May

There seems to be more and more issues in our subway system these days, and personally, I never can find out what's going on. I ask cops- they don't know (said they're not always told the situation). I check breaking news- no word of anything. I don't even know if the problems are on the trains or in the stations or both. I just see cops, firemen, dogs, etc. in and around the stations and often I get stuck on delayed trains or stuck waiting for delayed trains. I'm sure some of those times are drills, but I thought they usually do drills during hours when the trains are more quiet. I guess I don't need to know details if they're not telling everyone to get out and go outside. As long as we're still safe...

Other city observations: I've been noticing people walking across heavy traffic, taunting cab drivers and refusing to get out of the way- as if there weren't enough traffic problems.

My thoughts on tourists, which I jotted down last night after walking through Times Square:
- Why are tourists impressed with huge signs displaying all the things they have at home (Red Lobster, Comfort Inn, Gap)? These businesses don't offer anything different here than they offer everywhere else. Are people just impressed with the big signs since their locations have modest-sized signs or are they really excited to go to these familiar places? "Oh boy honey, look! We can do all the things here that we can do at home!"
- And is it my imagination or are people walking even slower and more irratic than normal? "Watch honey! Let's stop dead in the middle of the sidwalk and see how people can get around us."
- And there are so many groups of people. Groups make it impossible to walk continuously in one direction. I'd much rather navigate through cars by walking on the "shoulder" of the road than navigate tour groups on foot, clogging the sidewalks (at least there is room to move between cars unlike groups of people). Sidewalks. Maybe they think they are actually sidestops? Or sidewaits? "You mean not everyone walking near us wants to wait 10 minutes before crossing the street? Some people actually want get around us?"

"Jumpers" was okay, nothing too memorable. I'm not sure what this production was stressing, if anything. And it's not that I didn't understand it (like all the people around me, especially the people behind me, who didn't understand the difference between an actor and a playwright and then quickly said they prefer Reality TV and spent most of the intermission discussing The Apprentice). I do love how Stoppard strings ideas together though, and his sense of humour as well.

When I got home last night, I actually stepped into the apartment quietly. As if someone else was here. Guess that's what happens when you have so many visitors.

After too many more hours of thinking about and talking to others about my research paper, I think I've finally gotten somewhere (for real this time). I'm going to say that populist entertainment leads to decadance which ultimately leads to a decline of the cuture, so if we don't want a collapse of the United States Empire, we should make sure that populist entertainment doesn't become the only option of entertainment in our country. Now I just need to get specific information from the few sources I have here (I really hope I don't have to try to find more scholarly sources- I don't want to run around to libraries tomorrow) and see where to fit those into my paper. I'll do that tomorrow. Tonight I'll spend working on something else (probably catching up on reading and/or working on another paper).

Finally got to talk to Eytan today. That was nice. It felt like old times (which is both positive and a little negative- I'm so picky).

Then I worked on my paper a little bit but didn't get too far since I decided to look at 2 more books to use as sources before I do anything else (since the ones I have here are pretty useless). So I'll go to the library between classes on Tuesday (so nice that the set building is done), and work on the paper again on Wednesday.

Instead, I got caught up on a lot of school reading and finished Act One of my play (although it may end up being a long one act, in which case, I have about half of it finished). My play isn't at all what I had hoped it would be (a play about how people too often use shortcuts for thinking and the trouble that causes); it is now a play entirely motivated by gimmicks (very Neil LaBute in its mentality, which would be fine if I took the time to write as well as he does). It's easier this way and given my lack of time and the fact that I'm just not motivated to write anything brilliant, I'm fine with it.

I also spent a lot of time today thinking about the direction of our country's education practices, the uselessness of a BA, and the depressing work situation. And I'm getting tired of thinking about it since there are no easy answers. I'm just thinking in circles with little progress. I hate that.

Nasty day today. Glad I didn't have to run all over the city. But despite the nasty weather, the traffic's been pleasantly quiet.

Not much on my mind today.

