November 7, 2008
I go with Evan to grab some food. We go to the big liquor store near NYU where he gets me two handles because they’re so cheap. I get one that’s cherry Georgi, which turns out to be disgusting.
I find out that Evan’s busy and doesn’t want to go to the bar party and we’re invited too. Derrick, who was Gianfranco’s friend that visited Prague, is having a shindig. I was invited through Facebook. I’m gonna be seeing lots of people that I haven’t seen in a while like Gianfranco.
I get there past 12:00, the thing starts at 11:00. There’s a lot of drifting around for me. I say Hi to a lot of people, but it’s mostly short convos and awkwardly floating around. Gianfranco eventually comes and I take a shot with him. Someone else buys me a shot and I buy two beers through the night. By the end of the night, I’m pretty shitfaced.
In the end, it’s really great seeing people again, but I don’t feel I established links well enough, so I’m not really optimistic that I might be seeing these people again or hanging out with them. It’s quite a hit to be seeing all the people from Prague.
I end up leaving by 2:20 and get KFC on the walk back. Hopefully tomorrow is fun.
November 17, 2008
It was a slow weekend since no one was around. Didn’t really do anything, though a lot of time on Stickam speaking to Nikki, who again I’ve been speaking to more than anyone else I know.
At least I’ve been reading about of a lot Constitutional Law stuff like the cases dealing with Guantanamo, free speech for class, and religion clauses for a paper.
I have an ALCU meeting, which is the second to last. I speak to some random people about the Politics classes and there’s just some food next time, that’s about it. Hopefully I’ll become better involved next semester.
I find out that I get into the NYU Law Shadowing program. I get to speak to a NYU Law (Top 5 law school in the country) student and attend one of his classes. It’s an amazing opportunity.
November 21, 2008
So it turns out that the first year Con. Law class that I get to go too is pretty cool. I spent hours before it reading Roe and Griswold. The professor is a great lecturer. Doesn’t stumble when speaking, prepared, and quick. I don’t know if that’s a good thing, but I like fast speakers.
The class actually turns out to be a lot like my Civil Liberties class. She gives a lecture on the thinking of the Court when deciding the case and allows people to give their opinions. From their opinions and how many people are taking notes/paying attention, it seems that I would really hold my own if I was in that class. Then again, I can’t really dig on them because they got into the school, something that I will not be doing…
Anyway speaking about that, I’ve had a great fire this semester of reading cases along with what my class asks for. Here’s some stuff that I’ve just spent hours and hours reading. And listening through podcasts.
Free Exercise Clause
Establishment Clause
Eminent Domain
Free Speech
Incorporation
Administrative law, Chevron deference, legislative veto
Lochner era, striking down of it
Substantive due process, Roe, Griswold, Carhart
Gitmo cases, Boumedeine, Rasul, Hamdi, Hamdan (watching ALCU movie)
Campain Reform/Spending
4th Amendment, exclusionary rule
Judicial jurisprudence
Evan said earlier that we should be doing stuff tonight. Lets see if that happens.
We end up going to the bar near us. We know the bartender and he makes up a deal of two Miller High Life for $5. I take that while Evan goes four gin and tonics deep. We then take a cab to Still, a popular NYU place. The place is poppin’ and loaded with people.
I get another beer since I’m taking it not too harshly. However, Evan gets two gin and tonics. I try to get him to work the shit and he actually shmoozes it up a bit with a really cute asian girl. However, he doesn’t follow it up and he loses her to another guy. I try to get him to wing with me otherwise, but that doesn’t work out since he ends up superdrunk. We go to Karthik’s place, stand around for a bit, he’s drunk, we leave, we get food, take a cab back, and end of night.
Although the game wasn’t thrown down hard, we were out and Evan finally got drunk. A great night in context.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Pickup Artist? SCOTUS?
November 2, 2008
I end up waking up and hanging on Stickam for a bit. Someone on Stickam I know is having a few drinks with her roommates, so I like, “What the fuck, lets have a few drinks too.” Notice, I haven’t eaten anything yet and I started the drank at 4:00ish.
I have a snack at 6:00ish and don’t eat anything real until 9:30. I speak to Corinne and Nikki for most of the night.
I watch three episodes of The Pickup Artist, which is an interesting reality show on VH1. It allows an expert pickup artist (picking up women), Mystery, and he finds a handful of geeky, socially inept guys in their 20s and teaches them to work it hard. Fuckin’ Mystery is a weird ass motherfucker. He needs to learn how to dress like a non-Goth, non-fag douche.
They start off really awkward, but they at least have the balls to try to make moves. They get a huge makeover and start getting lessons on shit.
False time constraint: Fake that you have to go somewhere like meeting up with friends, so that you put desire onto yourself.
Neg: A douchebag comment that is meant to make her feel she needs to qualify herself onto you.
IOI: Indicator of interest, showing interest.
Set: A group of 4 girls, a 4 set. Starting a set involves initiation and attempting to start conversation.
Fuckin’ just random vocab that this show has. A lot of it seems like common sense or over thought douchebaggery. However, it’s really rough watching some of the guys just shot down like horribly.
November 5, 2008
I don’t have class tomorrow until 6:20 because one of my classes is cancelled. I end up getting a 97 on my midterm on Administrative Law. A class that I hated, but I’ve gornw o to like it because it’s starting to move towards Supreme Court cases. I felt that the class was really disorganized, but I felt that I prepared well for the midterm and the class started making more sense.
Josh ends up coming past 8:00 to do stuff. We pregame at my place and then go out for food. We go to Crif Dogs, which is giving out free hotdogs and a drink because post-Election Day.
About that, you know I don’t like either candidate. Election Day was crazy and people were so loud and cars were honking all over. It felt like the end of WWII or something and the soldiers were coming back. Guess they saw it as the second coming of Christ… Sighs…
We then go to Bamn! and I get a bacon chesseburger against from the “vending” machine. It’s mighty good. It’s good hanging with Josh and getting some shitface going.
I’m drunk and bored, so end up spending 20 minutes reading the oral arguments over a case involving the FCC that is pending.
I also listen for over an hour of the oral arguments of Morse v. Frederick (Bong Hits 4 Jesus case). It’s weird that I’m spending so much time on this shit, but I guess it’s really good that I’ve found stuff on interest that I’m doing this, including reading about 8 cases a week for my Civil Liberties class.
November 6, 2008
I find out that I should have enough vodka for tonight, but I’m gonna have to reup on that shit tomorrow. I get my Civil Liberties midterm back. It get a fuckin’ B in my favorite class, probably one of my favorite classes I’ve ever taken. I feel that she grades the shit really rough, but whatever. I guess I’ll have to destroy the final and final paper, which I’m looking forward to.
I also apply to a cool program where if I get in, I get to shadow an NYU law student for a week and go to classes. I hope I get in, though they ask for a resume, and my shit is probably weak and ugly…
I end up waking up and hanging on Stickam for a bit. Someone on Stickam I know is having a few drinks with her roommates, so I like, “What the fuck, lets have a few drinks too.” Notice, I haven’t eaten anything yet and I started the drank at 4:00ish.
I have a snack at 6:00ish and don’t eat anything real until 9:30. I speak to Corinne and Nikki for most of the night.
I watch three episodes of The Pickup Artist, which is an interesting reality show on VH1. It allows an expert pickup artist (picking up women), Mystery, and he finds a handful of geeky, socially inept guys in their 20s and teaches them to work it hard. Fuckin’ Mystery is a weird ass motherfucker. He needs to learn how to dress like a non-Goth, non-fag douche.
They start off really awkward, but they at least have the balls to try to make moves. They get a huge makeover and start getting lessons on shit.
False time constraint: Fake that you have to go somewhere like meeting up with friends, so that you put desire onto yourself.
Neg: A douchebag comment that is meant to make her feel she needs to qualify herself onto you.
IOI: Indicator of interest, showing interest.
Set: A group of 4 girls, a 4 set. Starting a set involves initiation and attempting to start conversation.
