A good day
Spent the sunny afternoon out on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Although I knew only a handful of people at first, it was nice to hang out on picnic blankets, throw around a frisbee, snack on junk food. Thank God, though, for friends you haven't seen in a long time--try a couple of years, in my case--and yet when you're together again, it's like a day hasn't passed. Those are among the best.
However, a downside of the day was that a baseball came out of nowhere and clocked me square on my bicep. I am still checking to see if I get a baseball-sized bruise...but at least it wasn't my head.
You know that book "Stuff White People Like"? While sitting out on the lawn and people-watching, I thought of another addition (that may or may not have already been added):
#999: Taking off nearly all your clothes at the merest hint of sunshine, in hopes of getting "tan." Honey, people in New York don't really tan.
I don't really have much else to post, except I have been meaning to link to my friends' travel blogs. They're awesome people, in my humble opinion, but they also get to go to awesomer (ok made that one up) places. My Norwegian friend Emily is doing a six-week trip overland trip from Kathmandu to Beijing, with a stop in the basecamp of Mt. Everest. My Mexican-American friend Danny has been in Senegal for the past year doing Peace Corps, but he recently went on a trip to Cairo, Egypt. And last but not least, my American yet very international friend Deion is approaching the last leg of his study abroad year in Sao Paolo, Brazil. So if you have a travel bug itch to scratch, their blogs are good places to start!