November 24, 2009
I’m tired again today so I go to the new place on Northern that’s across the street from the bus station. They didn’t have ice coffee though, no coffee in the middle of fall? Cmon! I had to stick to that hot stuff, blegh. On the bus ride, behind me are two Chinese men speaking Mandarin. One guy seemed to know more about Thanksgiving and it felt like he was almost teaching the other one about the American ritual of Thanksgiving. I took an anthropology class on food and drinking customs. I also got to hear it through their Mandarin. Who said I wasn’t still somewhat Chinese?
On the train to NYU, I see a guy dressed like Jimi Hendrix. He has a small amp attached to him and he’s playing the blues. Awesome guy. I give him $1, but then he doesn’t continue playing and just rants about how the Native Americans got screwed over. Fuck him man.
Spanish class is meh as usual, though this weird Asian kid is hilarious next to me. He always talks about random stuff. He once said that I should go in the front of the class with him to do the stanky leg. I mention Ice Cream Paint Job to him and he literally starts ranting off all the lyrics and semi-dancing to it in his seat. Kid is so freakin’ random and hilarious.
Subway is pretty narsty, but I get a footlong for lunch because shit’s pretty darn healthy and filling for the amount of calories. Well at least I eat half of it and then hours later eat the rest. I get a bit of paperwriting in the library and have nothing to do but wait for my next class. It’s way freaking boring and I just sit around instead of actively trying to participate for points. It’s all about lame stuff about minorities and discrimination and profiling. Wah wah, boo hoo.
On my way home, I pick up some whiskey for the weekend. I get home and chill out and do some paper writing. Turns out I’m working tomorrow. Makin’ monies yo.
November 25, 2009
I go to work and just do some random work. I wouldn’t do anything anyway if I was home and it’s money. More money for the liquor and shit brah. I get Chinese takeout for lunch. It’s all steamed veggies, bland steamed chicken, and white rice. Gotta get that sauce on side so you only use like a bit of the sauce and no kill yourself with the calories of it. That’s how our diet goes playas.
The night before, I make an event on Facebook for people to do pre-Thanksgiving dinner. I planned on cooking Thanksgiving since I would want to do that tomorrow. However, mom’s going to Virigina to see my aunt so I’m not cooking for the fam. Turns out no one was in so I didn’t do that. I instead finish up my paper that’s due at 7.
I try to throw a last second thing to have dinner at my place since no one’s home. People seem to have pre-Thanksgiving plans though and it sorta doesn’t happen.
It’s Evan’s shindig at his place tonight and I end up hitching a ride from Alon. It’s pretty ballah with liquor, loads of people, etc. Also a bit weird since his fam is upstairs.
Highlights? Kenny chillin himself at the TV. Stefan rolling in with two Bud Lights, opening one, splattering it all over the floor, being loud, and causing mad ruckus. I need this kid around more. What mess. Not cool though causing the mess part.
Two Kaitys from high school show up, random much. We all start getting kicked out at one point. Jonah and I hang out at Bolanos for a little bit along with the other Bolanos siblings. That’s the night.
November 26, 2009
I wake up and shmooze around because I’m a bit out of it from last night. I catch up with Corinne a bit even though she invited me up to Boston to have Thanksgiving with her fam. After staying up a bit, I decide to take a nap. I feel like cooking because of the holiday, but it’s almost 6:00 by now. Stop and Shop and Waldbaum’s are close. Thank you Koreans!!! H Mart is open!
I do loads of ambitious cooking plans and buy loads of stuff, but then I feel lazy and don’t carry it through. I eat grandma’s hand made dumplings, which she left loads in the freezer. I also bake some cookies. Almond apple oatmeal cookies. They’re really ugly looking because they’re oatmeal cookies, but they’re really good.
My house is open tonight and I tell people to come over. Candace, Damien, Kim, and their friend come. At least Damien and Kim appreciate the cookie yummyness. I need to bake more oatmeal cookies sometime. They’re so good. All cookies should be oatmeal cookies…
We get some drinking action done. It doesn’t go too long because I have work tomorrow. However, this is not without the awesome chick ever that Avi brings along. She’s pretty drunk and she’s just hilarious. Multiple times during a conversation, I had to put my arm over my mouth because I had to hold back from bursting out laughing. Bolanos was later quick mean and described her as the dumbest girl ever.
She apparently was recently fired from Hooters. She had weed on her and a co-worker ratted her out. Woops I guess. She lets me smell this glasses case and it reeks of weed. She said she can’t smell it anymore because her car is covered with a weed smell.
We then get into a conversation about “breaking the seal” as in peeing when you’re drunk. She says she hates doing that because then she has to pull over and pop a squat. So to remind you. This involves drinking, not peeing, then driving while intoxicated and public urination. Now that is classy stuff. People like this need to be around more for my entertainment.
November 27, 2009
I have work and I get back at 5-6:00ish. I’m driving my uncle’s Altima because mom took the Fit with the fam to Virginia. When I get out of work, I notice that the left side mirror had been sideswiped. It’s still on, but the mirror is cracked in half and broken. That’s bullshit man. However, you gots to fix that shit yourself instead of a repair store. It’s a simple mirror. It would cost loads to actually get that fixed the “right way.”
I get home and I take a nap. Waking up early in the morning for work and going out at night can have its effects. I get up and for some reason feel like cooking Asian. I go to H Mart and buy some Coke Zero for drinking this weekend. You can go on Facebook to see the dish I made.
Some of the guys are going to see Ninja Assassin, but I still hadn’t eaten/worked out. I get my work out done, which I’m still trying hard to keep a good schedule with. At night, Aaron and a bunch of his friends, and Stefan and CNF come over. Then Bolanos. We get some drinking done and then it’s a coincidence that Avi told me about a party and also one of Aaron’s friends.
Bolanos and Stefan go to Wendy’s at 12 for some reason. The rest of us leave and go up North to the party. We get there and it turns out that it’s this is a party that Avi is throwing, but at this girl’s house. That’s a nice situation. Sitting on the table is loaves of bread, oh my god. She works at Murray’s Cheese and we’re making grilled cheese. I get that going because I’m the drunk chef bitches. I serve that shit up. Cutting bread, cooking on the skillet. That’s what I’m about bro.
I get some mad drinking on so before I left, I sent an email to my boss that I might not be coming in. How responsible of me. Apparently Stefan is being gangsta Stefan and really didn’t fly with one of Aaron’s friends, Mariela. It turns out that they had a feud going or something. I walk over to Stefan, who is passed out on the girl’s couch and tell him about Mariela is talking shit. Sorry if you don’t find this funny, but I wanted to start some drama. Unfortunately, we had lost gangsta Stefan and he was just tired and didn’t give two shits.
At one point, Bolanos asks where Avi is since he’s been gone for a while. Being the sharp man that I am, I say that the host has been gone too. We know what’s happening (wink wink). Avi later comes from upstairs and the lady comes down minutes later. I confront Avi and I’m obviously a genius because I figured that out. Apparently he’s also trying to rock a threesome with this girl and Hooter’s girl from last night. Shit is boy got his game rocking. Playa playa.
The girls ends up passed out completely on a couch and we start get going. I get home by 3.
November 28, 2009
I wake up myself at 8:00, but I cannot get up. I snooze more and more until it’s finally 12:00 and it’s too late to get to work. I guess I’ll take the day off. It’s more that I’m just super tired because of hanging out/working. I’ll take it easy today. This way I have time to chill out, do some errands, and get some work done because papers are going to be due soon with the end of the semester coming.
I decide to invite Miah and Bolanos over for dinner. I go to H Mart for some groceries. At my place, I fry up some dumplings. We cook marinated beef. I make some kale for myself. There’s also egg fried rice. We then start drinking and I take loads of shots with Bolanos. Spamps and Caroline pick us three up to go to Josh’s. We’re barely there before we go to a bar.
It’s quite a walk, but the bar is awesome because there are catering containers of stuffing and turkey. I didn’t have any Thanksgiving food so that’s awesome! Nothing’s better than being way drunk and grabbing mad free food. I don’t know if it’s free or anything, but no one at the bar says anything. Bolanos at 12:00 wants to go to the city to hang with Shek. I’m against it, but I’m drunk and Bolanos said he’d pay for the cab all the way from Brooklyn.
We meet up with him at 23rdish. Apparently Atron is in the city and we run into him at the bar. However, he’s got feuds with Shek and stuff, so I only say Hi. The two decide to go to Fat Cat and Shek drives us down there. They play a bunch of ping pong and Bolanos hurts his arm. We go to catch the 3:19 and Shek drives us to Penn.
We run into Atron again and I decide for some reason to brown bag a Bud Light because I’ve never done that before. Bolanos and I down that beer. Atron says that we were way messy. Apparently, I was making weird comments and Bolanos said that he wanted to “fight my back.” He then proceeded to punch my back for no reason. He wanted to get into an actual fight, I don’t know why… Atron wanted to distance himself from our drunk messy selves.
We walk from Little Neck to my house where his car is. We go to 4:00AM. What’s better than an everything bagel with lox spread at this time of night. Nothing. Done deal night.