Fuckin’ just random vocab that this show has. A lot of it seems like common sense or over thought douchebaggery. However, it’s really rough watching some of the guys just shot down like horribly.
November 5, 2008
I don’t have class tomorrow until 6:20 because one of my classes is cancelled. I end up getting a 97 on my midterm on Administrative Law. A class that I hated, but I’ve gornw o to like it because it’s starting to move towards Supreme Court cases. I felt that the class was really disorganized, but I felt that I prepared well for the midterm and the class started making more sense.
Josh ends up coming past 8:00 to do stuff. We pregame at my place and then go out for food. We go to Crif Dogs, which is giving out free hotdogs and a drink because post-Election Day.
About that, you know I don’t like either candidate. Election Day was crazy and people were so loud and cars were honking all over. It felt like the end of WWII or something and the soldiers were coming back. Guess they saw it as the second coming of Christ… Sighs…
We then go to Bamn! and I get a bacon chesseburger against from the “vending” machine. It’s mighty good. It’s good hanging with Josh and getting some shitface going.
I’m drunk and bored, so end up spending 20 minutes reading the oral arguments over a case involving the FCC that is pending.
I also listen for over an hour of the oral arguments of Morse v. Frederick (Bong Hits 4 Jesus case). It’s weird that I’m spending so much time on this shit, but I guess it’s really good that I’ve found stuff on interest that I’m doing this, including reading about 8 cases a week for my Civil Liberties class.
November 6, 2008
I find out that I should have enough vodka for tonight, but I’m gonna have to reup on that shit tomorrow. I get my Civil Liberties midterm back. It get a fuckin’ B in my favorite class, probably one of my favorite classes I’ve ever taken. I feel that she grades the shit really rough, but whatever. I guess I’ll have to destroy the final and final paper, which I’m looking forward to.
I also apply to a cool program where if I get in, I get to shadow an NYU law student for a week and go to classes. I hope I get in, though they ask for a resume, and my shit is probably weak and ugly…
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Halloween...
October 29, 2008
Stickam update:
Nikki, from Georgia, I met her at the beginning of the summer. She was off for the summer, but we’ve been speaking like everyday and texting this semester.
Corinne, from Boston, Wapanese girl. I knew her from the summer, but now we talk quite a bit.
Noki, another Wapanese too. She’s nice and we speak a lot too.
Evan and I go to Boris’ to watch South Park, which is alright. I smoke some blunt and bong there and get pretty high. On the walk back, grab a large Fries at McDonald’s. And yes, fucked up on a Wednesday night, that’s what we do.
October 30, 2008
Evan and I go to S’Mac for a 5:00 meal or something. It’s a place that only serves Mac N’ Cheese. We get the Cheeseburger one, which basically amazing Hamburger Helper with breadcrumbs baked on top. It’s really good. At night, Evan and I try to figure something to do. We end hanging out at his place and having Jameson. He doesn’t drink his, so I end up getting pretty lit. We listen to most of the Tracy Morgan interview from Howard Stern. Listen to it, greatest interviewee ever.
October 31, 2008
Halloween! Not planning to dress up, there are loads of parties. Evan and I are going to break it down and see what happens.
Turns out our big plans of going to this party at a bar are next week, so that ends up not working. Evan also finds out that some of the plans force costumes in order to show up, what BS. Evan shows up at my place with food because his roommate is using the room. My room is a fuckin’ disgusting mess and we speak to Bolanos on iChat while he’s waiting. Evan goes back to shower and Josh heads over to the city.
I head over to Evan’s past 10:30. After a quick drink, we go upstairs for Josh and Evan to smoke of the vape. There’s no problem that they’re smoking, but it ends up taking an hour before we move out to a party that Evan knows about. By then it’s heading towards 12:00. It’s a close walk, but we end up getting there and it’s pretty crowded. None of us are dressed up, which is “odd” in the Village, but fuck it. Some hot chick walks by Evan, while we’re heading up the stairs of the apartment and compliments his shirt, more reason for us to stay for the party. It’s pretty crowded, but after going up a couple flight of stairs and seeing lots of people, Evan and Josh decide that we must leave. If anything, there’s more of a reason to stay because it’s fuckin lots of people and at least see what it’s like, but nope and we leave.
Instead, we go to Tuck Shop. I end up getting a Shrimp Pie, which is probably their best pie (chunks of shrimp, baby portabella, red pepper flakes, and chives, don’t ask how I know all that). I suggest that it’s fuckin’ Halloween and we have to do something. You should’ve seen the pus (vagine) walking around. It’s warm and allows them bitches to dress they way they do.
Josh is worried about time because it’s 12:30 by now. Before 12:00 when we were heading to the party, it turned out that CNF is in the city with “friends” and was heading to a bar. I told him that we were heading the party and that we will call him back if it doesn’t work out. He’s also like 4 blocks away from us in the city, which is so fuckin’ close.
Did we know he was in the city and coordinate any plans with us earlier? You can guess the competency…
We call him and he doesn’t pick up. Josh left stuff at Evan’s place, so we go back there to pick it up. I push for doing something, but we don’t. Josh wants to get back at some time. I tell Evan that we can go out, but after sitting around, I could tell nothing is fuckin’ happening so I drink loads of Jameson.
I end up leaving Evan’s place before 2:00. I go back and realize I’m starving. I want to eat, so I end up walking deeper into the Village. I go to a place called Bamn! It’s really interesting.
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I walk in, ask for change from my $5 bill. Then go to the change machine, like an arcade, to get quarters and dollar coins. It’s Halloween and the place is packed so there’s only really a bacon cheeseburger for $2.75. It’s darn good and a pretty good deal at city prices.
I’m still hungry so I walk over to Crif Dogs. I get the bacon wrapped hot dog with fried egg and cheese. It’s a 30 minute wait, it’s over $5 for the dog, though I get some free candy out of it. It’s not an amazing deal, but still mighty good. I end up going back eventually and going to sleep by 5:00ish.
November 1, 2008
At night, I try to speak to Evan, but he’s in the library and decides he doesn’t want to do stuff for the night. He says that he probably was a burn out last night because he was high and that’s why we left the “party,” even though we didn’t even go there in the first place.
I find out from CNF at 10:30 that Josh, Jonah, Tom, and other people are over at his place. I shower and then realize it’s 10:50ish and it’ll probably take over 30 minutes to get there. Then, I don’t know when Josh and Jonah will be leaving. CNF says they want to leave early, so I won’t be for much, maybe a couple hours at most. I end up deciding not to go.
CNF throws in that he’s drunk, drinking Jack and Coke, and having fun. What a nice stab. Great that they were in the city seeing and movie and didn’t mind to say they were heading over to CNF’s.
I have some drank’s myself and want to eat. I decide to go get food by 2:00ish. I go to the Punjabi Grocery Market that’s three blocks from me. It’s really amazing stuff.
For $5, you get more food than Halal cart. You get a boat load of Basmati rice with your pick of three sides. Actually, it’s enough for two full meals. It’s vegetarian, but as I meat lover, I’m still fine with it. It has all the “meaty” vegetables like eggplant, potatoes, and peas. One of them is eggplant “mix” and the other one is curry with potatoes. I’m not sure what the other side is. There are six sides to choose from, but you can’t really tell what they are.
An uneventful weekend, what am I gonna say.
Stickam update:
Nikki, from Georgia, I met her at the beginning of the summer. She was off for the summer, but we’ve been speaking like everyday and texting this semester.
Corinne, from Boston, Wapanese girl. I knew her from the summer, but now we talk quite a bit.
Noki, another Wapanese too. She’s nice and we speak a lot too.
Evan and I go to Boris’ to watch South Park, which is alright. I smoke some blunt and bong there and get pretty high. On the walk back, grab a large Fries at McDonald’s. And yes, fucked up on a Wednesday night, that’s what we do.
