We’ve all answered an online questionnaire asking what our hobbies were right? I don’t know about you, but at least for me, I’ve always had the hardest time figuring out what my hobbies were. I’d alway put film, music, soccer, web design as my defaults. a good list, but honestly, how many of those hobbies require me to do anything, one..maybe two?

I finally feel like there are actually hobbies in my life right now. If you’ve kept up with my tweets, you’ll know that I’m in the process of setting up a Podcast. The Super Terrific Show. This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and finally it’s happening. I’m actually really excited to be doing this. In fact tomorrow evening I am going in to do the first official show. Stay tuned. 

What else? Trading cards. As a child, I relied on my cousin to give me all his doubles. That was the extent of my trading card collection. Rarely was I able to go and buy myself a pack of trading cards. But I still loved them. In fact I still have all my old baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards. And it’s really exciting for me to look back at them and see the old players, look at the stats and occasionally find that one gem lost in the sea of cards. Now I’m older though and I’m able to buy these cards and yes it may seem childish but for some reason, I get this feeling of excitement every time I open up a new pack of cards. Maybe it’s me reliving part of my childhood, or actually acting out a piece of my childhood that I wish was there, but there’s something that really gets me excited about opening up a new pack of cards. 

And teas…I love my teas and just recently my sister in South Africa has sent me a nice shipment of Afro Tea. 7 individual containers. All different flavors. Surely they’ll last me for some time. There was a time, back in April and May right around the time of my surgery that I would sit outside each morning, drink my tea, have my cigarette and speak to my girlfriend who was, at the time, in west Africa. Since then my tea collection has diminished, but now, thanks to my sister, I have a bunch of new flavors to try out and get really excited about. I cannot wait to start trying them. 

So those are my hobbies. And it’s good because without those my days would really revolve around just work and school. And although I enjoy those both very much as of late, it’s still important to be able to escape the norm and treat yourself to something that you like sometimes. And it doesn’t have to be expensive or exotic, it can be as simple as tea and trading cards. Whatever it is, be happy with it. And if you don’t have a hobby, go find something out there that gets you excited and invest some time into it. I guarantee you that it will bring some sort of joy or happiness to your every day life.

be good.

busy. dirty. never a dull moment. i must say i have fallen in “i really like you” with new york city.

most of my time there was spent with my lovely veronica going out, eating, dancing, shopping, relaxing, having a good time. i couldn’t have asked for more. it was such a fun and necessary trip. 

although when she was working/in class i was alone in the largest metropolitan area in the US. what’s one Bos to do in such a large city. 

there’s always something to do. and it’s overwhelming. you feel like you need to constantly be on the move, be rushed, doing something, otherwise you might as well be in Boston. I joke. But it’s no joke that New York City is tough to keep up with.

You look around you and it’s always hustling. This city truly never does sleep and it’s easy to fall into that trap, that warped mindset of always having to be on the go. losing sleep. for instance, wednesday evening when I arrived, we spent some time @ veronica’s place, it’d been two months since we last saw each other and quite honestly we needed to get over the surreal-ness of the moment. so around midnight we decided it’d be a good time to go out, grab a bite to eat and a drink. we’d both had long days, hadn’t eaten, and had an appetite. she took me to cafeteria. (i just googled their web site to link it up and it’s quite amazing. don’t let the soothing music take anything away from what i’m about to say). so we walk there and i’m expecting a chill 24 hour diner type place that will have ok food and a quiet tone to it. i mean it is a wednesday night and it’s past midnight.

we walk in, i felt like i had to be on a guest list to be seated. the place is bumping. packed. energy. life. music. very cool. posh. quite nice. the food was delicious. the drinks were great.  not what i expected at all for a place called cafeteria on a wednesday night. instantly it felt like a friday or saturday night and we had been out partying and going crazy. thinking back to this moment. it embodies everything i felt about new york city there after.

you don’t find these places anywhere else. you might. but i haven’t. i won’t. this was a first. but as i sat there gazing at my beautiful companion, eating away at my delicious fried chicken salad and sippin’ on my coco mojito, i found myself rushing to get through this because i felt like i had to quickly do something immediately after. woah! what a feeling. 

new york city doesn’t stop. and you can’t stop either. everything you do, everywhere you go, it’s packed and you need to know the way. people are moving, doing things incredible and terrible. always. always.

