I wasn’t serious about the chicken of the sea thing

By: Melissa | March 24th, 2008

A friend of mine has a roommate who is currently trying to decide which law school to attend. He apparently got accepted to a few places but is dead set on NYU because after he spoke to a graduate at some event, she informed him she lived in Pacific Heights. He then rushed home and looked up the value of her house online and decided that NYU was the place for him because he would obviously make more money after he graduates than he would at any other school. In fact, when I was over at my friend’s house this past weekend, I overheard the roommate asking someone, “what was it about my application essay that NYU saw and Harvard didn’t?” Indeed. My guess is, the roommate will be moving to New York in a few months and many of us are of the opinion that the day he’s gone can’t come soon enough. But, ok, my point is this - his situation got me thinking about my own goals in life and I spent some time over the weekend pondering whatever personal milestones I’d like to accomplish in the near future but so far, I can’t think of anything past “don’t die.” So now I’m wondering, is the douchey roommate better off because he has clear and consistent, although extremely shallow, goals yet I have no clue what I want a year, six months, or even three months from now?

Feel free to comment on my little moral dilemma if you care. Moving on to the Earthquakes, today the Quakes announced a partnership with KFC called “Colonel’s Corner” where a limited number of vouchers for what looks like decent seats at the home games are available at KFC restaurants. Section 107 at Buck Shaw and Sections 231 and 232 at The Oakland Coliseum will be officially branded (attack of the KFC logo!) and those vouchers will set you back a paltry $15 for seats. No word on whether the seats come with your own serving of a failure pile in a sadness bowl but lets all keep our fingers crossed.

There are quite a few new articles online and many of them consist of previews and predictions for our little expansion team. I’d like to pull together a post this week that goes over them and maybe give a little summary of where everyone else thinks we’re at so stay tuned for that. Also, word on the street is, Guy Roland Kpene was just cut by DC United. Will we also be joining us in training camp? Also, I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that because Yuri Morales did not sub in at the end of the game against New York, he already left training camp. Especially after I discovered the Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers are about to start. Did he maybe leave to go participate in that?

And for those of you chomping at the bit for a jersey, SSV reports that the Soccer Pro stores in San Jose, Dublin, Pleasant Hill, and Modesto have them in stock already.