Weekend: Dinner out, bar, errands, party, and a daylong headache which caused no writing fail.

Warning or Recommendation: The dessert platter at Sea in the Meatpacking District is not a sampler. You will get three desserts. Plan accordingly.

It was a fun trip down memory lane but now I'm done with the Seattley weather. Do I have to wait until I go back there next month to get summer?

Someone forced upon me Buffy seasons 2 & 3. Is too much. I haven't been making much progress on sci-fi shows except for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, aka "The Littlest Terminator". J/k. Actually Summer Glau's character is easily the best written part of the show. Maybe I'll try watching Firefly when I'm done. I saw part of the pilot once.

So I'm a retro Mickey Mouse Club nerd. One of the serials was "Annette" which is the 1950s forerunner of Gossip Girl, The O.C., 90210, etc. A small town girl goes to high school with rich kids. Man I love the writers. Some of the lines are just terrific--
Will there be parties? Real dress up parties?
She's the slickest chick that ever hit this whole town.
Did he mow you down?
I wonder what the dickens could've happened to that darn thing.
What makes you think you're a traffic stopper, big shot?
What's boiling you over, palsy?
(as in medical palsy, not a form of "pal"...)
Holy cats, I've got to get on my horse.
Oh, please, Uncle Archie, can't I go to Old South High? Jet says it's keen!

Shopping list:
The Mickey Mouse Club Featuring the Hardy Boys (1955)
then The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season One (1977) starring the feathered hair of Shaun Cassidy
Lost In Space, the 1950s tv series

I had a pretty great weekend. I did some drinking on Friday with some friends I haven't seen for awhile at one of our old haunts, the bar at Ut Sav restaurant. That made me hungry so I tried the suggested lambchops. They were really wonderful.

Saturday I made it out to the Figment art festival on Governor's Island. I was an hour and a half late. Go go INFP! :P Petra was already leaving but Naomi had waited for me. It was super rainy but I had an umbrella. We saw a handful of pieces including the dragon made out of wooden chairs which Petra later said was the best one. Then we were drawn into conversation with some people picnicking under a tree. They were super nice and awesome. We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out with them, laughing, and being fed and wined. We didn't see any more art. We got to play some miniature art golf before everyone was kicked off the island. Emma (? yeah I spent hours with them but lost her name) had been doing some stage managing there that day, Matt plays every other Saturday night at the Living Room in "The Renaldo" a band/absurdist theatre group, and Ingrid G brought lotsa food and drinks. They used to be in Santa Barbara, went to Burning Man, and are now in Brooklyn. We exchanged phone numbers and I really look forward to hanging out with them some more. Artsy, fun, nice people are exactly what I need in my life. As I mentioned before, "I adore new people."

See, we would've missed all that if I'd been on time.

Governor's Island has some great old buildings but I really fell in love with the lovely ferry terminal. The Staten Island ferry terminal next to it somehow manages to be both Disco Elvis and horribly bland at the same time--quite a feat.

Sunday I was kinda sluggy but I did return Kitten's First Full Moon to the library (new icons coming soon:) and pick up Almanac of the Dead which I am uncharacteristically making lots of headway into. That's good because it's 700+ pages. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was 300 pages and it took me well over a month to read.

Hopefully Almanac will teach me some things about how to write narrative. I see that my novel is too much of a poem still. How does she get her words to flow so swiftly and pull you in like a current?

Sunday dinner was at Balthazar with a much bigger table than I expected. Xu had out of town visitors and Grig had a buddy and his wife attending. I had the fish mashed potatoes (sorry I forget the French name but it was really good) and the rabbit entree (which was "lapin something" and also good:). I was so stuffed that I couldn't finish my chocolate cake (which as you might have guessed was also good). Me, not finishing chocolate cake. I'm going to have to write that one down. History in the making.

Later last night, Mat came home from visiting our old roommate Amber in Austin. It's so funny, the Frenchman loves Texas now. He got to eat homemade hot chicken wings, see a biker convention, ride in a big ass pickup truck, and shoot guns. Yee haw!

Yay rain.
It feels comfy. The city is being washed clean.
The other night I stayed up finishing Ceremony and listening to the thunder.

I made myself sicker because of a party last Saturday. I had so much fun though. It was totally worth illness. There were old friends, new friends, and lots of new people. I adore new people.

