late afternoon/evening update

back from pilates. biked in the wind. but glad i went.
back to being bored. although need to shower. and perfect time to cook up something great, but i don't like and still can't be bothered to cook.
hmm. did i mention my work employed the emergency phone chain to announce that we are supposed to report to work tomorrow. woo hoo.
but late by half an hour so more of a chance to drop off laundry. woo hoo.

afternoon report

still bored.
marathon off playing video games.
emergency water stored away.
researching ways to make a set of felt plagues for the seder table.
going to pilates in an hour. although seems to be raining again some...
surprisingly haven't heard from boss on phone tree.
amazing when i type "entertainment center" into craigslist how many ads are for cars

morning report

calm night. we have power. water. winds howled a bunch when going to sleep around 1. no rain at the moment. doesn't look like many limbs down.
marathon is itching to get over to steinstines to play video games and leave me alone.
not as quite as humid.
was bored as hell last night.
left wine in freezer over night-looks like the bottle may have broken and some leaked. its in the fridge now. we'll see. sad.
this apt is a mess.

sat night of the hurricane

slept way tooo late this morning.
have been way too humid for too long.
walked around park slope for a while, went out for breakfast. finally at home about 8:15 after a few hours sitting in the steinstine's apt watching marathon play video games.
pleased to see that the local bookstore was packed at 4:30 when barnes and noble was closed. was particularly hard to find iced tea between closed coffee shops and ones that just don't have iced tea. but finally got some ust before the place closed.

the cso is going to make for some seriously gross water getting lots of sewage and then overflows.

bored. but got a bottle of wine on the way home.
have one friend who lives 3 blocks away. she invited us over, we invited them over. neither of us now wants to leave.

oh year tornados freak me out.

ouch!

my bike seat got knocked outa wack b/c it's been killing my crouch lately. seriously ouch. (how do you spell oooowww, all ways look wrong to me.)

time for a beer on the porch, which is sadly in the dark already. more after beer.
porch. ha. this is barely a stoop. (brought computer with me--was liking the subject of on point) too many bug though. but too nice not to be outside, esp when i get lazy and spend time inside when i could be outside.

first day back at full time job. was fine. couldn't come up with my to do list. felt like ready to teach. not totally true. will do stuff, will be fine. may likely be happy to teach. athough there will be issues. nothing espcially technology related in my schedule. which is fine. but also means nothing in my paycheck. yikes.

left phone at home so no watch, so had to change plans. but was fine. biked to school. think i have a slow leak. hope to keep biking to work.

haven't finished squash from last csa and got more today. and 1/4 watermelon. woo hoo.

did i mention i teach at 8 am everyday. it will be fine.

flat tax, progressive tax which is more fair?
so many bug bites out here.

i missed it.

pretty sure i was walking home from the subway at the time the earth shook around here. guess we know what everyone will be talking about tomorrow at orientation/reunion.

networking event was ok. gave out 3 or 4 business cards. i think they are not professional enough for adults. oh well.

was told not to buy skinny jeans, and that these pants are a boys look. whatever the fuck that means at anthropologie today. but still dropped a benjamin (i think that's the correct denomination, or i could say a buck) on a pair of pants i will either return or wear everyday. but not in the color coral they brought me when i asked for a different size. in the color gold (but not actually gold) that i wanted and will wear.

did not make it to beach on goregeous day today which would have been beautiful. fucked around at home. but did make do a loop on the bike around the park post pilates which was pretty gorgeous. too thirsty or i coulda done another lap.

good day yesterday. mini golfing at pier 25. good course. good company. good music. the hudson in the evening is just so lovely to stroll next to. crazy to see how many ferries there were.

finished unfamiliar fishes. did i write that i was kinda amazed that even though i knew the outcome from the very first page of the book somehow with 40 pages to go the suspense was building. not quite sure why she told the story. i think she had some excess material she wanted to use, and who doesn't want to hang out in hawaii do the rest of the needed research. it left open some questions for me that i wish she had addressed more and so needs a family tree.

now onto the new (?) nicole krauss book. on page 40 i guess. i swear i read the first 25 somewhere else and i've not picked up the book before. but doesn't say anywhere some parts were published elsewhere.

hmmm. need to shower. to cook. to ride swings at coney island (but may be closed even if i left now) i vote for a beer on the front steps.

cleaning/organizing

what am i supposed to do with all this stuff?
how do some people not accumulate stuff and/or how do they keep it tidy and make it look like they don't have stuff.
we are going to get a television. we need to make room for a television and reorganize some of our furniture to do so. we will also need to get rid of some and get a new entertainment center. new has issues though-do we really need to make more stuff come into this world and it costs more.
but beg bugs ahhhh.
also getting rid of some books. yikes. how. we don't have a street where they go quickly and have a landlord who will just through them out. double yikes. and how to pare down and not just get rid of everything, i want a curated collection but what does that mean if we are keeping our self to one bookshelf. was in an apt the other day with 5 or 6 very large and full bookcases. it was both awesome and crazy intimidating, and the thought of moving was terrifying.