October 30, 2008
Evan and I go to S’Mac for a 5:00 meal or something. It’s a place that only serves Mac N’ Cheese. We get the Cheeseburger one, which basically amazing Hamburger Helper with breadcrumbs baked on top. It’s really good. At night, Evan and I try to figure something to do. We end hanging out at his place and having Jameson. He doesn’t drink his, so I end up getting pretty lit. We listen to most of the Tracy Morgan interview from Howard Stern. Listen to it, greatest interviewee ever.
October 31, 2008
Halloween! Not planning to dress up, there are loads of parties. Evan and I are going to break it down and see what happens.
Turns out our big plans of going to this party at a bar are next week, so that ends up not working. Evan also finds out that some of the plans force costumes in order to show up, what BS. Evan shows up at my place with food because his roommate is using the room. My room is a fuckin’ disgusting mess and we speak to Bolanos on iChat while he’s waiting. Evan goes back to shower and Josh heads over to the city.
I head over to Evan’s past 10:30. After a quick drink, we go upstairs for Josh and Evan to smoke of the vape. There’s no problem that they’re smoking, but it ends up taking an hour before we move out to a party that Evan knows about. By then it’s heading towards 12:00. It’s a close walk, but we end up getting there and it’s pretty crowded. None of us are dressed up, which is “odd” in the Village, but fuck it. Some hot chick walks by Evan, while we’re heading up the stairs of the apartment and compliments his shirt, more reason for us to stay for the party. It’s pretty crowded, but after going up a couple flight of stairs and seeing lots of people, Evan and Josh decide that we must leave. If anything, there’s more of a reason to stay because it’s fuckin lots of people and at least see what it’s like, but nope and we leave.
Instead, we go to Tuck Shop. I end up getting a Shrimp Pie, which is probably their best pie (chunks of shrimp, baby portabella, red pepper flakes, and chives, don’t ask how I know all that). I suggest that it’s fuckin’ Halloween and we have to do something. You should’ve seen the pus (vagine) walking around. It’s warm and allows them bitches to dress they way they do.
Josh is worried about time because it’s 12:30 by now. Before 12:00 when we were heading to the party, it turned out that CNF is in the city with “friends” and was heading to a bar. I told him that we were heading the party and that we will call him back if it doesn’t work out. He’s also like 4 blocks away from us in the city, which is so fuckin’ close.
Did we know he was in the city and coordinate any plans with us earlier? You can guess the competency…
We call him and he doesn’t pick up. Josh left stuff at Evan’s place, so we go back there to pick it up. I push for doing something, but we don’t. Josh wants to get back at some time. I tell Evan that we can go out, but after sitting around, I could tell nothing is fuckin’ happening so I drink loads of Jameson.
I end up leaving Evan’s place before 2:00. I go back and realize I’m starving. I want to eat, so I end up walking deeper into the Village. I go to a place called Bamn! It’s really interesting.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/285061536_5c57c07a5c.jpg?v=0
I walk in, ask for change from my $5 bill. Then go to the change machine, like an arcade, to get quarters and dollar coins. It’s Halloween and the place is packed so there’s only really a bacon cheeseburger for $2.75. It’s darn good and a pretty good deal at city prices.
I’m still hungry so I walk over to Crif Dogs. I get the bacon wrapped hot dog with fried egg and cheese. It’s a 30 minute wait, it’s over $5 for the dog, though I get some free candy out of it. It’s not an amazing deal, but still mighty good. I end up going back eventually and going to sleep by 5:00ish.
November 1, 2008
At night, I try to speak to Evan, but he’s in the library and decides he doesn’t want to do stuff for the night. He says that he probably was a burn out last night because he was high and that’s why we left the “party,” even though we didn’t even go there in the first place.
I find out from CNF at 10:30 that Josh, Jonah, Tom, and other people are over at his place. I shower and then realize it’s 10:50ish and it’ll probably take over 30 minutes to get there. Then, I don’t know when Josh and Jonah will be leaving. CNF says they want to leave early, so I won’t be for much, maybe a couple hours at most. I end up deciding not to go.
CNF throws in that he’s drunk, drinking Jack and Coke, and having fun. What a nice stab. Great that they were in the city seeing and movie and didn’t mind to say they were heading over to CNF’s.
I have some drank’s myself and want to eat. I decide to go get food by 2:00ish. I go to the Punjabi Grocery Market that’s three blocks from me. It’s really amazing stuff.
For $5, you get more food than Halal cart. You get a boat load of Basmati rice with your pick of three sides. Actually, it’s enough for two full meals. It’s vegetarian, but as I meat lover, I’m still fine with it. It has all the “meaty” vegetables like eggplant, potatoes, and peas. One of them is eggplant “mix” and the other one is curry with potatoes. I’m not sure what the other side is. There are six sides to choose from, but you can’t really tell what they are.
An uneventful weekend, what am I gonna say.
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Been A While
October 12, 2008
It turns out that Josh and Scott are hanging out at Evan’s dorm. I walk over there past 10:00ish with my flask, which I’ve been working on before that. We hang out and watch some TV and stuff. Before 2:00, Josh and I leave and I walk with him a bit because I want to get Halal cart. I’m starving and grab some BBQ chips and eat half of it before I find a cart. I get a chicken over rice. I’m starving and eat that on the walk back.
I’m super shitfaced when I get back and throw sour cream and hot sauce into my cart food. Then I also grab the salad that I made for when I’d get back. I go for the itis because I’m drunk. I realize that I need to do something with my half bag of chips, so I throw it in my salad because my train of thought tells me that it’s like croutons. What people do when under the influence… Then again, it didn’t taste too bad.
October 13, 2008
I thought that I have class on Tuesday because I’m silly. It’s a huge relief when I find out that I don’t. Evan wants to hang for a bit, so I go to his dorm and we just hang there for a while. I end up drankin’ more and Stickaming for the night. It’s been quite a marathon to be going on this since Wednesday.
October 16 and on Weekend
Didn’t do much this weekend though Friday’s weird because people hang out at Josh’s, but I don’t find out until 11:30. With at least 30 minutes to get there and people probably ending the night before 2:00, I decide not to go.
For the week though, it’s super rough because I have midterms on Tues/Wed/Thurs. It’s a harsh week doing all that, but I get through it.
October 23, 2008
I think I’m being a smarty pants in my Civil Liberties and bring up all these extra cases and outside information, which could detract from my grade, but I’m not sure.
Evan and I end up going to the liquor store and grab a bottle of Jameson that we’re supposed to work on later tonight. I end up doing that with him until he has a “visitor” that has to end the night for him. I go back, drink a bit more, grab some pizza at some random place really late because I’m too drunk, and then pass out for class tomorrow.
October 24, 2008
I start dranking by 8-9:00. I end up going with Evan to San Loco at 11:00ish. We then go over to the bar near us because people are probably there. They are. Evan leaves pretty quickly because he has other plans and see what will happen to them. He’s expected back at the bar, but he doesn’t end up coming back. I talk most of the time with Kate, who I think I’ve met, but I’m not sure. They’re taking shots, so I also get a Jack for $4. Then I decide to take a house whiskey shot myself for $3. Then the bartender we know makes an extra shot for me when other people order, gratis!
The group decides to leave and I get invited to hang out with them back at the dorm. Boris and Karthik roll a joint and I get fucked on that. Kate and Boris leave. There’s a deal going down or something and I’m too fucked up so I leave.
I see that there’s a McDonald’s. It’s so rough standing on line, while I’m wobbling in place. When you’re so fucked up that standing up, you still sway like a boat in rough waters. I get a #2 and eat both cheeseburgers on the walk back along with half the fries. The Diet Coke is also a savior because my throat is SOO dry from drinking and smoking weed and cigs. It’s fuckin messed up how dry shit is. I’m so fucked up that I get back, finish my fries, and pass out by 4:00ish. I would usually stay up, but I can’t.
October 25, 2008
I try to figure plans for the night, Josh, Tom and CNF go to a movie. I don’t wanna go, but am willing to hang for the night. I end up finding out late that they’re hanging and sorta wanna stay in the city. Evan has plans for the night and Karthik isn’t hanging out. After some drinks, I speak to Miah and Spamps. I then get Pommes Frites, a French fry place that’s only a few blocks away.
