current selection | seatbelts – the egg and i
feelin’ | still cold! argh…

i got a new hard drive today…woo! 80 gbs extra to store my stupidly massive database of project pictures, my 10+ gigs of design files….and uh, my mp3s. had a nice din last nite with alice and sally at shabu-tatsu. shabu shabu….yum yum. we had 3 orders of shabu shabu…which in hindsight was prolly too much. oochies. on the bright side, sally had to leave a little early to catch her train home, so i got her green tea ice cream. yum. so my sofas arriving in 2 days…woo! and ill prolly be heading back to nj for the 4th of july weekend. u kno…do the whole good son thang. in the meantime…going shoppin’ today for various apartment kibble.

current selection | queen feat. david bowie – under pressure
feelin’ | cold!

its great how the a/c vents in my office blow right at me! *shiver* im a bit ache-y right now…spent all of sunday moving into my new apartment. yay! fish came in with his minivan to help me move. we spent about an hour carrying all my stuff down 2 flights of narrow stairs…oochies. it was much less painful once we got to the new apartment since fonz was already there to help us move the stuff in, and oh yea, they have nice elevators too. whew. after we dropped off my stuff, we had to go pick up my mattress that i was getting second-hand. i was interested in only the mattress…but the girl was like, “u sure u dont want the box spring?” im like, yea. “u sure?” positive. must’ve been some kind of alien concept to her. eh. afterwards we headed to st. marks to grab food….which is kinda hard in the afternoon since all my fav eateries in st. marks are din places. so we went to sharaku. this time wasnt as bad as the last time i went to sharaku. go and yokochos still have my thumbs up, but the spicy tuna rolls at sharaku were pretty massive.

oh yea…and my new room is like tetris…everything fits like a puzzle…wow. everything fits tho! woo!

current selection | fatboy slim – the sound of milwaukee
feelin’ | booooored….

friday…boring. er. i think im almost done packing for my move on sunday. helping misha out tomorrow with his wtc memorial proposal…and then mebbe drop my bike off at my new apartment since fonz is moving in first tomorrow. after that…feh.

my soon-to-be old apartment…

current selection | dub pistols – cyclone
feelin’ | warm and fuzzy

whew…furniture shopping is tiring. since im moving to my new apartment this weekend (woo!) i fig’d i needed to pick up some essentials. namely…a new couch, a bed, and some other stuff that ill wait to get later. first and foremost is the bed and couch. i looked thru craigs list for the mattresses since no, im not worried about “over-use” and “stains” (u sick ppl). i contacted this coo girl about her mattress…b/c she was advertising it for $120 with a featherbed. im all over that. i made an appt to take a look at 8:30…so i head off to sofa shop with fonz before then. i had decided that id be the one to lay down money for a sofa…fonz would prolly cover the other living room accoutrements. we look thru some places north of union sq…not bad, but none that got my attention. we then headed down to soho and ended up at crate+barrel. they have nice furniture! a bit on the yuppy side…but whatever, i actually found a sofa id be willing to lay down a considerable amount of money for. ill prolly head back today to place an order. afterwards i headed up to murray hill to check out the mattress. she let me bounce on her bed a bit (must be odd having strangers jus stroll in and hop up and down on their bed…tho itll technically soon be my bed) anyhoo…the mattress was coo…the geese down featherbed was ridiculous! once i lay on my extra comforter too (as another feather layer), ill prolly jus go into a coma.

current selection | underworld – cowgirl 2000 (bedrock mix)
feelin’ | full

a nice and quiet sunday, and it looks ass outside! well…not total ass. mebbe one ass cheek. its not raining (yet) but the reports say that itll start raining again around 3. damn. ah well. i did something uncharacteristic yesterday…i went out and bought a book. egad, you say…a book? yes…apparently ive been sucked into the pop culture juggernaut that is harry potter. i picked up the order of the phoenix and started pouring thru its some 900 pages. quite good actually.

