Brazil v. Italy

I’m eating pizza right now. It always makes me so happy.

I read a weekly email from USC today and was severely disappointed when I learned I will be missing a guest lecture by the revolutionary physicist Stephen Hawking at USC this March. I know London is a very cool place, and I’m very happy I came here this semester, but USC is also a very cool place and it’s painful to miss out on some of the great things going on there this semester. There are just too many good things going on in my life right now; it is agonizing.

Tonight, some friends and I took the tube to Arsenal stadium to watch the Brazil v. Italy football (that’s soccer, for all you uncultured folk) match. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd as excited as this one was. There were 60,077 people at the game, and all of them (with the exception of myself) were screaming their heads off. I had my doubts about how exciting a soccer game would be, but it was an experience. The players are unbelievably agile with the ball, and their passing skills are perfect. Brazil ended up winning the match 2-0. The second goal was very fun to see; one Brazil player, with some spectacular footwork, wound his way through three or four Italy players before kicking it into the goal. And I’m proud to say I upheld the seeming Maloney tradition of having the seat as far away from the field/court as possible. My assigned seat was one row from the top of the stadium.

Unfortunately, I forgot to put the memory card into my camera when I left, so I didn’t get any pictures. But, if any of you appreciate puns as much as I do, I could type a few thousand words for you to look at. (HAHAHAHA!!!!)