I get curry sauce, Pesto mayo, and a mayo/peanut satay/raw onions. I love fries and I love sauces, so it’s good.
October 26, 2008
I sit around on Stickam for the most of the day. There’s nothing much to the do for the night so I have a couple drinks at 8:00ish, which is early, so that’s fine. I only have one class and that’s at 11:00, I’m safe. I decide to continue the foodiness and walk over to the West Village. On the way, I call Atron, who tries to give me a BS intervention. He’s also speaking Danielle, who I guess has been speaking to him a lot.
I find Bleecker Street Pizza and get the two slices suggest by NYCFoodGuy.com
Go check his site, it’s amazing. I get the Nona Maria (like a margarita slice) and Grandma slice.
The Nona Maria is very good, but there’s too much cornstarch and hard crust feeling to it. On the other hand, the Grandma is the best I’ve ever had. Light crust, garlic, perfect amount of sauce. Just amazing. $3.00 a slice, gorge yourself on Grandma.
After finishing that, I realize that Five Guys is right across the street. As the idiot I am because I haven’t eaten since 3:00 PM and it’s almost 12:00 now, I go to Five Guys.
I had a small burger with grilled onions, mayo, and BBQ. I would’ve gotten the grilled mushrooms and other toppings, but they didn’t have. The grilled onions are amazing and I like the sesame bun. It’s weird, but I’m comparing the place to Joe’s Best Burger in Flushing. The patty was mighty weak, weirdly shaped and small. Joe’s is better and this place is a bit overpriced with their burger.
The fries were really good. A nice balance between crispyness and thick potatoeyness. The fries are a really good deal, big portion for the price.
I’m a sucha mess because I finish the burger on the walk back. Then I have the fries. I guess I ate so fast that I didn’t realize what I did to myself. It isn’t even an itis where I would just pass out. It’s fuckin full blown pain from eating so much. What a douchebag I am. I end up passing out despite the pain.
It turns out that Josh and Scott are hanging out at Evan’s dorm. I walk over there past 10:00ish with my flask, which I’ve been working on before that. We hang out and watch some TV and stuff. Before 2:00, Josh and I leave and I walk with him a bit because I want to get Halal cart. I’m starving and grab some BBQ chips and eat half of it before I find a cart. I get a chicken over rice. I’m starving and eat that on the walk back.
I’m super shitfaced when I get back and throw sour cream and hot sauce into my cart food. Then I also grab the salad that I made for when I’d get back. I go for the itis because I’m drunk. I realize that I need to do something with my half bag of chips, so I throw it in my salad because my train of thought tells me that it’s like croutons. What people do when under the influence… Then again, it didn’t taste too bad.
October 13, 2008
I thought that I have class on Tuesday because I’m silly. It’s a huge relief when I find out that I don’t. Evan wants to hang for a bit, so I go to his dorm and we just hang there for a while. I end up drankin’ more and Stickaming for the night. It’s been quite a marathon to be going on this since Wednesday.
October 16 and on Weekend
Didn’t do much this weekend though Friday’s weird because people hang out at Josh’s, but I don’t find out until 11:30. With at least 30 minutes to get there and people probably ending the night before 2:00, I decide not to go.
For the week though, it’s super rough because I have midterms on Tues/Wed/Thurs. It’s a harsh week doing all that, but I get through it.
October 23, 2008
I think I’m being a smarty pants in my Civil Liberties and bring up all these extra cases and outside information, which could detract from my grade, but I’m not sure.
Evan and I end up going to the liquor store and grab a bottle of Jameson that we’re supposed to work on later tonight. I end up doing that with him until he has a “visitor” that has to end the night for him. I go back, drink a bit more, grab some pizza at some random place really late because I’m too drunk, and then pass out for class tomorrow.
October 24, 2008
I start dranking by 8-9:00. I end up going with Evan to San Loco at 11:00ish. We then go over to the bar near us because people are probably there. They are. Evan leaves pretty quickly because he has other plans and see what will happen to them. He’s expected back at the bar, but he doesn’t end up coming back. I talk most of the time with Kate, who I think I’ve met, but I’m not sure. They’re taking shots, so I also get a Jack for $4. Then I decide to take a house whiskey shot myself for $3. Then the bartender we know makes an extra shot for me when other people order, gratis!
The group decides to leave and I get invited to hang out with them back at the dorm. Boris and Karthik roll a joint and I get fucked on that. Kate and Boris leave. There’s a deal going down or something and I’m too fucked up so I leave.
I see that there’s a McDonald’s. It’s so rough standing on line, while I’m wobbling in place. When you’re so fucked up that standing up, you still sway like a boat in rough waters. I get a #2 and eat both cheeseburgers on the walk back along with half the fries. The Diet Coke is also a savior because my throat is SOO dry from drinking and smoking weed and cigs. It’s fuckin messed up how dry shit is. I’m so fucked up that I get back, finish my fries, and pass out by 4:00ish. I would usually stay up, but I can’t.
October 25, 2008
I try to figure plans for the night, Josh, Tom and CNF go to a movie. I don’t wanna go, but am willing to hang for the night. I end up finding out late that they’re hanging and sorta wanna stay in the city. Evan has plans for the night and Karthik isn’t hanging out. After some drinks, I speak to Miah and Spamps. I then get Pommes Frites, a French fry place that’s only a few blocks away.
I get curry sauce, Pesto mayo, and a mayo/peanut satay/raw onions. I love fries and I love sauces, so it’s good.
October 26, 2008
I sit around on Stickam for the most of the day. There’s nothing much to the do for the night so I have a couple drinks at 8:00ish, which is early, so that’s fine. I only have one class and that’s at 11:00, I’m safe. I decide to continue the foodiness and walk over to the West Village. On the way, I call Atron, who tries to give me a BS intervention. He’s also speaking Danielle, who I guess has been speaking to him a lot.
I find Bleecker Street Pizza and get the two slices suggest by NYCFoodGuy.com
Go check his site, it’s amazing. I get the Nona Maria (like a margarita slice) and Grandma slice.
The Nona Maria is very good, but there’s too much cornstarch and hard crust feeling to it. On the other hand, the Grandma is the best I’ve ever had. Light crust, garlic, perfect amount of sauce. Just amazing. $3.00 a slice, gorge yourself on Grandma.
After finishing that, I realize that Five Guys is right across the street. As the idiot I am because I haven’t eaten since 3:00 PM and it’s almost 12:00 now, I go to Five Guys.
I had a small burger with grilled onions, mayo, and BBQ. I would’ve gotten the grilled mushrooms and other toppings, but they didn’t have. The grilled onions are amazing and I like the sesame bun. It’s weird, but I’m comparing the place to Joe’s Best Burger in Flushing. The patty was mighty weak, weirdly shaped and small. Joe’s is better and this place is a bit overpriced with their burger.
The fries were really good. A nice balance between crispyness and thick potatoeyness. The fries are a really good deal, big portion for the price.
I’m a sucha mess because I finish the burger on the walk back. Then I have the fries. I guess I ate so fast that I didn’t realize what I did to myself. It isn’t even an itis where I would just pass out. It’s fuckin full blown pain from eating so much. What a douchebag I am. I end up passing out despite the pain.
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Slow Weekend
October 9, 2008
I start a drank rockin at 9:00ish. It turns out that Evan’s with Brian and I meet up with that past 12:00ish or something. He finds out that people are supposed to go to this bar, but he has to donate blood tomorrow morning so we end up going back home.
October 10, 2008
After my class, I need to go on a cig re-up at Duane Reade. I check three places and they’re all out of the Buy 2 Get 1 Parliament deal. So I get a pack of Parliaments and see that Marlboro’s are $3 off. Shit’s expensive in the city with packs at like almost $9. The Marlboro is $4.50! Jeez! And it turns out that it’s menthol… I can’t imagine how black people smoke them, but they taste like minty rectum.
