last post for a whileeeeeee

so ive been all over the place out here and therefore terrible at updating, my bad

song of the day is courtesy of win jones, good work buddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY

earlier in the week i went rock climbing with derek and its gonna be my new impulsive hobby, i can already tell



we didnt actually do any toproping (using belays and harnesses etc) but we did more bouldering which is just climbing routes that go up to like maximum 12 feet and you dont need all the protective stuff. Derek insta turned into a 6 year old and was running around and rolling on the mats like a gymnast on crack

but its really fun and good exercise and something new so A++, plus we can go when the climbing gym is totally empty like mondays at 11 am so its great

im on a reading kick so I spent the rest of the week finishing up The Jordan Rules (book following the chicago bulls through Michael Jordans first NBA championship season) and Into Thin Air (story of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster) and they were both awesome. Now im on to reading the roy williams and agassi autobiographies so i can steal their secrets and become wildly successful at whatever I do



sabo's birthday was the 9th and scott's was the 12th so we had some people over friday night to hang out. Being the perfect planners that we are, we managed to tell about half the people it was 80's themed and forget to tell the rest. We were gonna go to a thrift store to get 80ish clothes friday afternoon but we all fell asleep, so sabo and mithil dressed normal, sean wore an ugly christmas sweater, i just looked like an idiot, and scott ended up looking like a miami vice character. success? this is actually the only picture i took all night, but emily and felsha and juliana were allstars and rocked 80's to the core



my friends from across the bridge even made it out (and they were dressed to a TEE) but all those pictures are on maren's camera so i will put them up later

then the next day, two teachers from sabo's school were having a christmas party at their place in san francisco so we threw on some cocktail attire and meandered on over and sipped some eggnog and chummed it up. it was a fun time and their place is awesome so hopefully we can schmooze our way back soon.

on our way home from the party our friend Angel took us to one of her favorite taquerias where sabo and I promptly ate 5 tacos each. Theres a wonderful authentic taqueria on every corner of every block in san francisco and I will miss that when I leave fosho



sabo, scott, and mithil were ALL sick this week (hahah the 3 of the 5 of us in the house who interact with the real world = sick) so ive been desperately trying to avoid it before I fly out wednesday. Its all gonna be in vain because I know I will get owned as soon as I get back into the continuous sinus infection pass off between the baker/dew households in NC but we can all dream

Sabo and I have a tour de california planned after christmas break, which should be really fun. he doesnt start school until pretty late so tentative plans are

jan 1: we both fly back into SFO, we drive to tahoe
jan 2-3 : snowboard at tahoe
jan 4-5: drive to mammoth and snowboard/ski there
jan 6: drive down to pasadena
jan 7: go to alabama vs texas at the bcs national championship game
jan 8-11: bum around southern california down in OC and LA and san diego
jan 12: make our way back up to oakland

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

see you all soon love NICKY

ps - i typed this up while distracted playing cards so ignore something if it doesnt make sense

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