another sunny afternoon walking to the sound of my favorite tune.

breakfast: the most important meal of the day...regardless of the time of day. :) best post-practice meal to date.

sound bites @ broadway and josephine in somerville.

follow the yellow brick road.

ah...so its a left onto nbrnghse...rd?

fireworks flying whenever we're together.

friday night fireworks from the hotel. taken with my cell phone.

all the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players.

so with photos pending, this past weekend was the montreal ultimate tournament, comedy of errors, where i had the privilege of picking up with a team from good ol' boston, merely players. following a trend of shakespearean themed titles every year, coe is known as a fun summer tournament held in montreal for a multitude of canadian ultimate teams, and a couple us teams based out of boston, mass. this year, the americans consisted of us, the merely players, and flowchart ultimate, a buda summer league team.

within the duration of coe, this was easily the hardest and best i've played ultimate in a long-ass while, and quite easily one of the tournaments i've had the most fun at. it was all for laughs, but competitive enough to push and motivate. all well-spirited, but just as intense. i may have injured myself within the first half of the first game there, but whatever. so much fun, i really didn't care. i didn't sit in the car for a five and a half hour drive to sit on the sidelines and nurse my hamstring...then ankle...then knee. psshhh...i was there to play. compared to what i had been feeling ultimate-wise for the summer so far, this was a breath of fresh air. a truly welcomed, aggressive, productive, ultimate-filled breath of fresh air.

we didn't do quite as well as we'd hoped. going for gold, we ended up fifth after going 6-1 all weekend, with the one loss ending on universe point in a tough game against toronto's monster in the quarterfinals. had it not been for that one loss, we may well have achieved our goal and won the tournament seeing as the winners of coe were the montréal all-stars, who we had beaten solidly on day one 13-9. oh well, at least this still has the team in good standings for the tournament next year.

big thanks to sasha for arranging all this and letting me come along to play with the merely players. it was the competitiveness, intensity and level of play i had been looking for for a long while now. and i'm glad i got a chance to get a taste of it.

next up: wildwood. sweet.

protegera nos foyers et nos droits.

l'entrée au canada quand je suis visitée à montréal le weekend dernière pour un tournoi du frisbee.

sex on the beach.

...okay. not really. but c'mon! ^

there's a cure, you've found it.

woohoo! stripping and scraping done!

let the fun part begiiiiiiinnnn!!!!....



...at some point. soon.

you paint that shit gold.

having a job opportunity you thought you had in the bag fall through on you feels like shit. good thing is: there's nothing like good, old-fashioned, hands-on work to make yourself feel better and useful. i love it. the feeling of physically doing something useful and seeing the fruits of your labor come into being right before your eyes. awesome.

i wasn't allowed to paint my room when i was younger, and looking back, it never made sense to do that in hk anyway. but now i can! paint a room that is. it may not be mine, but its a project that's special to me anyway. i'm glad we're getting the chance.

<-- the left side of the room currently, and what the room looked like originally. plastic-y, made-to-look-like-wood wallpaper [apparently with multiple layers of old wallpaper underneath it, too.] with plastic, wood-like molding along the ceiling line.

the central view of the room. -->
old wallpaper has been torn off but there are still scraps of previous wallpaper left behind with adhesive residue. gross. seriously. the stuff, when you scrape it off, looks like greasy, stringy chicken bits of fat.

<-- the right side of the room at the time. after finally scraping the surfaces clean, we have ready-to-prime drywall underneath. who's excited?? this kid!






so these photos were taken some time in the afternoon. working from 1pm-ish until 10-something pm, we've managed to scrape and clean about half of the room. tasks left: the other half, clean the ceiling, prime and paint walls, paint ceiling, paint windows and doors/frames. all while constantly rearranging furniture out of the way so we can actually access the walls we're working on. wonder how long this will all take...

i seriously love doing this stuff though. i could spend the whole rest of the summer doing stuff like this and be happy.

lessons learned: gender stereotypes are meant to be fucked with.

ouch.

this somewhat defies the point, no?