June 2008 Archives

mmm...my days in e.vil are numbered. my new apartment is moving along at the moment, and our lease is up at the end of june. so...we're all heading oot. fonz is moving down the street sunday, and its back to the burbs for me til my apartments ready...ack! i havent lived with my parents since i first graduated college...thats gonna be interesting. and when i say "interesting", i mean fuck, hurry up with the apartment. and as a friend pointed out to me, this is probably the last time ill live in e.vil for the foreseeable future. unless e.vil real estate prices miraculously drop, or i become filthy rich. yea. so...bai bai e.vil. bai bai alphabet city...its been a fun 5 years (+1 at the 13th street apartment).

so ive been packing all week long. i have alot of shit. why do i have alot of shit? hmm...doesnt matter, im tossing alot of it before i move. but before i get to that, ill backtrack (again) to a few weeks ago.

was it last wednesday? i think it was...last wednesday i met up with di and her roommate rebecca for some italian (via japanese) at dieci. i still like that place alot...cozey, good food, and chill atmosphere.

friday was drinkies at ace bar for mk's "i got a dwi and im losing my license!" drink-a-thon. skee-ball and big buck hunter all around.

saturday what did i do? hmm...nothing really. i picked up some packing boxes and a new router/wireless receiver, because ill be damned if i dont have internet in my room at my parents place.

sunday was supposed to be biking with g, except it was raining. so i took my bike back upstairs, came down, and saw the rain stop in front of my eyes. fuck you mother nature! whatever, biking got appended to just brunch with g+r up in harlem. hey, its my future neighborhood...i should take in the sights. after brunch, we just chilled at their apartment watching lara croft mst2k style.

this week...pack pack pack. and tossing shit out. fresh start yo.

wednesday was din with karen at um...this malay restaurant on 17th near union square. cant remember the name, and cant find it listed anywhere (must be new), but it was pretty good. we chilled out at 71 irving afterwards...mmmm.

and thursday was our own little bbq-fest at hill country with steph, ky, dano, and yoko...woot. tons of of briskets, ribs, beer, and more beer. it was good.

is this working? word...awesome!

i have a legitimate reason this time for the tardy post. no really! im just now coming out of a heinous stomach virus/flu/something im not really sure of. which i originally thought was all alcohol-induced, but sifting thru web md and getting some feedback, it was probably that and something else i ate. *shrug* well whatever it was, it sucked. my appetites still not back at 100%...more like 60% judging by how much food i can finish before getting full. hmm...

PRE-STOMACH CRAZINESS
rewind back to two weeks ago, because its been a good two weeks. tuesday was din with jess at chiyono. i forget who first recommended chiyono, but its this small joint in the middle of curry alley on 6th. pretty nice and quiet, especially on a tuesday night. wednesday was an unplanned din with ivor and company at 26 seats, friday was din at max and then drinks at solas with sean, anna, and sally. margie was in town satty, so we got to hang out during the day...yay! we strolled around manhattan furniture shopping for my upcoming new apartment. oh right, that was thursday btw...signed and sent back a contract for a new apartment (to buy that is). woot! well, i should save my over-enthusiasm til i actually get the contract back with a thumbs up on it. this is new york...weird shit happens.

saturday was g's bye bye drinkies (shes quit...yay!) at la bottega at the maritime hotel. this, btw, was the start of a week of pain, but i didnt know this. g bailed a bit earlier than anticipated (she got trashed the night before), but a few of us continued on...and on...and on...til er, 5am, followed by early morning tacos from san locos. i think i shouldve known better, but ya...sick time.

FUCK
the weekend and the following week was spotty from here on out given that my stomach started feeling reeeal funky. but anyhoo, i met up with grace who was in town tuesday nite for soba-ya. i couldnt eat much, but hey...she was visiting. friday was g's celebrations, part 2, this time at sala and primarily food-based rather than alcohol-based. stomach was still funky, so didnt eat much, and definitely didnt drink alcohol...whew. i was however out again til 3am with mich and mk (sober tho...i was sober).

addendum
noted (and recurring) pet peeve...people who you meet and hang out with, have fun, get numbers for, then call, just to get no response. *sigh*

BABBQF!
yea, that acronym doesnt work, does it? big apple bbq festival! woot! all that non-drinking the night before was worth it, because by saturday, i was feeling ten times better, just in time for some bbq at madison square park. side note...holy fuck was it hot out! hot and humid=shit. but it was bbq, and getting a heat stroke wouldnt stop me from getting bbq. id been going to the big apple bbq festival every year since 2005, and id be damned if i missed this years. i met up with dano and company at the park. he'd been running late, so by that time id already gone thru one round at blackjack's bbq from south carolina...yum yum. when they got there, we staked out big bob gibsons bbq for the follow-up. i'd seen chris lilly of big bobs on one of the bbq challenges on the food network, and was curious to see just how good his sauce was. yea, it was good. like, super good. the chopped pork was soft and yum too...thumbs up. sadly, this was the first year since i started going to the bbq festival that i chose not to go to the perennial favorite, salt lick bbq of texas. sorry, but i gotta branch out.

oh, and we caught kung-fu panda afterwards too. jack black rocks! almost as good as pixar's stable, and definitely the best of the dreamworks' lot. it made even sitting amongst a whole theaters worth of pre-pubescents tolerable.