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They came baby!

Also have a nice sunburn. The weather has been very nice the last couple of days. Trying to study in the sun.

Took my new camera for a ride in NYC. Was doap. A brief selection, will update with more photos later.

I find it hard to combine my schoolwork with nice weather, folks. School is getting busier and busier still. I have about three papers to write varying in topics. One on Hemingway’s writing style. One on Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and American Modernism. And one on the after effects of Vietnam on America. That’s American Studies for ya.

Sometimes I really do not know why I opted for this degree. But hey, I’m only twenty-two so who cares.

Just looking at Harley Van Valen’s blog about his journey from nyc2rio. I (digitally) met him when I was looking up van Valens throughout the world. His website is inspiring.

I have decided I want to go to Japan after I graduate and study Japanese at the Yamasa Institute. I don’t know where to start my post-University-of-Utrecht life but this seems like a good start.

Will go to NYC tomorrow. Aim to arrive at about seven o’clock in the (Sunday) morning so that I can make some nice pictures of the city in quiet mode with nice morning lighting. I’m rooting for a bright day. It is looking good(ish).

I-am-so-happy!

In response to yz-s’s awesome blogging: here’s mine. Keep up the good work, homie. P.S. If you’re not Dutch and wondering why you cannot understand much of what I’m saying, it’s because it’s not in English.

I am either too lazy or too busy to do the rest of the NYC trip fully documented. So here are the highlights: nice bars, nice people, free screw drivers, coney island is eerie, coney island aquarium freak thing, vandalized ATMs, Ice-T’s birthday party.