it’s overwhelming of course, but i feel like you need to own it. you need to make yourself own it. the city, the lifestyle. you need to grab it and make it your own. and that’s the beauty of it all i think. there’s no set path. they always say you if you make it in new york you can make it anywhere, and i think that’s left open for interpretation. i believe that if you make yourself in new york city, you can take that anywhere. in new york, you can make your own path in life, but you need to abide by their rules of the game. you can’t stop. if you’re up to it, you’ll be sitting high, if you’re not, prepare to be left in the dirty, dark, hard to breath dust and smog they call air.

i’ve been doing a lot of microblogging instead of actually writing in this big white space that has been taken over by videos and photos. but i want you to know that i haven’t forgotten, i just haven’t wanted to write anything as of late. at the same time, i have just become addicted to the twitter machine.

so if you have been paying attention to the tweet updates on the left you’ll know that i was recently in detroit for the chicago bears game at ford field. road tripped it up there with my uncle, cousin and his friend and stayed at the Renaissance center; which is a really nice hotel, apparently the tallest building in all of the detroit metro area as well. and hey, as soon as we got to the lobby we saw a couple bears players walking through. so not bad at all. and across the street or river was windsor which reminded me of days of old when we road tripped it to toronto a few years back. anyhow, detroit is really a blah kind of city with not much going on except for a bears game. 

tomorrow afternoon i’m headed towards new york city. i’ll be there for a week. celebrating a very special birthday. exploring the city. you gotta live life.

school started today. alright it started on monday really. i’ve got a nice balance of classes here with motion graphics, physics, math and effective speaking. i think you can see the two classes i’m most looking forward to. although i’m not sure it’s going to be a cake walk this quarter. first time i’m doing a “full load” with no real interactive design classes. a little different, but i’m willing because it seems like forever since i was last in school even though i took those online courses. it’s just nice to be back in the atmosphere of things and downtown and not in an online cafe in greece. although maybe that wouldn’t be so terrible either. 

i’m a moving machine right now. today was non-stop, this past weekend was non-stop, and i guarantee you that in the city that never sleeps…it will probably be non-stop.

keep an eye out for photos, tweets, stories, etc…

travel, to watch films, take photographs, sometimes exercise, write in my blog, do tequila shots, drive fast, listen to great music, buy shoes, eat delicious food, have a swim, read interesting tidbits, look at magazines, organize my files, dance, be with my love, keep up with fashion, be away when it snows, play on my iPhone, download media, talk about the internets, listen to howard stern, laugh at people, sleep, wake up, daydream, play soccer, watch soccer, buy clothes, imagine i’d be doing something more productive, smoke cigarettes, text message, look at other people and know i’m better than them, make banana/nut shakes with honey and ice, be the leader, sleep when it rains, be involved in sports, make people read things that i like to…, find out new web trends, meet new people, go to parties, read back on old facebook comments, search for web sites i use to go to when i was younger, do radio shows, try and think up the next great idea, see progress, keep things easy, hold tightly, slow motion kiss, watch lost, secretly take photographs that nobody will see, delete emails that i know are important, procrastinate, think about where i’ve been, eat starburst, drink my soy chai, sit outside when it’s nice, go to ball games, look for funny videos online, reassure myself, share, win. 

i like to do a lot. and a lot more than this. and this is all brought to you in no particular order….by the letter K. 

“Whoever said it was lonely at the top was looking from the bottom.”
(the facts of life)

- sister still pregnant, expecting end of month delivery.
- online Audio course is crap.
- weather is beautiful, but a bit windy.
- can’t wait for Cloverfield to get released here.
- darjeeling limited just released in theaters here.
- maybe i should just rent the DVD of Cloverfield when I get back to Chicago.
- current song: Ozzy - Goodbye to Romance.
- iPhone still working; unlocked and on a prepay sim. fantastic.
- i don’t get charged for incoming calls or incoming text messages (SMS). brilliant.
- not taking enough photos. that should change in the coming days, possibly hours.
- my sister just said she has to go “pee pee”. baby talk has begun.
- my dreams have been crazy as of late.
- planning on a sailing trip for monday in the indian ocean. hopefully some sharks will come out.
- goal for the rest of the month: see a shark in the wild…from a safe distance. :)