new york city? get a rope.
rob picked me up in beloit, bags and all, and we went to chicago and bought sparks and vodka (not originally intending to mix the two later in the night), and met up the chicagoans at the new china buffet. the food was aiight. the mac and cheese was mediocre. and i never saw the pizza until we were leaving, well after i had developed an unfounded obsession with finding it. also tjk got called in to do a liver transplant and none of us thought we'd see him again until next year.
after dinner, rob and soup and i (aka the beloiters) went to jim wakefield's new year's eve party, which was themed "bad porn." (see top photo.) grape soda karl had an amazing moustache. seriously. i'm pretty sure we talked about it for the bulk of our short stay at the party. we had to make a quick escape because 1) rob was arguing anti-union viewpoints with union organizers (probably a bad idea) and 2) we had another party to get to. soup and i finished a sparks, rob drank his vodka-sparks cocktail, and this other guy talked to me very LOUDLY about how he liked to make a drink called the "sparkplug" which sounded overly complicated and totally not his own creation.
we finally got to doc dayne's a bit after 11pm, where we quickly learned that we were not the only revelers who thought to pick up the $9 six-pack of sparks that were all over the city. we watched the ball drop on tv (totally anticlimactic) and danced to whatever was playing on the ipods. somewhere along the course of the night, the girls started doing backbends and other yoga moves on the dancefloor aka dan's very nice rug. also there were pull-ups. and also i would like to make a special mention of the delicious cheesecake things that virginia made, that were excellent and probably fattening.
i think there may have been about 10 of us piled into a minivan cab after the party. minivans are not supposed to hold 10 people.
the next morning, zaid and amelia (who had the foresight to stock up on breakfast supplies the evening before), provided us with a make-it-yo-damn-self post-new-year's brunch. it really was great. we had omelettes and bagels and fruit and coffee and juice and potatoes and chocolate and pistachios. then we watched the packers beat the seahawk's second string, which would have been a bit unfulfilling if i had cared. i remember favre waving to the crowd at the end of the game, as if to say "thanks for the memories, now i'm retiring." even though he hasn't said that yet.
lazy sunday (not that lazy sunday) continued, we attempted to go see a movie but parking was nuts and the line for the box office was nuts, so we went to blockbuster and rented this and disc one of this and then we also rented this atrocity, which was selected for its incredibly stupid packaging and the fact that it was in the "horror" section. we figured it'd be good for a few laughs. (it wasn't. we fast forwarded through a large portion of the movie and suddenly were faced with the closing credits. we should have expected as much from a horror movie about genetically altered crops. or something.)
i woke up monday morning, took the blue line to o'hare, met up with fellow beloiter amanda for breakfast at wolfgang puck's chateau d'prices exorbitant in the B gate pavilion (my flight was at 9am, hers was at 10am.. we totally planned to meet up, it wasn't random). i paid $5 for a bottled water and a thing of yogurt. then i flew back to new york city, had an interview at st. vincent's yesterday for prelim/transitional (it looks to be a great program, i'm going to rank it very highly, plus it's located in greenwich village), and went to TING HUA for dinner last night.
today i've got off of interviews (tomorrow is NYU) and so does rodbard. so we're going to try to do the double-dip and watch 2 movies for the price of one downtown. one of them may or may not be the ringer. the other one might be munich.
i sympathize with the miners' families in west virgnia, but according to CNN, nothing else has happened in the world for the past 2 hours.
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That's like the time I watched "Trembling Before G-d" and "Dude Where's My Car?" back to back. Levity's the new irony!
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That's like the time I watched "Trembling Before G-d" and "Dude Where's My Car?" back to back. Levity's the new irony!
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ewpz. so nice i said it twice!
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drop some science: