current selection | the avalanches – frontier psychiatrist
feelin’ | refer to title

apparently my body hasnt quite gotten used to this whole “working out” thing. i think its still running on lethargic mode. oochies…sore. weather stinks, work flies, and i cant feel my arms. didnt do much today ‘cept cook myself some kimchi udon, watch the end of kiki’s delivery service (from last nite), and watch one of my personal favorites…porco rosso.

checklist of things to do by the end of this week:
01. finish sweets (work related…phooo)
02. pick up a mini-drawing table from the art store
03. borrow stud-finder from alice (my shelf needs going-up-ers)
04. finish reading rosens twisted tales
05. start sketching sleazy and easy…

current selection | esthero – superheroes
feelin’ | soggy

80 degree weather + 81% humidity = no. i was just walking around east village b4. i decided around 3:45pm that i was leaving work early to go take some photos, since the forecast for the rest of the week is as follows: scattered shit, scattered, thunder shit, scattered shit. i thought that the sooner the better since our catalog is due in less than 2 weeks. ick! so i trot over to the cardozo law school to get some photos of their lobby. i talk to the front desk, and after a few minutes talking to him and him talking on the phone with some facilities person, the conclusion is that i cant take photos unless i come with our project manager jonathan, or i call the facilities manager. blech. as the security guy’s writing me the number for the manager, i get on the phone with jonathan to see what he can do. im asking him about the contractor, scope of work, time frame, blah blah blah. oh yea, and im taking hip shots with my digital camera too. jonathans going, uh…yea, i told u that last week….yea, im going back wednesday, etc. i get about three good shots and run off. fuck permissions. i trot over to new school next. now with the lobby the way it is, and me looking like a student and all, i couldve just fired some shots off and skip away. but no, i do the dumb thing and ask the front desk again. this time i get to talk to some deaf head of security who refuses to let me take photos unless they do a background check on me. because apparently too many terrorists have been running around as asians with cameras asking to take photos of their lobby. i try some spy shots from the exterior (all i needed was the main foyer) but the glare off the glass doors sucked. *shrug* anyhoo, bollocks to them. next stop goldman sachs. theyre gonna make me wear a hard hat and crush my hair…those bastards.

current selection | k-os – superstar pt. zero
feelin’ | pooped

its monday. blechies. sunday was fun, which i suppose makes monday all that much worse. *shrug* got up around 11:00 since i was meeting pho for lunch in chinatown. the sun was bright out, so even tho the weather reports had said it would be mostly sunny (which actually changed to partly cloudy) i fig’d that i should head out early to take photos while it was still clear out. the L was kapoot…so i bus’d it over to 7th ave and then onto the 123 down to houston. took some nice shots (clear skies and the sun was directly overhead) and then headed towards mott. i get a call later from pho saying that meeting times been pushed back from 1:30 to 1:45ish. super. i head back to the store zakka to continue my browsing from last weekend. i wanted to get some old issues of idn, but ended up picking up a fix figuration gundam wing redesigned by hajime katoki instead. these models are ridiculously detailed. anyhoo, i get another call from pho again…meeting times been pushed to 2:00 and we’ve somehow combined lunches with alice and terence. okily then…all good. we (eventually) meet up and head to shanghai village. alice, being the clan mother, orders everything for us in perfect chinese while the rest of us jus nod. after lunch, we strolled back to zakka to browse, and then headed over to w.broadway to shop. we split up for the afternoon and i came back to play with my toys. woot! little wingy gets to stand next to his bro the msia aile strike and his big bro the mg rx-178 mk.ii. we meet up again for din at sapporo east on 10th. everybody got curry and katsu….i went with sashimi and shared gyoza. yea yea…its sunday, but i was craving sashimi. it was a bit chewier than it should be, but whatever…i sashimi. is the month over yet? im craving go.

current selection | dj 43 – pepper spray
feelin’ | relaxed

according to the weather reports, todays partly cloudy with hi’s of 82. perfect weather for photo-taking. but…sunday’s supposed to be mostly sunny with a hi of 83. even better weather for photo-taking…woo! so photo-takings been post-poned til tomorrow. more time today then to do nothing, and more of nothing.

last nite was my first movie outing (to cinemas) in a looong time. me, alice, and sally met up to go watch pirates of the caribbean. orlando bloom for them…keira knightley for me. yum. we get to ua: union square and our showing (8:15) is sold out. buggers! so we trek up to the 42nd st e-walk (i never liked that name…i keep thinking of small furry creatures with spears) and grab tix for a 9:15 showing. 2 words…it rocked big booty. 2 more words…holy shit keira knightley’s hot. not that alice and sally noticed, they seemed to be distracted. hmm. afterwards we started looking for places to eat din. we wandered around hells kitchen for a while…eventually making our way to the delta grill. actually…while standing outside of delta grill, we were deciding between delta grill and yakitori taisho on st. marks. so we flipped a coin…heads, delta. well delta’s kitchen turned out to be closed, so we’re like….ok then, taisho. decision-making made easy.

current selection | goldie – state of mind
feelin’ | hungry

hmm…how many weeks left til im allowed back at yokochos and go? the whole idea behind my month long self-imposed blacklisting was that id try other restaurants, so yesterday i finally made my way to yama. yea…i kno, the whole world and their mothers already been. but i hadnt. well…not the one up near irving plaza anyhoos. marisol called me up after work to see about some good din. we headed to yama and got seated within 5 minutes…woo. i was feeling pretty hungry (only had breakfast), so i ordered a large bowl of chirashi and a spicy tuna roll to um…wash it down with. marisol ordered a variety of rolls…her unagi looked super good. afterwards we went hunting for happy-hour margaritas. i couldve sworn id seen signs for happy-hour margaritas at solas, so we headed there. apparently i was hallucinating. we got margaritas anyhoo…jus not at happy hour prices. poo. afterwards we went for frozen lychee martinis at angels share…yum. since their frozen margaritas are ridiculously good, i’d always wondered whether there was even alcohol in them. so marisol inquired with the bartender….citron and apple liquer. no shitting…

current selection | the strokes – is this it
feelin’ | burned

okily…weekend continued. after my super-fun walk around manhattan, i bummed around my apt and cooked myself din. met up with marisol and terence later for drinkies at double happiness. nice and relaxing…and their gimlets are pretty damn good. we left around 1ish b/c i had to get up early and marisol had to work the next day (blech!). so this morning i get up around 9ish and make my way over to newark. me and fish were gonna make our way into pennsylvania for some kayaking. wooha! as we were headed along the roads towards the starting station, we saw alot of ppl on the water. it was a pretty coo day to be on the river. we went on the 10 mile course from pond eddy to matamoras. this is supposedly a 4.5 hour ride…but we actually tore thru it in a little over 2 hours…that even includes the half hour we spent relaxing on some rocks eating lunch. the whole time we’re baking nicely in the blazing sun…i think i toasted pretty nicely. im this nice shade of red right now…woo! anyhoo…after this trip we thought that we should start looking for more advanced runs. pond eddy was supposed to be advanced, even tho the rapids are rated 2…so we’re prolly gonna go hunt down level 4 rapids. afterwards we grabbed coffee and chess at this nearby coffee shop called 7th street coffee. they had a nice deck with umbrellas and benches…really coo. i got my ass kicked per usual. *shrug* we headed back to jersey and caught din at panera’s, where i got my ass kicked in chess again. fuck.

current selection | groove armada – chicago
feelin’ | pooped

ah…weekend. yay. weekends are nice…especially when weekdays suck. i decided to cook myself something different last nite, so i picked up a bunch of groceries on the way home. whenever i got bored of normal pasta in italy (alot), i cooked myself up some tortellini ala me. this is basically jus a meat stuffed tortellini cooked in (really) concentrated chicken broth served over olive oil and pesto with lemon garlic chicken. i was hungry last nite, so i skipped the chicken part and made the tortellini over pesto. yum. met up with sally later that nite to stroll around. we got some drinks and s’mores at cosi and jus lounged around talking. ah…so nice.

this morning i got up a little earlier than usual b/c me and my roomie fonz were meeting up with our hs bud rosen for lunch. i dropped by the post office first to send off my p.art to betty and anna, and then we went to around the clock for yum lunch. afterwards i headed off to take photos of projects for work. i took the longest possible way down to the greenwich st. project. shite. but b/c of this i got to pass alot of coo stores on the way. i stopped in mxyplyzyk and picked up some dog magnets, a woven table mat, and a kikkerland cranky. afterwards at the site, i took about 18 photos of greenwich and then decided to head over to chinatown. on the way, i passed by the coolest t-shirt store since goto shut down called zakka. they had alot of custom t’s, a design book area, and japanese toys! holy shit i luv this place. im broke, so i didnt get anything…but im definitely making it a point to head back. i headed onto chinatown to the elizabeth center, then eventually made my way home. phew…too much walking. i took the subway once…from 3rd ave to 8th, and i walked the rest. oochies. anyhoo…time to wind up cranky. look at him go!

whew…i feel like uking. but not on my white bedsheets…mebbe in the bathroom. apparently working out after 3 years of not working out makes u queesy. i felt like doing something with myself, so other than my on/off biking excursions (my shocks are fucked at the moment) i decided to go try out the gym facilities in my apt building. its a small room next to the common lounge with weights, a gym system, and about 6 machines. it has about one of each kinda workout…not bad. i started off with my flaky stretches…they bore me. so i started with sit-ups. after about 50 i was already feeling dizzy. super. then i hit the leg presses. easy. then some weight lifting at ultra-fly-weight. all this to the pounding soundtrack of law&order. woo! if i make this into a routine, ill eventually get really……….in shape. and thats all i ask for.

current selection | jamiroquai – virtual insanity
feelin’ | relaxed

4th of july weekend recap
last day of my mini-vacation. phoo. well…im pretty rested, so i suppose i wouldnt mind going back to work and the such. my new swishy sofa arrived thursday. i took the whole day off jus to be at my apt when it arrived. usually im peeved that deliveries happen at the most inopportune time, but this time they call me and tell me theyll deliver it sometime between 7 and 9…am. im like…u mean pm right? theyre like, nope…am. cripes. so i wake up at 7am and sit around in bed til i get the call from the doorman around 8ish. woohoo. after it was delivered, i doted around the apt for a while b4 heading out to pick up more apt kibble. met up with marisol and paulie later that nite for some drinks at the boxcar lounge…which happens to be around the corner from me now. woo! they were headed up to cornell for the weekend, and i was headed to jersey, so it was our pre-weekend-outing drink fest. we even got to sit out in their garden. sweet.

saturday i headed back to jersey. port authority was crazy…i actually missed my bus b/c they rearranged the gates for the weekend and there were a shitload of ppl in line getting tix and stuff. anyhoo, when i get back, my ‘rents pick me up and we head straight for the hunan noodle house. taiwanese beef noodle soup….yum. i jus doted around the house the rest of the day. havent watched tv in ages. sunday i meet up with fish for lunch and some chess at panera’s. i got a frontega chicken panino and a chicken noodle soup…with a side of coffee frap snuck in from starbucks. fish beat me stupid the first chess match and we drew the second game. i blew a big lead the second game, but didnt fuck up too much afterwards. damn. tomorrow/today’s sunday…time to find me some storage thingies for my closet.