Btw, I’ve been watching these:
http://www.youtube.com/user/meekakitty
She’s a model that has been traveling Asia and stuff. That’d be an awesome life, though doesn’t make an awesome vlog. However, I think she’s pretty quirky and awkward and funny in a weird sense, which is good since most people who try to be funny just aren’t.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CTFxC
A recently engaged couple and just their life. Charles is just living life with his two dogs. Alli is in Valencia, Spain still has a student.
Monday, 30 November 2009
Monday, 23 November 2009
Thanksgiving is Almost Here
November 16, 2009
During Spanish, I bomb a “quiz.” However, I think we have like 10 quizzes and it’s only like 5% of the classes grade. This mystery novel is so fucking annoying. After that, I have to figure stuff for the ACLU club. After that, I drop over to the post office. I packed up the cupcakes last night and had them frozen. Pack that shit up with some silica packets and get some mad scrap paper to make sure that it doesn’t shift around and get crushed. I’m also pretty excited for this Christmas because I’m planning to do some shopping for people. Just feel like being nice this year even though karma ain’t real.
Novemer 17, 2009
I’m mad fuckin’ exhausted today because I didn’t get sleep over the weekend. I have a midterm tomorrow and I need to get shit studying done. However, I’m sort of an expert on this Constitution stuff already, but I still need to somehow find time to study. This fuckin’ Spanish novel has been taking so much time. I spend my entire commutes reading through only 1-2 chapters and answering the questions. Even then, I don’t comprehend and I do shit on the daily in class quizzes. 10 quizzes count up to 5% of the grade, so they count for nothing. I hit a 50% on one of the multiple choice because this stuff is BS hard. Doesn’t count for the grade, but professor pulled be aside because I’m a B+ student in the class. I say it’s not a big deal because I did score an 80% on the quiz of the day.
After classes, I have my ACLU meeting with a speaker from NYCLU. It goes late until 9:30. Fuck and that’s with the commute. Then again, we have catered sandwiches, which are darn ridiculous good. I take the LIRR this time so I can get home quick and my mom gives me a ride back.
November 18, 2009
I have my Constitution midterm at 6:20. I wake up to be productive and get my workout going. Been a week since I’ve done anything since I visited Bing and I’ve been super tired trying to recover some sleep. I’m relatively prepared for the midterm because a lot of this stuff is repetition of the stuff that I’ve already taken.
It goes pretty well with me basically using up an entire Blue Book though I have gone past one before. It truly feels like an accomplishment when you do that amount of marathon writing, but it does kill my hand. I also get really annoyed to see that this one guy gets to write on his laptop. I guess he has some BS excuse. Dude, if I had a laptop, I would literally write like 10 pages, straight up. I don’t let it bother me though because it’s not my business.
After this, I take the F down the Lower East Side. I saw some Michigan themed Yelp event and Katie pushed me to go. Rocking my MSU shirt that she got me, I go down there to my first Yelp event. I get there by 8:00ish and meet some pretty awesome people. It’s nice to see that the Yelp community is loaded with good peeps.
Some drinking, some talking and shmozin.’ I tell people about my trip to Michigan and it’s fun getting into the conversations about reminiscing about the Midwest connection. We eventually get a game of Kings going. I like one of the cards where you pour a little bit of your beer into an empty cup and the last person drinks it. We ended the game early and I ended up chugging that drink. Heyo, no drink goes undrunken.
Everyone ends up dispersing before 11:00. I take the train to Penn Station. It’s boring without my iPod, which is dead and having issues randomly. Good times, I’ll definitely have to hit up the Yelp event on Friday.
November 19, 2009
I wake up not really hungover. The ride is mad boring because of the lack of an iPod. Class is boring and I skip my 4:55 class. I wake to 4 hours and there is no final so why do I need class? Hell, I don’t even need to do the readings. I get home to update my Yelp account. I have to work up those reviews. I also get some RateMyProfessor going. It’s important to get my important opinions out there. People need my advice.
I don’t end up doing anything and just chill. I end up going to Panera for dinner with Kenny. I get some awesome food actually. I haven’t eaten anything all day. The food ain’t cheap, but it’s nom nom good. I drink mad unlimited ice tea and ice coffee. Stay until 10:20ish and then I drop him off and go back home. A chill day, though I’m looking forward to tomorrow because of the Yelp event and open bar. Lets party party this weekend kids.
November 20, 2009
No one wants to go to the Yelp Event other than Miah. I pick up Miah and we go to my house. I eat some fried dumplings that grandma made. The last of the Chinese food in the house because grandma is over at Aunt’s and I have to fend for myself. We both have a little bit of gin and then walk over to the LIRR. We get to the event early. You can read about the rest on my review.
I leave with a few of the people that I met at the first Yelp event that I went to. Miah is real slow and I tell him where to catch up with us since we’re going to a wine bar in the East Village. I get to the place and he should be right behind us. I find out that literally only moved 2-3 blocks because he was throwing up. Fuckk.
I awkwardly tell people that I’ll be back and run over to find him. I’m sobering up a bit by now and I’m not too happy about running 4-5 blocks across the East Village to find him. I sprint all way while I’m on the phone sort of shouting at him. He’s just drunk and lost. People casually walking around at 10:00ish probably have no clue what’s happening when an Asian man is running top speed while cursing his brains out. I think people make a few comments. I end up finding him and I get him some water.
He was vomiting shit. We walk over back to the wine bar and he can’t go in because he doesn’t feel good. He said he can’t hold down food since sometimes that helps me. He just needs to drink loads of water and chill out to sober up. I go inside for a bit. Liz has to go end up leaving because of work. I want to make it to the other bar where I won a raffle for an open bar. I say Bye to people and Miah and I go.
I need to get him another water and get to the bar. It’s way fucking crowded and after waiting around, I find out that it’s too late to cash in on my open bar. Fuckkkk. I’m sober by now. Evan said that he might come. Without notice, he randomly shows up with Sam, Doug, and Josh. Apparently Doug is back in town for a bit. It’s good that I ran into them and get to chill with them for a bit. Evan and I check up on Miah and he’s still bleh. Doug, Miah, and I want to catch the 1:19 train. We don’t have enough time to take the subway. We have a hard time finding a cab, but end up getting one with this random guy that I also needs to get to Penn. He ends up paying for the cab, nice. We take the train back and Jeremiah comes back to my place. I heat up an entire frozen pizza and eat it myself. I’m such a fuckin’ pig. Jeremiah doesn’t want to eat nor does he want to stay when I ask. He says he’s fine to walk back, so okay.
November 21, 2009
I wake up a bit hungover, but I’m okay a few hours in. I find out from Lauren that she hasn’t heard from Miah and I get freaked out that he didn’t get home safe. Oh shit. For all I know, he could’ve walked home and passed out on someone’s lawn. However, I later find out he’s okay.
For dinner, I meet up with Kerri, Candace, and Kim at Panera. We then go to a bakery and then we hang at Candace’s watching some TV. We watch this silly thing about drunk people and police tapes of their antics. Jonah shows up at 10-11:00 from dinner at Flushing. We decide to play Mall Madness, which has the most ridiculous set up ever. So much labor is needed. In the end, it’s basically like Monopoly, but actually ends instead of going on and on. Kerri has to go and the remaining four of us play Scattergories. We go through all twenty lists until 3-4:00AM. I end up losing. I had a lead at first, but I’m not the best at the game and I got tired and start blanking out.
November 23, 2009
I wake up not wanting to go to class. I’m pretty fuckin’ tired and not in the mood to step into the cold. I compensate, on campus, I get two eggs on a roll, which isn’t too unhealthy. Spanish class is just writing, but we have a really annoying test next week. I get to the library and I realize I don’t have my headphones. I’m not sitting here for 6 hours waiting for class without headphones. I want to go back, but I decide I should get work done and borrow a mouse and headphones from the library.
Brah, this shit is mad annoying.
During Spanish, I bomb a “quiz.” However, I think we have like 10 quizzes and it’s only like 5% of the classes grade. This mystery novel is so fucking annoying. After that, I have to figure stuff for the ACLU club. After that, I drop over to the post office. I packed up the cupcakes last night and had them frozen. Pack that shit up with some silica packets and get some mad scrap paper to make sure that it doesn’t shift around and get crushed. I’m also pretty excited for this Christmas because I’m planning to do some shopping for people. Just feel like being nice this year even though karma ain’t real.
Novemer 17, 2009
I’m mad fuckin’ exhausted today because I didn’t get sleep over the weekend. I have a midterm tomorrow and I need to get shit studying done. However, I’m sort of an expert on this Constitution stuff already, but I still need to somehow find time to study. This fuckin’ Spanish novel has been taking so much time. I spend my entire commutes reading through only 1-2 chapters and answering the questions. Even then, I don’t comprehend and I do shit on the daily in class quizzes. 10 quizzes count up to 5% of the grade, so they count for nothing. I hit a 50% on one of the multiple choice because this stuff is BS hard. Doesn’t count for the grade, but professor pulled be aside because I’m a B+ student in the class. I say it’s not a big deal because I did score an 80% on the quiz of the day.
