Wheeeeeee

Jun. 29th, 2005 10:33 am
Monday actually not much to say. Work, then errands and laundry and packing.

Tuesday, work and then gym with Megan. My arms still hurt from volleyball on Sunday. Then lastminute packing and then going to the airport, where I ran into [profile] thatmathchick and her guy since they were also heading to JFK on the same flight as me. I hadn't seen Deb in forever so it was good to catch up, though the sad part is that part of her trip here is going to David Rochberg's wedding, which I was unaware of, which makes me sad since I used to be such close friends with Dave back in the day, and now here I am not even knowing he's getting married. It made me all sad, like when you get this feeling in the pit of your stomach when you worry you've lost something important like your keys or phone or something.

The flight was fairly uneventful and I finished the Sadaharu Oh autobiography I was reading, and damn if that isn't one of the best books I've ever read. It's so bizarre to hear him talk about baseball and yet be talking about aikido and zen and swordplay and everything interspersed with it, and really entertaining. I slept off and on for the rest of the flight.

It got to JFK late, but Nick came and picked me up anyway. Yay, it's good to see Nick again, even if he sucks for not coming to Seattle. He drove me back here and I met his roomate and stuff, but then they went off to work, so now I am sitting here in his living room updating LJ and stuff and debating what to do during the day. We're gonna try to go to the Mets-Phillies game tonight, and I am psyyyyyyched.

I might just take a nap, or I might wander around here a bit. We're apparently like a block from Columbia, which is pretty cool. I'm in New York so I really ought to get bagels or pizza or something, I think.
On my way out the door. Maybe update a bit more from the airport. Been a hectic day. See you all from the other side of the continent.
dr4b: (duckhugging)
Called and accepted the job offer at IDX. I start on the 20th.

(I'll be in New York City from June 29th to July 5th though... leaving here on the redeye on the evening of Tuesday the 28th and coming back here early on the morning of wednesday the 6th. Only plan for sure so far is that I ordered tickets to the Yankees game on the afternoon of July 4th. Though the Phillies will be at Shea from the 28th-30th, and the Marlins from the 1st-3rd, and Nick's birthday is July 1st so we'll try to do something cool then too, I'm sure. Anyone around NYC that wants to hang out with me, lemme know or something.)

But yeah, so I'll be starting a super-challenging job in ten days. My mind boggles. I better get cracking on the Perl books again so I can be sure to hit the ground running, or at least jogging.
dr4b: (pouty)
I went to the gym today and swam for 45 minutes with Heidi and Megan. I suck at swimming straight and I accidentally scraped my arm on the side of the pool while doing a lap of freestyle. It didn't look too bad at the time, but now it looks like I have a reasonably large gash in my arm. Sigh. I think I'll mostly stick to swimming on my back and either kicking or doing arm pulls.

D&D got cancelled today, but I didn't know that until this afternoon. I bought brownie mix for it, now I feel sort of silly -- guess I'll find some other excuse to make brownies. Anyone want me to bake you brownies?

I wanted to make tortellini for dinner, but I did the classic college kid thing of boiling the water, putting in the tortellini, and THEN noticing that there was a tiny bit of white mold gathering on the sauce stuck to the top of the sauce jar. Yuck. Well, I wiped off the mold and the rest of the sauce still looked and smelled good, but jgoodman forwarded me a link about how mold may only show a tiny bit but it gets little bits into all of your food and produce mycotoxins which could make you very very dead.

So I threw out the sauce and ate my tortellini plain. It wasn't actually that bad.


On another note, I think I may go to New York City for the Fourth of July unless there's somewhere else I'm supposed to be instead. The sad part is that it sounds like some of my NYC friends won't be around that weekend, but the good part is that it's one of the few times I could actually go see both the Mets and the Yankees on a week/weekend trip to NYC. I'd really like to just be in Yankees stadium for the historical aspect of it, you know? I'm not a Yankees fan, I swear... not this generation, anyway.

So, um, is there somewhere else I'm supposed to be for the fourth of July? Suggestions welcome.
dr4b: (duckhugging)
0900 - the time my alarm was set for

0935 - the time I actually got up

8 - the number of CDs I brought along in the car for the ride

6 - the number of hours I spent driving today from home to Redmond to Portland and back

387.7 - the number of miles I drove today

43.9 - the miles per gallon my car got along the way

6 - the number of hours we spent in Powell's Bookstore

9 - the number of books I bought

$97.10 - the amount I spent on said books

$0 - the amount of sales tax paid, hooray for Oregon

16 - the number of plates Brian and I had at Sushi Takahashi

3 - the number of cream puffs we consumed at Sushi Takahashi

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