Daily Archives: October 25, 2007

Weekend in NY

I spent last weekend in New York, with my awesome friend, Emerald. Here’s a long list of things for me to remember this:

  • up at an ungodly hour
  • werewolves outside the train station
  • cafeteria + asia = fantastically clever name + plain pad thai
  • post-its = e-mails
  • seeing the statue of liberty from the ferry
  • super wind
  • being on the wrong side of the ferry on the way back
  • whining for cookies and coffee
  • chocolate cake, as the quintessence of exquisiteness
  • Where is Maddox’s school?
  • the Met for 25 cents
  • mean lady taking a picture at the Egyptian temple
  • crocodile
  • this Egyptian squiggle is longer than that squiggle
  • American Art is horrible and imperialist, apparently
  • Washington crossing the Delaware kicks ass
  • biting my tongue upon seeing a zombie jesus
  • one-armed Mars(?), with a shitty interpretation
  • puppy store. aww.
  • Italian dinner, constant soft rock in the background
  • Can I get a second water, please?
  • waiting ridiculously long for subway trains to come
  • hostel towels are grody
  • wandering Times Square and not getting lost
  • a buck for tea isn’t objectively that good a deal
  • I’m standing outside your building, sipping tea
  • puppy store again
  • sitting on a park bench in Central Park, eating lunch, watching the little boats in the water
  • the guy making balloon animals, next to us, with the constant stream of little children
  • old guy playing sax and then accordion
  • strolling through Central Park
  • watching the people dance, after the cancer walk
  • Someday, I’ll take six months to play Latin jazz
  • a wonderful, striking image: so many picturesque trees, full trees, lining a path — unable to be caught on camera
  • feeling the most relaxed I’ve been in sooo long
  • did we really walk that far? feet starting to hurt
  • Apple Store, those new iPod nanos with video are damn sexy, better than I expected
  • very confusing elevator
  • No Cinnabon, what?
  • No cookie sundae, what?
  • Top of the Rock
  • breath-taking views
  • Target Breezeway
  • Central Park on one side, Empire State Building on the other
  • Naked boys. Singing!
  • Is that… Joan Rivers
  • asian food, panang curry… mmm… didn’t taste the hint of Latin cuisine, though
  • rushing back — geeze, we did a lot of standing and walking
  • a group of kids outside the train station flashing their matching vampire teeth as I walk by… I smile
  • Amtrak back, drifting in and out of sleep

That’s a lot of stuff, but I still probably forgot to write down a bunch.

My favorite weekend since river rafting, I think. All thanks to my gracious host in the city. Now I’m broke, haha.