I almost didn't go because I was feeling lazy and it was at an apartment down in the Financial District. I'm tired of being an INFP though and having self defeating behaviours. The Myers-Briggs personality model is preference based. I now prefer acting as an INFJ. I'm sure I would've tested an INTJ back in college.

I went with roommate Mat to see Up. It was pretty great. Mat's internship is ending this month. He is my movie friend. I'm ordering him a parting gift of the MGM musical On The Town, 1949, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Vera-Ellen. Three sailors are on a 24 hour shore leave in Manhattan. It's one of the reasons why I fell in love with New York.

Reading: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Planning: Tix are in hand for my flight to Seattle on July 2nd and for my favorite party the Oregon Country Fair. I looked through my boxes in the hallway last night to see what I can take back to put in storage. DVD box sets, toys, souveniers. Plus I identified two boxes worth of books which I'll donate to work. (Hmm, another INFP to INFJ transition? Less pack rattage.)

More Planning: Figment art festival tomorrow at Governor's Island. http://figmentnyc.org/2009/ I'll bring my funny plastic camera with expired film.
Ryan McGuires maybe? Madness--putting Windows on my computer. Dinner at Balthazar. Roommate interviews prolly. Writing. Cleaning. Updating Flickr.

Planning to read: I was writing at the library the other day and looked at the first few chapters of Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. It's a fucking masterpiece.

Writing: The book.

Wearing: A shirt I usually use as jammies, lol. It's Friday. :D

Is strep throat going around or was I the lucky winner?

I ordered a box of computer stuff. What kind of world do we live in where a power strip comes with a manual and won't boot?

I saw Star Trek finally. I assume everyone who was going to see it has seen it by now but just in case, Mild Spoilers Ahead.

It was strange at first but mostly got better. There were a couple things I didn't like: Kirk's blahdey blah blah blah waaah backstory/motivation and the new, improved Spock now with kissing action. Did anyone else think Kirk's dad looked like a frat boy? The Romulans are Goths now. Final score: Preps 1, Goths 0. Romulans are supposed to be based on Romans. The correct update would be to make them Guidos. I'd see it again but more importantly when do we get a new tv series? After the movie was dinner at the always excellent Esperanto. Then I went home and watched some real Star Trek.


Reading: The same stuff

Planning: Gotta replace my Social Security card so I can get a driver's license because I let mine expire for a few years. Do they provide the car for the road test? Gotta renew my passport for Viet Nam with Peter, guided by Xu. My dad and aunt are going to China to track down my grandfather's family that we know almost nothing about. I'll go too.

Wearing: Slacks and cap toed shoes because I got tired of dressing like a slob.

Writing: Yes. Thank the gods. Jotted down my dream this morning too. I think it's a very helpful exercise.

It's Friday already? Not that I'm complaining.

Last weekend was full of bikinis, inebriation, laziness, and food. So: lust, sloth, gluttony... Wait, inebriation isn't one of the deadly sins? That should be revised.

Ideas about hiking, fishing, and even just visiting the train museum in the little town all went nowhere. The river was right across the street from the backyard but we never found the stairs leading down the embankment. That itself was too sketchy though Peter gave it a shot. We saw baby geese nomming on riverbank plants at least.

Part of the reason was that the front yard was huge enough for volleyball, dizzy bat (oddly the non-drinking version), the fire pit, an egg toss, the three legged race, tanning, and so on. Then there was the prospect of DUIs. There were a couple of food and beer runs which I helped with. I love small town shopping. There was a general store with shotguns and homemade fudge. I was the snacks and toys anchor of course. In addition to three pounds of fudge, in town I picked up Fla-Vor-Ice, Haagen-Dazs bars, popsicles, glowsticks on twine for poi, and a Nerf football to complement my packed strawberry rhubarb pie, five cheeses, and fiber optic frisbee.

Someone brought the Sex and The City movie. I caught most of it. It was good but the puns were bad. Charlotte is my favorite character. It's an Earth sign thing.

On the way back to The City, I found a new model of a Frisbee which I don't have at a gas station. In some ways it was good to get back. There were a whole lot of people. I'd met most everyone a couple times before and there were four of my crew but it's hard for INFP me to be "on" 24/4.

Reading: The First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck and Hermetic Definition by H.D. Even though I'm reading Foer's well written and experimental Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it was time to get poetry again, to mainline Words.

Planning: I screwed up my sleep schedule and gotta collapse after work today. Super Mac dinner tomorrow. Brunch at Balthazar on Sunday. Writing. Hopefully, also trying the new Frisbee at the park and Star Trek finally.

