So I'm sitting here in the Ryerson with Dallas, playing cards, listening to music and looking at all the video clips I just uploaded from my camera--clips of friends, the house, pong, new york city, yankee stadium, and the various people, places, and things we've seen, visited, and done. We leave in less than two hours. I still have to pack up some stuff and take a shower before we go down to Boston for the night then catch our 5:40AM flight (ouch), but I'm not sure how ready I am to leave.
A part of me is very ready to go--Dartmouth certainly had some disappointments, and was probably like the most unhealthy thing I've ever done (read: delivery and pong every day). But another part of me wishes I could stay... my friendships here are every bit as strong as they ever have been. I was really touched last night by how many people stopped by to say goodbye and wish me the best. Most importantly, they said it genuinely. I have a lot of great friends out here. And as for girls, there was a little spark between me and a longtime friend out here that will have to get put on hold big time as I won't see her until the spring. I'm not sure how she feels about me but at this point I'm very cool with how things have always been between us. We'll have to deal with that as it goes. As for the other girl who I'd wanted to see when I was here, she turned out to be a lot like other girls I've been drawn to. She has an incredible personality, she's smart, funny, incredibly beautiful, but she doesn't seem to know how to be straight or honest with the people people who care about her. I honestly just felt disrespected so I haven't talked with her since I came to this understanding--not to say I haven't wanted to talk to her, but she doesn't really want to talk to me so why should I care. Life's too good for this business anyway!
I can't wait until I get to Costa Rica... supposedly its been raining a lot, but with a little luck it'll be sunny when we show up. Either way, its warm as hell so we'll be enjoying the outdoors and getting in the tropical water in no time. In 48 hours I will be straaaightt loungingggg I'm so excited.
Poker is great by the way. I'm having an awesome month. Trip number 2 next summer? booyaaaaa.
Oh yeah I realized I didn't talk about NYC yet. It was awesome. I'm always blown away by how many people are there all the time. Everything in NYC is just done so much faster and bigger than anywhere I've ever been. It makes Portland (which I love) look like a tiny little village. It makes San Francisco look totally laid back and relaxed. Yankees game was awesome even for a non-yankees fan. Here's a good story:
So we buy our tickets off of stub-hub.com or whatever (3 tier seats behind the plate, awesome seats), and they just say to go to their office (about a 5 minute walk from the stadium) to get the tickets before the game. So we show up and see a line of 2000 people waiting to get into the stubhub office. Daaamn. So I walk to the front and offer a guy 20 bucks to let me in... he kind of waves me off but doesn't really stop me from getting in line, so boom, there I am in the front of the line. About 5 seconds later, this big drunk comes up to me, shoves a 50 in my hand and asks if he can cut in line. I immediately accept, get my tickets, and arrive at the bottom of the 1st inning 50 bucks richer. Awesome trip. The Yankees lost, I saw Joe Torres last game as a Yankee, pretty incredible.
By the way, just stacked AK w/ AA all in pf. 2600 pot. booyizzle.
Anyways, I want to give a little shout out to all the friends I've seen since I've been here--big thank you and much love to:
All the brothers of AXA, andy, tammer, james, algy, diamond, padegimas, lizzy, kagan, danny mich, murph dirty, kayte, ricky b, chanwoong, and anyone else I may be missing.
Big up yoselves.
Fresh.
Andrew
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