\u2026and so are my allergies.\u00a0 motherfuck i hate allergies.\u00a0 i guess there are worse things to have than allergies\u2026like missing body parts, or body odor.\u00a0 but the congestion is still fairly irritating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EARLY MARCH<\/b>
it\u2019s been quite a busy month.\u00a0 my social life came roaring back to life, which was expected given a myriad of things\u2026like good weather, and a sunnier socio-economic climate.\u00a0 or something.\u00a0 gabor made his way to nyc from amsterdam (via hungary) and is so far lovin\u2019 it in that mcdonald\u2019s jingle kinda way.\u00a0 he was one of the animators at my last job when i worked in their amsterdam office.\u00a0 the office has since shut down (a casualty of the shitty economy) so he migrated to their nyc office.\u00a0 so far he\u2019s taken a shining to the city\u2026woot.\u00a0 the first week he arrived, he came out to join the crew (pho, troche, dano, ivor, etc\u2026) for some excellent pork chops, followed by some whiskey taverning.\u00a0 max was craving burgers the following friday, so we met up at corner bistro<\/i> after work and gabor joined us in the noshing.\u00a0 fridays have been proven to be approximately 80% better when you combine burgers with mcsorley\u2019s<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MID MARCH<\/b>
the following wednesday found me at boka<\/i> for korean fried chicken with di and emily.\u00a0 i had been planning to meet another friend that week for the aforementioned chicken of korean origin, but she had to reschedule\u2026and my cravings remained.\u00a0 so hey\u2026this worked out.\u00a0 we migrated to the second floor bar in the astor hotel to meet up with ngozi and boyer, who was in town from slovakia (?) i think\u2026yea, slovakia.\u00a0 she\u2019s usually found romping around europe these days, so the trips to the stateside are a rare treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we headed to the black door<\/i> for after-work drinking the subsequent friday.\u00a0 it was somebody\u2019s last day\u2026or something, which usually means drinking.\u00a0 max joined in later in the evening, and the remaining five of us migrated to hill country<\/i> for bbq lovin\u2019 since we were starving at that point.\u00a0 m3ntal note tho\u2026never drink with these people ever again.\u00a0 i understand that office gossip makes for fascinating times, but there was some shit i never cared to know or wanted to know.\u00a0 dear god i can\u2019t unhear these things\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i tried to drown away the memories of the prior nite with beer and sliders at\u2026some new place on st. marks i don\u2019t know the name of\u2026with sean and anna, followed by heavy drinking at hallo berlin<\/i> with max and crew.\u00a0 apparently max had found the nite before amusing, while i found it to be detrimental to my brain functions.\u00a0 i still have nightmares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LATE MARCH<\/b>
thursday was an after-work meetup with lena, a former coworker and the person mentioned above in the same sentence as korean fried chicken.\u00a0 instead of the impossibly addictive bonchon<\/i> variant, we headed to baden baden<\/i> for the crispy type.\u00a0 <3 baden baden<\/i>.\u00a0 the next day was bday drinks with dano at do hwa<\/i> near my old office.\u00a0 i found it immensely entertaining seeing old coworkers walk in, give that \u201chey\u201d nod in my direction, then proceed to avoid me the rest of the night.\u00a0 i must\u2019ve made a pretty good impression during my time there\u2026teehee.\u00a0 well to be fair, christa did chat me up during the food-eating portion of the nite.\u00a0 i thought that was nice and civil and friendly-like.\u00a0 thumbs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n