yay, its getting nice out again. although shitty weather will occasionally roll thru with little to no warning. mother natures being a dill. but we did have brunch this past sunday at mogador with anna and sally, then an afternoon stroll around east village with a pit stop at alphabet scoop for some ice cream. later at night was dumpling night at my place with di and caroline, where i taught them the fine art of dumpling wrapping. they of course ignored most of my instruction, and just made whatever shape and form they wanted…blargh. we ate the whole batch tho…yum. and now its monday again. tho i woke up thinking it was sunday. that was suck.

oh, but i did make more revisions to my planned wall coloring. ive decided to also add some custom graphics! which will ideally be printed and sent to me because fuck if im going to paint those.

oh…and since id expect the same of people using my work, the living room tree design is by dragon artz.

the good thing about doing architectural 3d viz for a living is…hey, when it comes time to figuring out ur own apartment, you can just render it! which is actually what i shouldve done when i first got my apartment…i mightve actually figured out way beforehand that my kitchen “workstation” was retardedly oversized (its now my computer desk). but hey…springs sort of here, and i said that id paint my walls when that happened. so now its time to pick a color. ive got friends for and against the various colors im looking at (orange, dull blue, hunter green, chocolate, striped variants, etc). the grayish neutral colors kind of say “hey…im an adult, and ive got a mortgage, and im totally responsible” while the bright orange says “fuck, im 30??“. and lets be honest…we know which camp im in. but i need input eh. im currently leaning towards the “30-something denying” orange, but could be convinced in any direction really…

bi-monthly recall…heh. well ive given myself over to keeping my runabouts in my iphone, so its alot easier to recall what ive done now as a result…woot! there were various din meetups with various people…brunch with sean and anna in the upper east side after their baptism, mediterranean din with kayako in the upper west side, din with jess, m’s bday at shebeen, belgian beer with the korean posse at vol de nuit, mal’s going-away drinky’s at dba, belated bday din with m at oh taisho!, and finally….star trek! whew. oh, and ya…house (warming) party at saras in bklyn. it just sounded more dramatic with that long recap ending on star trek and all. and hrmm…yea, that was a long recap. i guess theyre usually shorter because i forget nearly everything and don’t bother noting 50% of the things i do. ah well.

STAR TREK
yea, it rocked. thats my review. i just dont feel like writing any kind of lengthy exposition about its strengths, weaknesses, whatever. what i will say is that the fine art of getting to the theaters hours before the showing during premiere weekend seems like a dead/dying art. i was the first in line! thats just wrong…especially since i got there “late” only an hour and a half before the showtime. tsk tsk…lost art….

j | lets go see earth
h | isnt that that documentary?
j | yea its suppose to be gorgeous
h | i dunno…if i see a movie, i’d prefer to see tits…or guns.
j | you can see animal tits…

first…a brief recap of things done in the last few weeks. good thing i keep this shit in my iphone calendar, or else itll all be lost and forgotten.

*checks calendar*

oh fuck, i guess it stretches back a bit. whuuuups. k, so rewinding all the way back to the weekend of march 20th, jane was in town from japan! i hadnt seen her since my rockin’ tokyo trip from a year ago (almost to the day too…ha!). we roamed, drank, ate, and just marinated in my apartment. it was good. interspersed the following weeks and weekends (and not jotted in my calendar) were a meetup with fish in jersey finally after i dont know how long, a din with the fonz at blue smoke (chicken fried steak…yurmy yurm), di’s bday at bourgeois pig and decibel, din at excellent pork chop house followed by a weird run-in at apotheke with both di and her crew as well as m and chris…coincidentally, and numerous ramen runs with di (we love our ramen). korean fried chicken at bon chon and boka were thrown in there liberally too…

april 10th was margies bday bash at APT. shes since moved back from dc, so we partied it up…word. that was followed with brooklyn roaming with m and chris as they looked around at apartments. theres some niiiice apartments in brooklyn. and just this past tuesday was a ramen meetup with sara at minca ramen factory, whos back from japan (well…has been for a while now).
whew.

BE KIND, REWIND
this is a common thing now, the big rewind posts to cover entire months now. but back in the day, i was much more dedicated to updating the blog. back when everything i did seemed new and holy shit exciting. not to say things arent holy shit exciting anymore, but the new-ness definitely could do for some burnishing.

the fun part about having a blog tho (well…one thats actually updated regularly), is that it’s easy to go back in time and recollect what you did a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, etc…when things did still seem new. and so based off a small twitter janelle posted, i thought it’d be fun to rewind bit by bit.
i think i’ll rewind as far back as my journal takes me…

24 hours ago | i was eating a chocolate croissant. it was gud.
a week ago | was margie’s bday. hey…i just posted about that!
a year ago | i was packing for my tokyo trip! it was subsequently followed by all. kinds. of. awe.some.nes.s…
two years ago | looks like the first rooftop bbq of the year at dora’s. aw…memories…
three years ago | house party at dre’s in brooklyn! and i got to see fish’s dog dakota for the first time…
four years ago | ha…was coincidentally janelle’s 30th bday party…
five years ago | me and fishs first urban bike tour thru manhattan of the year.
six years ago | as far back as my journal goes…and another bike tour thru the central park’s cardiac hill. ha!

ah memories…