birthdayriffic!

August 23rd 2009 was incredible!

I woke up to a surprise that brought me to tears! Jon had some members of the West Philly Orchestra play a few wake up tunes in my apartment!

Then, my mom, who would later gift me this here vacuum of my dreams

arrived and the three of us biked to Dhyana yoga for an 11 AM class.

We then ate lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, Fork

and proceeded home for an apricot fruit slump that my mom created. It was accompanied by a chilled honeydew coconut tapioca soup.

(note--the "25" candles were reused--my mom happened to find what were her "52" candles from a few years back!)

Overall, it was an amazing day!

beard net

you would frown too, if it happened to you!

and i know because of KRS-One

rapper KRS-One is a vegetarian. he has a song called "Beef." the words go a little something like this:

Let us begin now with the cow
The way it gets to your plate and how
The cow doesn't grow fast enough for man
So through his greed he makes a faster plan
He has drugs to make the cow grow quicker
Through the stress the cow gets sicker
Twenty-one different drugs are pumped
Into the cow in one big lump
So just before it dies, it cries
In the slaughterhouse full of germs and flies
Off with the head, they pack it, drain it, and cart it
And there it is, in your local supermarket
Red and bloody, a corpse, neatly packed
And you wonder about heart attacks?

cool running!

on september 6th, jon and I will be running the Budapest Half Marathon!


it will not only be loads of fun BUT it will certainly be an interesting cultural experiment to see how my fellow Hungarians are during a race compared to Americans.
I predict they will be more competitive!