Guess it was good that I slept 10 hours the other night, since 2 nights ago (I don't know why I keep saying "night, it's really the early morning hours when I get to sleep) I only slept a little more than 2 hours. Last night I got back to "normal" though.

Yesterday, I got to school early to print out the latest parts of my play and to go to the library once again for my Roman paper. I didn't exactly find what I was looking for, but maybe I can find a way to include a little information from one of them for my paper (since she didn't really like my works cited as it is now). I got about halfway through rewriting the paper today. I think I can finish it up tonight or tomorrow without too much trouble.

I got an ocular migraine during theatre history (guess it was either from the lack of sleep or the caffeine, or both). It only lasted 30 minutes, but then it kicked in again about an hour later and lasted for over 30 minutes. Not fun.

Came home in between classes to take care of a few things (like registering for summer classes). It was nice to have that brief time at home even though it wasn't very peaceful, with horribly loud construction going on in the apartment above me plus the resurface of the ocular migraine.

In the playwrighting "workshop", people keep giving me the role of the oldest character in their plays (as today marked the 4th one I was given, I can safely say it's a pattern). Today was the oldest yet- a 70 year old blind woman. That one was kind of fun, actually- wish there was more of it- it was only 2 pages.

I got a little inspiration last night and wrote some more of my play. Now it's getting a little unwieldy, which I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't getting boring as well. I'm not sure, but I'll probably find it easier to babble for a while and then trim rather than to plan too much before writing. Maybe I'll get something interesting out of it.

I'm having RCN issues- service and billing issues. I don't know what's going on over there in RCN-land, but I'm tired of their issues taking up my time. Too bad I don't have any other options for phone/cable/Internet.

Every day there are more metal plates on my street. Today they added cones to the middle of the street. The traffic and noise are horrendous (I especially hate the guys that lay on the horns for an entire light cycle). What are they doing and will it ever end?

I think I'm finished my Roman paper (just need to look over it again to see if there's anything else to add). It's not great, but it's good enough. At least I managed to do a little something with it.

The RCN guy never called back last night. Guess I'll call over the weekend to make sure things are back on track.

I seem to have gotten back in the one-day-at-a-time mentality. It's nice not being so overwhelemed all the time.

I can't believe it's been so cold again this spring. Yesterday the forecast said it would be 70�, so I wore short sleeves. I was FREEZING! It was definitely no where near 70�. Last year it finally got warm the last week of June. I really hope it doesn't take that long this year.

Technology consulting- so sick of it.

I'm almost finished my play- just need to finish up the last scene and make a few edits. It's not great, but it's good enough for its purposes.

I feel like I haven't been in a good mood in a while. Things are either overwhelming or insignificant and I just don't care.

Today's been deal-with-customer-service day. Still not sure what's going on with RCN (guess I'll try to deal with that again later this week), but after talking to too many people over the past few months, I finally got someone at Virgin Atlantic who knew it was possible to transfer miles to hotel points without using the miles to book a room. Three people told me you had to actually book a room if you were going to transfer miles, and I was sure that wasn't the case. So I just kept calling back here and there, hoping to get it sorted out eventually, and today was that day. I now have 15,000 more points in my Hilton account. And I transfered 10,000 from Amtrak recently (the one thing they make it easy to do). Now I just need 2 more Hilton stays, a few thousand more points, and we'll be all set for a free week in Hawaii.

The rest of the day should be busy with work. And it'll take longer for me to get things done since I'm so tired (last night was so physically exhausting, and I couldn't afford too much time for sleeping). Tonight/tomorrow will be the same situation (except substitute physical exhaustion for mental exhaustion). In fact, looking ahead, I don't see a good chance for a catch up day or 2 (other than possibly Memorial weekend). This is why I don't like looking ahead too far. Just thinking about half of the things at once is overwhelming, and if I wind up thinking about almost everything, that's when I just break down.

I think I'm going to try and sleep in tomorrow. I haven't been getting much sleep at all, and my days are exhausting in all aspects.

