Insanity!

This week is crazy, all the way around.

I feel like professors are mad that we had a week off for spring break, and therefore are determined to make us do an obscene amount of work this week to make up for it. For one class alone, I have two papers due: one this Friday, and one next Monday! What?!?!

But I digress.

Last Sunday I did something I've been waiting to do for quite a while: I walked from my dorm, to the Brooklyn Bridge, across it, and then back across and all the way back home. The entire walk is about 3.5-4 miles (about the same amount I walk when I go to the gym or when I walk the hills at home) so it was a nice alternative to being in the basement of Palladium on such a nice sunny day.

I hadn't been downtown in quite a while, and I had never taken that route before, so it was really interesting to see a part of the city that was unknown to me beforehand. That's one of my favorite things about living here: having the opportunity to go discover something new about the city every day. I walked down Lafayette Street, passing the Laf dorm, where quite a few people I know live. I have some friends there, but I've never actually been in the dorm; it's really far from campus, there isn't much to do in that area (it's awkwardly sandwiched in lower Chinatown, close to the Financial District), and almost everyone else I'm friends with lives in the Union Square area.

The nicest thing about the walk, though, was crossing the bridge. I arrived there relatively early in the morning (around 10:45), so I was able to actually take some time to look at the sights without a ton of tourists around. It's definitely one of the best viewpoints around for seeing all the big landmarks: the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, etc...and of course the photos you could take of the bridge itself would probably be stunning. This was only the second time I'd walked the bridge- the first time was on one of the hottest days EVER, I was wearing the absolute worst clothes possible, and I was with people I could have done without. Needless to say, this was a much more enjoyable experience. I'm probably going to make this walk a regular thing, now that it's getting nicer outside. I'd so much rather be outside in the sun than in the gym!

This weekend is jam-packed with things going on. I'm working all day Friday, Mass Transit has their show on Friday night, and then Saturday night is Richie's show. Somewhere in there I have to fit in writing two papers, a few parties, and celebrating my dear best friend's birthday (he's going to be twenty! that means I'm going to be twenty soon! eek!)...I'm sure that somehow, it'll all get done. I hope.

Syracuse is playing again tomorrow, at 7:00. They're up against Butler. This is definitely going to be their toughest game yet, but I'll be rooting them on. I'll definitely be wearing my Orange shirt all day, just like on all the other game days, and it seems to be a good luck charm so far. If they lose, my bracket will really be worthless. Of the teams in the Sweet 16, only 6 of them were the ones I chose in my bracket. But at least I'm not the only one with a worthless bracket; it seems like everyone is having a rough go of it this year.