a bunch of us also headed to the gr29 party last nite…we hit it in waves. me and pho hit it up around 11:30, followed by alice and terrence, followed by marisol and paulie. pho, alice, and terrence eventually bailed out and headed to roxy’s…me, marisol, and paulie stayed behind. as i was waiting in line for the bathroom, alexis (who id been emailing since the last gr party…tho we’d never met) found me and introduced herself…which was a pleasant surprise. we said hi, and jus as my turn came up, i dashed into the bathroom. not too tactful, but it was one of those emergencies (so if ur reading this, i apologize). i tracked her down later and we talked some more (as much as one can under the loud circumstances). she even got me a gr28 poster….huzzah! we stuck around a while longer, and then headed out around 2. overall, id say this gr party was a vast improvement over the last one…since i didnt bust up my frames and wander around blind this time around. yay!

current selection | fantastic plastic machine – take me to the disco
feelin’ | half asleep

i think this shite weathers making me sleepy. ive had trouble getting up in the morning this whole week. i didnt even kno what day it was when i woke up yesterday. super. so we had our lil mini-luv boat reunion+1 (min brought her friend tomoko) last nite. after some deliberation, we decided to yum on sushi at go. again. i kno…pretty creative. starting today im gonna start looking for alternatives. no really…i swear. afterwards, min flaked out and had to head back to jersey…so me and elaine jus chilled at angels share. afterwards we headed back to my apt where we whipped out my old luv boat yearbook and started to track down all the ppl we thought were cute. its like high school all over again…rockin’! anyhoo…hopefully she’ll get a job offer and move her ass up to nyc.

current selection | element – a little respect (erasure tribute)
feelin’ | pooped

i think im finally getting legs of steel. its all nice and shit…too bad the rest of me’s still out of shape. *shrug* i did a lap around the loop again today. it wasnt the nicest day out, but at least the chilly wind kept me from sweating all over myself. blech. my ride was getting a little sluggish…i thought it was me. then i noticed two things…my front shocks were super-springy (no good) and that my front tire was getting deflated. er. fyi, i carry no pumps with me. damn. ill prolly start bringing my shock and tire pumps from now on.

anyhoo, im meeting up with my friend elaine tomorrow. woo! shes in town for some interviews since she jus finished up grad school in virginia. havent seen her in over a year. if we’re lucky, our other friend min will come out of hibernation and meet us too. its like a mini-luv boat reunion! yea…thats right, luv boat crew…rockin’! and to think, its been five years and i still keep in touch with…two…three…carry the one….five luv boaters. woo.

current selection | purple penguin – passion
feelin’ | bored

home on a friday nite…feh. feh…..feh. plans to go back to jersey were kinda snuffed when my sis informed me that our parents werent even going to be around come lunchtime saturday….theyll be in flushing doing their thang. er.

tomorrows weather looks spotty. but seems like theres pockets of clear skies…so ill prolly try and get some biking in b4 the new york/tokyo film fest. woo. tomorrows the nakano/ishii session and sunday will be anime and hideaki annos first live movie…love + pop. in the meantime tho…im bored. nets are getting spanked behind me…*shrug* at least the devils already won.

current selection | up, bustle + out – emerald alley
feelin’ | lethargic

did i ever mention my utter dislike of trade shows? my company has a booth at the buildings ny show currently at the javits center…and i was made to attend at the last sec yesterday. there werent as many ppl attending as there normally is, but alot of ppl did stop by our booth yesterday. and they all asked the same question…what is it? (in reference to the booth). a few of the answers we responded with:

-its a booth…
-its a physical representation of our fabrication capabilities…
-its a physical representation of a kidney bean…
-its an mri for really fat ppl…
-the second-hand airplane store was having a sale…
-your mom…

we said that last one in our minds…

after the show, i headed back home to prep for biking. then i realized my ass still hurt from the two prior biking excursions, so i decided to stay put. jane was in town for a few days…and we had planned for a late late din, so i sat around snacking on red bean cake snacks. she calls at 10:30 and we meet up to find late din in k-town. by then its already 11ish, but we go ahead and order up some mandoo gui and ojingoh bokum. yum. jane had to get up super-early the next day…so we finished up and she took a taxi back to her hotel. poor jane…poor poor jane.