I had good luck with the fall registation process yesterday. I managed to get in both visual elements and play analysis.

My tooth has been growing again the past few days.

This morning I overheard my neighbour say that she's moving in 2 weeks. I guess she's been moving out loads each week or something. Wish my other neighbours would move out. They've been listening to loud music more often recently. It's especially obnoxious at 7:00 AM.

Paula and Harvey are on one of their quickie trips to the city, so I met Paula for a quick bite at Fauchon this afternoon. That was nice.

Today's been an I-can't-get-motivated day.

On a good note, I got to talk to Mike for a bit today and hear about his trip to Ireland. So nice to know he had a wonderful time.

Tonight I'm going to see "Sight Unseen" since I already paid for it (it's part of the MTC subscription), not because I really want to see it. There's always the chance I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Back to work...

Last night wasn't bad, I guess. I decided to start my evening with a quick bite and a pint at Connolly's (the one on 45th, not the one on 54th where I used to go). That was nice. I managed to tune everything out except the things I didn't want to tune out (like the decent juke box, the laid back bartender, the intelligent pair next to me, and the fact that tourists didn't find that bar last night). For a moment, I was able to pretend all was right with the world. And I was able to pretend that everyone around me was talking about fascinating things and the TV in front of me wasn't showing a preview of some awful, generic movie.

Then I went to my "secret" bar in The Muse Hotel. I guess it's not really a secret, but it's enough out of the way that there are always available seats at this comfortable bar with a laid back but slightly swanky atmosphere (I guess sometimes I miss writing Epinions). But I didn't really love it last night. The music was loud and obnoxious as was the group with a Bill Clinton lookalike at one of the tables. Sweet bartender though. So I had 2 drinks last night and was reminded why I hardly ever drink- it has no effects 9 out of 10 times, so why bother.

"Sight Unseen" was very average- average concept, average dialogue, average acting... So now I feel like I'm making my way across the 47th St. theatres ("Jumpers" last month, "Sight Unseen" last night). Should I see "Sly Fox" next? No thanks, 2 shows on the same street is enough. Speaking of shows, it occured to me when seeing the TONY nominations list, that I've only seen 1 of them and barely know about the rest. I'm so out of the theatre world.

Two other little notes about Times Square:
- Even with my broken toe, I still walked faster than the tourists.
- But I did almost get hit by a limo. The walk sign was still lit as I was crossing, but he wanted to turn and I was in his way. Sight wasn't even the first way I noticed it had almost hit me. I first felt the heat of the engine against my leg and then turned and saw how close it was. That was a bit scary.

Last night was motorcycle night on my street- seems to happen mostly on Fridays. So pleasant, their noise combined with the usual impatient honkers and trucks riding over all the metal plates.

There was a Zeppelin song I used to like in high school, and I've been trying to remember the name of it for a long time. It's an instrumental, so I couldn't search for lyrics, and I didn't remember which album it was on. But last night Launch played it for me ("Black Mountain Side"). So glad I found it again- it's still a good tune. Last night it also played Tull's "Passion Play" and Solas' "Beck Street". Launch has definitely been my friend recently.

Still not feeling great today, which is causing my work to suffer. Hopefully I can get a lot done tomorrow. I think I might as well give up for today.

Still been thinking a lot about how much I hate our society and people in general. I just don't want to accept the things that most people accept blindly and can only ignore it for a small percentage of time before I just snap.

Speaking of bad weather, there's a HUGE hail/lightning/thunder storm going on right now. The lightning's so close- a second ago, the bright flash made my window glow like it was on fire (except with cool colours instead of warm). We've really had some intense storms recently. I wonder if they'll continue the entire summer like last year. Hey Jon Stewart, maybe it's time for you and me to start building that ark again.

Last night I continued listening to my road trip tapes, and started to label them and do the few things I made notes on them to do. It only took almost a year. And of course there are more important things I should be doing, but this was a fun, random project and I wanted to take the time (don't know when I'll finish though- maybe Memorial Weekend- I should also put up the latest pictures on my site then too).