After classes, I have my ACLU meeting with a speaker from NYCLU. It goes late until 9:30. Fuck and that’s with the commute. Then again, we have catered sandwiches, which are darn ridiculous good. I take the LIRR this time so I can get home quick and my mom gives me a ride back.
November 18, 2009
I have my Constitution midterm at 6:20. I wake up to be productive and get my workout going. Been a week since I’ve done anything since I visited Bing and I’ve been super tired trying to recover some sleep. I’m relatively prepared for the midterm because a lot of this stuff is repetition of the stuff that I’ve already taken.
It goes pretty well with me basically using up an entire Blue Book though I have gone past one before. It truly feels like an accomplishment when you do that amount of marathon writing, but it does kill my hand. I also get really annoyed to see that this one guy gets to write on his laptop. I guess he has some BS excuse. Dude, if I had a laptop, I would literally write like 10 pages, straight up. I don’t let it bother me though because it’s not my business.
After this, I take the F down the Lower East Side. I saw some Michigan themed Yelp event and Katie pushed me to go. Rocking my MSU shirt that she got me, I go down there to my first Yelp event. I get there by 8:00ish and meet some pretty awesome people. It’s nice to see that the Yelp community is loaded with good peeps.
Some drinking, some talking and shmozin.’ I tell people about my trip to Michigan and it’s fun getting into the conversations about reminiscing about the Midwest connection. We eventually get a game of Kings going. I like one of the cards where you pour a little bit of your beer into an empty cup and the last person drinks it. We ended the game early and I ended up chugging that drink. Heyo, no drink goes undrunken.
Everyone ends up dispersing before 11:00. I take the train to Penn Station. It’s boring without my iPod, which is dead and having issues randomly. Good times, I’ll definitely have to hit up the Yelp event on Friday.
November 19, 2009
I wake up not really hungover. The ride is mad boring because of the lack of an iPod. Class is boring and I skip my 4:55 class. I wake to 4 hours and there is no final so why do I need class? Hell, I don’t even need to do the readings. I get home to update my Yelp account. I have to work up those reviews. I also get some RateMyProfessor going. It’s important to get my important opinions out there. People need my advice.
I don’t end up doing anything and just chill. I end up going to Panera for dinner with Kenny. I get some awesome food actually. I haven’t eaten anything all day. The food ain’t cheap, but it’s nom nom good. I drink mad unlimited ice tea and ice coffee. Stay until 10:20ish and then I drop him off and go back home. A chill day, though I’m looking forward to tomorrow because of the Yelp event and open bar. Lets party party this weekend kids.
November 20, 2009
No one wants to go to the Yelp Event other than Miah. I pick up Miah and we go to my house. I eat some fried dumplings that grandma made. The last of the Chinese food in the house because grandma is over at Aunt’s and I have to fend for myself. We both have a little bit of gin and then walk over to the LIRR. We get to the event early. You can read about the rest on my review.
I leave with a few of the people that I met at the first Yelp event that I went to. Miah is real slow and I tell him where to catch up with us since we’re going to a wine bar in the East Village. I get to the place and he should be right behind us. I find out that literally only moved 2-3 blocks because he was throwing up. Fuckk.
I awkwardly tell people that I’ll be back and run over to find him. I’m sobering up a bit by now and I’m not too happy about running 4-5 blocks across the East Village to find him. I sprint all way while I’m on the phone sort of shouting at him. He’s just drunk and lost. People casually walking around at 10:00ish probably have no clue what’s happening when an Asian man is running top speed while cursing his brains out. I think people make a few comments. I end up finding him and I get him some water.
He was vomiting shit. We walk over back to the wine bar and he can’t go in because he doesn’t feel good. He said he can’t hold down food since sometimes that helps me. He just needs to drink loads of water and chill out to sober up. I go inside for a bit. Liz has to go end up leaving because of work. I want to make it to the other bar where I won a raffle for an open bar. I say Bye to people and Miah and I go.
I need to get him another water and get to the bar. It’s way fucking crowded and after waiting around, I find out that it’s too late to cash in on my open bar. Fuckkkk. I’m sober by now. Evan said that he might come. Without notice, he randomly shows up with Sam, Doug, and Josh. Apparently Doug is back in town for a bit. It’s good that I ran into them and get to chill with them for a bit. Evan and I check up on Miah and he’s still bleh. Doug, Miah, and I want to catch the 1:19 train. We don’t have enough time to take the subway. We have a hard time finding a cab, but end up getting one with this random guy that I also needs to get to Penn. He ends up paying for the cab, nice. We take the train back and Jeremiah comes back to my place. I heat up an entire frozen pizza and eat it myself. I’m such a fuckin’ pig. Jeremiah doesn’t want to eat nor does he want to stay when I ask. He says he’s fine to walk back, so okay.
November 21, 2009
I wake up a bit hungover, but I’m okay a few hours in. I find out from Lauren that she hasn’t heard from Miah and I get freaked out that he didn’t get home safe. Oh shit. For all I know, he could’ve walked home and passed out on someone’s lawn. However, I later find out he’s okay.
For dinner, I meet up with Kerri, Candace, and Kim at Panera. We then go to a bakery and then we hang at Candace’s watching some TV. We watch this silly thing about drunk people and police tapes of their antics. Jonah shows up at 10-11:00 from dinner at Flushing. We decide to play Mall Madness, which has the most ridiculous set up ever. So much labor is needed. In the end, it’s basically like Monopoly, but actually ends instead of going on and on. Kerri has to go and the remaining four of us play Scattergories. We go through all twenty lists until 3-4:00AM. I end up losing. I had a lead at first, but I’m not the best at the game and I got tired and start blanking out.
November 23, 2009
I wake up not wanting to go to class. I’m pretty fuckin’ tired and not in the mood to step into the cold. I compensate, on campus, I get two eggs on a roll, which isn’t too unhealthy. Spanish class is just writing, but we have a really annoying test next week. I get to the library and I realize I don’t have my headphones. I’m not sitting here for 6 hours waiting for class without headphones. I want to go back, but I decide I should get work done and borrow a mouse and headphones from the library.
Brah, this shit is mad annoying.
Monday, 16 November 2009
YELP ELITE EVENT!
WHO: You and up to two fabulous, potential Elites (guests)
WHEN: Friday, November 20th. 7-9pm
WHERE: Carnival, 110 University Place, 3rd Floor
HOW: RSVP for you and your guests below...
WHAT: Forget trekking out to Coney Island for your boardwalk game fix and sideshow tricks this month. Instead, we're bringing the Big Top to Union Square with a Yelp Elite Event not to be missed. Explore the fantastical indoor circus lounge Carnival, tucked above Bowlmor Lanes and featuring a Fun House Dance Floor, over 10 different prize-games, pool tables and more. Elites can indulge in complimentary cocktails courtesy of Depaz Blue Cane Rhum Agricole and sample traditional Coney Island favorites like cotton candy, hot dogs, hot pretzels, popcorn, assorted candy, and snow cones from the Carny crew.
We also encourage you to get into the circus spirit with some festive attire - though for every lion there must be a lion tamer!
Note: As always, please bring cash to show the bartenders some love...and the event is 21+ only. Eating beforehand is recommended as only light snacks will be served.
WHEN: Friday, November 20th. 7-9pm
WHERE: Carnival, 110 University Place, 3rd Floor
HOW: RSVP for you and your guests below...
WHAT: Forget trekking out to Coney Island for your boardwalk game fix and sideshow tricks this month. Instead, we're bringing the Big Top to Union Square with a Yelp Elite Event not to be missed. Explore the fantastical indoor circus lounge Carnival, tucked above Bowlmor Lanes and featuring a Fun House Dance Floor, over 10 different prize-games, pool tables and more. Elites can indulge in complimentary cocktails courtesy of Depaz Blue Cane Rhum Agricole and sample traditional Coney Island favorites like cotton candy, hot dogs, hot pretzels, popcorn, assorted candy, and snow cones from the Carny crew.
We also encourage you to get into the circus spirit with some festive attire - though for every lion there must be a lion tamer!
Note: As always, please bring cash to show the bartenders some love...and the event is 21+ only. Eating beforehand is recommended as only light snacks will be served.
Slow at Home, Fast at Bing
Novemer 7, 2009
Hasan doesn’t feel like going out. Miah, Kenny, and I chill out at Bolanos’. Kenny passes out and we leave at 12-1:00ish to drop him off and we run over to On the Run for a snack. I get a soda and a Buffalo Wrap. It has the longest list of ingredients ever, but it’s pretty healthy and actually tastes okay. It’s not the best food, but I mean, I used to eat loads of fast food at late night…
We watch TV and chill and finally Miah and I leave at 3-4:00. A chill recovery night compared to crazy yesterday.
November 8, 2009
I procrastine during the afternoon, but at least I get some guitar practice in. At night, I get some reading done along with mad TV watching. At 9:00, I get Miah and Kenny and we go to Panera. Great place because of unlimited ice tea and ice coffee. Their coffee is fantastic and it’s an awesome place to just sit around, chill out, and joke around. We leave when the place closes before 11:00.
