current selection | animatrix in the background
feelin’ | stuffed

so full…cant move. oochies. liz’s bday was this weekend, so we went drinky drink saturday nite. i met up with betty beforehand along houston, and we started heading westward to look for the moroccan bar everybody was meeting at…chez es’saada. we stumble on the unmarked bar after i realized that id been there once before…otherwise we mightve jus kept wandering pathetically around the neighborhood. 4 ‘generations’ of cornell archies were there…including my year. alcohol was free-flowing, as it should be during bday celebrations…and i got mojitos since theyre particularly yum there. we headed to drinkland afterwards for more drinky and didnt get there til 3am. more alcohol and some crazy ass-shaking. liz and some ppl headed onwards to arc to see ken ishii. the rest of us stumbled home. im jus grateful that i live around the corner from drinkland. cant…feel…parietal lobe…

sundays brunch with anna was rainchecked b/c of a mild hangover on my part, and a bigger one on hers. so i jus doted around the apt all day, watching matrix reloaded, harry potter extras, and the animatrix. dinner plans were set with liz and the crew (her actual bday was sunday), so we met up in k-town and headed to kum gang san. we ordered an assload of good shit…kimchi pajun, jap chae, kalbi, mandoo gui, ohjing uh bokkum, and soon tofu chige…yuuuum. all while a performer in a hanbok was rocking “hey jude” on the zither. craziness. afterwards, we strolled over to a coffee shop/bakery down the street and ordered overpriced eats. $4 teas for everybody…a swishy $7 mocha shake for me. as good as it was, i didnt think it was $7 good. mebbe $3 good…or possibly $4…but def not $7.

didnt have a dig cam, k? my cam phone still rocks it with its 0.1 megapixel resolution…

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….

current selection | nine inch nails – ruiner
feelin’ | toasty

shit, nothing beats a toasted bagel with cream cheese in the morning. well…possibly a lactaid pill, but i try not to think about those kinds of things. met up with fish at the manhattan mall friday nite after work. we were grabbing foody and then catching the movie millennium actress. our original plan was to hit up sazerac house for cajun, but that was changed to delta grill when we found out the movie was only showing at the loews underneath the virgin megastore times square. there were only 3 showings…1pm, 5pm, and 10pm, so we decided on the 10pm showing (duh). we then fig’d that we didnt have to eat so close to the theater and that we’d probably have 2 hours to burn after din…so we headed to kum gang san instead for some korean since fishs only had korean once…and well, it was right across the street. after stuffing ourselves stupid, we walked up to times square to bum til the movie time. i fig’d that a movie as good as millenium actress in such a limited release (read: one theater) would be hard to get into, so i reserved tix. a bit pointless. when all the attendants “packed” into the theater, the ten of us didnt put much of a dent into the seating. what the hell? it reminded me of the first time i saw spirited away (before it won an oscar and was re-released) and there were about 30 people in the theater…mostly families. hey, its their loss…the movie was excellent.

met up with marisol, dora, and alice saturday morning for some dim sum a go go. we headed to soho afterwards and checked out the new kid robot store. who knew they were doing so good?? kid robots tied with the minidisco crew, whom i still buy all my md goodness from…and kid robot was their (relatively) new outlet for kubricks, hk vinyl, etc. the store rocked, but im broke…which always seems to be the case. saturday nite was house party nite at missys. all kinds of former and current cornell architects showed up, with the occasional random non-cornellian or non-architect (or both). we drank on their balcony and made all kinds of disturbances. house parties rock.

current selection | dave matthews band – dancing nancies
feelin’ | exhausted

i took the L train over to 3rd ave today after work since i was trotting down to astor place to meet anna for din at mogador. as the train pulled into the station, i noticed a face that i thought i recognized standing on the platform. im thinking…”cute dimples, pleasant smile….dj girl?” whereby i was met with a return glance answering, “yea…dj girl.” i hadnt seen or heard from alexis in a while…and while i had all but resigned myself to a life with no swapped cd, i held out hope that id get a happy surprise package in the mail one day (and hopefully not to my old address so i wouldnt have to call up my old roomie.) so what can one really say in the 3-5 second period of time as im getting off and shes getting on? i make a circle shape with my hands, mouth “cd?” and smile. hopefully she didnt take it as, “your nostrils are this big…“

current selection | garbage – paranoid
feelin’ | disoriented

im beginning to get the impression that my mind treats my dreams more substantially than id like it to. i had a dream last nite (that i can vaguely recall) and when i woke up this morning, i felt as if id been up all nite. thats super. it was one of those subconscious-yearnings type dreams. me and fish were in his new subaru outback ready to go on a long roadtrip. yea, dont make it too literal, ye bastards. he was a bit wary to let me drive because i hadnt driven in a while, and that the car was a little too small for me. when i got into the drivers seat, my knees kept banging against the steering wheel and i had to slide the seat all the way back til it touched the back row. right then. thats all the dream was about i think…we mightve also made a grays run and scarfed down hot dogs and pina colada. i think its time i started traveling again.

i was walking thru tompkins square park this morning on my way to the bus stop, and there were camera crews all around the northern end. i wanted to ask someone what they were shooting, but everyone was too busy looking busy. mebbe it was spider-man 2…or sex and the city. wait…sex and the city wouldnt be caught dead in alphabet city. i always get mildly excited seeing camera crews around the city. its probably b/c i secretly want to be involved…the personal assistant of a hot actress, or the guy who fetches donuts for everybody. my friend aggie got to be on the set of a number of films (she attended film festivals too) including kill bill (she talked to tarantino), hero (met chris doyle…whos a lush), and a number of wong kar wai movies (arrghh!!!). i was just a little envious. ive so far only seen sex and the city in central park (whup-deedoo), spider-man 2 down at the anthology, a few nbc commercial shoots (with 6 women in each of the 6 colors of the peacock on a rotating platform), and law & order: svu, who were shooting a scene outside of our office/factory (ice-t was eating in the deli downstairs. go east williamsburg!)

now i need an image. need an image….

current selection | smashing pumpkins – 1979
feelin’ | drier

i miss the old smashing pumpkins. zwans all fine and shit, but smashing pumpkins was smashing pumpkins. september seems to be winding down already…wasnt it just my birthday the other day? seemed like a rather short summer. ive been having spurts of lethargy in between hyperactivity…so hopefully the fall will be more even-handed. on the agenda for this autunno…

> continue drawing (and finish up the last one i half-colored)
> enroll in a photo class with pho
> buy a rice-cooker
> curb spending (bwahaha…)

current selection | lenny kravitz – dig in
feelin’ | groggy

oy…one second youre going to bed, the next its 1:30 in the afternoon the next day. whazza?? and its not that i even woke up of my own accord…needed a call from alice to get me up. ugh. this is a little disorienting…but fine by me since i woke up at 9:00am yesterday. 9:00ams on a saturday is just unnatural. wrong.

yesterday was worky-work day. i got up at 9:00 b/c i had to meet anna and sally at grand central to do a little shecret shecret cd file swap for freelance work (grand central was the halfway point betw our apts). b/c i kept smacking my snooze button, and left my apt a little later than i shouldve, i decided to make it into a biking excursion too in order to get to grand central in time. after swapping files…i headed to alices to pick up more material. we grabbed brunch while we were at it at a diner near her apt. eggs and home fries…rock! i biked home afterwards and worked the rest of the day. quite exciting.

what to do today…bike, shop, or bum.