I again get the drank on at night. Evan’s home for the day so I’m not sure what I’m doing tonight. I call Karthik and text Boris, but Karthik says he’ll call me back and doesn’t. I end up deciding to go the bar near me. I’m not sure why I go there myself and I realize that I can’t just walk up to random people and have a conversation with them. Just from my point of view, if I was hanging out with friends, it would be strange and off setting for a stranger to walk up and just start a random conversation.
I end up getting a beer there and stealing their glass. Fuck them. $5 beer is a ripoff and I fuckin’ need a glass and I’m also a klepto.
October 11, 2008
Turns out at night that people are going to Josh’s. Evan was there, but comes back to the city to grab his medication. Him and I head there before 11:00. Scott, CNF, Tom, his friend, and Josh are present.
I have my flask and work on that. We end up going to his roof, which has an amazing view. There’s also a TI, Rihanna, Fat Joe concert rocking. It’s down by the docks and we’re really high (27 stories), but we can still hear the music. That’s sooo cool!
We end up going back in to watch half an episode of Always Sunny, which is one of the best shows on TV. An amazing comedy, please watch it.
CNF and I end up walking back at 1:00ish. I go to the subway stop and he goes home. I get lost about where the subway station is. Instead, I go to the one that is another option and it takes forever to get back. I eventually take the train and I’m really stupid and walk the opposite direction for some reason. I get lost and ask Spamps for some help, catch up with him, and get back home.
I start a drank rockin at 9:00ish. It turns out that Evan’s with Brian and I meet up with that past 12:00ish or something. He finds out that people are supposed to go to this bar, but he has to donate blood tomorrow morning so we end up going back home.
October 10, 2008
After my class, I need to go on a cig re-up at Duane Reade. I check three places and they’re all out of the Buy 2 Get 1 Parliament deal. So I get a pack of Parliaments and see that Marlboro’s are $3 off. Shit’s expensive in the city with packs at like almost $9. The Marlboro is $4.50! Jeez! And it turns out that it’s menthol… I can’t imagine how black people smoke them, but they taste like minty rectum.
I again get the drank on at night. Evan’s home for the day so I’m not sure what I’m doing tonight. I call Karthik and text Boris, but Karthik says he’ll call me back and doesn’t. I end up deciding to go the bar near me. I’m not sure why I go there myself and I realize that I can’t just walk up to random people and have a conversation with them. Just from my point of view, if I was hanging out with friends, it would be strange and off setting for a stranger to walk up and just start a random conversation.
I end up getting a beer there and stealing their glass. Fuck them. $5 beer is a ripoff and I fuckin’ need a glass and I’m also a klepto.
October 11, 2008
Turns out at night that people are going to Josh’s. Evan was there, but comes back to the city to grab his medication. Him and I head there before 11:00. Scott, CNF, Tom, his friend, and Josh are present.
I have my flask and work on that. We end up going to his roof, which has an amazing view. There’s also a TI, Rihanna, Fat Joe concert rocking. It’s down by the docks and we’re really high (27 stories), but we can still hear the music. That’s sooo cool!
We end up going back in to watch half an episode of Always Sunny, which is one of the best shows on TV. An amazing comedy, please watch it.
CNF and I end up walking back at 1:00ish. I go to the subway stop and he goes home. I get lost about where the subway station is. Instead, I go to the one that is another option and it takes forever to get back. I eventually take the train and I’m really stupid and walk the opposite direction for some reason. I get lost and ask Spamps for some help, catch up with him, and get back home.
Sunday, 5 October 2008
GAS!!!
September 30, 2008
It’s a long day of class and my last class ends at 7:35. For my Civil Liberties class, my professor seems to leave out big things about certain cases. I’m also surprised that people support my view on McGowan v. Maryland. It deals with how some guys got fined on selling random shit like a three ring binder on Sunday. Maryland back in the 1960s, they had laws restricting people doing labor and sale of certain goods because they wanted people to be “good ol’ citizens” to rest and stupid shit.
Justice Warren who rights the majority decision feels that the state had legitimate reason to make Sunday “rest day.” He sounds like a fuckin’ octagenarian old timer. I explain that it’s fuckin stupid that have this shit and the fact that Sunday (a Christian day) doesn’t matter. It’s moot. The issue that the state doesn’t have a right to stop people from selling regular shit on a Sunday, just because it’s a good idea to have people “rest.”
Anyway, end of that political rant.
October 2, 2008
After class, I meet up with Evan who gets dinner. We end up watching the VP debate with Brian. I have a few drinks of my vodka while I’m watching it. They both try listening hard, so there’s little discussion during the thing, so it turns out super boring for me since I don’t like either party.
I end up leaving an hour in because I’m drunk, I need get more drunk, and I can’t sit there bored out of my mind. I Stickam with people for the rest of the night and sleep earlier because I have a test at 2:00 the next day.
October 3, 2008
By 8:40, I’m bored, so I start the drank and my two step. I try reaching Evan to do stuff, but he’s watching the new Bill Maher movie. I end up going out to meet up with him and Jonah past 12:00ish because they came back from the movie. We go to a Ramen place where they eat. We walk around for a while and end up sitting around at Evan’s dorm for a bit. I end up leaving at 2:00ish because I’m tired and sleep soon after.
October 4, 2008
I realize that I don’t have much liquor left. I would have to re-up for the night. I go to the Russian liquor store and smoothly get by with buying generic and Georgi plastic bottled vodka. By the time I’m showered and ready to pre-game, it’s past 10ish.
I do my usual drankin’ and Stickamin. Evan is hard to reach and finally at 12ish he says that he’s not sure if he wants to go out. He finally gives me a final decision that he won’t be. I speak to Jonah, but by then it’s 12:30ish and it takes a while for him to get down here since he lives further uptown.
After a while, I decide to go outside for a smoke and call up some people. I end up speaking to Miah for almost three hours, fuckin’ hell. It’s just me talking around, debating random shit, talking about random shit, chain smoking, and I decide that I’m so thirsty from talking/drinking that I need water. However, there aren’t any stores open and I can’t find a cart of some sort for a while.
I end up finding a cart in a skeevy part of Bowery and it’s filled with homeless people and shit. I ask for a chicken gyro, but it turns out there’s only beef on the stick and he randomly gives me that instead. There’s also no anything, just that meat, wrapped by a gyro, and some hot sauce. What was a water trip becomes food and water because I haven’t eaten since 4:00 and I’m starved and drunk.
Then he says “$8.” I’m drunk and confused and pay along. I get Miah back on the phone because I had to deal with the cart. We come to the conclusion that I shouldn’t have paid for that. It’s way too expensive. Gyro should be like $3-4 and a water should be $1. I don’t know where the 80% markup is from, but I guess it’s the only cart open for a distance at this time.
I’m still walking around and I notice the bar across the street from me that Atron couldn’t get into last week. I notice a Q104.3 black van and there are at least 20 around it and they’re all sucking on balloons. Remember that it’s 3:40 now and I’m still on the phone with Miah. It’s seriously one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen and I can’t possibly understand what people are doing.
I try to get one of the balloons, but he says it’s $5. What the hell! I think that it might be helium and people are having fun, but no one around has a high voice or anything. I end up sitting down at a bench and just asking someone what that deal is. He says that it’s nitrous or “laughing gas.” You know, the shit that dentists use.
He says that I should try it and we walk over to get one. Sit back down on the bench and work on it. Only after one puff, I already feel it. It’s like an uplifting lightheadedness. It turns out to be great and it only ends up last 5-10 minutes tops.
The guy that I speak to turns out to be really cool and he grabs my number. I try getting his, but he walks away before I do. Maybe he’ll call about shit to do sometime, that would be cool. However, it’s a bit weird that I see him handling a huge wad of cash after that. Maybe he was involved in the selling of the balloons or something. It’s one of the wads of cash that like bouncers or whoever have, like to take entrance fee and give change.
