Happy New Year

I saw Rocky Balboa over the Xmas holidays. It was actually pretty good. Makes you feel like you can take on the world. You come out of it with a sense of strength ready to get hit and counter every hit. But life doesn't work out that way. I grew up on Rocky movies, I went to Philly to climb the Rocky steps for my birthday so maybe I am a litte partial. Seeing Sly so old is just a shock, what age does to you, is just mmmmph. I just hate that the movie is getting a bad rap, when it is really a great movie.

So Happy New Year to me! Hopefully, I won't get hit quite so many times in 2007. Hopefully, I can take it, hopefully it won't hurt so much.

And the good news is...

And the good news is...

That I am now the happy owner of a Master's degree.

LL.M with merit that's how they put it.

Am I proud of my self. Hell yeah!

Am I hopeful this will open a door. I fucking hope so cos it was so bleeding hard.

I just feel like this is the end of my trying to prove something to yself. That I could still go back to school and pass an exam. Most of all, that I have not gone stupid. That years of working at restaurants and burger joints and cafes have not turned me stupid.

The good news is I can tick the highest level of education section as "Masters" or "Graduate Degree" And no one can take that from me.

NYC Disaster

It's funny. I've been home for over 4 days from my NYC trip and I havem't felt the need to write about it. It was just awful. Everything about it was awful, from going to coming back. And I sorta knew it was going to be awful when I scheduled it, and realized we were flying (to my sister's advisement) into LGA instead of Newark where the hotels are cheaper. But I listened to her and her empty promises yet again before I bought the tickets and she promised to secure hotel or make accommodations for us in NYC. All of a sudden I wait and wait and I don't hear a thing, so I knew it was all on me to get the hotel and plan transportation, etc. So there it was. So began the hellacious trip.

Because it was so hellacious I don't have any fond memories of it, a few tidbits here and there. but it so wasnt worth the money I spent which was close to a 1200 dollars on a 2-day trip. Since I spent all my money and cannot take a Xmas trip like I envisioned, I would have to stay home for Xmas, and possibly turn in a better update and summarize this hellacious year.