So I’m watching bicentennial man. I like the opening credits… The guy is getting delivered to the family’s house and the first thing I think is “wow, that is some awesome stained glass on the door”…then I realize ….it’s the Gamble House in Pasadena. I went there with my parents just six months ago.
new wardrobe
I just bought four new pairs of shoes for less than the price of looking absolutely ridiculous
eurosnow
poke
No Child Left Behind
Further evidence of our failing educational system, and our booming teen marketing machine economy.
bumpy ride
Sunday morning started off with sleeping in late and pita bread cheese pizza. We went to Astoria park to play one last round of frisbee before heading off to the airport. The Metro bus line to the airport stops at the same Subway stop we’d been using the whole weekend (a mile walk). On the […]
Go Metro
Saturday was a bit more relaxed. We had only one plan – to go to the Met, so we hung out at the apartment, talked philosophy over home-made spaghetti with meatballs and played frisbee in Astoria Park until early afternoon. Here is a descriptive photo of a friendly warning posted on a neighbor’s house. The […]
Liberty is unattainable
The plan for Friday was to get up at a reasonable hour, eat breakfast, and head into the city to eat lunch at L&L Hawaiian BBQ. By Friday morning – the New York smog and Pollen were really tearing me up and my feet weren’t any less blistered from the mileage they racked up on […]
Manhattan
Aaron had to be at work at 9:30am at his animation internship on 37th avenue and wanted me to take the subway into Manhattan with him. I declined citing the reason that it would be “too early” as it would feel like 6:30am to me. Really though I just wanted to say that I rode […]
Here to there in a day
The trip to Laguardia was uneventful aside from some nasty gas and a bad in-flight movie (Bridge to Terabithia). Due to a miscommunication earlier Aaron wasn’t waiting for me at the airport and so I took a cab ride to Queens. Fortunately Aaron doesn’t actually live in the further eastward part of Queens so the […]