current selection | nothing…need quiet
feelin’ | clean

this week has been my grand tour of new york city. woo. my company needed an update to our collection of nycha photos…so i spent last friday, this tuesday, and today all around new york city taking photos. last friday was up around bronx and some brooklyn…tuesday was brooklyn, manhattan, and staten island…and today was bronx again and queens. whew…basta!

today was din din with joyce. we went for italian at cafe centosette…which isnt really centosette anymore since they moved from their 107 address after kiehls took over the space. crazy kiehls. anyhoo…as we’re about to stroll in, 2 people walked up to us and handed out a flyer stating that ppl shouldnt eat here because of health violations, etc. me…ive been going to centosette since…98? im rather stubborn, so i go, “thanks…scusi,” and we trot in like it was an invitation. one goes, “you’re still gonna eat here?!” and im like, “yea, sorry dude. ill be sure to look for rat poop tho.” i had my arrabiata and i was happy.

current selection | harry potter (cos) in the background
feelin’ | whatever

this has been one of the better mondays. not so much as in what i did…but that i didnt feel all lax and tired like the usual mondays go. woo. i jus talked to someone i hadnt (voluntarily) talked to for over a year…didnt quite turn out the way i thought it would. a bit awkward…cold…one-sided. i suppose thats why things didnt exactly work out a year ago either. c’est la vie…

<end contemplative thinking>

so then i got to talk to ags briefly and felt much better. she left me with a brain teaser that i didnt have the patience or m3ntal focus to solve at the time. whups. mebbe if i post it, ill be able to mull over it tomorrow. woot.

> 4 people are trying to cross a narrow bridge at nite. theres only 1 flashlight, and only 2 of them can cross the bridge at one time. each of them also takes different amounts of time to cross…the first in one minute, the second in 2, the third in 5, and the fourth in 10. they need to cross the bridge in 17 minutes…else, um…jason will hack them to pieces or something. keep in mind, theres only 1 flashlight, and they need it to cross the bridge. when 2 ppl are on the bridge, the person with the longer time is counted towards the 17 minutes. the time it takes for a person to cross back over the bridge is counted towards the 17 minutes too…but they can cross back and forth as many times as necessary. they cant, however, stop and wait on the bridge. 17 minutes…yup.

current selection | harry potter in the background
feelin’ | mellow

its always fun to have apocalyptic dreams every once and a while. most of the details are already fuzzed, but i dreamt last nite that the moon had jus shattered and was about to shower the earth with meteors. so we were making our way to ships ready to launch into space. it was a nice mix of the time machine, cowboy bebop, and titan a.e…fun. ive been feeling pretty burnt out this entire week, so i decided at the last sec to get the hell out of the city friday nite. i took a bus back to nj after work friday and had din at home. fish rolled by afterwards and we hit up a borders for coffee and chess. we traded queens early in the game, but i built up a nice lead anyway. halfway thru our game, a little girl and her dad took notice and came by to watch the game. having spectators a bit weird…it feels like theres intense pressure not to look like a complete mook and make stupid mistakes. per usual, i blew my lead and fish managed to fork my pieces twice. oochies. i managed to keep it relatively balanced even after the forks, but by the end of game, my knight and pawns were no match for a rook and pawns. poo.

after some yam cha saturday morning at hunan cottage (where it seemed like everybody knew my parents) i caught the bus back to nyc. i made it back to my apt and saw that crump was there with fonz…which was coo. i hadnt seen the bugger in a loooong time. we made as if it were high school all over again and broke out our magic decks. my deck did pretty good, considering its nearly a decade old now. hoo. after the crumpster left, i resigned to my room and watched the first harry potter and red shadow. akakage!! hai! akakage!!! hai!

current selection | u2 – the fly
feelin’ | slow

random wednesdays i suppose…
this’ll just be an entry of random thoughts, since whole regions of my brain seem to be sputtering.

> me: damnit prefrontal cortex…get ur shit together.
> pfc: dude, get off my case. its not like wernickes doing much either…
> wernicke: <belch>

i woke up three times this morning. once at the 3am marker…again at the 5ish marker (i got myself some oj while i was at it)…and then finally at the 7:30 marker. im thinking this isnt a good thing. it might be the weather change, or the 2 plates of pasta i made myself for din last nite. yea…ok, lets just pin the blame on the excess food that time, but sleeps been erratic before regardless. todays the first day im wearing a scarf. have i mentioned how much i luv scarves? ill prolly go look for a new one today after work. tonites also the season premiere of smallville…woot! its one of the few shows left worth watching, next to the occasional discovery/tlc/history channel show, scrubs, and friends. im still mad at fox for cancelling undeclared. idiots. oh yea, and while i was waiting in the car while my supervisor was making a client meeting, i emailed myself some of the pics ive taken with my phone cam. i hope it wasnt expensive to send….