Writing: I shook off the blahs I felt about the DERPNet story by bending the theme to my will. ;) I opened up the main character with a new perspective. I need to fix the end, possibly combine it with another short story idea I've been toying with.

Wearing: Disfortunately, none of my cool new clothes today. It's work. I don't care how I look hidden behind my monitor.

And it's still not time to go yet?
:-/

Reading: from my free book backlog, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. Most of what I know about quantum mechanics comes from fiction, especially the madhouse Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy so it's time I read an actual book. This one focuses on the problem that we seem to be creating reality. This world is what we've wrought? Oh goodness gracious. Really now people, we can do better than this. ^^

Planning: how to get out of Manhattan to the Catskills. I've printed nine pages of Google maps and one of Yahoo directions. With French people driving and the out-of-stater me who never leaves the City, negotiating Jersey toll roads at 4 PM to get to Route 17 will be vee sketchy. Plus, I may be tipsy at that point since my department is going out to a birthday lunch and not coming back to have a congratulations-on-getting-married-this-weekend drink.

Wearing: Since I'm not stuck behind my desk all day, I'm wearing my Manhattan clothes at work. I have new black and grey Steve Maddens; Izod jeans; and my B&W dotted, op art, button down shirt that I lurve inordinately.

In my bag for the Catskills I have a buncha new clothes: a racing polo with the cavallino rampante and "Kimi" on the sleeve; a color saturated, blue polo; an embroidered, green, hippy washed tee; a modern art tee; and another op art tee. Yes I like odd patterns but I think I dress well. :)

My friend Xu has to work this weekend so she's not coming with. There'll be lots of new and newish peeps this weekend, Americans who aren't going to leave anytime soon, but a big middle finger with repetitive up and down motions to making her work over the holiday.

It's my busiest week at work and the last, busiest day of it. I'm reconciling numbers for Q1 of client demographics for our programs and our non-profit as a whole. I can't keep crunching numbers without a break though.

Reading: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I really liked his first book Everything is Illuminated but this one is better. It's more experimental, told from multiple POVs, and with a precocious, crazy main narrator. This book is definitely teaching me a bunch of good things about writing.

Planning: Dinner, drinking, and brunch with my old roommates Alex and Peter.
Alex is in town from Geneva until tomorrow afternoon. The three of us have been going out all week. Last night we paid $90 for two games at Bowlmor. :P Ping pong at Fat Cat Billiards in the West Village on Tuesday was lots cheaper. I suck at both bowling and ping pong but I'm not competitive, it was fun. We've been going to all our old places like Off The Wagon, Republic Thai, the divey burger place at Le Parker Meridien, etc.

Wearing: I'm wearing a red tee shirt at work today but they probably won't think I'm affiliated with the Bloods. :) We've been getting more gang activity lately. It's something they're working on fixing, starting with a dress code.

Writing: Surfing DERPnet lately has been making me very hangry. One side of me thinks it's good that I'm not working on the DERPNet short story because I'll just vent and rage. The other side sees it as an opportunity to figure out my relationship to it and find a solution.

Ok back to the numbers...

Fail:
- The Sqworms (sour gummy worms) from the work vending machine were really bad. I had to stay home Friday night and didn't get to see my friend Alexandra visiting from Boston. And yet, I ate them again this afternoon.
- Scheduled and interviewed three roommates to find a good one. Um where's troy to get him signed in officially? No replies to repeated messages.
- We couldn't get our act together and see Star Trek yet. That's ok, I'm sure it will be playing for a good long while


Win:
- The new Grand Central Library at 46th and 3rd Ave is spacious and modern
- I checked out Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close and Kitten's First Full Moon :3
- Crepes at Cafe Henri
- Superb tarts at Once Upon A Tart
- My friend Xu paid for BOTH of my tarts :D
- I got four new cheeses and saucisson from Murray's
- My friend Alex is visiting from France with his new girlfriend
- Xu finally made friends with Peter's gf Lisa
They have a bunch in common and are both nice but they needed help from me
- Lisa has two kittehs, Pizza Cat and Jungle
- The Italian restaurant Mela in Little Italy. I need to eat more Italian food
- Star Treks serieses

I'm an all or nothing person. Once it was car magazines. I got one each week and at the end of the month I'd get four. Two years ago I bought every make of Frisbee, about two dozen. A few years ago I collected over 100 boomerangs. On Thursday I took delivery of the new Star Treks which I'm watching for the first time. Babylon 5 and Farscape are possibly next. I never saw those either. Or maybe I'll jump back to the 1950s Lost In Space shows. I already saw the first 1930s Flash Gordon serial. I'm conducting a self disciplinary survey course. :)

This weekend I squeezed in watching a couple episodes of each series except The Next Generation.