November 11, 2009
Awesome much, Gossip Girl is doing mad NY stuff because a few of them go to NYU. Then mentioned Bar None twice, but I’m pretty sure they don’t have beer pong there. They talk about spinning the cube at Cooper Square. They mention the shitty bathroom in Fat Black Pussy Cat, which I should check out. Then Dan gets a threesome with Vanessa and Olivia.
November 12, 2009
I have my Spanish presentation today on the Cuban sandwich. It’s not bad except I get a bit of the speaking jitters at the beginning. I also do a silly thing where I recommend a Cuban sandwich place during the presentation. There’s “question time” after a presentation, but a girl asks where the restaurant in Midtown is. My English brain flicks on and I answer “in the Theater District around 47th.” My professor shoots me a “WTF” look and the class is confused. I sorta realize by then that I’ve made a mistake. A little embarrassing.
Also for Spanish, we’ve finished the textbook with grammer and vocab. Instead, we’re doing a “novel” that’s made with questions and stuff. Even with having this much experience with Spanish, trying to read fiction is ridiculous. I don’t know how the hell they expect us to spend 2-3 hours before every class meticulously reading this bullshit.
After class, I go with my presentation partner and three others from the class to Crumbs randomly. Something to treat myself to after the silly presentation. When I get to Crumbs, I know that I should get something for Katie. We were supposed to do a cupcake tour in New York. They say I need to go online to order them if I want them shipped.
At the library, I look online and I can only order by the half dozen. Fuck that shit bro. At 2:00, I have to go to the Psych Center to do a study. I check out some disturbing images for thirty minutes and do some button pressing. In the middle of it, I have to watch fucking a Boeing 747 documentary, again. I’ve done another study before where I had to watch this hour long thing before. It’s so frakin’ boring. It’s basically to occupy myself so that the second part of the study can go on with a fresh mind. It’s an hour and a half and I get $15. That’s awesome. I would’ve been waiting for my afternoon class anyway. Awesome way to make a few bucks randomly.
After that, I decide to go ChikaLicious for cupcakes after I find out that Crumbs ran out of Katie’s favorite, red velvet. On the way, I see Jonah walking and he decides to come with me. I get four mini cupcakes because that’s all they have. Jonah also mentions that it was on New York Magazine and suggested to by their guest reviewer. I have to figure out how to ship it though and bring it back to freeze. It’s a bit of a hassle to be so deal with bringing home. I have to pull them out gently, which gets a bit of frosting on my hands, so that I can put napkins under them so they don’t jiggle around and ruin the frosting even more than I did.
At night, I find out that Josh is going upstate to visit Scott and he agrees that we both go up and he drops me off at Bolanos’. I pack loads of stuff and have to go to sleep early because I have to wake up at 5:30 since we’re leaving at 6.
November 13, 2009
I wake up at 5:30 to shower. Josh picks me up before 6:30 and we go to Bagel Man. We then drive up while listening to some albums. We make awesome time and we get there by 10:00ish. We hang out for a bit and watch Always Sunny and then Josh goes up to Scott in Ithaca. Bolanos and I go to Chris’ Diner, which is really good and ridiculously cheap. Compared to NY diners, it’s half price. Three eggs and sausage/bacon/or ham under $4. Boy is the purchasing power so much stronger here…
We then go to the liquor store to get whiskey. Then t o the supermarket for cola and Black and Tan Yuengling. We chill out for a bit, but Bolanos is mad tired from not sleeping and I am too. At 3:00, we decide to take a nap. I go for an hour and watch TV while Bolanos is out for 4 hours. Tim gets back from work at DP Dough, I contact Atron, and we meet up at Tully’s for dinner. It’s 9ish by now and we have to wait, so I get a huge beer at the bar. Then I get an Alabama Slammer at the table, which is mighty yummy (vodka, SoCo, grenadine, and orange juice.). I go healthy and get a grilled chicken sandwich with pasta salad (instead of fries). It’s loaded with wayyyy too much ranch and I remove at least two tablespoons worth. Fuck that.
We regroup and Tim, Bolanos, and I go back. The drinks are working and I chill out for 20-30 minutes. Then I’m ready to pregame. We have beer and whiskey and Diet Pepsi Lime. I miss that stuff. It’s so good. Tim has work at 12:00, so Bolanos and I get a ride downtown right on the way. We go to Tom and Marty’s which is a decent bar. Atron shows up. I start off with a hugggeee gin and tonic. It cost only $5, while in the city, a double would cost at least $10. Hollerr.
Atron shows up and we stand around. There’s a wheel behind the bar that they spin. It spins onto a drink special and for that time, drinks of that type are like $2. I order a watermelon shooter, yum. We then go the Rat, which is pretty cool since I haven’t been there. It’s been poppin and there’s a big dance floor. We then move to Scoreboard, which was closed down and used to be called Sports Bar. We see classic Mike Weiss there. Atron has to go because he has something to do in the morning. The place is pretty shit show. We see Brendan, classic. I’m drunk, but it’s one of those places that has bad floors that should NOT be wet. I slip and fall real bad. I bruise up my knee like shit. Bolanos and I walk back at 2-3:00. Bolanos is mad fuckin’ drunk and sorta passes out. I order DP Dough. It gets there by 4:00ish and time comes back before 6:00. I go to sleep then in Jess’ room.
November 14, 2009
I wake up at 1:00ish and I can’t go back to sleep. I’m mad hungry and we go to the mall because Bolanos wants to get a Yankees shirt (it’s murder they charge that much for “official” bullshit). I get a chicken sandwich at Arby’s. Bolanos also needs jeans since he only has one pair. I help him pick out two pairs at PacSun, where I get my jeans.
We get back. We chill and Tim goes to the library. I decide to cook sloppy joes for dinner. We go to the supermarket for it. Bolanos argues with me that I need to get “sloppy joe” mix, which is disgusting. It’s literally tomato puree and high fructose corn syrup, fuck that, I’m not cooking with that garbage. When we get back, I make some bruschetta with the store baked everything Italian bread. We eat mad sloppy joes. Legit.
A little while after, Grif and Jess show up and two friends. I pregame a bunch and we go to a house party that’s really close. It’s pretty dead and we get out of the $5 cover that they try to charge. There’s a band playing and it gets a bit bigger. Nice being able to smoke inside a house. Bolanos and I have a Poland Spring bottle of some whiskey. I then challenge him to a $5 bet in 1 v 1 beerpong. I lose. Sigh. We leave shortly to walk to downtown. I start running ahead of the crowd, which is not awkward… I need to get my night going and have to get downtown to meet up.
I split up from the group and meet up with Atron. I see my boy Murray. I then run into Vucko and Nate that were on my floor freshman year. They barely recognize me and they get me two shots. I get shwasted and Atron tells me that people are going to the strip club. I randomly speak to Ala and we’re both pretty drunk. I don’t really rememeber what we were talking about because I’m way drunk. We jump in a cab and we’re almost there until a cop pulls the cab over. Holy shit.
That’s crazy because I’m sitting on the floor of the cab van and the cops could’ve done something about that. Instead, the cops only ticket the guy for speeding while we’re already there at the strip club. For some reason, I’m not sure why, I’m one of the only people charged for a $10 cover. Confused. The shots start hitting me. We sit down around the stripper area and get enticed for a George Washington. Classy man in my drunken state, I offer the single from my mouth. I then run to the bathroom to get some vomit action going. I walk outside to get some more vomit action going away from the front door. Atron and the rest come out and I think the bouncer told them that I was officially kicked out. Second time that this has happened to me. I’m about that. Got kicked out of a strip club. Nice job bro.
I take a cab to downtown where Bolanos and Tim are eating. Bolanos apparently bed against Tim that he couldn’t finish a panini. It was mad easy. We then walk back and I just remember passing out, not before eating 2 sloppy joe sandwiches I made out of the leftovers.
November 15, 2009
I wake up at 12-1:00 and not really hungover or anything. However, there’s still damage. My knee is still ripped up from falling down at Scoreboard. I also have a bump on my head today and I’m not sure what it’s from. Nice memory my friend. I’m starving and grab some of the leftovers because I’m all about waking up starving. Josh comes over from Ithaca and hanging with Scott and we watch some football. The Lions and Vikings game is on. Shit’s mad lopsided.
During halftime, we go to Wegman’s, which is sort of Binghamton’s upper class supermarket like Whole Foods. The scam before was to steal the sandwiches from their deli because it’s right next to the entrance/exit. However, Brendi got caught once and had to pay $80 in reparations. I end up getting a roast beef on wheat with Swiss. I also have a cup of their yummy shrimp bisque. It’s way too much food and I def fattended up like crazy this weekend. I’ll def have to take care of myself when I get home and get back to working out and my diet.
Before 6:00, Josh and I take the drive down. We hit some traffic and I’m home before 10:00.