It's been a productive day so far, and it's still early. I think I'm finished my play. I still need to read it a few times to see if anything needs to be added and I need a title, but those things won't take long. Now I just need to finish the "M Butterfly" paper today (I'm about halfway done), study for the final-from-hell next week (that will take hours and hours and hours, although I actually think I know more about the Asian, Medieval, and Renaissance material more than the Greek & Roman), take the final the week after, and then this semester will be over. And because out playwriting instructor has to go back to Germany next week, our last class is Tuesday and we won't have to be there during the week of finals. So I'll actually have a few school-free days before the summer session starts on June 1st. I plan on doing a lot of work and a lot of organising and getting some rest in between.

I'm glad I've been able to mostly stay off my feet for the past few days since my ankle is much better now. My toe/foot though is still a real problem. Hopefully public transportation will run smoothly for the next few weeks, as I want to try to not walk more than a few blocks at a time. I should get some tape for it too.

My play is finished. It's not good but it's finished. If I saw this performed, I'd probably say, "What a waste. They could have done so much more with it." And I'm really not very good at writing dialogue, so this would never be performed to begin with. But it's done. And I finished up the "M Butterfly" paper this morning.

Paula suggested taking Advil for the next week since it can't hurt (I wouldn't take it for an entire month though) and maybe it'll help a little. So I'll give it a shot. It would be nice not to be in pain. I'm kind of annoyed since I was planning on doing an Inwood Park hike on Saturday (forgot about it until now). Maybe I'll go by myself later this summer.

I think summer is my least favourite season even though I prefer the warm weather.

Last night I was up late working (and had to get up early) and I'm still tired from that. And I hate that particular company in all aspects (what they're doing, what they're making me do, what they'll wind up doing- another company I used to like going down the drain). At least my work with them is done, but I'm not happy that they were the cause of my exhaustion.

Latest rant: censorship on Craigslist. And it's not even the vulgar posts that are being censored (although I don't think those should be censored either- if they're not hurting anyone, let them do what they want). Anyone know of anywhere with an honest "live and let live" attitude?

My foot is still killing me- the Advil still isn't working, and I'm sure this weather isn't helping (and the prediction for the next week is thunderstorms, thunderstorms, thunderstorms... can't believe this is still going on- at least it stopped for my commutes today). Having to walk the few blocks to/from the subway plus walking all over the Hunter buildings is tiring. I decided to take a cab back up there this afternoon, but I've come to the conclusion that getting a taxi after 11:00 AM is next to impossible unless you're prepared to wait a while. They're all "off duty". I still don't understand that one. If they still have plenty of time left in their shift, why don't they want to pick up as many fares as they can? I wasn't going far, and the few "off duty" ones who stopped to ask where I was going all said no.

I haven't mentioned this one in a while, but Hunter is still such a mess. I don't feel like taking the time to mention more than the actual buildings' problems though- I'll save my problem with their systems for another time. Today there was a horrible odor in part of the North Building that they think was coming from the ventilation, so they had to clear that part of the building for a few hours (so our history class got squeezed into a tiny room and we were piled up on top of each other). Then in that room, someone brushed the radiator when they walked by it, and the whole thing fell to the floor. Then there's always the elevator & escalator issues and random wires hanging out of the ceiling (like the one that flew down and hit me in the face 2 years ago). The place is falling apart.

Can I write anything positive today? Um... I did really well on Jeopardy tonight. I love being reminded of how smart I am.

Still didn't get much sleep. I was exhausted most of last night, but I was busy doing stuff so I wound up going to sleep later than I have in a while. But I woke up rather early for no reason and was too awake to go back to sleep. I give up.

I have a feeling I'll have to go see someone about my foot. This is so frustrating. I guess I'll call the doctor I saw 2 years ago and ask him what to do.

