This past week marked the beginning of my graduate school career. I am not sure what that means just yet, and thats a little frightening and exciting. As a graduate social work student I will have two days of classes and three days of field placement, where I will actually be in a social work setting doing social work things. I don’t know how I am supposed to know what these social work things are as that is what I am going to school for, but I guess we will see.

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So I no longer have to pay an extra daily fee to rent a car. That’s like Corolla cool baby.

What else happened on my 25th birthday? Anna and I put on makeup, dolled ourselves up and went to Terrace in the Sky near Columbia thanks to a generous gift certificate from my best man Bill. I’ll just say it. My wife looked pretty hot. She’s a 10. I’m not sure how hot I was. I’m probably pulling down a solid 6 or 7 right now.

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On Saturday I was browsing through a free newspaper Drew picked up at the subway and I saw something that read, “Last day to see Governor’s Island for free Sunday, September 1st.” I had no idea what it was, but I thought we should definitely go, especially since it was the last day to go. Drew agreed. So after heading to Mass at the beautiful Church of Notre Dame, we hopped on the 1 - train and headed south to the tip of Manhattan.

I must let all of you know that the subways are crazy on the weekends. Usually the 1 train would take us right to the port for the ferry to Governor’s Island, but not so on the weekend. We had to find another train that took us close to where we wanted to go before we hit 14th street. Luckily, we have started the habit of always carrying a subway map with us, so even though we will perpetually look like tourists, we know (kind of) where we are going….unless its the weekend, of course.

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