and so it goes

well kiddos - i suppose i owe you an update. been busy taking care of business, which makes the type-a in me quite happy, but doesn't really make for good stories or anything.

pretty quiet, low-key weekend filled with checkbook balancing, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, gym - all the things i don't get to do when i'm traveling during the weekend. friday night post-mash-up party, which vin enjoyed, i was less than enthused, though i'm glad we checked it out, we went and met up with my coworker and his friend from la. we were at a really dbish bar on the lower east side, which meant i got pretty depressed at the state of our options in the men dept in nyc. as vin pointed out, it was a pretty shitty situation on the whole, but it's really disheartening to look around a bar filled with the best girl/guy ratio you've seen in nyc yet and know that the majority of them are doing coke in the bathroom and thinking that talking to you = an automatic swoon. trying awfully hard not to do the 'grass is greener' comparison, but sometimes it just seems hopeless. so it was appropriate that my coworker sent around the link to this site today: love in the dumps. looks to be amusing, and perhaps the change in perspective that i need.

got up early on monday morning and went to the manhattan dmv to renew my driver's license, which expired on my birthday. was much less painful than i thought, and i'll have my new one in 2-3 weeks. was VERY glad to get that off my plate.

the other thing hanging over me was my taxes - as you prob know - our zipcode changed when we moved last march (i mean the city of new york was in the process of changing it, aside from the fact we moved to a different zipcode than the one we were in) and the payroll system at work didn't recognize it as manhattan, and stopped taking out manhattan taxes, so i owe the state of new york like 2k. apparently it is the employee's job to make sure that your witholdings are actually being witheld, so i encourage all of you to double-check your paychecks to be sure all is ship-shape, lest you find yourself in my situation. was dealing with penalty forms and nonsense and finally i just said 'fuck it' and did it through h+r block. $50 bucks, but if all goes well, then it will be '50 bucks well worth it' (ala the mighty ducks 2).

tomorrow night is bowling at work. we bowl in a media league, which is interesting, but it doesn't start til 8:30 on the west side of manhattan - aka about as far away from our apartment as you can get. regardless, i think i am going to throw down. too much taking care of business - i think it's time for some fun.

very excited for sat night in boston with some of the usual suspects (though the thought of another bus trip makes me want to boot. bus to boston: lather, rinse, repeat). this trip will be worth it i hope, as we'll get to see laurak, ceppos and hopefully elise. def feeling a little nostalgia for sigma delt and dartmouth, so it will be good to be in the company of like-minded spirits.

quiet i'm dealing with idiots

in a fight with the massachusetts dmv. well, the new york dmv too. my driver's license expires at midnight tonight and i can't get a new york one until the massachusetts dmv sends me a letter stating when the license was issued, as it doesn't say it on the actual license and that is a new york requirement.

which means i will be bringing my passport with me everywhere from now on. or until the mass dmv gets their act together and sends me my damn letter. anyone want to take bets on when that will be? called them two weeks ago and they said they would send, but it really doesn't take that long for mail to get from mass to ny. idiots.

Touching down in New England town

Hanging out in south station which I just LOVE (sarcasm sarcasm) b/c I
got in at 1030 and the next cape bus isn't til 1150. Yeah. South
Station doesn't have a bar. But at least I made it here for the bus _
was concerned earlier that I'd be stranded in Beantown, as everyone I
know is out of town (many in nyc)

Went out to the boat basin on 79 last night for celeste's bday. As my
coworker summed up, 'there were less boats and more basin', and we
felt kind of troll-like because it's under a bridge in a park, but
nothing could beat beer, friends and the breeze off the hudson as the
sun set.

My bro finally made it to nyc after a whirlwind tour of i-91. He hung
out with celeste and linsalata - in town for a wedding - while I
worked, and then joined for the festivities. Ceppos put in a late-game
appearance after arriving for a wedding in the Hamptons so we all
caught up until 2 am or so.

This was particularly rough because the night before vin and I decided
to go around the corner to the newly-rebranded 'stumble inn' (formerly
and still pretty reminiscent of mo's caribbean) for ladies night.
There we decide to play some beruit (it was a big beruit week) against
some of the many firemen milling around, some of which were quite
cute. Vin and I kick their asses in two games, despite some pretty
aggressive taunting which was immensely satisfying, before losing to
some toolish kid in the third game. Which was actually pretty good b/c
we were hammered.

Several hours later after a number of activities, we all were in bed,
but it made for a ROUGH thurs morning, with no dinner, no breakfast,
and back to back meetings from 9 til 1. I was dying (note: this is
entirely my fault and I take all blame).

Anyway, the good news is vin is soon off her no-fun, austerity plan
post-test tomorrow. Reiten has come down for the occasion as well.

As noted earlier, I'm still in south station (11:12), heading to the
cape for my sister's hs graduation (aka: 12 hours of travel for 20 on
the cape), but I guess its the thought that counts.

Am so passing out the second I'm on this bus . . .

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