look at that…suburban lethargy overwhelmed me again, draining all desire to post. but i saw this coming, and jotted down notes anyhoo. rewinding what i think is 2 weeks…thursday drinkies at brass monkey with g+r, steph, kyoko, and dano. itd been a while since we’d been to brass monkey, probably since we had moved offices at my old job from the meat packing district to the west village. damn that place got big, and not in a figurative sense…they added a second floor and what looked like a roof deck. cripes. i crashed at g+r’s too because we were out late, and i wanted to “practice” the commute from my soon-to-be new home to work. shit, its faster than getting their from alphabet city! thats just wrong…

my friday plans with di got postponed to saturday brunch…oops. so satty morning i met up at essex with di and her roomie and had a yum brunch, then roamed around the lower east side.

the following wednesday i had din at dieci with m, thursday with marisol at…some italian place in hells kitchen (cant remember name, but it was yum). then sunday was a semi-bai bai dinner for sally at luzzu’s and then after-din ice cream from alphabet scoop. sallys still around and all, but will be heading back to the boonies (aka: ithaca) for grad school in august. boo-urns.

thursday was foodies with steph at blue ribbon, where i had some fancy fried-chicken…yum yum. and friday i met up with g+r for some sushi action at hasaki. chef’s omakase…damn that was some good sashimi. and shit, if andrew zimmerns going to be oohing all over the (baby-poop-looking) sea urchin, ill give it a try too. i have to admit, it was mighty damn tasty.

k thats all my brain can remember at this point. whatever. its almost august eh…august is going to be one crazy month. on the to-do list…sis’ berfday coming up, cribbs is coming up to visit from texas (word!), mins wedding that same weekend, alice and lysha are coming to visit from amsterdam (omg!), then a certain someone is having a massive turning-30 blowout, then closing on my new apartment (finally!). hoo-wee…fucking a.

i have a legitimate reason this time for the tardy post. no really! im just now coming out of a heinous stomach virus/flu/something im not really sure of. which i originally thought was all alcohol-induced, but sifting thru web md and getting some feedback, it was probably that and something else i ate. *shrug* well whatever it was, it sucked. my appetites still not back at 100%…more like 60% judging by how much food i can finish before getting full. hmm…

PRE-STOMACH CRAZINESS
rewind back to two weeks ago, because its been a good two weeks. tuesday was din with jess at chiyono. i forget who first recommended chiyono, but its this small joint in the middle of curry alley on 6th. pretty nice and quiet, especially on a tuesday night. wednesday was an unplanned din with ivor and company at 26 seats, friday was din at max and then drinks at solas with sean, anna, and sally. margie was in town satty, so we got to hang out during the day…yay! we strolled around manhattan furniture shopping for my upcoming new apartment. oh right, that was thursday btw…signed and sent back a contract for a new apartment (to buy that is). woot! well, i should save my over-enthusiasm til i actually get the contract back with a thumbs up on it. this is new york…weird shit happens.

saturday was g’s bye bye drinkies (shes quit…yay!) at la bottega at the maritime hotel. this, btw, was the start of a week of pain, but i didnt know this. g bailed a bit earlier than anticipated (she got trashed the night before), but a few of us continued on…and on…and on…til er, 5am, followed by early morning tacos from san locos. i think i shouldve known better, but ya…sick time.

FUCK
the weekend and the following week was spotty from here on out given that my stomach started feeling reeeal funky. but anyhoo, i met up with grace who was in town tuesday nite for soba-ya. i couldnt eat much, but hey…she was visiting. friday was g’s celebrations, part 2, this time at sala and primarily food-based rather than alcohol-based. stomach was still funky, so didnt eat much, and definitely didnt drink alcohol…whew. i was however out again til 3am with mich and mk (sober tho…i was sober).

addendum
noted (and recurring) pet peeve…people who you meet and hang out with, have fun, get numbers for, then call, just to get no response. *sigh*

BABBQF!
yea, that acronym doesnt work, does it? big apple bbq festival! woot! all that non-drinking the night before was worth it, because by saturday, i was feeling ten times better, just in time for some bbq at madison square park. side note…holy fuck was it hot out! hot and humid=shit. but it was bbq, and getting a heat stroke wouldnt stop me from getting bbq. id been going to the big apple bbq festival every year since 2005, and id be damned if i missed this years. i met up with dano and company at the park. he’d been running late, so by that time id already gone thru one round at blackjack’s bbq from south carolina…yum yum. when they got there, we staked out big bob gibsons bbq for the follow-up. i’d seen chris lilly of big bobs on one of the bbq challenges on the food network, and was curious to see just how good his sauce was. yea, it was good. like, super good. the chopped pork was soft and yum too…thumbs up. sadly, this was the first year since i started going to the bbq festival that i chose not to go to the perennial favorite, salt lick bbq of texas. sorry, but i gotta branch out.

oh, and we caught kung-fu panda afterwards too. jack black rocks! almost as good as pixar’s stable, and definitely the best of the dreamworks’ lot. it made even sitting amongst a whole theaters worth of pre-pubescents tolerable.

argh i hate when i let old posts sit around collecting dust. now i have to run down a laundry list of things i did, otherwise they’ll just get lost permanently to the big black hole that is my memory. good thing i jotted this shit down. and i’m trying out my new post category too…foodage! because whats the point of posting about all these places i eat at if i cant even find them after theyre posted?

SOME STUFF
k, so amongst the things ive done since i got back from tokyo er…3 weeks ago…tomoe with sally and anna, afterwork drinkies with renee at ñ, and then some midtown noshing at hagi with m. k, thats one week down.

HERES MORE STUFF
i checked out the superheroes exhibit at the met with renee, then had korean at chung moo ro, saturday i turned in my transaction form for an apartment (omg yay!) then chilled out at g’s place, followed on sunday with some brunch at mogador with sally, then perusing hot furniture at the icff, sean and anna (ooh, sub-studio) at the stationary show, then din at gasparino’s with jess. k thats another week…

ALMOST UP TO DATE
tuesday ramen at setagaya with jess, wednesday was foodage at go with di and sara, then a midnight showing of indiana jones and the crystal skull thingy with sara and her friends. it was good, but it was weird, because it didn’t completely feel like an indy movie. and as an attachment to the prior trilogy, last crusade definitely was the better last movie. anyhoo, i usually dont mention what i do for lunch, but i thought hill country was worth mentioning since it was awesome…texas bbq ftw! oh and that was followed up with more ramen at ippudo with sally. friday drinkies with pho after i dont even know how long its been at b bar, followed by more drinkies at ten degrees. satty was dinner at luzzos with sally, anna, and sean, then some iron-man in union square woot. ok, thats a long list. should i attach a picture? would that help? let me go look for one…