham Tournament - It's over!!!

Before I say anything, I believe some congratulations are in order!

CONGRATS TO:
ROHAN/DHRU ON WINNING NOVICE FINALS
BEN/LAUREN ON WINNING THE TOURNAMENT
BIG LUPO/SAM ON BREAKING TO OCTAS
MICAH/TIGER ON BEING 3RD NOVICE TEAM
CAITLIN ON BEING 3RD SPEAKER
DAVID ON BEING 10TH SPEAKER

We gave out some pretty sweet swords ;)

The tournament went pretty well, nobody had to sleep on the streets and I made a lot of new friends, or I spoke to and am more friendly with people!

Sharon, from one of my expansion schools Medgar Evers College (CUNY), came to watch some rounds. She was really cool. I had her watch Liz Zahler/Sam Hynes' rounds. She really liked the rounds, and so did her supervisor, which is a Fordham Alum.

We ended up not doing team dinner after the tournament :-\ Instead we went to White Castle, which was not the same but we still had a good time good. It was basically Meg, myself, Boma and the novii. Everyone was eating White Castle throughout the tournament so I was craving some White Castle and a chocolate milkshake!

They were checking bags in Walsh, so we couldn't get in, so we were going to go to Alpha House to watch a movie. The novii were being really indecisive, and since nothing else was going to happen there, Meg and I decided to go back to O'Hare. And that's my night!

Fordham Tournament

Today's the big day, lets hope everything goes well!!! :)

**EDIT**
I was doing reg, which went rather smoothly. I finally got to meet Tom Mooney (CBA '81), which was cool. I ended up only housing 3 boys - Lupo, Kyle and Sam.

Kyle, Jim and I ended up going to Pugleys (the pizzeria). We tried to convince the others to come but they were being lame :( On our way out, we ended up deciding to go w/ Jayme (because of Kyle...) so we went back to O'Hare, and Ross was coming in with the girl that was housing Connie?!? :-\

I played the best trick on Lupo, it was kind of funny... on our part at least ;)

OMG my Financial Management midterm last night was sooo hard!!! I didn't/couldn't finish the test... it was that bad, and we all know how good I am w/ numbers. Essentially all of the class was there til the end, or at least 15 mins to the end. Erica, who is a genius, was there til the end, and she had just finished and thought she only did OK. Hopefully he'll curve the test.

Then when I got back to O'Hare last night, I thought I'd be good and pitch in w/ housing. It shouldnt take too long right? WRONG!!! I was there until close to 1AM?!? But we managed to get it all done. I could tell Meg was pissed cuz some of my people had backed out, well they didn't technically, they just couldn't be there at 11 PM to sign the kids in, but were still willing to do it....

I finally spoke to Ross last night... that was interesting to say the least. Not awkward at all, but it sounds like West Point gave their word to be good, and they're following it :-\ Sucks, but I understand.

Back to work, update later.

She's Leaving...

She's leaving... She's leaving me behind...
- Greg Raposo

Ashely's moving out on me :(

American University Tournament

We got back from the AU tourney earlier today, around 8:30ish.

I hybrided with Matt Herdman from William & Mary. I must admit at first I was very timid about hybriding, but it turned out really well. Matt was an awesome debater, really cool, and we had actual mutual friends in real life!

Our rounds were as followed:
W&M/Fordham, MD C - We should not use public funding to tear down and rebuild the new Yankee Stadium
Duke B, W&M/Fordham - Eminent domain should be eliminated
UVA A, W&M/Fordham - Performance enhancers should be legalized
W&M/Fordham, Swatmore/Brandeis - SUV vs Electric Car
W&M/Fordham, MD F - Schools should not be allowed to restrict food based on child welfare

The tournament went really well. I hung out a lot with Chicago and Columbia. Turns out Tom Blaser managed to convince Greg Nance to join their team! (Tom is a self-proclaimed scared puppy)

Friday night went well, Team Chicago, Team Columbia and I had all gone to the Monument Mall, while the rest of team Fordham, Matt G, Laura, Gareth, and Robert walked to the Metro and went to see the mall on their own. I had taken the shuttle w/ Columbia and met up with Chicago at the Metro cuz they had not waited for us. We checked out the sites and then went to go look for food. We walked around for over an hour trying to find food, but had no luck :-\ It was very sad, we couldnt find any food :( Then it started to POUR!!! It was nearing 3 AM, so we decided to head back to the AU dorms since the train/shuttle stopped running at 3AM.

Dean's List & MTVu Woodie Awards

Today has been super hectic. Not only did I have to go to work, I also was going to the Dean's List Reception, and eventually the MTVu Woodie Awards. It was pretty awesome!

