Today is officially the first day of Fall and although the summer is gone I like to look back at what I did this summer. Usually during the summer I take one two week vacation and go somewhere, but this year it was a string of smaller trips. The first one was in June when I went to Chicago which turned out to be a good time, its only flaw was that I went alone cause no one else could go at the time. The next one came in August when I went to Newport, Rhode Island for the Apple and Eve festival that wasn't as much fun as it should have been. Then there was Portland and Augusta, Maine these two towns took me by surprise. I expected Augusta to be the big city of Maine manily because its the capital but it was smaller than the town I live in New Jersey. Portland however was amazing, its situated on a hill so when your driving towards it you can see its buildings from pretty far away and the Harbor is great there are about 5 Islands that you can see when standing on the shore. The last stop on my list for the summer was Syracuse, besides the whole mono thing Syracuse is like any other city in New York State that isn't New York City, an old failed industrial town. Massachusetts actually has alot of rundown industrial cities as well, but thats besides the point. Portland was my favorite on my list of new places visited this summer. Now that I've bored you with that, I should probably say that I am feeling my old self again and I might be going to Philly this week which should be a lot of fun.   ¶ 3:43 PM

  Hey so I'm writing to you from Jersey, yes alot has happened in the past month and a half. My co-op job was a huge bust in Boston, I ended up working at Northeastern University's Registrars Office. Second to last on the list of jobs that I've ever had. Now my co-op advisor has set me up with a couple of interviews in Manhattan, working in NYC has always been a goal of mine. Theres just something about the hustle and bustle of the morning rush hour into the city that fascinates me. Well I don't have the job yet so I can't get to excited.
Last week I went on a trip to Syracuse with my friend Ryan. We left Boston on Sunday afternoon and it took until about 10 p.m. that night to get to Syracuse. The school was just as I remembered it, huge and full of parties even on a sunday night. We made the rounds with two girls Christine and Rachel, before ending up back in there dorms for the night. The drinking was insane at this place. I didn't do to much drinking however because I started to feel sick on the trip there. Monday went by and my condition worstened, by Tuesday I couldn't get out of bed, I was so happy when Wednesday came around and it was time to go home. I went right to the Hospital when I got back to Boston, the doctors told me I had swollen tonsils and would have to have them remove. I spent the day in hospital and had only one removed the one that was the problem the doctors said. "Drink lots of water, and eat Jello," they said as they discharged me prematurely. I went back to 76 calumet that night and went fast asleep in the living room. I spent the next 15 or 16 hours in there just sleeping. I knew that there wassomething else wrong with me because I was running a fever of 105. I checked myself back into the hospital the very next morning. Thats when I found out I had mononucleocitosis ( The Kissing Disease). Jeff and Jessica drove me home on Friday and thats how I find myself in the great state of NJ once again.  ¶ 4:29 PM