i wanna fall in love tonight
i went down to nyc this past weekend for a bit of fashion week happenings. sadly, it's not as exciting as it sounds. i pretty much just hung out in a fancy hotel for the weekend showing our clothing line to various buyers. i definitely didn't get to check out any runway shows or sneak into the tent at bryant park, but such is life. perhaps next time. we're definitely going back in february and maybe next time around, the connections will be there to obtain some tickets. that sure would be nice.
anyway, aside from working, i got to hang out with dr dirt. we got dinner on friday night around her house and checked out the bar scene. sadly, there seemed to be a dearth of hawkeyes. her friend met up with us. dr dirt called it a night kind of early, but her friend and i stayed out. a little too late for me, unfortunately. i realized it was 3AM and kind of had to run out, but even that didn't help, as i awoke to my boss coming into my room the next morning and waking me up about 30 minutes prior to opening. whoops! that evening (sat night) i went out to dinner with my boss and his artist friend, po kim. apparently, this guy is known as one of korea's "living national treasures". he's a pretty amazing artist and has been doing it all for 60+ years now. he and his wife own a building in a city and use the top floor as living space, but have a studio in another floor and are currently working on creating a museum/gallery for other artist (what's the difference? whether the work is for sale or not?) on one of the lower floors. it's amazing to me because they are both over 90 years old and still fairly sprightly and active. and totally an adorable couple. then sunday night, dr dirt made dinner for her roommates and me and we worked on creating inspirational/focus posters. essentially, we cut out pictures, words and phrases from magazines depicting the direction we want to be moving in our lives. i think it was a good activity. i didn't put my collage together since i had to travel back, but i plan on doing that soon.
upon returning to boston, i went over to miracle to meet up with nigel who was in town for a short time for work. we caught up as best as possible and i heard about his recently expeditions doing the africa rally. pretty awesome stuff. i miss him like crazy, but it sounds like he's doing well for himself, which makes me really happy.
i went out to karaoke tonight as a celebration for being back, and because you know, that's my thing. it was busier than i thought it was going to be, which was a bummer since i only got one song in and it sucked balls. for future reference, sweetness just doesn't make a good karaoke song. the rockingness of it gets lost somehow. sadness. anyway, it was great because i ran into one of my karaoke buddies that i hadn't seen in a long time there, unexpectedly. she is really awesome and i should make more of an effort to hang out with her outside of singing at bars. we're hopefully going to get together next weekend. i also met an austrian who is doing some doctoral work at mit. of course he's an engineer. seriously, you could line up a hundred guys with only one of them being an engineer and that is the one i would pick to talk to. ridiculous. anyway, we chatted a bit before the bar closed and it was fairly entertaining. so maybe i'll see him again.
i continue to be amazed at how easy it is to talk to guys that aren't the neurologist. this is leading me more and more to think that i should just end things. i mean, why put effort into something that probably isn't going to go anywhere? although, there is also part of me that wonders if i'm meeting other people because i have this semi-attachment? ugh, stupid boys. and now, i've totally broken my rule of not hanging out with the neurologist when i could be meeting guys that i really connect with because i invited him to some parties this weekend. blarg. it really is too much work to keep this charade up. perhaps, i will have the balls to do something about it soon.
probably not though.
anyway, aside from working, i got to hang out with dr dirt. we got dinner on friday night around her house and checked out the bar scene. sadly, there seemed to be a dearth of hawkeyes. her friend met up with us. dr dirt called it a night kind of early, but her friend and i stayed out. a little too late for me, unfortunately. i realized it was 3AM and kind of had to run out, but even that didn't help, as i awoke to my boss coming into my room the next morning and waking me up about 30 minutes prior to opening. whoops! that evening (sat night) i went out to dinner with my boss and his artist friend, po kim. apparently, this guy is known as one of korea's "living national treasures". he's a pretty amazing artist and has been doing it all for 60+ years now. he and his wife own a building in a city and use the top floor as living space, but have a studio in another floor and are currently working on creating a museum/gallery for other artist (what's the difference? whether the work is for sale or not?) on one of the lower floors. it's amazing to me because they are both over 90 years old and still fairly sprightly and active. and totally an adorable couple. then sunday night, dr dirt made dinner for her roommates and me and we worked on creating inspirational/focus posters. essentially, we cut out pictures, words and phrases from magazines depicting the direction we want to be moving in our lives. i think it was a good activity. i didn't put my collage together since i had to travel back, but i plan on doing that soon.
upon returning to boston, i went over to miracle to meet up with nigel who was in town for a short time for work. we caught up as best as possible and i heard about his recently expeditions doing the africa rally. pretty awesome stuff. i miss him like crazy, but it sounds like he's doing well for himself, which makes me really happy.
i went out to karaoke tonight as a celebration for being back, and because you know, that's my thing. it was busier than i thought it was going to be, which was a bummer since i only got one song in and it sucked balls. for future reference, sweetness just doesn't make a good karaoke song. the rockingness of it gets lost somehow. sadness. anyway, it was great because i ran into one of my karaoke buddies that i hadn't seen in a long time there, unexpectedly. she is really awesome and i should make more of an effort to hang out with her outside of singing at bars. we're hopefully going to get together next weekend. i also met an austrian who is doing some doctoral work at mit. of course he's an engineer. seriously, you could line up a hundred guys with only one of them being an engineer and that is the one i would pick to talk to. ridiculous. anyway, we chatted a bit before the bar closed and it was fairly entertaining. so maybe i'll see him again.
i continue to be amazed at how easy it is to talk to guys that aren't the neurologist. this is leading me more and more to think that i should just end things. i mean, why put effort into something that probably isn't going to go anywhere? although, there is also part of me that wonders if i'm meeting other people because i have this semi-attachment? ugh, stupid boys. and now, i've totally broken my rule of not hanging out with the neurologist when i could be meeting guys that i really connect with because i invited him to some parties this weekend. blarg. it really is too much work to keep this charade up. perhaps, i will have the balls to do something about it soon.
probably not though.