Roosevelt Island
Last night Cassie and Martin made the trek out to Roosevelt Island with me to watch Andy play soccer. Roosevelt Island is located between Manhattan and Queens, in the East River. It's about 2 miles long and 800 feet across at its widest point. There are apartment buildings on the island, and a few stores, giving it sort of a small town feeling. We walked along the shoreline which had fantastic views of Manhattan up to the soccer field where Andy was playing. During the game Martin let me try out his Nikon D40 which I think we will be purchasing in the near future, barring a disaster at my dentist appointment this afternoon.
Before the game, Martin and Andy....
Andy, I assume doing some sort of soccer stretch I don't know about...
during the game
Andy in action
taking a free kick
more Andy in action
Roosevelt Island, looking south towards the Queensborough Bridge
To get to the game, we took the subway but on the way back I was convinced to take the tram, even though I hate heights and am scared to death of trams. This is the same tram that was stuck with a carload of passengers for eleven hours a mere two years ago. I spent the entire ride with my face buried in Andy's back but Martin took the pictures below which show that I missed some really great views.
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Bad Language
Pretty much everyone who knows me knows that I have pretty foul mouth. Cursing doesn't offend me but any sort of slur...even slightly racist or homophobic really annoys me. Which brings me to one of Andy's most annoying habits...using the word "gay" to mean bad in some way. Now I know Andy has nothing against the gay community and has gay friends but for some reason this word is stuck in his vocabulary. For example, Notre Dame is "gay" the fact that Nick didn't like Superman Returns is "gay" etc... So, as a New Years Resolution I asked Andy to break this habit because of the homophobic undercurrents. In order to do this, we had to come up with a substitute for "gay" which is now "frat." I came up with this (you probably could have guessed that) sort of to throw it back in the face of the whole fraternity culture which I think is where he picked up "gay" even though he wasn't in a frat. So now, Notre Dame is frat and Nick is so frat for not liking Superman Returns. I haven't seen the movie, this is Andy's opinion. Andy has so far successfully executed the use of frat on two occassions and I haven't heard "gay" out of his mouth since. Let's hope he can keep it up!
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you know you're married to a science dork when.....
last night Andy and I were getting in bed..he was already laying down and I got in bed and moved my pillow over so that it was slightly overlapping his...he pushed my pillow back over and said "oh no no no, we are not going to cross-pillinate."
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Before the game, Martin and Andy....
Andy, I assume doing some sort of soccer stretch I don't know about...
during the game
Andy in action
taking a free kick
