21 Eight
hours of uninterrupted sleep! Job search immediately from wake up at nine
til way late seven. Faxed my resume to
every entry from my Village Voice print-out two days ago. Okay, so I may
have been a little delayed from the get-go, but
I'm doing good at this. Broke off for a bit in the arvo to see Joe for
a fix-it. My queue was cleanly braided this morn and
the fringe around it reminded me of some Papua kinsman or a frilled reptile.
So it's off. That and a slice from Caruso
which I ate on the way home. It was a bright, beautiful day. Finished my
faxing, chatted a bit with Marz on MSN and supper
was outstanding. Biscuits, mashed potatoes and great meatloaf! Butter pecan
ice cream for dessert and some Olympics
gymnastics, the Russian girls were on board. Caught up with my email and
tried my best to contain the incontinent
primates @ Fight Club. We try. Updated this page. Dishes. Caught Croc Dundee
on the tube. Miss cycling around the city.
20 Ran
to the post first thing to get my letter in. Time was glass underwater
after that. Barber Joe lops off a ton of my post
second season ex-Buddhist reject/post true-to-life cyberpunk wildchilde,
sometimes Wolverine-ish, my head feels lighter,
naked. Cost FIFTEEN bucks! Decided against popular opine to keep the queue
for some reason, maybe old fashioned good
luck. A sliver of activity at Fight Club: gay man posing as Marla-wannabe
and a superfluously unctuous bench-pressing
corpdrone crapone preacher. At time I wish the Brits were in session. Found
the first half of Magnolia (recent multi-plot flick
catering to the attention deficient, I guess) teeedious and not the least
bit enlightening. During supper discussions about
Futurism, stuff that you'd normally find (or else imagine) Rucker or Gibson
saying at the dinner table. No distractions, an
early bedtime for once. The fabled NYC ratrace pace gettin to me, and I
haven't even been to a single all-nighter even!
19 Cut
up and organized this page into easier sections, from 12:32 til 4 AM. Then
up after only five hours, getting to be my
newest habit. Writing up one's resume seems longer than the ten minutes
that everybody says. Looked up listings on the
Voice. Picked Sel up from the metro, brought the BIG golf umbrella since
the monsoon rains were. Had lemon chicken for
supper and worked some more on my resume til 11:30. Wrote my folks til
2AM. The log marks it at almost SIXTEEN hours
today spent online. Even at my busiest multitasking back then was only
14. Wonder where all that time went?
18 Up
at eight. Sel gave me a haircut. 11AM appointment with Inwood/Hudson Heights
realtor, and we are right on time.
2br in Inwood looks great, and the neighborhood has a park, lots of trees,
close to the subway and just two blocks to
Broadway, the main strip. Location, location, location. Plunked down 1250
for a deposit and cred check. Biggest I've
ever in a minute, the experience is quite something. Walked back to the
apartment after signing papers and looked
around. Got home around 2. The World Is Not Enough til a supper of spaghetti
(my favorite!). Oh yeah, got my NYC ID
in the mail today! And you wanna know what the horoscope said today?
| G R E E T I N G S Capricorn
With the Moon in Taurus, you will
be pleased with what you can achieve today. Now's a good time for creativity;
that long-awaited promotion may be on the horizon, so put in a little overtime
-- but leave time for romance later in the day. Remember that love is nothing
you can analyze and dissect with sheer logic. The Taurus Moon is ready
to sweep you away on a tide of adventure. Spontaneity doesn't care about
your other plans; just sit tight and enjoy the ride. Set aside what you
think you should be doing for a few hours, and spend time doing just the
things that make you happy. |
Well I'll be. Don't you love it when your direct delivery pocket astrology
is right on the money? Spontaneity, hmm, I like
that. I was the lighting, I tell ya. Reinvigorated and not quite ready
yet for bed I take to writing my folks the good news.
17 Sunday
starts after a double lunch, huge waffles. Errands at three involved walking
a lot, good exercise. FHM mag
would otherwise put me on my girl's bad side, but this one had a quiz I
aced (yup!). All the way to the other end of
Court Street to rent the latest Brosnan Bond and surprisingly, Magnolia.