But really, what is this situation? There’s no way Q104.3 is really doing this illegal shit. So that’s fraud. Then there’s the issue of possession, selling in public, and selling at all and stuff. It’s just crazy that they literally pulled this slick operation off on a lane street in the city.
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/dll/N20_state_laws.htm
You see where the red truck is? Just imagine the van being right there with people filling up balloons with tanks, 30 people standing around, balloons being sucked and thrown all over the floor at 4:00 AM. Then again, they left soon after cop cars drove by and around.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=bowery+poetry+club+nyc&fb=1&cid=0,0,675106739067944942&ll=40.725921,-73.992185&spn=0.002045,0.003009&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.724899,-73.992387&panoid=zccliIljvR41-j5DstiKKg&cbp=1,68.617274896733,,0,4.337264461478547
After this and the van leaves, I finish by little Maker’s Mark 1 shot bottle that I bring along that’s filled with vodka. I end speaking to Miah by 4-5:00ish. I get back, eat the salad that I made before I left, Stickam, and watch The Shield. Start watching The Shield already, it’s tooo good!!
It’s a long day of class and my last class ends at 7:35. For my Civil Liberties class, my professor seems to leave out big things about certain cases. I’m also surprised that people support my view on McGowan v. Maryland. It deals with how some guys got fined on selling random shit like a three ring binder on Sunday. Maryland back in the 1960s, they had laws restricting people doing labor and sale of certain goods because they wanted people to be “good ol’ citizens” to rest and stupid shit.
Justice Warren who rights the majority decision feels that the state had legitimate reason to make Sunday “rest day.” He sounds like a fuckin’ octagenarian old timer. I explain that it’s fuckin stupid that have this shit and the fact that Sunday (a Christian day) doesn’t matter. It’s moot. The issue that the state doesn’t have a right to stop people from selling regular shit on a Sunday, just because it’s a good idea to have people “rest.”
Anyway, end of that political rant.
October 2, 2008
After class, I meet up with Evan who gets dinner. We end up watching the VP debate with Brian. I have a few drinks of my vodka while I’m watching it. They both try listening hard, so there’s little discussion during the thing, so it turns out super boring for me since I don’t like either party.
I end up leaving an hour in because I’m drunk, I need get more drunk, and I can’t sit there bored out of my mind. I Stickam with people for the rest of the night and sleep earlier because I have a test at 2:00 the next day.
October 3, 2008
By 8:40, I’m bored, so I start the drank and my two step. I try reaching Evan to do stuff, but he’s watching the new Bill Maher movie. I end up going out to meet up with him and Jonah past 12:00ish because they came back from the movie. We go to a Ramen place where they eat. We walk around for a while and end up sitting around at Evan’s dorm for a bit. I end up leaving at 2:00ish because I’m tired and sleep soon after.
October 4, 2008
I realize that I don’t have much liquor left. I would have to re-up for the night. I go to the Russian liquor store and smoothly get by with buying generic and Georgi plastic bottled vodka. By the time I’m showered and ready to pre-game, it’s past 10ish.
I do my usual drankin’ and Stickamin. Evan is hard to reach and finally at 12ish he says that he’s not sure if he wants to go out. He finally gives me a final decision that he won’t be. I speak to Jonah, but by then it’s 12:30ish and it takes a while for him to get down here since he lives further uptown.
After a while, I decide to go outside for a smoke and call up some people. I end up speaking to Miah for almost three hours, fuckin’ hell. It’s just me talking around, debating random shit, talking about random shit, chain smoking, and I decide that I’m so thirsty from talking/drinking that I need water. However, there aren’t any stores open and I can’t find a cart of some sort for a while.
I end up finding a cart in a skeevy part of Bowery and it’s filled with homeless people and shit. I ask for a chicken gyro, but it turns out there’s only beef on the stick and he randomly gives me that instead. There’s also no anything, just that meat, wrapped by a gyro, and some hot sauce. What was a water trip becomes food and water because I haven’t eaten since 4:00 and I’m starved and drunk.
Then he says “$8.” I’m drunk and confused and pay along. I get Miah back on the phone because I had to deal with the cart. We come to the conclusion that I shouldn’t have paid for that. It’s way too expensive. Gyro should be like $3-4 and a water should be $1. I don’t know where the 80% markup is from, but I guess it’s the only cart open for a distance at this time.
I’m still walking around and I notice the bar across the street from me that Atron couldn’t get into last week. I notice a Q104.3 black van and there are at least 20 around it and they’re all sucking on balloons. Remember that it’s 3:40 now and I’m still on the phone with Miah. It’s seriously one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen and I can’t possibly understand what people are doing.
I try to get one of the balloons, but he says it’s $5. What the hell! I think that it might be helium and people are having fun, but no one around has a high voice or anything. I end up sitting down at a bench and just asking someone what that deal is. He says that it’s nitrous or “laughing gas.” You know, the shit that dentists use.
He says that I should try it and we walk over to get one. Sit back down on the bench and work on it. Only after one puff, I already feel it. It’s like an uplifting lightheadedness. It turns out to be great and it only ends up last 5-10 minutes tops.
The guy that I speak to turns out to be really cool and he grabs my number. I try getting his, but he walks away before I do. Maybe he’ll call about shit to do sometime, that would be cool. However, it’s a bit weird that I see him handling a huge wad of cash after that. Maybe he was involved in the selling of the balloons or something. It’s one of the wads of cash that like bouncers or whoever have, like to take entrance fee and give change.
But really, what is this situation? There’s no way Q104.3 is really doing this illegal shit. So that’s fraud. Then there’s the issue of possession, selling in public, and selling at all and stuff. It’s just crazy that they literally pulled this slick operation off on a lane street in the city.
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/dll/N20_state_laws.htm
You see where the red truck is? Just imagine the van being right there with people filling up balloons with tanks, 30 people standing around, balloons being sucked and thrown all over the floor at 4:00 AM. Then again, they left soon after cop cars drove by and around.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=bowery+poetry+club+nyc&fb=1&cid=0,0,675106739067944942&ll=40.725921,-73.992185&spn=0.002045,0.003009&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.724899,-73.992387&panoid=zccliIljvR41-j5DstiKKg&cbp=1,68.617274896733,,0,4.337264461478547
After this and the van leaves, I finish by little Maker’s Mark 1 shot bottle that I bring along that’s filled with vodka. I end speaking to Miah by 4-5:00ish. I get back, eat the salad that I made before I left, Stickam, and watch The Shield. Start watching The Shield already, it’s tooo good!!
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Drankin'
September 24, 2008
I’ve been itching the day before and today because I have a Spanish quiz. I bombed the last quiz with a 77. Then again… You get to drop a quiz, there are a handful of the quizzes, and it only counts for like 10-20% of the grade. There are two midterms that count as 15% each and a final that counts for 10%. There’s so much random shit and work that’s why the percentages are so low. A real class could have the final at like 30-40% with a midterm being lower, participation only counting 10% at most and the rest for whatever essays or stuff. It’s horrific that this Spanish class has by far been my hardest and busiest class so far. I’m pretty sure I did fine on the quiz though.
After the quiz at 3:00ish, I go to the other supermarket. They are opposite sides of NYU “campus,” which is just a bunch of city blocks. The one that’s a bit out of the way, then again, that’s my standard. I just hate walking that much and people would literally say that it’s 4 blocks away. That’s just 4 blocks too much for me.
I get the ingredients for a chili and other stuff. I’ve been drinking out a big Wendy’s cup for the past few days. People make fun of it on Stickam and I agree it’s skeevy. However, I’m all about big cups and the mugs I have aren’t big enough. Thankfully this supermarket as 16 oz. plastic cups.
I get roast beef and garlic cheddar (turns out to be really interesting tasting, but very garlicky). The sandwiches are mostly for eating in the library between my class ending at 12:15 and next class starting at 2:00. The walk is “worth it” for me so for me it’s easier to go the library, plug in the computer, sit on there like I’d be at home, watch my shows, and have my lunch.
