who's your daddy now?

world cup updates:
1. People stare at you when you speak English, regardless of the type. When you yell "suck it" in a restaurant when Hope Solo makes an awesome save on a BS pk, entire families of Germans will turn and stare. When you're leaving a soccer stadium and discussing the best strategy to weave around the Germans in the mad dash to the trains, every.single.one. of them will stop and stare.

2. Germany lost in the quarterfinals. unexpectedly. I blame 20% of it on my boss, who boldly declared the day before that the Germans' secret to winning soccer games was the fact that they - both men and women - believe they will win every game. Clearly a strategy that works wonders against Spain and Japan. Walking away from watching that game was mildly uncomfortable. The Germans don't handle losses or the unexpected well. Posters assuring the men that they'd be avenged for last year's apparent failure have been taken down. awk.WARD

3. The US is mad boss.