The Next Generation pilot - Wow, ouch. Painfully clunky in pacing, camera work, acting, etc. I heard it gets better next season but that might take awhile because I immediately switched to other series. It has the best theme song though.

DS9 - Kira is a little shrill. The doctor is silly. The FX is nice now but the video quality is not so good which is kinda sad. Overall, the first couple of episodes were decent. I look forward to seeing it develop.

Voyager - Good theme song, I like Jerry Goldsmith compositions. They have the nicest looking of the ships. It has the most fake science though and my mind wanders when they start talking in made up words. First place for most camera shake during battle scenes. Their phasers look silly, like barcode scanners. I like it though. It has the most danger and action.

Enterprise - I guess I'm more of a fan of the Old Trek than I thought because I like this one best. They're exploring again and you need a Vulcan as second in command, amirite? Yesiam. Phlox is a very likable and well developed character. (Neelix is an unfunny clown.) The theme song AND the end credits music are execrable. I really like the 1930s influenced, metallic, industrial ship design. Plus, it's widescreen with the best CGI and video quality.


I still haven’t finished Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. It’s so good that I don’t want it to end. I’ll have to pick up her Almanac of the Dead from the library so I have it to transition to. I haven’t read any poets for a couple months either and I’m feeling the need for excellent words.

Maud & Julien's farewell party on Wednesday night ran really late. Then I had a troubled sleep, like other people here it seems. I still have a lot of sleep dep. Chinese Canadian roommate Candy left yesterday too. Troy's moving back for half a month while he tries to find a replacement. Mat and Anna are leaving at the end of June. I expect Laura to move out soon if Troy doesn't get off his ass to figure out if an A/C unit can be installed in her room. Samantha, aka the Perfect One, has a cousin looking for a place in September. It would be too much to expect her to be perfect too.

I got my bonus check. It's in lieu of a pay raise. No one gets pay raises this year. For the bonus, people below a certain salary level get one week of pay. People above the level get $100. I get $100. Wooooo! /sarcasm.

To spread out the bonuses, we get them on our anniversary. I've been here for two years. It's been good little nonprofit. I get lots of vacation. My boss doesn't mind when I take lunch naps in the storeroom every day. (I have a chair in there among the stacks of computers and monitors.) I'm learning a new dayjob skill, SQL, which is useful.

With the bonus and tax refund, I've decided to buy some Star Trek. I haven't watched any Star Trek since college when I was on a Sixties kick. A friend and I watched a bunch of the original series on acid movie nights. Space hippies! Miniskirt uniforms! Far out.

I never got into any of the new series when they aired. Now I've downloaded some Enterprise and I kinda like it. I guess I'm not supposed to. I was poking around the internets to see what series I should watch and there's a lot of Enterprise haters. Next Generation and Deep Space Nine seem to get all the love but they aren't available on iTunes. Idk, in Enterprise they're flying around getting in fights, discovering new alien species to make out with, and T'Pol is deadpan snarky in a catsuit. What's not to like?

I'm exhausted from accumulating sleep debt as usual but happy nonetheless for a several reasons.

Reading: Jellicoe Road, an Aussie YA book recommended by penmage. It's very good but also long. I am slow and distractable. It's due back on May 8th and there's a long waiting list. If I don't finish on time I'll have to buy, available only in hardcover, or keep paying 25 cents a day late fees. I support our local libraries--lots.

Planning:
- Dinner tonight with French crew because two interns are leaving soonly. Party with same tomorrow night. Maybe see them at some point Sunday too.
- I'll definitely be at Sheep Meadow during the weekend days--85 F, o yay. I'm bringing Frisbees and writing stuff.
- I'm trying to talk American people into S'Mac. I have a craving for gruyere bacon mac n cheese.
- Flaying NSFWeebles on Monday night.
- DC next weekend possibly.

Wearing: Stuff that isn't new Spring clothes. :( An orange, Buddhist reference sweater because they fixd our a/c and it's freezing again.