When I get back, it’s cookin’ time. It’s the first time I’ve made rice without a rice cooker. Wash the rice, put water, simmer rice. Unfortunately, I leave it on the stove for a bit too long instead of letting it sit and cook itself off the heat. The rice turns a bit off al dente, but it’s fine.
Time for the chili:
Big pot, oil, brown a pound of ground beef. Diced, 4 small red onions, which is like 2-3 cups. Sweat for a looog time, want them sweet and soft. 5 cloves of garlic, minced, in. 2 red peppers, chopped, sweat until they are soft too. Conventions call for canned tomatoes, but I used tomato sauce instead. I’m off of pasta/sauce carb load diet, so I have to use the jars of sauce that I’ve previously purchased. It’s basically the same, but it’s spiced and everything. A can of red kidney beans, in. Throw in water and reduce until right consistency.
Now I have rice and chili instead of pasta and sauce. The onion, beans, and peppers fills it up more than just being sauce. The meat is hella lot better than not having it. It turns out to be like over 2 liters of chili into a Tuperware. I had to squeeze 2 liters of rice into the other Tuperware. The conventional heat is to from Jalapeno or chipotle in abode. The place doesn’t have either. The other stuff is American hot sauce, the vingerry Tabasco or Buffalo sauce stuff. Instead, I choose Sriracha, but it’s a weird brand that is also vingerry. I throw that in and it turns out fine for getting a kick in.
I’m thinking of throwing in some eggplant. It really shrinks to nothing after being cooked and I might need lots of it.
I’ll need some cheddar to cut up and sour cream that I’ll buy tomorrow as condiments for the chili/rice.
September 25, 2008
After I walkout of my class at 7:30.T A switch just flicks in my head and I just end up having the urge to do something because it’s the “weekend” since I only have class at 2:00 on Friday, so it basically can count as a three day weekend for me.
I get back and sit on Stickam for a bit. On a usual day, I’d just watch some TV, sit on Stickam, and end up going to sleep. However, it’s the “weekend” so I jjust can sit there. I drink 4-6 cups of coffee out of boredom and it gets me really jittery. I actually look up how to make hard cider, since I’m out of alcohol, I plan on buying the ingredients tomorrow to make my own alcohol, apple cider, yeast and sugar.
I end up getting the idea that I should go to the Russian liquor store that doesn’t card and stuff. I even dress up into a button up so I look older. It’s a good coincidence that I haven’t shaved for the past few days too. My chalked ID has worked twice at a bar, so I hope if it comes to it, it works at the liquor store too. I look around and grab a plastic handle of vodka for $18.50. The guy doesn’t even card me! I tip the $1.50 change into the jar. A quid pro quo kind of move. Hopefully, I can consistently use this place.
It’s so great. It’s literally a top three moment in life. I celebrate and give a few people calls like Miah and Jenn. I get back work on my vodka and Diet Coke. It’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten since 3-4:00. I Stickam a bunch, going out for a few smokes, and stuff. After I’m done drinking, I have myself a roast beef, garlic cheddar on rye with honey mustard.
Writing about Privileged in the middle of the night:
If you guys don’t know “Privileged,” there’s an incredible moment where I just had to laugh at. There tutor (main character) is worried about her “tutee” (not sure if that’s word) being held back a year because of her grades. The “tutee” says that she might not get good grades no matter how hard she tries. The tutor responds, “That’s like not going out with guys because you worry they’ll cheat on you or not writing because you’re worried that you’ll never get published (the tutor is a struggling writer).” The girl responds, “Are you talking about the Sex and the City? I loved the movie, but I’m not sure what you’re talking about.” It’s this off tempo joke is what makes me absolutely love Casablanca. The tutor is really worried about the girl’s future and sets an extremely dramatic tone in the scene, yet the reply throws everything off and just works so well with the juxtaposition. I guess most/some might not find it funny, but it’s exactly my kind of humor and I even stopped the show to write almost 200 words about a little thing like this. In the end, the tutor explains you can’t not try because you’ll never know what the outcome will be.
I end up passing out by 5:00 for class the next day.
September 26, 2008
I sit around for most of the day. Hasan tells me to go back, but it doesn’t seem worth it if I hang out in the city instead. Also, they’re supposed to be coming into the city tomorrow anyway. Evan is unreachable for such a long time, but by 12:00, he’s almost ready and stuff and we’re going to a bar. Lets see where the night takes us.
We meet up and go to the bar that is near us. It’s one that I’ve been to three times already and the people that Evan knows are there. It turns out that I guess the people are up to other stuff and only a few of the guys are there. We only stay there for a while until the two of us walk with Karthik back to his place to hang out.
The walk back, he’s super drunk and has the flyest vomiting that I’ve ever seen. At one point, he slows down a bit and vomits onto some trash bags. I didn’t even know it was him and I think it’s something falling from the sky. He then throws up in front of him while he’s still walking and it doesn’t even get on him. He does a good job being so slick about it.
We go into his room and sit around listening to hip hop. We wait there for a while until Boris will come back because it has his weed locked up. We chill there for a while until I realize that I’m pretty much sober. We then go out to get food because Boris is on his way back eventually. Evan and Karthik get some chicken gyro shit.
On the walk back, Evan says that he needs to go sleep and goes back. Karthik invites to me to stay and hang even though Evan is going back. That’s cool. Boris is back we he rolls a fast ass joint. I only take 1 hit of it and I’m getting there. It turns out there is Coors Light in the fridge so I grab it and finish almost a 40. We then go a few doors down to Derick’s place. He has some people over and he rolls a blunt. I don’t have any of it and I end up leaving soon after that. It’s good that I got to hang out tonight and did it even though Evan left.
September 27, 2008
It’s Saturday and people end up coming into the city. I have a few drinks of my vodka until I meet up with Bolanos, Josh, CNF, and Atron. We go to the liquor store and they pick up a bottle of rum. It’s 10:30ish by now and I’m really paranoid having people over. The woman has her like 4 year old kid over and us guys are usually loud and especially with drink, which I would prefer didn’t somehow get back to mom.
We’re good about it and up leaving my place by 11:20ish. We meet up with Evan in front of his place and walk around to find a place to go. We end up going to a bar that’s near NYU campus. Atron’s ID is bad and he can’t get in. We then walk around for a while with nowhere to go. We end up walking over to Tuck Shop.
Then, Atron and Evan go off to get weed from Boris. CNF, Josh, and I hang around for a bit. We find a bar that’s a block away from me and we all are able to get in. CNF finds out that he’s lost his keys, so we run back to my place to look for them. Luckily, he finds them and we go back to the bar to grab a beer.
We tell Atron to go there because he’ll be a good wing, but he ends up again not being able to get in. I guess the city is rougher than we though. They end up walking or subwaying back to Penn by 2:30 to catch the 3:19. It’s still relatively early and I have noting to do so I end up speaking to one of my Stickam friends outside for an hour or so until I head back in.
September 28, 2008
I wake up at 4:00 and feel a bit funny. Some of it is from the fact that I probably smoked near a pack the night before. I eat and go on Stickam. Someone mentions they’ve pulled an all nighter of drinking. I decide to copy and start drinking at 5PM out of boredom. I stay that way until 2:00 when I sleep. Now that’s a fuckin long day of drinking.
I’ve been itching the day before and today because I have a Spanish quiz. I bombed the last quiz with a 77. Then again… You get to drop a quiz, there are a handful of the quizzes, and it only counts for like 10-20% of the grade. There are two midterms that count as 15% each and a final that counts for 10%. There’s so much random shit and work that’s why the percentages are so low. A real class could have the final at like 30-40% with a midterm being lower, participation only counting 10% at most and the rest for whatever essays or stuff. It’s horrific that this Spanish class has by far been my hardest and busiest class so far. I’m pretty sure I did fine on the quiz though.
After the quiz at 3:00ish, I go to the other supermarket. They are opposite sides of NYU “campus,” which is just a bunch of city blocks. The one that’s a bit out of the way, then again, that’s my standard. I just hate walking that much and people would literally say that it’s 4 blocks away. That’s just 4 blocks too much for me.