what is this new smell in my apt?

if i mailed a package, does that rescue my day?

yesterday was a bit of a fail day. but i did send off a frog to the pusedo mother in law. so that's something.
we'll see how today goes, but i am still in bed so....
seeing lots of peeps i haven't seen in ages this weekend.
the overcast day is not a big motivator at the moment. surprise surprise.
saw one fringe show this year. an ok vaudville show. some acts better than others. but got us out of the house.
time to drop off compost.

quick thoughts

weird watching movers work slowly and not help out
dosaman
tweaking meds. means more money.
looks nice out now.
2 days of pilates. then gym. woo hoo.
felt coasters? what do we think.
i dont like my anxiety dreams. who does?

pretty good day. new york has cool architecture day.

would have been better without all the bug bites when sitting outside doing the (but really a, since not the times) crossword puzzle (which i did not do well with) and also without the 2 hours of doing nothing hard to get out of bed. but that was after returning from pilates and quick coop run, so that's a plus.

went to the talk to me show at moma. wish i could have been there with hoya. many projects were london focused, one cool pgh focus. lots of intersection of art, design, games, whimsy, information overload, and general convos she and i have had.
headed south afterwards and generally missed the rain, but only bc umbrella was good enough. hit bcbg-nothing i liked. patagonia, nothing new except maybe i should try on some pants and tried on an amazing but $500 jacket (and i am feeling seriously broke right now). then i drooled a lot at the phaidon store. the store was not quite as amazing as i was hoping it would be, but so many books i want. so many. but also many i did not want. didn't write down the name of the one i want the most. which was sort of a book of randomness and lots of quotes. surprisingly i didn't really want any of the children's books.

business cards came today. a little hard to read. but i guess that's what you get for 'free'

only one major goal for this week for myself--go to skyscraper museum. but also i want to play mini golf! and of course beach. not sure how the weather will cooperate.

reading unfamiliar fishes. interesting. i'm not part of the cult of fandom of sarah vowell and don't think i'll be joining based on this book.

good day!

i am pleased although home now and not sure what to do with myself.
did a lot today and it was also super gorgeous out! walked around and found for real a mini golf course in queens. woohoo. thought it was expensive but then realized it was 18 holes! cash only. had no cash. so someday soon.
eye doctor. should i get glasses? its up to me. another thing to lose or break and make fashion decisions over. and will i even notice a difference more than 5% of the time? not sure.
had a meeting for work. this morning. had time to kill and lunch to get and for the life of me could not think of a place to treat myself to lunch in manhattan. that's totally sad and means i am not out and about enough.
going to get myself some beer.
woo hoo.
lame post for such a good day...

gym? pilates?

what are they?
not pumped about work, b/c of what that means. but do like it when i have routine in my life. still in bed basically. sadly afternoon plans got changed due to a rental car break down....

this is now a few days old.

decent weekend, doesn't feel like sun

and it is humid. the humidity and heat are scheduled to go up tomorrow. yikes.

did you know you enter and pay a $50 fee to be considered for a pulitzer. the things you learns when you read a pulitzer winning book and think, meh its good but is it that good? who else won this prize...

wondering if i should re-read underworld. wondering if i'd last 50 pages.

sailor's heaven/sunken forest and sunburn on a cloudy day

b/c we took a cab to and from our apt and the lirr station all the travel didn't seem so bad. sunken forest was super cool and the beach itself was quite nice. waves too rough for me. but wasn't so awesome to just lay on the beach in the overcast, although i still got sunburnt. we walked to cherry grove, one of the gay communities on fire island, didn't seem like such a nice place, but that had a lot to do with the overcast sky i think. and now i can say i've been there.

my bad

got to the pilates studio at 12:12 for a 12:15 class to find the door locked. i was confused. so i look at the printed schedule and it says class is at 12 which explains the locked door. i get all pissed that the printed schedule doesn't match the online schedule. says fuckit, but am bitter and plan to email them. go to coop. just get home and see that in fact it does say 12, i was looking at saturday. oh well. at least i double checked before i emailed them. annoyed at myself bc i could have made 12 class. but at least i tried, so that counts as going right?

today's my birthday

i'm trying to ignore it. not that i'm so old or have a problem with my age. it just feeds my social anxieties.

goals for today: pilates, laundry--doing it myself!, make a felt frog, ride the wonderwheel if there is time, but not sure there will be.

was a bit of an architectural tourist yesterday. ford foundation atrium, very nice and pleasant and kinda cool building. Scandinavian house. the gallery exhibit kinda sucked. who knew that tretorn and panda licorice were Scandinavian? the architecture is cooler from the outside, but i also didn't get to see every floor, so who knows. i bet the kids area is kinda cool.

reading a visit from the good squad. good. easy read. a little sad-aren't they all. but pulitzer prize worthy? not sure, but only half way through so we'll see.

the pedicure i got at spa castle last week has lasted much longer than any pedicure normally does.

our apt is super cluttered, blah