Red Sox rolling rally!

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Although it wasn’t as exciting as 2004 (thank you national league for another boring Series), the Red Sox won the World Series again!!! It’s sad that the National League is so bad now. Maybe the American Leauge teams with large payrolls are stealing talented players from the National League? Anyway, unlike 2004, I was around to see the championship parade! Here’s two good pictures of us:

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It was a beautiful day and everyone was so excited. The Dropkick Murphy’s had their own flatbed truck in the parade, and we learned afterward that Papelbon was on the float, dancing jigs when it stopped. There were some good chants too – “Sign Mike Lowell!” and “Don’t sign A-Rod!”. One guy had a sign that said: “A-Rod: Mr. April, Miss October”. After the parade there was some sky writing – an airplane wrote “Red Sox” in the sky above Boston. It was really cool and I tried to take some pictures of it, but by the time he had finished “Sox”, most of the “Red” had already disappeared.

Thesis Proposal

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Wow, a lot has happened since my last post from back in July when I got a speeding ticket on the way to Corning. About two weeks ago I finally finished my thesis proposal and gave my proposal presentation. It seemed like everything that could have possibly prevented me from finishing the thing during the last few weeks of summer happened – a large bedbug infestation in my apartment building, professors not responding to emails for weeks, fracturing a toe on a hiking trip, classes starting, organizing fall rowing, getting a new girlfriend, etc.  I’m not sure if anyone actually reads the thesis proposal, and I’m still not really sure what the point of writing it was, but I spent a lot of time stressing about it.

End of the month speeding ticket

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Today I broke the 1st commandment of speeding – never speed at the end of the month. Today on my way to Corning I got slapped with my 1st ever speeding ticket for going 87mph in a 65mph zone. I was definitely speeding, although I’m pretty sure I was going 80-85mph. I will unfortunately plead guilty and pay whatever large fine I get dished out, but not without first looking for loopholes and cooking up a conspiracy theory. The cop already knew from running my license plates that I was driving a rental car from out of state. This means it’s a pretty safe bet that I won’t return to New York to contest the ticket. So if he exaggerates my speed (20mph over), I get a much more expensive ticket which I am likely to pay. I didn’t want to question him and get myself in more trouble. Anyway, since I have an IL license hopefully the ticket won’t find it’s way onto my permanent record.