Hasan doesn’t feel like going out. Miah, Kenny, and I chill out at Bolanos’. Kenny passes out and we leave at 12-1:00ish to drop him off and we run over to On the Run for a snack. I get a soda and a Buffalo Wrap. It has the longest list of ingredients ever, but it’s pretty healthy and actually tastes okay. It’s not the best food, but I mean, I used to eat loads of fast food at late night…
We watch TV and chill and finally Miah and I leave at 3-4:00. A chill recovery night compared to crazy yesterday.
November 8, 2009
I procrastine during the afternoon, but at least I get some guitar practice in. At night, I get some reading done along with mad TV watching. At 9:00, I get Miah and Kenny and we go to Panera. Great place because of unlimited ice tea and ice coffee. Their coffee is fantastic and it’s an awesome place to just sit around, chill out, and joke around. We leave when the place closes before 11:00.
November 11, 2009
Awesome much, Gossip Girl is doing mad NY stuff because a few of them go to NYU. Then mentioned Bar None twice, but I’m pretty sure they don’t have beer pong there. They talk about spinning the cube at Cooper Square. They mention the shitty bathroom in Fat Black Pussy Cat, which I should check out. Then Dan gets a threesome with Vanessa and Olivia.
November 12, 2009
I have my Spanish presentation today on the Cuban sandwich. It’s not bad except I get a bit of the speaking jitters at the beginning. I also do a silly thing where I recommend a Cuban sandwich place during the presentation. There’s “question time” after a presentation, but a girl asks where the restaurant in Midtown is. My English brain flicks on and I answer “in the Theater District around 47th.” My professor shoots me a “WTF” look and the class is confused. I sorta realize by then that I’ve made a mistake. A little embarrassing.
Also for Spanish, we’ve finished the textbook with grammer and vocab. Instead, we’re doing a “novel” that’s made with questions and stuff. Even with having this much experience with Spanish, trying to read fiction is ridiculous. I don’t know how the hell they expect us to spend 2-3 hours before every class meticulously reading this bullshit.
After class, I go with my presentation partner and three others from the class to Crumbs randomly. Something to treat myself to after the silly presentation. When I get to Crumbs, I know that I should get something for Katie. We were supposed to do a cupcake tour in New York. They say I need to go online to order them if I want them shipped.
At the library, I look online and I can only order by the half dozen. Fuck that shit bro. At 2:00, I have to go to the Psych Center to do a study. I check out some disturbing images for thirty minutes and do some button pressing. In the middle of it, I have to watch fucking a Boeing 747 documentary, again. I’ve done another study before where I had to watch this hour long thing before. It’s so frakin’ boring. It’s basically to occupy myself so that the second part of the study can go on with a fresh mind. It’s an hour and a half and I get $15. That’s awesome. I would’ve been waiting for my afternoon class anyway. Awesome way to make a few bucks randomly.
After that, I decide to go ChikaLicious for cupcakes after I find out that Crumbs ran out of Katie’s favorite, red velvet. On the way, I see Jonah walking and he decides to come with me. I get four mini cupcakes because that’s all they have. Jonah also mentions that it was on New York Magazine and suggested to by their guest reviewer. I have to figure out how to ship it though and bring it back to freeze. It’s a bit of a hassle to be so deal with bringing home. I have to pull them out gently, which gets a bit of frosting on my hands, so that I can put napkins under them so they don’t jiggle around and ruin the frosting even more than I did.
At night, I find out that Josh is going upstate to visit Scott and he agrees that we both go up and he drops me off at Bolanos’. I pack loads of stuff and have to go to sleep early because I have to wake up at 5:30 since we’re leaving at 6.
November 13, 2009
I wake up at 5:30 to shower. Josh picks me up before 6:30 and we go to Bagel Man. We then drive up while listening to some albums. We make awesome time and we get there by 10:00ish. We hang out for a bit and watch Always Sunny and then Josh goes up to Scott in Ithaca. Bolanos and I go to Chris’ Diner, which is really good and ridiculously cheap. Compared to NY diners, it’s half price. Three eggs and sausage/bacon/or ham under $4. Boy is the purchasing power so much stronger here…
We then go to the liquor store to get whiskey. Then t o the supermarket for cola and Black and Tan Yuengling. We chill out for a bit, but Bolanos is mad tired from not sleeping and I am too. At 3:00, we decide to take a nap. I go for an hour and watch TV while Bolanos is out for 4 hours. Tim gets back from work at DP Dough, I contact Atron, and we meet up at Tully’s for dinner. It’s 9ish by now and we have to wait, so I get a huge beer at the bar. Then I get an Alabama Slammer at the table, which is mighty yummy (vodka, SoCo, grenadine, and orange juice.). I go healthy and get a grilled chicken sandwich with pasta salad (instead of fries). It’s loaded with wayyyy too much ranch and I remove at least two tablespoons worth. Fuck that.
We regroup and Tim, Bolanos, and I go back. The drinks are working and I chill out for 20-30 minutes. Then I’m ready to pregame. We have beer and whiskey and Diet Pepsi Lime. I miss that stuff. It’s so good. Tim has work at 12:00, so Bolanos and I get a ride downtown right on the way. We go to Tom and Marty’s which is a decent bar. Atron shows up. I start off with a hugggeee gin and tonic. It cost only $5, while in the city, a double would cost at least $10. Hollerr.
Atron shows up and we stand around. There’s a wheel behind the bar that they spin. It spins onto a drink special and for that time, drinks of that type are like $2. I order a watermelon shooter, yum. We then go the Rat, which is pretty cool since I haven’t been there. It’s been poppin and there’s a big dance floor. We then move to Scoreboard, which was closed down and used to be called Sports Bar. We see classic Mike Weiss there. Atron has to go because he has something to do in the morning. The place is pretty shit show. We see Brendan, classic. I’m drunk, but it’s one of those places that has bad floors that should NOT be wet. I slip and fall real bad. I bruise up my knee like shit. Bolanos and I walk back at 2-3:00. Bolanos is mad fuckin’ drunk and sorta passes out. I order DP Dough. It gets there by 4:00ish and time comes back before 6:00. I go to sleep then in Jess’ room.
November 14, 2009
I wake up at 1:00ish and I can’t go back to sleep. I’m mad hungry and we go to the mall because Bolanos wants to get a Yankees shirt (it’s murder they charge that much for “official” bullshit). I get a chicken sandwich at Arby’s. Bolanos also needs jeans since he only has one pair. I help him pick out two pairs at PacSun, where I get my jeans.
We get back. We chill and Tim goes to the library. I decide to cook sloppy joes for dinner. We go to the supermarket for it. Bolanos argues with me that I need to get “sloppy joe” mix, which is disgusting. It’s literally tomato puree and high fructose corn syrup, fuck that, I’m not cooking with that garbage. When we get back, I make some bruschetta with the store baked everything Italian bread. We eat mad sloppy joes. Legit.
A little while after, Grif and Jess show up and two friends. I pregame a bunch and we go to a house party that’s really close. It’s pretty dead and we get out of the $5 cover that they try to charge. There’s a band playing and it gets a bit bigger. Nice being able to smoke inside a house. Bolanos and I have a Poland Spring bottle of some whiskey. I then challenge him to a $5 bet in 1 v 1 beerpong. I lose. Sigh. We leave shortly to walk to downtown. I start running ahead of the crowd, which is not awkward… I need to get my night going and have to get downtown to meet up.
I split up from the group and meet up with Atron. I see my boy Murray. I then run into Vucko and Nate that were on my floor freshman year. They barely recognize me and they get me two shots. I get shwasted and Atron tells me that people are going to the strip club. I randomly speak to Ala and we’re both pretty drunk. I don’t really rememeber what we were talking about because I’m way drunk. We jump in a cab and we’re almost there until a cop pulls the cab over. Holy shit.
That’s crazy because I’m sitting on the floor of the cab van and the cops could’ve done something about that. Instead, the cops only ticket the guy for speeding while we’re already there at the strip club. For some reason, I’m not sure why, I’m one of the only people charged for a $10 cover. Confused. The shots start hitting me. We sit down around the stripper area and get enticed for a George Washington. Classy man in my drunken state, I offer the single from my mouth. I then run to the bathroom to get some vomit action going. I walk outside to get some more vomit action going away from the front door. Atron and the rest come out and I think the bouncer told them that I was officially kicked out. Second time that this has happened to me. I’m about that. Got kicked out of a strip club. Nice job bro.
I take a cab to downtown where Bolanos and Tim are eating. Bolanos apparently bed against Tim that he couldn’t finish a panini. It was mad easy. We then walk back and I just remember passing out, not before eating 2 sloppy joe sandwiches I made out of the leftovers.
November 15, 2009
I wake up at 12-1:00 and not really hungover or anything. However, there’s still damage. My knee is still ripped up from falling down at Scoreboard. I also have a bump on my head today and I’m not sure what it’s from. Nice memory my friend. I’m starving and grab some of the leftovers because I’m all about waking up starving. Josh comes over from Ithaca and hanging with Scott and we watch some football. The Lions and Vikings game is on. Shit’s mad lopsided.
