Lately

Hmm. I feel like posting tonight but have no idea what to say.

Let's start with a kicking photograph: Costa Rica's Arenal Volcano

For this occassion, I'll make a list. This will be a list without a title, but just about random bits of my current state of affairs lately:

• this morning I got an email from friend in Argentina. She is pregnant with baby boy and is engaged suddenly. Eight months ago, when I met her on a street in Florence, she had a backpack strapped to her and didn't know where she was going in two days, much less in her life. Damn, life straightens itself out and solidifies pretty quickly sometimes.
• I've been working out lately. I joined the Preston Center and my lawd, I'm loving it. I have started playing raquetball, I've started doing the weight machines (odd contraptions that look like sex machines or dental equipment or something but really all they give you are sore muscles--hmm, not so different at all, really), I've played walleyball (um, awesome) with a math professor, basketball with a french professor, a guy from Turkey, and a friend from Pakistan (as I played I kind of felt like I was in the Olympics), and I've played badmitton. Life getting fit is fun!
• My high school prom date is now my facebook friend. She's engaged and we're having lunch together soon.
  
• I'm not in NYC. Instead, I'll be in Louisville tomorrow night.
  
• Coyotes have been howling outside my house recently at night.
  
• The song "Halloween" by Ryan Adams has been in my head since I heard it this afternoon.
• In the past 48 hours, I've watched "Crash" twice and freaking love the film.
  
• I just finished watching "Cold Mountain" again and wonder why Jude Law and Natalie Portman don't just get married in real life. Even though Natalie Portman is only in that movie for about five minutes, that scene between them is the most beautiful.
  
• Last night I went for drinks with a friend at Baker Boys. This was my first time ever there and I would like to award them the local award for "Worst mixed drink." Learn some bartending skills or just serve beer.
• I have a headlight out on my car.
• I wish I could play old-time string music.

Goodnight world.