The day started out with me going to work, from 9-2:30, I didn't get back to Fordham until close to 4PM. When I then had too take a shower and get ready for the Dean's List Ceremony. A few mins after I get out of the shower, I get a call from mommy, saying shes already there. So i run and get dressed, and then head out to the Dean's List ceremony... a bit wet.

Dean's List Ceremony

The dean's list was super long, but the whole ceremony ended at 6, which was good. I realized I wasn't going to have time to make it back to O'Hare, so I decided to get some food, take my time, and meet Kaylin at in the lobby of McGinley.

We met up w/ the random freshmen that were coming, we had 16 tix, but were only using 4. I was trying desperately to get rid of them, with little luck. We took the 6:30 PM ram van thinking we would get there around 7 pm. Wow were we wrong, the driver took the Riverside Highway and hit every single red light. The other van had gotten there way before us apparently.

Woodie Awards

The Woodies were super crowded, but so much fun! We started out in the back, but then some how made it to the front of the section! At the end of the night I got to meet the lead singer of BOYS LIKE GIRLS!!!

HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY!!!

11-11, make a wish!

Today they started filming "Solitary Man" at Fordham on Eddies. According to one of the guys, it's about a car dealer who's a sex-addict. When I asked the guy who was going to be on campus today he just said Jesse Eisenberg... you're probably thinking exactly what I was thinking... who's that? The guy told me he was in some movie titled The Squid and the Whale or something weird like that.

I looked up the movie at work study. There are some pretty big named stars in the movie, including Danny Devito, Michael Douglas and Susan Saradon, in addition to "Pam" from the Office. I told Dorothy and Anthony, they were so excited, it was kind of funny - lol.

Today is also Veteran's Day so Janiera and Peter brought in their sons Richie and Justin, respectively. We--Janiera, Richie, Peter, Justin, Adriana, and I--went out for lunch, and decided to walk by Keating where they were filming, hoping to catch a glimse of something. No luck there though... However on the way back, we walked around by Keating vs Eddies (as we werent allowed to), and asked if Michael Douglas would be around. Janiera had professed her love for him). It turned out he had just left Keating in "that black car" (lady pointed at), which was now stationed in the parking lot where the trailers were...

We all walked along the way to the parking lot, stood around hoping to catch him. Adriana and I had stood in the parking lot while Janiera, Peter and their kids, went back to the office. We talked to the driver, and he said that Michael Douglas was in the car, and that we could stand around and wait if we wanted to. After a few mins we saw a few girls run in/out of his trailer, a guy speak to the driver, and the driver start up the car. We knew he was coming out soon. And a few mins later... he did!!!

I asked him to take a pic, but he had said no as he was in a rush. But then he was like OK, and I got a pic w/ him! :)

Tonight as part of Resident Week, RHA cosponsored with CAB to have Dave Coulier aka Joey Gladstone from Full House come speak at Fordham! I was going to leave class early, but we were actually learning things, and with the next week couldn't leave early :-\ After my night class, I ran over and apparently so did AnnMarie, and we got there just before he left. We ran up and got a picture with him! :)

Even when I met him he was still funny.

Me: Hey! How are you? Sorry I missed you, I was in class.
DC: That's ok, do you have a pass from your teacher? hahaha

How awesome is that! He was super nice :)

On the way home

Arriving at the Airport... 5: AM ish

About to board the plane several hours later...at 12PM ish

Oxford IV Day 2

CONGRATS MEG AND GREG ON BREAKING TO QUARTER FINALS!!!


Meg and Greg are ranked in the top 16 in the world. We haven't had a team break at Oxford since 1996, how incredible is this?!?

The Irish drunkenly singing before finals start

On the way to Oxford

This is a video of us on our way to Oxford

Eventually we made it there...

London, here we come!

Today we landed in Heathrow. We got to the airport super early yesterday, 3 hrs early... As soon as we got to the hotel, which I navigated us to, we dropped our stuff off, and immediately headed out.

First we went to the Tower of London (see video), then made our way to the London Bridge, and other various parts of London. We saw the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament. The next big attraction we went to was Westminster Abbey, followed by the British Museum. We were supposed to meet Marisa there, however she had fallen asleep.

On the way back I wanted to go to see Platform 9 3/4 but the team didn't want to. It was only 7:30 PM, how often are you in London? Eventually, after much arguing, they gave in and said to go, so I did, much to their suprise (I think)... It was pretty cool. I felt bad that Peter and Lisa had to come with me though :-\ Thanks for coming, I really appreciate it! :)

By the time we got back to the Ashley Hotel it was only 8:30 PM...