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Last week I penned, or I guess typed, in this instance, a blog in which I picked the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl and claimed that no one should doubt Tom Brady. What I meant to say was: no one should doubt Tom Brady unless a linebacker rolls over his knee tearing his ACL and MCL.

It’s hard for me to cry over Brady’s injury after spending all of last season wishing that he would just go away. Now that he has, I think it’s time for some new teams to make some noise in the crowded AFC.

Greetings from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China! I am writing this from my fifth-story apartment in downtown Hangzhou. It is the end of rainy season and so afternoon showers have sent me inside since I left my umbrella in a taxi last week.

I arrived to Hangzhou nine days ago and in those nine days I feel as if I have had a lifetime of experiences.

A couple of months ago, I was pining for football season. As my Mets sat in oblivion, I couldn’t wait for the NFL to start back up. Well now, the Mets lead the NL East by three games going into a weekend showdown with second place Philly. Still, to be as corny as possible: I’M READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!

With the season starting tonight with a game where all I can hope is that both teams injury as many guys on the other team as possible, it’s time I came up with my picks to stick in the NFL this season as well as my picks for Week 1.

I am moving to China today.

It’s kind of crazy because I always knew that this day would arrive. I have been telling people since middle school that I wanted to live in China for, “one to three years,” and here I am, leaving for one to three years. I never really doubted that my dream of residing in the middle country would come true and here I am, with my ticket in hand and a pile of luggage at the front door.

I wrote last week about a certain Olympic addiction. Well, with the games closing yesterday, I’m going through a rough time having to quit cold turkey. What am I going to watch with no handball at 4:30 am on MSNBC? Where will I go for my badminton fix? HOW CAN I POSSIBLY GO ON WITHOUT COMPETITIVE TRAMPOLINE?

I’m not sure of the answer to any of those questions, but I’m sure I’ll make it somehow. I have filled up my DVR with the likes of Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson and, of course, Alicia Sacramone so there’s always that. Plus the NFL starts in 10 days and baseball is hitting the stretch run with my Mets in the thick of a pennant race. But before I kiss the Summer Olympics goodbye for another four years, here are my winners, losers and other awards that no one really cares about but me.

Eleanor Roosevelt said, “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience[s].” During my time in D.C. I’ve been trying to follow Eleanor’s advice and grab new experiences with both hands, and I have to say: I haven’t done half bad.

You know that feeling like a calm before the storm, when you know some really big life change is about to happen, but everything seems strangely normal and you’re just sitting around waiting for the world to shake up? I feel like that these days. All the time.

Summer school is over (thank goodness; grad school is HARD) and I have a total of 15 days and 37 minutes left in the States. I was so relieved to leave the West Coast, it just feels different to me, and that LA earthquake freaked me out! I have never experienced an earthquake before, and I hope never to again.

In between checking up on the Olympics and desperately trying to get last-minute projects out of the way before the semester starts, I found a very interesting article online.

Apparently scientists are coming close to developing a way to make three-dimensional objects (and people!) invisible. Think this is something out of “Harry Potter” or “Star Trek”? Think again.

And I’m addicted to the Olympics.

The Olympics started this week and in no uncertain terms, I’m hooked. Morning and night, at the gym and in the living room, when I go to sleep and when I wake up. I’ve got Olympic fever.

The Child Development Society (CDS) is an organization interested in working for the cause of children. Over 60 percent of the population in Nepal is under the poverty line. One of the many things CDS does is provide free non-formal education for those children suffering from poverty. After hearing about the school, my mother, sister, brother and I decided to take a trip.