During halftime, we go to Wegman’s, which is sort of Binghamton’s upper class supermarket like Whole Foods. The scam before was to steal the sandwiches from their deli because it’s right next to the entrance/exit. However, Brendi got caught once and had to pay $80 in reparations. I end up getting a roast beef on wheat with Swiss. I also have a cup of their yummy shrimp bisque. It’s way too much food and I def fattended up like crazy this weekend. I’ll def have to take care of myself when I get home and get back to working out and my diet.
Before 6:00, Josh and I take the drive down. We hit some traffic and I’m home before 10:00.
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Back to GN and PARADE
October 29, 2009
I have some class and at 7:00, my mom comes into the city to move everything out so I can move back home. So far it looks like I’m staying in Great Neck and commuting. I move everything and we stop over at Artichoke. On the way back, even though it’s 8:00, there’s loads of traffic. I don’t really do much for the night other than some of Atron’s homework. It’s actually fun reading his comics homework.
October 30, 2009
I wake up late and it’s a lazy day for me. I should really get stuff done instead of just watching TV. I haven’t worked out I forevs. I was supposed to have dinner with Kenny in the city, but it turns out that Corinne is still coming down with her boyfriend and staying at her sister’s apartment, so I’ll be hanging with them tonight.
I miss a train, so I take the 8:51 by driving to Little Neck and taking the LIRR into the city, then the R train down to St. Marks. I meet up with Corinne and Mike at Kenka. It’s a pretty authentic Japanese place and I know that Corinne would enjoy that. We have to wait for a bit because the place is darn busy.
Corinne and I share a bottle of sake because Mike still isn’t 21 and doesn’t really drink. We split little dishes. Fried potato croquets with spicy tartar sauce, fried mackrel, sliced cow tongue, fried gyoza, and fried rice. For desert, we had mochi with green tea ice cream in the middle. It’s been really weird, but I’ve really hated sweets recently. Like I purposely refuse them and actually don’t care for the taste compared to savory goodness. Katie would so love it if she was here having some. It is a nice dinner. We then walk over to her sister’s place in Stuy Town and I say Hi. However, I need to catch the 1:19 and her place is frakin out of the way. I decide to avoid the subway and walk all the way to Penn Station. I leave at 12:35 and I make it with only 5 minutes to spare. Good thing I walked that fast and I jogged a bit of it.
On my way back, I catch up with Atron. I also call Erdem and he actually picks up. I ask him if he’s around since we’ve gone to Astoria at 3:00AM before. He refuses and I tell him that we should get lunch tomorrow. Yea right like we will… Bolanos is apparently throwing a party at his place. I speak to him for a while and then I get back and take the car back home. A nice dinner. I think tomorrow I should be going to the parade with Corinne, her boyfriend, her sister, and friends.
I woke up at 1:00-2:00 even though I set my alarm at 12:00. I guess I haven’t had much sleep recently and I really needed a weekend to recharge. I shmooze around and play some guitar for a few hours. I wait a few hours until I have some Total Protein with skim millk. I ask Hasan if he wants to grab a bite because I want to get out of the house. He says that we can get dinner so I do some reading in the time being.
I meet up with Hasan and we go to Tomi Sushi. We catch up a bit. He seems to be doing okay and the same as usual. Hopefully we’ll be hanging more now that I’m back home. I get home and I decide to go into the city for the parade with Corinne, Mike, Courtney, and her friends. I drive over the the Little Neck Station and take the train. On the way, I find out that they’re hanging at Courtney’s place because it’s pouring in the city. I take the R down to 14th and then the L over to Stuy Town. It’s raining and I get there past 9:00. It’s a nice apartment and I have a drink there. People keeping it casual with that and I’m driving, remember.
We watch Taken while there’s some pumpkin carving going on. I’ve seen Taken with Katie before and it’s an awesome movie. Liam is the shit. We also have the baked pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins, yummy. They’re actually stolen from her complex, but lets keep that sush sush. Somehow Corinne and I decide that I should have kitten whiskers like her. She puts them on me and we take pictures of it. After the movie, I want to catch the 12:19 back and leave at 11:30. On the walk back, I speak to Jonah and Evan to make sure if anything is going on. Turns out that nothing is going on and people seem to be having a wild time because everyone is dressed up. While I’m dressed up regular, at least I have my whiskers.
Will and Jill are out in Brooklyn, but that’s not happening if I have to work around the LIRR, also, I’m already at Courtney’s.
On the train, I run into Kyle from high school who’s banging on the train bathroom door. Turns out that it’s locked and he doesn’t recognize me until I keep repeating his name and he realizes that me and that who else random would know his name. We chat for a bit and he was hanging out with South High people at NYU. I try to find out if anyone back at GN wants to do anything because we have an extra hour. No one.
I get back and just chill out with a few drinks because I’m bored as shit. I grab a smoke, speak to Atron, time for sleep I guess? I think this is how social life is going to work now that I’m back in GN.
November 1, 2009
For dinner, Miah, Kenny, and I get dinner at Aegea because it has a TV for Game 4 of the World Series. I get their Fall salad, which is yummy. It has green, walnuts, granny smith, golden raisins, and raspberry dressing. Afterwards, I need groceries for the commute so we go to Waldbaum’s. It’s closing so I only can grab baby carrots and apples. We speak to Erdem and he needs to take a shower before meeting us at a bar to watch the game.
We go to the bar next to McDonald’s on Northern Blvd. We go in and it’s only has like seven people, all white and not under 30. A waitress or friend of the bartender walks over to ask what we want. I don’t order anything because I’m driving. Kenny orders a Sam Adams and Miah orders a Blue Moon. She talks over and tells the bartender. The guy shouts at our table that we can go to Bell Blvd if we want a Sam Adams. I’m confused by this and I consider it anti-Boston sentiment or something. He tells Kenny to come over to the bar. Kenny only has $5 on him and asks what he can get. The bartender tells him he can get the door for $5 and go to Bell Blvd for that. He sits down and we awkwardly sit around until we decide to leave. It’s a weird situation after Kenny got dealt with like that, Miah not even getting his beer, and the few white people dancing around after repeating some shit country song.
By the time we leave, it’s way weird and it’s fucked up that they guy was clearly messing with Kenny for being Asian since Bell Blvd is in Bayside, where more Asians are. Also, this is a Little Neck pub, you’re going to tell me they don’t have a $5 beer? You can go fuck yourself. Kenny, Miah, and Hasan have been there before and know the relative prices. Anyway, go to Tavern. It’s actually a pretty big place and has a big back area. There’s loads of Halloween decoration still up. There’s a handful of people there watching the game. The bartender is relatively nice. I stick to a Diet Coke while Kenny and Miah get a drink. Hasan orders a gin and tonic when he gets in. The place is pretty cool for serving food. The bartender gives us some chips and actually toaster ovens up some hot dogs and buns when a guy orders.
Into the 7-9th inning, there’s free sausage and peppers offered for the bar. I grab a beer with that. The Yankees end up winning a tight game. Yankee numba one. Can’t wait for them to win and for the parade. After the game, we go home. Apparently Friday is karaoke night, I def want to go.
November 2, 2009
I wake up at 8:20 because I want to be early. I grab some food and I get to the station with a quick easy parking spot. I end up getting to the station 30 minutes early and grab a bagel and cream cheese at the deli. I wait at the Little Neck station for the 9:35 and get to campus by 10:20 for my 11:00 class. For some reason, I’m actually in a darn good mood. I think it’s partly because I recovered on sleep over the weekend.
My class ends at 7:35 and I end up having to take the 8:19 back. Getting back late these days. I actually catch Kenny who jumps on the same train from Flushing. I get home by 9:40ish.
November 3, 2009
I wake up a bit later to do the rinse and repeat. For lunch, I get Subway again. However, it’s hard to eat because I had mad toasted Ciabatta sandwiches over the weekend that ripped up my mouth. I also have a midterm for my Constitution and Minorities class in the afternoon, which isn’t too bad, though I had to scramble during the essay and it isn’t very cohesive. I hope that knowing the terms and basically listing them in an essay is enough.
Afterwards, I work with my partner from class on our event/group project thing. Then I have my ACLU meeting. It’s at 8:00, which means I’m getting home late, but what the heck, I’m Treasurer and there’s yummy Thai food. We discuss some immigration issues and talk about our future meetings. This is while I work on some chicken pad thai, spring rolls with duck sauce, crab/cream cheese ragoons with sweet spicy sauce, and pineapple curry rice. The meeting ends at 9:00 and I get to catch the 9:18 LIRR. I finally get home at 10:00ish and I’m still pretty stuffed by from the Thai food, so no need for dinner.
November 5, 2009
I decide to change it up and take the N20/21 bus to Flushing (25 minutes), then the 7 Express train to the city (50), then the NRW train downtown to NYU (15). On the way there it took about an hour and ten minutes, or took a bit longer on the way back. It’s a bit quicker to drive to the Great Neck LIRR station and the train and then the subway. However, it’s annoying to wake up have to drive and find parking. Then, on the way back, I sometimes miss the LIRR and end up having to wait 30 minutes. I’m lazy and prefer dealing with all that then having to drive. It also saves my mom almost $200 for the monthly for the LIRR.