Have I mentioned recently how pleasant food shopping is in this city? I know I have, but let me just say that it's even more pleasant with this foot issue. Now I'm sort of forced to use delivery options, and I spent way too much time trying to find which one of the three was the best option (I went with the more reliable company rather than the one that had more things I wanted to order- the third one is just useless).

I'm so scattered today. I've reorganised today's schedule 5 times already, and I'm sure it'll change again sometime before the end of the day. I just have so many things to do, and I keep forgetting about things. So every few minutes I'm adding things to my schedules. I'm getting very overwhelmed.

Yesterday Jon reminded me that it was yesterday, 10 years ago that we went to Atlantic City after his graduation from Maryland. That was a lousy trip (for me).

I called Dr. Paley's office today, and he actually got back to me quickly (I love that). He gave me the names of a few doctors to see about my foot, and I finally found one that takes my insurance and got an appointment for Monday afternoon. He also reminded me that I should make an appointment for a regular physical soon. I guess I'll do that in June.

I started looking at the material for my final but haven't really spent much time absorbing it. I'll do a lot with that starting tomorrow.

There have been people doing work on my floor all week. No idea what they're doing, but they're REALLY loud.

I decided to go have a bite at Better Burger this afternoon and study for my final there. I get the basic concepts for all the material, but I still need to learn A LOT of details. Before heading home, I checked out 2 grocery stores (since they were on the same block- I'm not walking too far if I don't have to)- both were useless. I haven't been in Murray Hill in a while, and taking the bus home from there today reminded me of 2 years ago (when I guess I took the bus home a few times from there). It really felt like it was 2002. Even walking from the bus stop to my apartment made me feel like it was 2002. A very odd feeling. And when I woke up, it felt like a Friday, until I saw that it really was Friday, since then it has felt like a Thursday.

I'm not in a bad mood today. I'm not in a great mood, but I'm not miserable/overwhelmed/angry... No idea what caused the change, but I hope it sticks around at least for a little while.

After June 8th, I'll only need 1 more Hilton stay and about 20,000 more points (I'll probably get most of that from Amtrak) for the free week in Hawaii. Neil will be staying in Baltimore on the 7th, so that'll be the 3rd stay of the year. I'm glad that I don't have to be the only one responsible for this.

My day changed around from what I thought it would be, but it turned out okay. I was planning on finding a coffee shop or 2 (for a change of scenery) to study and then hang out at Robyn's tonight. Instead, Robyn asked if we could get together this afternoon instead, so I went to Coffee Times to study for a few hours before she met me there. I hung out with her for a few hours, and then I came home to study some more. While I do have a better grasp of some of the material (especially the Italian Renaissance), I still have a LONG way to go (especially on the Kabuki and Bunraku material- World Theatre should be broken down into 5-6 different courses instead of 3) and not enough time. Well, I could have enough time if I could study non-stop tonight and non-stop most of tomorrow, but I can't do that. I'm already exhausted from this stuff, and I'm not sure how much more I can even do tonight. I think I'm better off trying to get to sleep early and getting a lot done tomorrow morning before my appointment. Just hope I can fall asleep tonight. Sometimes I really wish I could feel what it's like to be tired enough to fall asleep within minutes. I think I've only felt that once or twice in my life and maybe not even that often. Maybe I've never been tired enough to fall asleep without trying for an hour or two first (or 3-4 hours on bad nights).

It was a busy day in the city. The Israeli Parade along with the fact that it was actually a nice day so everyone wanted to be outside, made the city very noisy. Amazingly though, 62nd St. was very peaceful. I don't know how it managed that. And I heard 3 people complain that it was too hot and humid, but personally I loved it. Well, it would have been nice if it were a little less humid, but I loved exiting my building into the warmth. Finally. I heard someone else say it was going to be a hot summer. I hope they're right. It would be nice to have a real summer for a change.

Still have a lot on my mind about life the universe and everything- how people think about history, why I don't enjoy things as much as most people seem to, why it is that the more our culture tries to be diverse the more homogenous it becomes, why bother dwelling on anything since none of it matters in the long run, if nothing matters in the long run then why bother doing anything... Even with all this thinking, I still don't get tired enough to fall asleep at night.

