On Thursday night I went to a co-worker's place to play racquet ball with him. He lives in Jersey. This was my first time in Jersey, which is just over the Hudson from Manhattan. Because the Hudson is pretty wide even though Jersey is pretty close, it seems far away. Say Mississauga to Toronto. Playing racquet ball was fun. I think I want to play more racquet sports when I move to New York, because I think racquet sports are fun, and because I think it'll be hard to continue my regular workout routine of ultimate and climbing.

Anyway, two interesting things happened on the Path to and from Jersey. The Path is like the subway, but it's not connected to the rest of the MTA system, and for some reason it costs less but takes you further. It's just an underground train from Manhattan to Jersey. Anyway, we took the Path from the World Trade Center. There's a Path station right in ground zero. I don't know if it was there before 9/11. As soon as the train started moving a female passenger tried to go from our car to another. There are signs saying you shouldn't do this, but people do it all the time. I guess the train went around the bend and the platforms between the cars shifted and she fell between the cars, while the train was moving. She held onto something, and luckily a guy standing next to the door pulled her back up. She was missing a shoe and pretty freaked out but otherwise ok. The other weird thing is that on the way back into the city the Path train drives around the bottom of the ground zero crater, and you can see into the site. It just looks like a construction site, but is kind of eerie. This second thing isn't particularly special, people do it every day, but was unexpected and kind of cool.

Today I watched the world cup final. Italy won. Then I went to Dan and Eleanor's house. We had dinner. Andrew and Joyce and Jaime were there. We ate meatloaf and then ice cream cake. The ice cream cake tasted like happy. The meatloaf had too many herbs and too much tomato sauce and Dan felt bad. It was funny. Jaime made a video of Andrew but Andrew thought he was just taking a picture. That was funny too. Later I'm going to go to my hotel and send some emails to people I work with. Status emails are fun.