Writing: I had a sudden inspiration yesterday for a short story called DERPNet. It was influenced by a combination of a writing group member's link about how tech fuxxors plots, by my rediscovery of former cyberpunk writer Lewis Shiner, and of course by my lol/rage relationship to them 4changz.coms. I've been looking for a short story idea for awhile, with the idea of attempting publication. We shall see.

The good cheese lasted for five meals. Including the baguettes, that works out to $10 for each meal. That's not so bad. I can continue. :) I was at Morton Williams and bought a French soft cheese pasteurized for the Americans, just to make sure I'm not deluding myself about wanting the raw milk variety. Dude, it was bland. :P

The Facebooks, I am liking them again. Screw my high school classmates. They're all married with kids and boring. But very yay for finding my grade school peeps. Fifth and sixth grades were my favoritest grades evar. We had a split 4th/5th/6th class. When the sixth graders went to junior high, some of their kid brothers and sisters would come in to the class. It was like a little family. I also occasionally imagine it to be some kind of social experiment. After that insulated life, junior high was a rude awakening to the normal world.

I went to a grade school out of my high school/jr high zone so, sadly, I only got to continue with a couple of them. The lives of my grade school classmates now are far more interesting the high school classmates'. So far: a screenwriter (Changing Lanes), moved to Montana to commune with God, a physically dependent alcoholic with a forged degree and ideas of a political career, a teacher (yay), a corporate finance lawyer here in NYC. I haven't contacted the latter. Since we went in completely opposite directions, I'm not sure if we'd have anything to talk about.

Our teacher retired and became a Master Gardener. She still teaches occasionally! I want to fly to Seattle next month so I can be her student again, take her home vegetable garden class. I would be so happi.


Reading: Me, the Missing, and the Dead because Penmage gave it 6 stars out of 5. :) Next up, for Script Frenzy, a reread of the excellent How to Write a Screenplay in 21 Days and restarting Advanced Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the Academy Award Level .

Planning: Prefunct/postfunct at my place for Guys and Dolls because I found out it hasn't been getting good reviews. I didn't pick it. The room, it can has cleaned.
Also, going to the Script Frenzy kickoff party!

Writing: Notes for the script which will be a musical. :) I've restarted keeping a dream journal. Either they're thinly disguised, or make zero sense. And I'm still having dreams about not graduating from college because I completely forgot I had a required class and didn't remember until the end of the quarter.

Wearing: I am completely nude at work today.

I can recognize when my body isn't working correctly and not making enough serotonin. Like, now. I'm not unhappy because of anything specific. O, the usual things like not writing enough and getting older, which I actually know how to deal with much better than I used to. But the world is too sharp. Primary example: I'm thinking about getting the Apple keyboard to use at work because the one I have is too clicky and it's setting my teeth on edge. I mean, it's not even that clicky. It's laptop style with scissor switches. I've had it for ages but it hurts now.

Reading: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Still. Yes, I'm slow. I finally got over the nadir and he has gone through the ceremony. Now he just has to apply it to the world and fix his life. :) Man, this book is soooo good. There is true magic in it.
Also, Going Faster! Mastering the Art of Race Driving. A restart after abandoning it halfway through two years ago. It's interesting stuff but I'm easily distracted by bright and shiny new books. It takes a good book to get me going back to it.

Planning: I thought I was supposed to see Guys and Dolls tonight but it's next week so I don't have anything planned. My good friend Alexandra is visiting from Boston tomorrow. I want to watch the F1 opening race but it's in Australian and on at 2 AM Saturday night and I'll be out with Alex. I'm going outlet mall shopping with Troy on Sunday. Spring clothes are needed badly.

Writing: I wrote a bit of the novel at the laundromat yesterday whilst warshing. I need to start figuring out how to adapt my favorite concept album for Script Frenzy. I'm looking forward to it!

Wearing: As usual, I am dressed down for work in clothes that I wouldn't be caught dead in in Manhattan.

I wanted to go to writer's group last night but I'd arranged for our first roommate hanging out. I should've done something earlier but then the perfect opportunity presented itself. The Scottish pub downstairs, St. Andrews, in our building finally opened up. The landlord promised us free drinks for putting up with the construction mess, noise, fumes, turned off water, etc.

