And you guys thought I wasn’t posting enough

Even though she refuses to update her blog, she still sends me some fun links.

My favorite:

In honor of tonight’s finale

I give you the Mad (Wo)Men

I love bike lanes

What I don’t like are people from South Dakota who think that it’s a good idea to walk in the middle of them or New Yorkers who think it’s OK to park in them. But back to bike lanes. So remember when I wanted a new bike and my parents were nice enough to purchase one for me despite my hesitations? Today, finally, after all the chagim and rain I decided to bike down to NYU to visit Laura for breakfast.

I love waking up early in New York, but waking up early and going for a bike ride is the best. The only other people who are up and about are other bike riders and runners and dog walkers and it’s so quiet and peaceful.

I also really like Laura and any excuse to visit her.

Some pictures from my journey after the jump.

Let me ask you a question

OK. So imagine this hypothetical scenario.

It’s game 6 of the world series. It’s the bottom of the third and the bases are loaded. LOADED. Matsui. HIDEKI MATSUI is up. A friend (or two) calls you to ask you to come sign them so that they can watch the game with you in EC. In the excitement of the moment you just say yes only to realize that you kinda want to stick around and watch some more of the game and not go downstairs and participate in the absurdity that is signing people into EC. So. What you do. Not thinking anything of it. You ask someone else who is sitting with you while you watch the game. Notice how I say sitting with you. It’s not like they were planning on watching the game. They saw that you were watching the game and they decided to come watch for a bit. Perhaps they’re wandering in and out. Perhaps they’re talking about music hum. Perhaps a lot of things, but one thing is for sure, they are not emotionally invested in this game, and they definitely don’t care that HIDEKI MATSUI IS UP WITH THE BASES LOADED. So, again, not thinking anything of it. You ask this someone to sign in your two friends.

Now. I ask you. Does this make you a lazy person?

Pictures from GAME 6 after the jump.

Texts from my mom

(This would be such a better Web site—hello spec style—than texts from last night)

From my mom:

“Yeah Krule int is back!”

Best part… I was about 20 feet away when she texted me.

You gotta be sincere

If I could (which I guess I can, because this is my blog) I would make this post just clips from the Bye Bye Birdie movie of my childhood (well the one that my family owned on VHS…) and funny photos of Laura. Actually, I think that’s what I’m gonna do (aside from the now ubiquitous opening scene, thanks Mad Men, that I’ll just link to here.) In short… Laura and I saw Bye Bye Birdie Thursday night. And while the show did not live up to the film it was tons of fun.

To get you in the mood (as you can tell I wanted to do Conrad’s first song, but alas I coudln’t find a good clip on YouTube, if you have one LET ME KNOW! It starts at 4:41… I didn’t just watch the entire movie on YouTube…)

(just for your knowledge, throughout the day Laura and I had a text message conversation that was basically this song.)

It’s about time

So many of you have been complaining to me that I’ve been slacking on the postage. My heartfelt apologies. Normally I would just skip everything that I meant to post and just start from the present, but alas, some fun things have happened so I’m going to do a brief recap and then do an entire post dedicated to Laura.

Some things that have happened since the last time I posted (in no particular order)

New plant

There was a market of sorts on Low today (and all this week?) Anyway, I bought an orchid. It’s really pretty.

See

JFeld bought a cactus and named it Toby (right?) so I named mine Kelly so they can be friends. Originally he named it Oscar, but I didn’t think it was right to name an orchid Angela.

Also. I only just discovered podcasts. They’re great. I know I’m like 8 years behind on this. But better late than never.

Chobani!

A funny thing happened on my way back from spec training tonight… inspired by Jake’s questions re: services I decided I was going to go to Mariv at Kraft, inspired by my hunger from not having eaten dinner I decided to go to Morton Williams (something I NEVER do) to buy some yogurt.

I grabbed a Chobani vanilla (the best yogurt out there no matter what I, or other people, say) expecting to pay some ridiculously high price only to find out that it was ONE DOLLAR. I did a little dance and ran to grab more. Then I called Merav to share the good news.

nectar of the gods

A much better day

Thursday started off much better than Wednesday.

Some fun stuff at work, and then I met Mindy at the Bryant Park Sukkah (the one that has led to some controversy.) I totally forgot that Sukkoth = every Jewish person in the universe converging in Times Square and trying to fit into this tiny (but magnificently schached) Suckkah. Somehow we found a seat and ate our surprisingly similar home packed lunches.

Photo Credit: Mindy

After work I got student rush tickets to Oleanna [aside: already dreading the possibility of not having a student ID next year]. I had never read the play (only seen half of Ariel’s production on VHS…) so I knew what to expect, sort of. At first I felt like the acting was too practiced (in typical Mamet style the dialogue is super fast with the two characters constantly interrupting each other) but by the middle of the first act I decided that I liked the style. After each act (in a strange attempt to show that time has passed) there were these incredibly loud shades that opened and closed. I could have done without that part. Overall though, highly recommend and would be happy to discuss. An interesting thing that they’re doing after each show (perhaps because the production is only 80 minutes long) is having a talk back series. Someone I ended up there on the same night as Adam Duritz. Yes. That Adam Duritz.

I promise it's him, just look at the hair.

Anyway. The talk back was not that inspiring, though Duritz made a surprisingly intelligent comment (too mean?) following his super enlightening “I liked it.” He suggested that the first act is from the persepective of the Professor and the second act was from the perspective of Carol. (Aside from the obvious clothing, standing/sitting changes this makes a lot of sense in terms of language etc. etc.)

Once adults started raising their hands to share their opinions, I decided it was time to go. Although I’m ashamed, but at the same time kind of obsessed, I am a fan of pictures/autographs of actors from a show I’ve just seen. I know I’m not the only one (Yes. I chose one with Angel.) Well, turns out Julia Stiles was leaving when I was, and I got this awful photo:

Awful photo take 2

I wanted to meet Bill Pullman too (I had seen him in Peter and Jerry) but he wasn’t coming out and I had no desire to wait.

Back uptown I went to the amazingly empty Lerner Pub (and after a failed attempt to see Up!) was dragged to 1020 where, for some reason, we decided it was a good idea to wait on this line:

At least we were at the start of this line.

All in all, a good day.