the last day at the beach...i.e. summer

time is a funny thing.

these pictures were only taken a week ago but it feels like years ago.

we are already well ensconced in the city gearing up for the first day of school.

senior year starts monday---wow!

i just read in the new york times (so it must be true) that the united states is prolonging its presence in Iraq.

what a colossal waste of resources.

i wonder where we would be if we had taken all the money we used to fund the wars in iraq and afghanistan and put it towards education.

will we ever learn?

some colorful cards for this dreary, cold new york city day.

friends...

i spent the day in baltimore looking at johns hopkins with sammy.

at one point in the day she met up with a friend who is currently a freshman there so i was on my own for about an hour. i went looking for coffee and found the cafeteria. it was pouring, so i went in. suddenly i was transported back to freshman year. i remember those awkward few days when you didn't really have any friends so you just sort of stood there. i saw a bit of that around the cafeteria. people sitting by themselves, half reading their blackberry half wondering if they're really eating alone.

i remember vividly the first two friends i made. jeffrey and carol. i think it was carol that came up to me and asked me if i wanted to go to disney world.

of course i said yes...it wasn't like i had anything else to do.

it's still summer...

after 23 years of marriage there's one thing i know for sure--

a sense of humor really helps.

power to the people...

hurricane irene wasn't too exciting. at least not where we were.

we tried to make the best use of the time at home by working on college essays and reading. but we got stir crazy pretty quickly so we took a lot of photos. here's one of our hurricane photo sessions.

for us the worst part was losing power. after 4 days in the dark, we finally got our power back last night. i love LIPA.