I get the ingredients for a chili and other stuff. I’ve been drinking out a big Wendy’s cup for the past few days. People make fun of it on Stickam and I agree it’s skeevy. However, I’m all about big cups and the mugs I have aren’t big enough. Thankfully this supermarket as 16 oz. plastic cups.
I get roast beef and garlic cheddar (turns out to be really interesting tasting, but very garlicky). The sandwiches are mostly for eating in the library between my class ending at 12:15 and next class starting at 2:00. The walk is “worth it” for me so for me it’s easier to go the library, plug in the computer, sit on there like I’d be at home, watch my shows, and have my lunch.
When I get back, it’s cookin’ time. It’s the first time I’ve made rice without a rice cooker. Wash the rice, put water, simmer rice. Unfortunately, I leave it on the stove for a bit too long instead of letting it sit and cook itself off the heat. The rice turns a bit off al dente, but it’s fine.
Time for the chili:
Big pot, oil, brown a pound of ground beef. Diced, 4 small red onions, which is like 2-3 cups. Sweat for a looog time, want them sweet and soft. 5 cloves of garlic, minced, in. 2 red peppers, chopped, sweat until they are soft too. Conventions call for canned tomatoes, but I used tomato sauce instead. I’m off of pasta/sauce carb load diet, so I have to use the jars of sauce that I’ve previously purchased. It’s basically the same, but it’s spiced and everything. A can of red kidney beans, in. Throw in water and reduce until right consistency.
Now I have rice and chili instead of pasta and sauce. The onion, beans, and peppers fills it up more than just being sauce. The meat is hella lot better than not having it. It turns out to be like over 2 liters of chili into a Tuperware. I had to squeeze 2 liters of rice into the other Tuperware. The conventional heat is to from Jalapeno or chipotle in abode. The place doesn’t have either. The other stuff is American hot sauce, the vingerry Tabasco or Buffalo sauce stuff. Instead, I choose Sriracha, but it’s a weird brand that is also vingerry. I throw that in and it turns out fine for getting a kick in.
I’m thinking of throwing in some eggplant. It really shrinks to nothing after being cooked and I might need lots of it.
I’ll need some cheddar to cut up and sour cream that I’ll buy tomorrow as condiments for the chili/rice.
September 25, 2008
After I walkout of my class at 7:30.T A switch just flicks in my head and I just end up having the urge to do something because it’s the “weekend” since I only have class at 2:00 on Friday, so it basically can count as a three day weekend for me.
I get back and sit on Stickam for a bit. On a usual day, I’d just watch some TV, sit on Stickam, and end up going to sleep. However, it’s the “weekend” so I jjust can sit there. I drink 4-6 cups of coffee out of boredom and it gets me really jittery. I actually look up how to make hard cider, since I’m out of alcohol, I plan on buying the ingredients tomorrow to make my own alcohol, apple cider, yeast and sugar.
I end up getting the idea that I should go to the Russian liquor store that doesn’t card and stuff. I even dress up into a button up so I look older. It’s a good coincidence that I haven’t shaved for the past few days too. My chalked ID has worked twice at a bar, so I hope if it comes to it, it works at the liquor store too. I look around and grab a plastic handle of vodka for $18.50. The guy doesn’t even card me! I tip the $1.50 change into the jar. A quid pro quo kind of move. Hopefully, I can consistently use this place.
It’s so great. It’s literally a top three moment in life. I celebrate and give a few people calls like Miah and Jenn. I get back work on my vodka and Diet Coke. It’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten since 3-4:00. I Stickam a bunch, going out for a few smokes, and stuff. After I’m done drinking, I have myself a roast beef, garlic cheddar on rye with honey mustard.
Writing about Privileged in the middle of the night:
If you guys don’t know “Privileged,” there’s an incredible moment where I just had to laugh at. There tutor (main character) is worried about her “tutee” (not sure if that’s word) being held back a year because of her grades. The “tutee” says that she might not get good grades no matter how hard she tries. The tutor responds, “That’s like not going out with guys because you worry they’ll cheat on you or not writing because you’re worried that you’ll never get published (the tutor is a struggling writer).” The girl responds, “Are you talking about the Sex and the City? I loved the movie, but I’m not sure what you’re talking about.” It’s this off tempo joke is what makes me absolutely love Casablanca. The tutor is really worried about the girl’s future and sets an extremely dramatic tone in the scene, yet the reply throws everything off and just works so well with the juxtaposition. I guess most/some might not find it funny, but it’s exactly my kind of humor and I even stopped the show to write almost 200 words about a little thing like this. In the end, the tutor explains you can’t not try because you’ll never know what the outcome will be.
I end up passing out by 5:00 for class the next day.
September 26, 2008
I sit around for most of the day. Hasan tells me to go back, but it doesn’t seem worth it if I hang out in the city instead. Also, they’re supposed to be coming into the city tomorrow anyway. Evan is unreachable for such a long time, but by 12:00, he’s almost ready and stuff and we’re going to a bar. Lets see where the night takes us.
We meet up and go to the bar that is near us. It’s one that I’ve been to three times already and the people that Evan knows are there. It turns out that I guess the people are up to other stuff and only a few of the guys are there. We only stay there for a while until the two of us walk with Karthik back to his place to hang out.
The walk back, he’s super drunk and has the flyest vomiting that I’ve ever seen. At one point, he slows down a bit and vomits onto some trash bags. I didn’t even know it was him and I think it’s something falling from the sky. He then throws up in front of him while he’s still walking and it doesn’t even get on him. He does a good job being so slick about it.
We go into his room and sit around listening to hip hop. We wait there for a while until Boris will come back because it has his weed locked up. We chill there for a while until I realize that I’m pretty much sober. We then go out to get food because Boris is on his way back eventually. Evan and Karthik get some chicken gyro shit.
On the walk back, Evan says that he needs to go sleep and goes back. Karthik invites to me to stay and hang even though Evan is going back. That’s cool. Boris is back we he rolls a fast ass joint. I only take 1 hit of it and I’m getting there. It turns out there is Coors Light in the fridge so I grab it and finish almost a 40. We then go a few doors down to Derick’s place. He has some people over and he rolls a blunt. I don’t have any of it and I end up leaving soon after that. It’s good that I got to hang out tonight and did it even though Evan left.
September 27, 2008
It’s Saturday and people end up coming into the city. I have a few drinks of my vodka until I meet up with Bolanos, Josh, CNF, and Atron. We go to the liquor store and they pick up a bottle of rum. It’s 10:30ish by now and I’m really paranoid having people over. The woman has her like 4 year old kid over and us guys are usually loud and especially with drink, which I would prefer didn’t somehow get back to mom.
We’re good about it and up leaving my place by 11:20ish. We meet up with Evan in front of his place and walk around to find a place to go. We end up going to a bar that’s near NYU campus. Atron’s ID is bad and he can’t get in. We then walk around for a while with nowhere to go. We end up walking over to Tuck Shop.
Then, Atron and Evan go off to get weed from Boris. CNF, Josh, and I hang around for a bit. We find a bar that’s a block away from me and we all are able to get in. CNF finds out that he’s lost his keys, so we run back to my place to look for them. Luckily, he finds them and we go back to the bar to grab a beer.
We tell Atron to go there because he’ll be a good wing, but he ends up again not being able to get in. I guess the city is rougher than we though. They end up walking or subwaying back to Penn by 2:30 to catch the 3:19. It’s still relatively early and I have noting to do so I end up speaking to one of my Stickam friends outside for an hour or so until I head back in.
September 28, 2008
I wake up at 4:00 and feel a bit funny. Some of it is from the fact that I probably smoked near a pack the night before. I eat and go on Stickam. Someone mentions they’ve pulled an all nighter of drinking. I decide to copy and start drinking at 5PM out of boredom. I stay that way until 2:00 when I sleep. Now that’s a fuckin long day of drinking.
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