It's cold today brrrrrrr.... Only one week left here in Philly, I'm already counting the hours before I can be sitting in my car and see "Welcome to Philadelphia" in my rearview mirror!!! I haven't written much lately. It's not that I was too busy to find the time. It's not that I did not want to write either. I just didn't have anything important to say. One gets tired pretty quickly of describing the smell of Philadelphia. Why is it that everything smells so bad here anyways?

I think watching the news, listening to more stories of heroes and victims of the September 11 tragedy, of this war against an invisible enemy halfway across the world and of this threat of more acts of terror hitting much closer to home, makes you see life in a different light. Perhaps it is not so tragic that there are no grocery stores in downtown Philadelphia. Or perhaps at least it is not important enough to write an entire diary entry about it.