hello, nyc!

sunday morning, j & i went to brunch at the home of one of her student's parents. the mother lives in a beautiful brownstone in harlem, which she's in the process of rennovating. after a bellini or two, we rode down to central park for j's weekly soccer game. unfortunately, 10 minutes after i left to get to the airport, one of j's friends broke his leg & experienced serious agony. he broke both the tibia & fibula. it doesn't surprise me - the playing surface is really uneven. i'm surprised more people don't get injured! anyway, the person in the top picture, third from right, just got engaged saturday night - congratulations, blue eyes! the one standing with j, o, is from ireland. he & 13 of his friends dressed up as elvis & went on a pub crawl downtown on saturday. unfortunately, we never had time to track them down and take pictures. o seemed to be in fine shape, however, one day after such an event. i would've still been in bed at 4pm.