 

They had a couple Scottish beers. One of them tasted like a sweet Guinness. The Tennant was better. Their 100+ beer menu wasn’t ready yet. There was no food yet either. What is Scottish food anyway, aside from the usual “haggis” jokes? We left for the Indian restaurant that one of our friends is a bartender at. (At which one of our friends is a bartender.:) Yum food, friends I hadn’t seen for awhile, roommate bonding, bonding with the neighbors a floor below us who’d turned up too. Good times… But it went later than it should’ve for a Monday night. I’m not so Irish, I might turn off party mode for tonight. I need to pass out for a little bit and then I’ll decide.

I like how this morning is misty, foggy, cool, temperate, and damp. It's very Seattley. Except, not boring. :^)

Oh Seattle... I have some old friends who want me to move back.
But, but, I don't wanna.

Two friends of friends also moved here from Washington. They came for grad school and bought a Midtown apartment. They've had enough of the city and are moving back. As a thought experiment, I can kind of comprehend that take, but it is strange to me. "Yay, let's go back to suburbia!" Wat? o_0

Tonight, I'm finally going to one of the full moon parties that I always say I'll go to but never do. I'm going with a friend who's lived here for a decade and is trying to transition out West. That I can kind of understand. She's a business type, caught up in the grinding rat race. She'd never heard about this party and thought you had to go to the Left Coast for this kind of altyness. Um, huh?

Sometimes, drinking on a Monday night is ok. It wasn't excessive and I hadn't seen these peeps for awhile. Plus, cute new peeps were introduced.

Infected Mushroom at Irving Plaza this weekend. Woot.

Apple has a tablet computer coming? Do want.

Due to postponement, there wasn't dessert at Chikalicous.  :.( I consoled myself with a vanilla cream puff from Beard Papa the next day and a slice of chocolate raspberry cake from The Bread Factory the next next day.

i can has job still, yay.

i immediately spent a bunch of money. :P i'm not much of a gamer anymore but there's a ferrari racer which was, of course, mandatory. there was a 2:00 am delivery of waffles with strawberries, which i squarely blame on "the downstairs roommate". i gave money to the public radio pledge drive.

food and tea were expensive at the write in but i developed some ideas i like a lot. bowling in harlem was erm, vee sucky. in the first game, i was dead last--among french people, with the kiddy bumpers on, which helped my score. doh... in game two, i got 2nd place but still didn't break 100. not so close, even. it's been like four years since i bowled last, pre nyc basically, and my leg is still not 100%, but really, that's just sad.

sunday i even wrote again in the rose reading room. then there was balthazar with trays of seafood. cassoulet is the heaviest dish i've ever eaten evar. dessert, always. i topped off the weekend by blowing money on a cab home from xu's. i was fuzzy at that point, it was cold, and screw waiting for a train.

i am arousing the economy.

snow--more yay.
we get to go home early.

it is nice to go out and be social and eat dinner at a birthday party and not stay at home because you're afraid of spending money because you might get laid off and then to talk to a cute girl even though she turns out to be a lesbian. lol.

duane reade has easter candy for sale already. buying sour patch jelly beans was a bad idea. i ate half the 13 oz bag at once. i also got a bag of cadbury mini eggs. the same thing will happen.

i'm tired of vocoders being used musically.

the new beta safari browser is kinda cool.

sprained hamstring is sprained again. i r old. :(

craigslist is not working to sell the thievery corp ticket. i'll probably have scalp it at the venue.

must fix sleep schedule!

hey, it's summer. o right, just at work, where the a/c is fuxxored again.

i tried to write a couple of times over the long weekend but home was too distracting. i need to set up a writing account on the desktop comp where i can use itunes but not web browsers. my better solution is to start going to the library constantly. away from home, my laptop doesn't have wireless but i'm usually writing by hand anyway. mid-manhattan is open until 9 pm m-w. sibl is open until 8 thursdays and they have aeron chairs.

it wouldn't be bad if i was laid off. i'd have all that time to read and write.

i wroteded last night at the library. it was painful at first. i can try to blame the melatonin i took the night before but really, i was rusty. fortunately i'd brought along daniel handler's adverbs. i'm not a huge fan of this book, it's a little too hipster, mcsweeney's ironic, but he is a stylist and his good prose jumpstarted my thought processes. i've had this book for two years but i didn't realize until today that he's lemony snickett.

i was supposed to have dinner with The Canceller but he rescheduled of course. i have my backup material. i brought my spiral notebook, a new eraser, and seamus heaney collected poems 1966-1987 as my prompt. it's off to the library i go.

gee, now it's winter at work. :P