My laptop is being a bitch by not recognizing the battery and only working when I have it plugged in. It fixes itself here and there, but I don’t know what else to do. I Googled for the fix and tried the options, but nothing is really working.
At the library, I borrow two books. One on Scalia and Justice Breyer’s Active Liberty so I have something to do/read on the commute back home.
I find out that Bolanos is coming back for the parade. We end up going to Tavern at 10:00ish. Right before that, I pregame like a monster and get pretty shwasted. I get into Hasan’s car and I fuckin’ smell like a distillery. At the bar, I get two Bug Lights and a Gusiness. Hasan has class tomorrow and decides to leave so we all need his ride by 12:00ish. Bolanos and I are going to the parade tomorrow morning and Stefan is keeps trying to plan it so that we have to go super early.
I get back and hang around for an hour or so until going to sleep and setting an alarm for 8:40. I had a light dinner and don’t eat anything before I sleep. Gots to rock this diet well.
November 6, 2009
I wake up at 8:20ish when Bolanos calls me and wakes me. He goes to get coffee and comes over to pregame for the parade. We have vodka and coke and coffee and vodka. We drink for an hour or so and start walking to the Little Neck LIRR. We’re pretty drunk and take a 10:50 train I think. We get downtown and it’s crowded as hell. We walk all over the place to find a good spot to see stuff, but we can’t find anything. I have a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label on me. We put that in the Dunkin Donuts cup with coffee. We finish that pretty quickly and that’s like 6 shots. The people aren’t ridiculous like I’ve seen from the Giants Parade, which is a shame.
We decide that we’ve had enough of this and look for a bar. We find a bar randomly in that area. It’s way crowded and everyone is trying to order drinks… At 12:00PM. Bolanos and I have 2-3 Brooklyn Lagers at $4 a pop. While at the bar, this woman in her 50s or something starts chatting with Bolanos and I. She calls Bolanos handsome or something and grabs his face and stuff. Then she tries to hook me up with her daughter, but apparently I’m not Japanese and too “young” even though she’s 22.
Stefan actually joins us. We sit at this table and I don’t remember the sequence of events, but these two college girls are also at our table. Bolanos chats her up and I’m pretty sure I’m not the best wingman being all drunk. It also doesn’t help that I fell on the ground while we were simply sitting on a bench and pulled the cushion along with me. Nothing happens out of the chats with the cute girls. We meet up with Josh and we go up to a bar in the West Village called Blind Tiger. I’m mighty fucking drunk from all that drinking. I didn’t eat up the night before, didn’t eat breakfast, and didn’t have lunch. We get to the bar at 2:00ish. I don’t order a drink because of the drunkenness. I walk over to Bleecker Street pizza for two slices of Grandma. So good, one of my fav pizza places in the city.
I hang out at the bar and Jonah ends up coming, I’m still hungry and go to Five Guys with Bolanos for a burger and fries. The burger is meh and a bit sloppy. Despite all the food, the alcohol has still hit me and I still avoid drinking and continue being drunk. At night Kenny shows up after work. And Evan also shows. We go over to the liquor store because they want to drink and then we go to Evan’s dorm.
It’s been 5 hours since a drink, yet this shit is still hitting me rough. Once we to Evan’s dorm, I can taste the sour saliva taste in your mouth when you’re about to throw up. Immediately when I get into Evan’s dorm, I know it’s coming. I put my finger in my throat and it just shoots out. I throw up three times and take pictures of it. My gag reflex is usually really bad, but I guess this time I was really due for it. I’m not really drunk, but eating two slices of pizza, a burger, and fries adds up. The combination of liquor is not good and I had to get out of me. Now I feel a lot better. Stefan has left my now. Kenny, Kerri, Josh, Bolanos, and Evan’s roommate all hang in Evan’s room. I go over to Evan’s top bunk and lay down. I don’t really pass out, but resting really helps rejuvunate me.
By 8-9:00ish, we all move out. Kenny goes back home. Josh splits. Jonah and Kerri go to get dinner. Evan and Bolanos are drunk. Actually, Evan is just super drunk. I haven’t had a drink now for like 7 hours and I’m feeling good. However, we walk around all over the place for no reason. Bolanos gets a beer at Pourhouse. Then we walk all over the place. Then we go to a deli and they get food. Evan is so drunk that he drops a Vitamin Water there. We walk to Still just to use the bathroom. We walk around more and run into Josh. We go to a sports bar and I grab a beer. It’s been a super long day so Bolanos and I take the 11:50 train back. We walk back and I stay on the computer for a bit until sleep at 3:00.
I’ve been listening to Howard all the time still and it’s awesome. As for TV, How I Met Your Mother is back, but it’s meh right now. Mad Men recently had my favorite episode. Sons of Anarchy is decent. Modern Family is awesome and like Arrested Development coming back. White Collar seems promising. Always Sunny has still always been the shit.
I have some class and at 7:00, my mom comes into the city to move everything out so I can move back home. So far it looks like I’m staying in Great Neck and commuting. I move everything and we stop over at Artichoke. On the way back, even though it’s 8:00, there’s loads of traffic. I don’t really do much for the night other than some of Atron’s homework. It’s actually fun reading his comics homework.
October 30, 2009
I wake up late and it’s a lazy day for me. I should really get stuff done instead of just watching TV. I haven’t worked out I forevs. I was supposed to have dinner with Kenny in the city, but it turns out that Corinne is still coming down with her boyfriend and staying at her sister’s apartment, so I’ll be hanging with them tonight.
I miss a train, so I take the 8:51 by driving to Little Neck and taking the LIRR into the city, then the R train down to St. Marks. I meet up with Corinne and Mike at Kenka. It’s a pretty authentic Japanese place and I know that Corinne would enjoy that. We have to wait for a bit because the place is darn busy.
Corinne and I share a bottle of sake because Mike still isn’t 21 and doesn’t really drink. We split little dishes. Fried potato croquets with spicy tartar sauce, fried mackrel, sliced cow tongue, fried gyoza, and fried rice. For desert, we had mochi with green tea ice cream in the middle. It’s been really weird, but I’ve really hated sweets recently. Like I purposely refuse them and actually don’t care for the taste compared to savory goodness. Katie would so love it if she was here having some. It is a nice dinner. We then walk over to her sister’s place in Stuy Town and I say Hi. However, I need to catch the 1:19 and her place is frakin out of the way. I decide to avoid the subway and walk all the way to Penn Station. I leave at 12:35 and I make it with only 5 minutes to spare. Good thing I walked that fast and I jogged a bit of it.
On my way back, I catch up with Atron. I also call Erdem and he actually picks up. I ask him if he’s around since we’ve gone to Astoria at 3:00AM before. He refuses and I tell him that we should get lunch tomorrow. Yea right like we will… Bolanos is apparently throwing a party at his place. I speak to him for a while and then I get back and take the car back home. A nice dinner. I think tomorrow I should be going to the parade with Corinne, her boyfriend, her sister, and friends.
I woke up at 1:00-2:00 even though I set my alarm at 12:00. I guess I haven’t had much sleep recently and I really needed a weekend to recharge. I shmooze around and play some guitar for a few hours. I wait a few hours until I have some Total Protein with skim millk. I ask Hasan if he wants to grab a bite because I want to get out of the house. He says that we can get dinner so I do some reading in the time being.
I meet up with Hasan and we go to Tomi Sushi. We catch up a bit. He seems to be doing okay and the same as usual. Hopefully we’ll be hanging more now that I’m back home. I get home and I decide to go into the city for the parade with Corinne, Mike, Courtney, and her friends. I drive over the the Little Neck Station and take the train. On the way, I find out that they’re hanging at Courtney’s place because it’s pouring in the city. I take the R down to 14th and then the L over to Stuy Town. It’s raining and I get there past 9:00. It’s a nice apartment and I have a drink there. People keeping it casual with that and I’m driving, remember.
We watch Taken while there’s some pumpkin carving going on. I’ve seen Taken with Katie before and it’s an awesome movie. Liam is the shit. We also have the baked pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins, yummy. They’re actually stolen from her complex, but lets keep that sush sush. Somehow Corinne and I decide that I should have kitten whiskers like her. She puts them on me and we take pictures of it. After the movie, I want to catch the 12:19 back and leave at 11:30. On the walk back, I speak to Jonah and Evan to make sure if anything is going on. Turns out that nothing is going on and people seem to be having a wild time because everyone is dressed up. While I’m dressed up regular, at least I have my whiskers.
Will and Jill are out in Brooklyn, but that’s not happening if I have to work around the LIRR, also, I’m already at Courtney’s.
On the train, I run into Kyle from high school who’s banging on the train bathroom door. Turns out that it’s locked and he doesn’t recognize me until I keep repeating his name and he realizes that me and that who else random would know his name. We chat for a bit and he was hanging out with South High people at NYU. I try to find out if anyone back at GN wants to do anything because we have an extra hour. No one.
I get back and just chill out with a few drinks because I’m bored as shit. I grab a smoke, speak to Atron, time for sleep I guess? I think this is how social life is going to work now that I’m back in GN.
