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Five Things I've Learned About Myself This SAT Season (From Dogs)

5. I smell intriguing.
4. I appear threatening for somewhere between five and 30 seconds.
3. My jeans legs? Delicious.
2. I would look better with dog's drool on my pants. Especially if I'm heading to a casting director workshop directly after the lesson.
1. Loving me is based on food.

An Avalanche of Thanks

I hadn't expected the time period around my birthday to be this hectic. But I've got a Award-ceremony-list of people to thank and I want to get that out there first.

Thanks to:

• Everyone who donated to Fight Gone Bad, and therefore played a role in making me look like this:

Crossfits around the U.S. combined to raise over $500,000 for prostate cancer research and the Wounded Warrior Project. Then Safeway matched all of it, so more than $1,000,000 was donated!

• Dave and Rose for putting me up on their couch for a week - and putting up with me on their couch for a week.
• Everyone in DC who made time for me during my visit, especially Darren, who organized dinner one night, Erin, for breaking up her drive to Jersey to say hi, and Lilya, who got me pretty drunk.
• The U.S. National Team, for crushing Cuba 6-1 while I was in attendance. I'll forgive the loss Wednesday to T&T just for that.
• Juniper Lane, for once again setting its schedule to fit my flight plans (ha!).
• Jes, for dinner.
• Pictures will be uploaded sporadically over at Flickr.

In Love, In Fear, In Hate, In Tears - James, House of Blues Anaheim, 10/5/08

There seems to be a certain self-assuredness that comes with age. The longing for acceptance subsides slightly, at least to the outside eye, as an awareness of who one is takes over.

I am speaking, of course, of James.

In Conversation, Sunday Night

Him: What's the game you're watching?

Me: Estudiantes versus Boca Juniors. Argentine league.

Him: Oh. There are so many soccer leagues in Europe.

On 30

Three eggs. Four pieces of bacon. A piece of toast. Kinda. I don’t own a toaster. So a piece of wheat bread with butter.