This crazy rollercoaster ride of a year so far is taking me to San Diego next week. I'm very enthusiastic but at the sametime to me this move symbolizes the end of something else which I wanted very much. By me moving to the West Coast, I think it means I am giving up on my dream of living in Europe. I only got 2 years out of it so far, and I would have loved to spend the rest of my life there, but it appears it wasn't in the cards for me this time. I might try my luck again in a few years if the right opportunity were to present its self. The chances of that happening will decrease with me living about 8,000 miles from the nearest European country however. Its not the first time i have watched one of my dreams die and I'm sure it won't be the last time either.  ¶ 4:13 PM

 
The last few years of my life have been so unpredictable that i should have known I couldn't even predict a few hours down the road. This morning I went to my third interview this week and the job was an excellent one but the interview was the strangest one I have ever been on. It was over before I even got asked a single question. The guy looked at my resume and said "very good, do you have any questions for me?" Then once I returned home from that interview I got the call back about my status for the one in California, and it appears that all systems are go for Operation San Diego. I didn't want to talk about it too much because I didn't want to jinx the fact that I had even planned to go out there for the sake of it not happening and me looking stupid in the end. Next week on Wednesday or Thursday I will head out there for a job that will start the following Monday. I'm excited but worried at the sametime, worried that things somehow just won't work out and I will be stuck 3000 miles away in a state I have only briefly visited once 2 years ago without anyone I really know well living there with me. I'm excited because the opportunity is even greater than the job that I just left behind in Ireland with more potential and more Benjamin Franklins as well. I have only been back for a month and already I'm on the move again, my life is so crazy right now, but I expect that it will stabalize soon and it might even get boring!  ¶ 7:07 PM

  It's Memorial Day weekend and just like I always remembered the weather is amazing here, about 78 degrees F and sunny. Tonight I'm going into Manhatten for a night out. It's been a long time since I have been out in the city, but my friend Bobby from Georgia has been living there for the last 4 months and it will be great to see him again. The last time we hung out was back in Sept 2006, when I was up in Boston visiting for my last time before going to Europe. We went out for sushi with Esther, Dave, and Berd.  ¶ 1:25 PM

 
I have a lot to write about for the first time in a long time. I'll begin with the most important story which is I registered to vote on monday, as a massachusetts resident for the second time. What's more important is that I'm a registered member of the Socialist party. I will probably vote for the democratic candidate that ends up winning the nomination, only because they tend to push for things more closely related to socialism than capitalism, i.e. universal healthcare. The reason I'm registered in Mass and not NJ is because I became a Mass resident in 2002 when I was getting my driver's license there.
Now secondly I realized that all of my friends thought I'm from New Jersey, which offends me slightly, only because NJ is so lame. The truth is I'm a New Yorker, born in NYC but only spent the first 5-6 years of my life living in the city proper. Still when it comes down to it, I'd rather be known as a New Yorker than a? What do you call people from New Jersey anyway, is it New Jerseyan?
Manchester United won the Champions League tonight in Moscow, which makes them officially the best team in Europe. I felt like I had just won the lottery while I was watching them celebrate, atleast I hope thats what it will feel like when I when the lottery. Christiano Ronaldo scored 42 goals for the season which is probably the most impressive thing I have ever seen in soccer. What it compares to for all you none soccer fans would be a guy in Major League Baseball hitting 60 homeruns in a season, or in the NBA when someone averages 35 points a game for an entire season. Congrats on the Champions league victory, I'll be expecting them to repeat next year of course.

By the way that is the Socialist Flag of Sweden, I'm not a communist for all of you thinking otherwise.  ¶ 5:59 PM

  Today is my blog's 5th birthday, which is pretty amazing. The last 12 months were the best ever in terms of the content that I wrote in my blog, basically because of all the traveling and European adventures that were involved. I'm writing this one from Boston, the place where it all started, I've been up here for the past few days visiting some of my friends. I apologize to anyone that I didn't get to see on this trip, but I might be back up here again really soon.  ¶ 5:59 PM

  Here is another post finally, and my first one since being back in America. I have been back here for 2 weeks now and i spent a week of that in Florida, which was really nice. The tempurature was around 94 degrees everyday and the beaches were amazing. One thing I noticed was that the people were actually really fat, I was amazed because the whole time I was in Europe all I heard from the Europeans was how fat americans are, and then I discovered that they all live in Florida. The election coming up in November has been all anyone seems to talk about since I have been back, and its not as clear cut for the democrats as I thought it was. It seems that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have split the party in 2 and that the front-runner is now John McCain. If Hillary wins the Democratic party nomination she appears to have the best shot at winning the overall general election in November, where as Barack seems destined to lose in November if he is the candidate that is put forward. As always we will have to wait to see how it plays out but, I'm predicting a third consectutive term of a republican president.  ¶ 5:34 PM