Juices and pizza slices becoming traditional.
(In the evening Tintin calls to say hi and catch upJ)
16
Kensington (Brooklyn) features a huge picturesque cemetary and small buildings
with awnings. A good walk in
the cooler Fall-like weather and home for Phish Food and Ten Things I Hate
About You. Homemade pain de mie
(a soft sweet loaf mainly used for sandwiches) with
a light golden crust is so delicious for supper. The men's gym
on Olympic tv. A nice quiet Saturday. Coming back from our appointment
with the realtor we stopped by to pick up
a few essentials and were surprised to find out that our favorite* store
Walgreens still had photos all the way from
last June, when I visited for Sel's graduation from college, and also my
first time in NYC. (to be uploaded soon:)
15
A lotta calls to realtors, riding in and out for errands: post office,
bank, weaving in and out of traffic.
Surprised to find Ming online. A three-hour chat, Olympic politics and
12 mp3s. And the truth still counts.
14
(Ming email and my resp) Yum, cinnamon-raisin bread & 3 day old pizza
for breakfast. Updated my public
profile
@ MSN. Also installed the ubercute MSN
Explorer Preview 2. Wrote my kid sis Nani til 2AM, thanking my folks
for
the care package I got in the mail today. Couldn't sleep afterwards. Maybe
it was a missed midnight snack that
caused so much trouble or what, I dunno. The return of messy sleep-dep.
Less than 5 hours.
13 (email
to Justyna) Met with realtors and explored areas within Harlem, Hudson
Heights, Washington Heights and
Inwood (Manhattan) the whole day. Tree-filled parks, sloping avenues, the
sun in your eyes, switching from train
to train. All very interesting and
exhausting! What a useful learning endeavor.
12 (Nathan
email) (email to Ming) (Justyna email)
11
Explored Astoria (Queens) and was shown this beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bathroom
for 1500 by the third
Filipino I've met in NYC. Funny quirky landlord ("the bebi, the bebi, the
ceiling!") and it's just funny.
It's quite an experience trying to find a place to live in a strange new
place. I'm glad to have Sel with me.
10 Turned
in after 3, I remember getting up @ 5:40 AM, finally giving up on attempting
to sleep. It was a bright
beautiful day outside on the roof, and Sel and I walked to the post office
on Atlantic to drop off that letter.
Breakfast afterwards was such an awesome treatJ
09 First
letter to my family back in Chicago took two hours. Emotionally-charged,
it was a lot of catching up to do.
08 (Goofy
Dian email)
7.50$ and a three hour wait at the Flatbush DMV merits an interim NYC resident
ID. Feel free to call NYC my
home! With this ID I could now go to the bank, start an account and deposit
half a year's savings there. Can
you believe all the red tape I had to go through? It reminded me of the
first time when I had just gotten here
from my native country - getting a Social Security number assigned to you,
waiting in line to get identification,
getting a job, getting your own place, getting a phone... Finally unpacking
all the stuff you brought with you.
After this I don't think I'm gonna be going anywhere anytime soon. Then
you discover Cali and the West Coast.
07
Crossed the Brooklyn
Bridge to Manhattan on a bike. The bridge's site has a few kew photos;
but there's nothing
like being actually on it to see what it's like. Try it at sunset and you'll
get an idea of what I'm talking about.
06 Cooked
spaghetti for supper, an unusually cool autumnal evening. NINE BUCKS?!?
Enjoyed a late screening of the
visually stunning/plot could do some work flick The
Cell at the Super 12, right beside the local Barnes & Noble.
05 (Nathan
email)
04 Labor
Day: the West-Indian Parade, Grand Army Plaza, crazy Bud beer wa-ZAAA ad
aficionados harass (and not
even remotely funny), Park Slope environs and Berkeley Carroll where Sel
went to HS. Ducking into Roma Pizza
(where kids' chill-out) for a slice and to watch people scamper from the
rain. Getting soaked on the walk home.
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30 (Sugrrll
Mari email) |