NG overload

I've read three National Geographics in the past three days. (yes, I do have a life, it's just moving a little slowly at the moment.) June's issue has quite a good article on soccer, due, I'm sure, to the World Cup, which will begin soon. They highlighted several of the teams who have qualified and discussed how soccer is pretty much worldwide, and it really made me want to play on a team again. I played a little last semester with Dave and his lab, but due to something weird I do when I kick, I succeeded in pulling my right quad several times and therefore wasn't contributing much to the team. But before that, I hadn't played on a team since high school. (and even the last two years there are questionable, since I spent so much time on the bench while the same group of girls played all the time and our coach never subbed any of us benchers in...totally unfair...I mean, come on, we were a JV squad, we weren't even varsity! What we did didn't really matter!) *ahem* Anyway...I really enjoyed the article and learning about some of the teams. So. Perhaps I will try and catch some of the games on tv.

I also thought the nanotechnology article was pretty interesting. As was the one on the Moche mummy from Peru, though that was a lot shorter than I would have liked. (i do have quite a liking for archeaology, so i get rather disappointed when an archeaological article isn't as long as i think it could be.)

So I just wrote a whole entry discussing a National Geographic magazine. At least I got caught up on all of them. My next reading selection will be "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd.

Party on Saturday. Whoo!

Got some random shopping to get done, need to do a more intensive job search for while I'm in grad school, should probably take my violin out of the case and play through some stuff just for the hell of it, and also go back to the piano and actually make myself learn how to play the damn thing this time.

Buonanotte a tutti.