october was fine..
- 1-year anniversary with my apartment and with new york
- made the switch from vodka tonic to vodka soda. huge life change, i know. in dc it’s standard that you’ll get tonic with a lime and soda with a lemon. in new york both come with lime. odd right? lemon is much more preferable with soda.
- the occupy movement passed through washington square as i was also passing through. so many soap boxes, so little soap.
- went on a bit of a pho kick (not shocking), trying out three places in chinatown. conclusion? the yuppie place right by my apartment is the best. cong ly is pretty good too. maybe there are places farther away (queens?) that are good too?
- potbelly opened in rockefeller center. rightfully so, lunch lines are long.
- tyler and bryan both had parties one saturday night at their places. i quite enjoy my apartment.. but the amount of space one gets in brooklyn makes me want to move. but just a little—i like it enough where i am.
- the morning after their parties i headed to chicago for a quick trip. it was such a gorgeous day when i got there—legitimately hot in mid-October. unfortunately i had messed up my IT band pretty badly a few days before (a problem that would plague me for a way too many weeks following) and walking sucked. thankfully arjun has a scooter that we rode around on for a minute—that was a trip. chicago is pretty great—sometimes i need to be reminded. (though one gets spoiled by new york’s public transportation—“13 minute wait for the next purple line to evanston?!”)
- let saturday, october 15 be remembered as the day tyler sent the text i never thought i’d get from him.
- i joined a sunday bowling league with my buddy brian!! it’s done now and was really fun. ain’t no bowling at the white house, but who likes a location dropper.
- john and jeff and keith were all here the weekend of october 21. what a hoot. they and stephen and a few others all came to my apartment on saturday before going out—i miss that, having an apartment that’s an attraction.
- tompkins square park halloween dog parade the weekend before halloween. “occupy woof street” (complete with iphone) was one of my favorites. (remember this one from last year?)
- john and i got food on sunday (the chocolate milk was memorable) then walked along the highline (it was again pretty nice outside). we walked by a topless women. just totally topless walking around like nothing was off. almost an hour later we saw her again in the west village. so john posed with her in the background.
- vaughn came to town for halloween! god i miss her. the weather turned disgustingly snowy that last weekend of october—made dressing for halloween problematic. us and josh went to one of those cherly parties—it was a lot more fun than the first one we went to months ago. i’d go back.
solid month..
..i think at least? feelings get a bit lost when relying on iphone pics and foursquare history to recall events a while back. like.. thinking about it harder, i was sick on two separate occasions in october. that wasn’t fun. and thinking about it more, i was in a really anxious mood most of the time vaughn was here because of some uncertain on a project at work.
oh well. i suppose if they aren’t emotions that you can actively recall a few weeks/months later, they must not be that important anyway.
