Summer 07

Dear Danny,

As I come in from my roof from some star gazing, as Queen starts singing Under Pressure on my iTunes random, I want to reflect on this past summer, which ends with my 9:30 AM class tomorrow.

I think this is the first time in my life I can say that summer didn't fly by. It actually seemed like years. I think back to the person I was May 5th and to who I am now and I can even scratch my head a little bit. Partly because my hair is so damn long now, and partly because I've upgraded so much. I've thought about the wording there. I haven't changed. I haven't morphed. I haven't evolved or devolved. I almost feel like I crossgraded, but that's not it. I've opened up a lot of things about myself, opened up to new people, new things, new views on the world and it's expanded my life to a new place that I feel very happy in.

In the past 3 months I have :
- traveled outside the country
- climbed a mountain
- been to borders of countries
- premiered a feature movie
- turned 21
- won a lot at poker
- lost a lot at poker
- lived as a homeless kid in NYC for 5 weeks
- dealt with brokers and landlords and construction crews
- became a blog writer for the NY Giants
- worked in a factory as a part of an assembly line
- worked at a burrito place
- worked with a reputable editor and hopefully set up a potential job
- shot and premiered a commercial for a nationally selling book
- met an award winning artist who now won't stop calling me
- moved into my new apartment complete with my own patio/roof
- made some new friends I will never lose
- tightened up some friendships for the long haul
- not shaved with no intention of doing so in the near future

If you want a short summation of the summer, Dustin said the other night, when explaining his Israel experience, "Can you believe all the stuff we did? In one night we smoked hookah with Bedouins, slept for 2 hours, woke up, rode a camel, climbed Mesada, swam in the Dead Sea then spent the night in Jerusalem"

I want to leave you all with this quote. It's from my new magazine craze "Discovery". The article is about the new known universe as we now have a picture of a lot more than we thought before. It talks about this galaxy, Andromeda that is apparently on a crash course with the Milky Way, in about 2 billion years that is. Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist said, "Now when we look up, we see many galaxies. In the distant future, this will become a lonely place, with nothing to look at. If we want to learn about the universe at large, we'd better do it while we still can."