Perfect NYC Day

AF is still here visiting with me so we spent the entire day around the city. Except for the sunlight being so bright that I could barely keep my infected eyes with the swollen corneas open, it was a pretty-perfect day.

We went to the MOMA where we saw Tangled Alphabets which I thought was a great exhibit. Totally not what I normally like, but if I ever have money these are the type of things that I want in my mansion. Then I finally got to see Into the Sunset and honestly, I really didn't like it. It was curated by theme, not chronologically and it just didn't make sense and it was difficult to follow. I was not impressed.

Then we went down to Soho and ate at a fantastic Cuban restaurant that I love and then did some shopping. Eventually we met up with AF's high school roommate who briefly went to MHC with us, and that was nice. This girl is a little nutty, she's ADHD, but she's a good person. I guess she's kind of lonely in the city so she kept saying we should hang out. I like her and all and it would be nice to have someone to do crazy stuff with, but I'm not sure how long I could handle her. Evil as that sounds.

Tonight we had dinner at Rose Water, the place I went in April for restaurant week with LM. It was amazing again, their food is beyond. I had the spring onion soup as an appetizer and it was brilliant. Plus I even found a Chardonnay that I liked.

Old Friend

You might remember that a few weeks ago I read through my old Livejournal from my first and second years of college. While reading through the journal I came across all these people I had pushed to the back of my mind, one of them was this woman JC, who was a manager at the Gap when I worked there, but she's only a few years older than me. I looked her up on Facebook, we messaged back and forth, and that was kind of it.

Then, on Friday, I was walking to the movies, and I ran into her on the street. We chatted for a few minutes and said we should meet for drinks. So tonight we had drinks and it was really great. It's not often that I get to really talk to my friends from high school and college, it's always an email here, a Facebook message there and I never talk to anyone who worked at the Gap with me even though for several years some of these people were my good friends. I felt like I could talk honestly about work and my feelings on moving to the city and my experiences from years ago in a way that I just don't feel comfortable talking about with people I work with, even though those people also double as my friends. I think it's a conflict of interest I never realized and I'm going to have to think about it some more.

We had a great time and we're going to do it again. It just reminded me that I really to branch out.

And work is getting worse and worse. I don't know what to do. Or who to talk to. It just gets more and more frustrating.

More Madness

You can totally tell how exhausted I am by reading my posts. I went back through this past week just to see how things were shaping up and there is a definite difference on the posts where I've thought things through and I'm lucid and on the posts where I'm falling asleep as I type. 

This in an in-between post. 

I had a college friend contact me on Friday. I hadn't spoken to her since last summer, we kind of fell out of touch and she wrote me a Facebook message I never got around to answering and I wrote her an email around the holidays that she never answered. I had pretty much written off the relationship. But she sent me a text message saying she would be in the city this weekend, could we meet up. I responded sure and we made tentative plans for dinner Saturday night. Saturday rolls around and I hear from her once in the afternoon, answer her question and there hear nothing until around 9:30 when she asks if I want to meet around 11:30 about an hour away from my apartment for a drink. I say no. She then asks about brunch Sunday morning, I say sure, she tells me she'll call between 8 and 9 Sunday morning. Well I wake up at 8:30 and hear nothing, 9 still nothing, 9:30 nothing, 10:15 nothing. I decide screw this, I go get breakfast around 10:30. She called a little before 11, I ignored the call and then deleted her message without listening to it. Was this passive aggressive? I don't know, maybe. It just reached a point where I didn't want to deal with it. I don't feel like I need to chase people around to get them to hang out with me and I'm not into relationships that involve a lot of drama. My life is no different now than when I first heard from her on Friday. Nothing lost, nothing gained.

In terms of good Madness there was great basketball on today. I went to an amazing bar with about 50 (not joking) TVs. We sat at a booth where there were TVs hanging from the ceiling so we both had our own personal TVs to watch. Thankfully Pitt won (my friend is a big Pitt fan, but it's also good for my bracket). And then there were some really close games that went until the end. And my bracket has recovered nicely, I only missed 2 teams in the Sweet Sixteen.