Moving to NYC. I am planning to move to NYC for work shortly. The original master plan was to live in a 1BR apartment in the city but after 7 days of apartment, soul and financial searching, I have reconciled to living in an exorbitantly priced studio apartment where my lease starts after my work. I have officially joined the ranks of the uban poor. In the meanwhile, I have been chilling out in Chicago without an idiot box and have rediscovered novel ways to occupy myself like reading -one of my forgotten past times.
Memory loss issues. I recently found out that human brain cells regenerate after all. For the longest time, I have attributed my growing ineptitude to the cruel hand of nature and the phenomenon of aging. Now I can finally concede that its a conscious lifestyle choice caused by my thorough mental torpor and lack of any physical or mental activity. Should I do anything about it? Is it really worth it to try and regenerate neural networks through mental activity. Such are the tough questions with which I grapple.
Tripin' in Jamaica. I went to Jamaica this May (sorry don't remember which May - see above "Memory Loss Issues"). The idea was to watch women running in skimpy bikinis and watch an India- West Indies cricket match if possible. Rain defeated pretty much both of the purposes. But I am happy to report that this allowed us to get a full refund of the ticket price. So now I am back in the US, the usual drudgery of travel and work and travel and work and ....
The First Rambling. Sometimes I think of things- nothing necessarily intelligible or philosophical but just things. I have decided to devote one full page to the coherent among these thoughts. Have you ever tried to just stare at a wall for a long time. I haven't! Now you may ask the source of this random thought. Well what else were you expecting. Remember that the universe is a double spiral. Who am I to change that scheme. That may not sound like an appropriate justification, but it is not inteded to be one.
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