My foot's really bothering me today. Looking forward to my appointment tomorrow (that is, if she can recommend something that will make it better).

So I'm not sure what's wrong with my foot. They did an x-ray which didn't show any kind of break, so that's not the problem. I told her Advil didn't do anything, so she gave me something stronger (Viox). It would be great if this actually worked, but if it doesn't, I won't be surprised. I told her medications usually don't work for me, and she said to just try it for a week and call her then to let her know how things are. I also got bloodwork done to rule out other things. Don't know what those other things are, since I had been there for over 2 hours by that point and I was tired and needed to get home, so I didn't sit there thinking of all the questions to ask. I'll just talk to her about it next week.

The studying is not going well. I've been tired most of the day and I can actually feel my brain refusing to retain the information I keep shoving at it. I have a great concept of world history and how things evolved, but the details are not sinking in at all. And I keep looking at those amazingly detailed possible essay questions and telling myself that I don't know nearly enough to write on any of the topics, but I'm not sure how to go about retaining the information I'll need to know. I've reached my limit with this stuff. So now the plan is to get in bed soon, and if I'm not asleep by 11:00, I'll get up and study. If I am asleep by 11:00, I'll get up at 5:00 and finish studying for 2 hours in the morning. And if the information still isn't sinking in, then I'll just write what I can and that'll have to be good enough. I'm sure I'll get a lousy grade on the final, but I could still get a B in the class, depending on what she gave my last paper. Of course there's a chance of my brain refusing to cooperate during the test. That's never happened before, but there's a first time for everything...

David's up in the city this week, so we're getting together after the final tomorrow. Then I plan on coming home and doing whatever I feel like until whenever I feel like going to sleep and I am not setting the alarm clock for Wednesday morning.

After the final, I went to Grace's since they sell my favourite iced tea. I figured it was worth carrying the heavy bags around the rest of the day. Maybe not the smartest idea with my foot, but oh well- I'll be staying off of it the next few days. Then I had time to kill before meeting David, so I went to see "The Saddest Music in the World" (it was playing at a convenient theatre at a convenient time and it wasn't a typical summer movie). Some of the movie was disturbing, some of it was interesting, and I didn't enjoy it, but it passed the time which was its main purpose. Then I met David for a few hours before heading home.

I was looking forward to my relaxing evening, but I was too tired to enjoy it. And to make the evening even less enjoyable, I got an ocular migraine.

And then the traffic last night and this morning was the worst it's ever been. I fell asleep to the aggressive honkers and woke up to an emergency vehicle that took 5 minutes to get across my block. And then 2 minutes later, another emergency vehicle took over 5 minutes to get across my block. And then more emergency vehicles tried to get through all day. It was beyond belief.

I know a lot of people who aren't doing well, dealing with serious issues, or are just kind of miserable recently. What's going on?

I figured out that it's not the people in the apartment right next to me who listen to the loud music. It was especially loud last night, so I tried to see which wall it was coming from, and it was coming from the wall next to the stairwell. So I have no idea who's playing the music. Maybe I should call the building about it. Then maybe we'll have a memo under our doors telling us to be considerate of our neighbours and not play music so loud. We seem to be getting more and more of those kinds of notices recently. Last week we got one about curbing our dogs properly and not letting them pee on the columns outside the building (something about aesthetics). And then there are all the how-to-properly-throw-out-your-trash ones and the don't-throw-lit-cigarettes-out-the-window ones.

Neil just called to ask if I wanted to come stay with them when the Republican Convention is here in August, but I can't leave town at that point. I'm not sure I would anyway, unless they really wanted me to do so. This is where I live, bad things happen everywhere all the time, I don't live near The Garden and probably won't have reason to be in that area around that time... Hopefully the worst part about that week will be dealing with the beefed-up security (which will be oh so much fun to deal with).

