By Anita Felicelli
About this blog: I grew up in Palo Alto and now live in Mountain View with my husband, daughter and two corgis. After about a decade grappling with the law, first as a law student at UC Berkeley and then as a litigator around the Bay Area, I left ...
(More)About this blog: I grew up in Palo Alto and now live in Mountain View with my husband, daughter and two corgis. After about a decade grappling with the law, first as a law student at UC Berkeley and then as a litigator around the Bay Area, I left the legal world to write full time. I married another writer and in 2012 gave birth to my daughter. During that earlier decade (in which I was also trying to write novels and poetry), I had almost no off hours. Now in some ways, all my hours are off hours because I am either writing or watching the world for something to write about. Or, more accurately, none of my hours are off-hours are because I still try to get as much mileage as I can out of every minute - alongside New York City, Silicon Valley is the ultimate work hard, play hard culture. In this blog, I'll be writing about what I, and maybe you, do in Mountain View in the so-called off hours for fun.
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Apologies - I haven't had a chance to go to the movies or do anything I would write about in-depth here. Why? World Cup! My husband and I are both fanatical World Cup viewers. The World Cup is one of my favorite events?when it rolls around, I'm pretty much glued to the games.
We've picked who we think is going to get out of the groups, which is not necessarily who we want to get out of the groups. Although we're both rooting for the U.S. team to get out of the group (and after Sunday's game, it looks like that's possible), we both have other teams we follow. Mine are France and the Netherlands, the former because I'm a Francophile whose favorite city is Paris, and the latter because I've lived in the Netherlands and like the way they play. His are the African teams?Ghana, Nigeria, Algeria and Ivory Coast?because he prefers teams that are economically and historically underdogs.
Which teams are you rooting for, besides the United States team?
