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Passion!

Life must be lived with passion! Recently I have taken up salsa and tango. Classes meet once a week on Sunday evenings, and it's lots of fun. But at this point, even kids dance better than me (see below!).

One of the Schapiro Seven, and my roommate at that, came to visit over the weekend. It was good seeing Jason again. Columbia provides housing for all four years, and most of the rooms are singles. But due to a terrible lottery pick, we ended up picking doubles for sophomore year. Jason and I got along very well so we decided to room together. It was a great year, though the room was the smallest on the floor! Jason, Ed and I still regularly get together online for some Starcraft, the best game possibly ever made. They've actually moved on to other games such as World of Warcraft, but several factors have prevented me from trying it out. Maybe some day...I know they are itching for me to join hah. You know we are crazy about gaming when even though I have experiments to run, we ended up taking laptops to my office Tuesday night to play Starcraft while I occasionally checked up on the experiment!

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