  The sun is a beautiful thing. It’s so nice to see sunlight. I realize this must seem a strange statement to my friends and family back home, but with all of these tall buildings here in the city, you don’t actually see the sun. I’m so glad that today is Friday! It felt weird not having to wake Chris up at 4 something this morning, but I automatically woke up anyway.
Once I remembered that Chris was off today, I turned back over and drifted off to la-la land. Well, it’s official: The “naked photographer” has been captured in Ohio. This guy, who happens to be a staff lawyer for the state House, ambushed women in order to take pictures of their shocked expressions. Huh? He was charged with public indecency and assault, posted bail and was released. He was then rearrested the following day when investigators searched his home and found incriminating photos, which led to charges of felony kidnapping and gross sexual imposition.
Police think he kept these photos as souvenirs. Just goes to show you that being a pack rat can be a bad thing. There is a story on WNBC.com concerning the death of a college student who died after riding on top of a subway train last weekend, the 6 train to be exact. The stupid thing is that someone did the same thing in October. They died. This most current subway surfer wasn’t alone.
Another student died instantly of a fractured skull. The tunnels here in NYC aren’t like those that I’ve seen in Washington DC. In DC, the tunnels are huge. Here, they’re just big enough for the trains to fit through. In sad news, also from WNBC.com, an elderly man was killed by a street sweeper after being crushed and possibly dragged after the sweeper backed up. OK, I read this one and started to pass it up, but I just couldn’t do it. In the Manhattan Supreme Court, celebrities honored jury duty at the Court’s Juror Appreciation Day. In the presence of other famous New Yorkers -- Regis Philbin, James Earl Jones, Ralph Lauren – Twyla Tharp danced, Judy Collins sang, and Jon Stewart joked. Seems silly enough, but read the urlLink article . I read an interesting article on MSNBC.com about resistance to the Patriot Act.
To be quite honest, I don’t know exactly how I feel about the Act myself, but I thought it was a good read, so check it out. urlLink http://www.msnbc.com/news/996267.asp?0cv=CB20 People magazine has named Johnny Depp as the Sexiest Man Alive. I agree. To lose one pound, it is necessary to cheat the body of 3,500 calories — say, 500 a day for a week, or 350 a day for 10 days. 