Other little things:
- There are just too many people in this world and nowhere has the infrastructure to deal with them.
- I got an A in playwriting (no surprise).
- My neighbour was moving more stuff out today and was VERY loud.
- I'm feeling reclusive for a change.
- This teeth-growing thing is getting old.

I got another ocular migraine last night. I think I got 2 of them in a row last time too. I wish I could avoid all the possible triggers at all times, but there are just too many. Aged cheese, alcohol, nuts, chocolate, yogurt, onions, figs, liver, caffeinated foods and beverages, monosodium glutamate (MSG), smoked or pickled fish/meat, stress, premenstrual changes, hunger, sunlight, excercise, loud noise, changes in weather, barometric pressure... I should just consider myself lucky that I usually don't get them at terribly inconvenient times.

I'm starting to feel more on top of things again. I love when school isn't in the way. Speaking of school being in the way, I wonder what percentage of a chance I have to miss a week of classes in October. It would be great to do the work-in-Zurich thing without being behind on 20 school projects. Guess I'll find out at the end of August.

While I can't write details, I just wanted to mention some of the things people I know are dealing with: stalkers, law suits, horrible working conditions, surgery, money issues, more law suits, more possible surgery, complications with healing from surgery... and then there's my foot which looks and feels the same (the Vioxx isn't helping at all yet). Does anyone want to share some good news with me?

I chatted with Andy last night. I even managed to laugh a few times. That's one of the things I love about him- being with him (even long distance) puts me in a better mood.

Foot's still the same, although my ankle is feeling better since I haven't had to run around the city too much since Tuesday.

My neighbour moved more stuff out today. How long is this going to take?

I've been missing Halong Bay recently. Shame it's not exactly easy to get there.

I've been thinking about seeing a psychologist again. No idea how I want to go about finding one though, so I just keep putting it off. And the fact that none of the ones I've seen in the past have helped one bit doesn't encourage me. But maybe I'll make an effort soon.

I put up a few months of pictures last night. Doing that reminded me that I really should look into purchasing a digital camera. Why do I have such a problem with buying things? So on my June to-do list, I will put "find a psychologist" and "buy a digital camera". I wonder which one I'll get done first? Probably the camera.

I think my foot feels a little better today. I guess it's a combination of the Vioxx finally working and the fact that I've been able to stay off of it the past few days. Hopefully it won't get worse when I go back to trekking all over the city.

In some ways, I think George Carlin is fantastic.

I finally woke Eytan up at noon, and we went to Ess-a-Bagel and hung out outside for a while. Then we came back here and played Trivial Pursuit. I won, but he was a very worthy competitor.

Then we went down to the Village for the night. We wandered around a lot. My foot wasn't thrilled with me, but it is better than it has been (there's still a source of pain though, so I'll call the doctor tomorrow to talk to her about it), so the miles of walking wasn't too bad. We tried to find a place for dinner, but everywhere was either packed or not somewhere we wanted to go, so we wound up at Mona Lisa. Then we listened to Brian Nash and some of the regulars at The Duplex (don't really like that place) and then went to another bar with a pretty bad band from Leeds. Being Fleet Week, there were lots of sailors out and about. There was a HUGE fight at the club across the street from where we were, and I saw 2 sailors staring at the scene in disbelief, so I smiled at them and said, "Welcome to New York". Although I think stuff like that happens more regularly in other places but visitors tend to forget that and think New York is the rowdiest place on earth. It can be, but there are parts of the city that could be considered the most peaceful place on earth (that cute Asian room at The Met, for example). It's getting more and more difficult to find, but New York really does offer something for everyone. But speaking of it getting more and more difficult to find something for everyone, I passed by 2 new Subways in the West Village (one of two neighbourhoods left that still has my taste in businesses- the other being the LES). Why don't people want to be more discriminating in their tastes?

Eytan left around 11:00, and now I have the rest of the day to take care of things. Not sure what's still on my to-do list, but I don't think it's too overwhelming- I wouldn't have told Eytan he could come up if I had too much to do.

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