| | i escaped from the desert!okay it wasn't really the desert, it was the lower east side. but it felt like the desert because i just kept walking and walking and it was only public housing for as far as the eye could see. what's a stupid little bridge and tunnel connecticut girl to do?!? how could i find my way out if there was no grid to guide me? i mean, seriously, it didn't seem like anyone i passed on the street even spoke english! why, why did i have this bright idea to go see the waterfalls on the east river?!? granted they are way better than those stupid orange banners they put in central park that one year, but still was this really worth it?!?
wait.
those of you who actually know me know i'm not a pretentious little twit. actually, the reason i didn't ask anyone for directions was because i was afraid they'd expect me to speak spanish. those of you who know me know i have a huge pet peeve about people assuming i can speak spanish when i can't. grumph.
and let's face it, it felt like the desert because it was a million bazillion degrees yesterday and the concrete was emitting heat additional to that beating down from the sun so it was NOT a good time to get lost. was it wrong that all i wanted on the island of manhattan was a freaking starbucks and i was in the only starbucks dead zone in the city?!? (okay i don't know if that's really true, i'm sure there are other dead zones, but it was just freaky because i've never been in one before)
and for the record i tried to use my phone to figure out where i was and what direction the streets were oriented but google maps was not cooperating and i was worried that if i kept using the internets on my phone, my last bar would be used up and then i wouldn't be able to get in touch with the friend i was supposed to meet up with. who would have guessed that it would take me over an hour to find my way out and get uptown?
so i did the only thing left. i just kept walking and hoped i would run into something familiar sounding. 2 miles later, i finally found a subway stop. BUT, then it took me like 4 trains to get where i needed to go because apparently the V doesn't run on weekends and you can't transfer from the F to 6 uptown at Broadway-Lafayette, only to the 6 downtown. what's up with that?!? jerks.
by the time i found my friend at a starbucks in midtown i was completely frazzled. luckily he was in no rush to get to p.s.1 so we got me back to baseline in the comfort of corporate a/c. we did end up going to p.s.1 for a bit which was actually pretty cool. great people watching!!! there was plenty of shade by the time we got there and there was what sounded like a decent electronic music d.j. spinning. music to my ears! another pet peeve of mine is the extreme lack of good d.j.'s in new haven (any and all types of music). urgh, it's really horrendous really, to the point where i just gave up on going out dancing. so yeah, good job mr. d.j. and to the random mellow 3 chicks that came on after. also the museum was still showing a few of the olafur eliasson pieces from the earlier larger exhibit so that was nice. all in all a good afternoon.
in fact, despite getting lost in the desert, it was all in all a good day. the morning was spent going to various places with my friend who is looking for a wedding dress. great girl time bonding! i love girly crap like that like looking through wedding dresses. we also had a really delicious lunch at this random place called burger joint which is this hole in the wall sketchy looking place which somehow is in a really really nice hotel. we couldn't figure out what came first, the hotel or the burger joint? and how do people find this place since there are no signs? the line was intense! and with good reason, i have to say, that was an excellent burger. way better than the ones i rave about to people in new haven. my favorite place in new haven (prime 16) has been going down lately because their bread is no good. i still love their beer and their meat, but man, with no good bread, it kind of ruins it. burger joint on the other hand, had excellent bread. nice and toasty. simple and delicious.
skip forward again. after p.s.1 we came back to manhattan and had yummy japanese bbq at this place called gyu-kaku where we ate more yummy meat (and yummy tofu, and yummy green tea ice cream). rock on.
caught the 11:30 train and got home by 1:30. too bad it was a million bazillion degrees in my apartment. so i stayed up another hour waiting for the a/c to freaking do something already (who am i kidding, i was also up because i forgot that dr. horrible was about to not be free and i hadn't watched it yet! so i did.) and then called it a night.
today was good too. injected some mice and got most of my last errands in preparation for germany. 1 week left!!!
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| | Posted 7/20/2008 9:03 PM - 11 views - 6 comments
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