A summer of, well, experiences

I entered this blog address knowing that it had been a while since I last posted anything but I had no idea the last time was May 20, 2007 when I had went on about one of my favorite TV shows, "The Shield," right after its season finale. I guess it was right at the beginning of summer and so, well, I got lazy about writing anything.

But now that summer is slowly fading into the darkness once again, I thought I'd jot something briefly about my summer.

It was an eventful summer but then again, it wasn't. I know that doesn't make any sense but hear me out: my summers are usually filled with disappointment in that I usually make a checklist of things I want to accomplish and I end up usually not doing any of them. Well, same thing happened again for the most part. But a lot of unexpected things did happen which I guess made me grow up a little bit as a person. So here we go:

• Mourning Loved Ones - Up until this summer, I had never been to a funeral, let alone lose someone that I knew. However, in the course of just four weeks, I attended two funerals, one for someone I considered a friend and another for a good friend's sister. I wrote an obituary for Dan Epstein on CineCon, something which I put a lot of time into considering out of all the movie web geeks that I know in the City, he was the one whom I knew the longest. As for my friend's sister, I unfortunately didn't know her that well but knew how much she meant to her big brother and given that she had just graduated from college and was celebrating her birthday just a week earlier with her family, it was just a hearbreaking set of events. Dan, Kathy: I hope you're both in a better place and we'll all miss you.


• Augh, I'm stuck in Midtown West for ANOTHER year! - One of my goals this summer was to move out. And guess what? After searching in Manhattan, Long Island City, Brooklyn...I'm once again dealing with Times Square tourists outside my apartment.


• Dated a blonde French girl! - I didn't see that one coming.


• Once again, I waste my half day Fridays - Last year I kicked myself for not taking any weekends off to leave New York City since my job gave me half day Fridays. Well, we got half day Fridays this year. And once again, I confined myself to New York City for the most part for three months. NEXT year...oh who am I kidding.


• The College Gang - I did, however, get to see a lot more of my friends this summer, something I was pleased with. Cornell A9/A10 guys - I miss y'all.

Well, those were the things that stuck out in my mind. I'm sure I could name more stuff but it's 11 pm on a Friday and I'm ridiculously tired. I'm going to make it a point to start jotting thoughts here again.

I promise.