November 1, 2009
For dinner, Miah, Kenny, and I get dinner at Aegea because it has a TV for Game 4 of the World Series. I get their Fall salad, which is yummy. It has green, walnuts, granny smith, golden raisins, and raspberry dressing. Afterwards, I need groceries for the commute so we go to Waldbaum’s. It’s closing so I only can grab baby carrots and apples. We speak to Erdem and he needs to take a shower before meeting us at a bar to watch the game.
We go to the bar next to McDonald’s on Northern Blvd. We go in and it’s only has like seven people, all white and not under 30. A waitress or friend of the bartender walks over to ask what we want. I don’t order anything because I’m driving. Kenny orders a Sam Adams and Miah orders a Blue Moon. She talks over and tells the bartender. The guy shouts at our table that we can go to Bell Blvd if we want a Sam Adams. I’m confused by this and I consider it anti-Boston sentiment or something. He tells Kenny to come over to the bar. Kenny only has $5 on him and asks what he can get. The bartender tells him he can get the door for $5 and go to Bell Blvd for that. He sits down and we awkwardly sit around until we decide to leave. It’s a weird situation after Kenny got dealt with like that, Miah not even getting his beer, and the few white people dancing around after repeating some shit country song.
By the time we leave, it’s way weird and it’s fucked up that they guy was clearly messing with Kenny for being Asian since Bell Blvd is in Bayside, where more Asians are. Also, this is a Little Neck pub, you’re going to tell me they don’t have a $5 beer? You can go fuck yourself. Kenny, Miah, and Hasan have been there before and know the relative prices. Anyway, go to Tavern. It’s actually a pretty big place and has a big back area. There’s loads of Halloween decoration still up. There’s a handful of people there watching the game. The bartender is relatively nice. I stick to a Diet Coke while Kenny and Miah get a drink. Hasan orders a gin and tonic when he gets in. The place is pretty cool for serving food. The bartender gives us some chips and actually toaster ovens up some hot dogs and buns when a guy orders.
Into the 7-9th inning, there’s free sausage and peppers offered for the bar. I grab a beer with that. The Yankees end up winning a tight game. Yankee numba one. Can’t wait for them to win and for the parade. After the game, we go home. Apparently Friday is karaoke night, I def want to go.
November 2, 2009
I wake up at 8:20 because I want to be early. I grab some food and I get to the station with a quick easy parking spot. I end up getting to the station 30 minutes early and grab a bagel and cream cheese at the deli. I wait at the Little Neck station for the 9:35 and get to campus by 10:20 for my 11:00 class. For some reason, I’m actually in a darn good mood. I think it’s partly because I recovered on sleep over the weekend.
My class ends at 7:35 and I end up having to take the 8:19 back. Getting back late these days. I actually catch Kenny who jumps on the same train from Flushing. I get home by 9:40ish.
November 3, 2009
I wake up a bit later to do the rinse and repeat. For lunch, I get Subway again. However, it’s hard to eat because I had mad toasted Ciabatta sandwiches over the weekend that ripped up my mouth. I also have a midterm for my Constitution and Minorities class in the afternoon, which isn’t too bad, though I had to scramble during the essay and it isn’t very cohesive. I hope that knowing the terms and basically listing them in an essay is enough.
Afterwards, I work with my partner from class on our event/group project thing. Then I have my ACLU meeting. It’s at 8:00, which means I’m getting home late, but what the heck, I’m Treasurer and there’s yummy Thai food. We discuss some immigration issues and talk about our future meetings. This is while I work on some chicken pad thai, spring rolls with duck sauce, crab/cream cheese ragoons with sweet spicy sauce, and pineapple curry rice. The meeting ends at 9:00 and I get to catch the 9:18 LIRR. I finally get home at 10:00ish and I’m still pretty stuffed by from the Thai food, so no need for dinner.
November 5, 2009
I decide to change it up and take the N20/21 bus to Flushing (25 minutes), then the 7 Express train to the city (50), then the NRW train downtown to NYU (15). On the way there it took about an hour and ten minutes, or took a bit longer on the way back. It’s a bit quicker to drive to the Great Neck LIRR station and the train and then the subway. However, it’s annoying to wake up have to drive and find parking. Then, on the way back, I sometimes miss the LIRR and end up having to wait 30 minutes. I’m lazy and prefer dealing with all that then having to drive. It also saves my mom almost $200 for the monthly for the LIRR.
My laptop is being a bitch by not recognizing the battery and only working when I have it plugged in. It fixes itself here and there, but I don’t know what else to do. I Googled for the fix and tried the options, but nothing is really working.
At the library, I borrow two books. One on Scalia and Justice Breyer’s Active Liberty so I have something to do/read on the commute back home.
I find out that Bolanos is coming back for the parade. We end up going to Tavern at 10:00ish. Right before that, I pregame like a monster and get pretty shwasted. I get into Hasan’s car and I fuckin’ smell like a distillery. At the bar, I get two Bug Lights and a Gusiness. Hasan has class tomorrow and decides to leave so we all need his ride by 12:00ish. Bolanos and I are going to the parade tomorrow morning and Stefan is keeps trying to plan it so that we have to go super early.
I get back and hang around for an hour or so until going to sleep and setting an alarm for 8:40. I had a light dinner and don’t eat anything before I sleep. Gots to rock this diet well.
November 6, 2009
I wake up at 8:20ish when Bolanos calls me and wakes me. He goes to get coffee and comes over to pregame for the parade. We have vodka and coke and coffee and vodka. We drink for an hour or so and start walking to the Little Neck LIRR. We’re pretty drunk and take a 10:50 train I think. We get downtown and it’s crowded as hell. We walk all over the place to find a good spot to see stuff, but we can’t find anything. I have a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label on me. We put that in the Dunkin Donuts cup with coffee. We finish that pretty quickly and that’s like 6 shots. The people aren’t ridiculous like I’ve seen from the Giants Parade, which is a shame.
We decide that we’ve had enough of this and look for a bar. We find a bar randomly in that area. It’s way crowded and everyone is trying to order drinks… At 12:00PM. Bolanos and I have 2-3 Brooklyn Lagers at $4 a pop. While at the bar, this woman in her 50s or something starts chatting with Bolanos and I. She calls Bolanos handsome or something and grabs his face and stuff. Then she tries to hook me up with her daughter, but apparently I’m not Japanese and too “young” even though she’s 22.
Stefan actually joins us. We sit at this table and I don’t remember the sequence of events, but these two college girls are also at our table. Bolanos chats her up and I’m pretty sure I’m not the best wingman being all drunk. It also doesn’t help that I fell on the ground while we were simply sitting on a bench and pulled the cushion along with me. Nothing happens out of the chats with the cute girls. We meet up with Josh and we go up to a bar in the West Village called Blind Tiger. I’m mighty fucking drunk from all that drinking. I didn’t eat up the night before, didn’t eat breakfast, and didn’t have lunch. We get to the bar at 2:00ish. I don’t order a drink because of the drunkenness. I walk over to Bleecker Street pizza for two slices of Grandma. So good, one of my fav pizza places in the city.
I hang out at the bar and Jonah ends up coming, I’m still hungry and go to Five Guys with Bolanos for a burger and fries. The burger is meh and a bit sloppy. Despite all the food, the alcohol has still hit me and I still avoid drinking and continue being drunk. At night Kenny shows up after work. And Evan also shows. We go over to the liquor store because they want to drink and then we go to Evan’s dorm.
It’s been 5 hours since a drink, yet this shit is still hitting me rough. Once we to Evan’s dorm, I can taste the sour saliva taste in your mouth when you’re about to throw up. Immediately when I get into Evan’s dorm, I know it’s coming. I put my finger in my throat and it just shoots out. I throw up three times and take pictures of it. My gag reflex is usually really bad, but I guess this time I was really due for it. I’m not really drunk, but eating two slices of pizza, a burger, and fries adds up. The combination of liquor is not good and I had to get out of me. Now I feel a lot better. Stefan has left my now. Kenny, Kerri, Josh, Bolanos, and Evan’s roommate all hang in Evan’s room. I go over to Evan’s top bunk and lay down. I don’t really pass out, but resting really helps rejuvunate me.
By 8-9:00ish, we all move out. Kenny goes back home. Josh splits. Jonah and Kerri go to get dinner. Evan and Bolanos are drunk. Actually, Evan is just super drunk. I haven’t had a drink now for like 7 hours and I’m feeling good. However, we walk around all over the place for no reason. Bolanos gets a beer at Pourhouse. Then we walk all over the place. Then we go to a deli and they get food. Evan is so drunk that he drops a Vitamin Water there. We walk to Still just to use the bathroom. We walk around more and run into Josh. We go to a sports bar and I grab a beer. It’s been a super long day so Bolanos and I take the 11:50 train back. We walk back and I stay on the computer for a bit until sleep at 3:00.
I’ve been listening to Howard all the time still and it’s awesome. As for TV, How I Met Your Mother is back, but it’s meh right now. Mad Men recently had my favorite episode. Sons of Anarchy is decent. Modern Family is awesome and like Arrested Development coming back. White Collar seems promising. Always Sunny has still always been the shit.
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