As my birthday present, I had requested that Christian get us tickets to Macbeth at Lincoln Center, since it was starring one of my favorite actors, Ethan Hawke. We succeeded and planned a whole evening in the city for last night ( Read more... )

I'm scheduled to speak at CANT this week, which is running from Tuesday to Friday. I had planned on heading down from New Haven Tuesday morning and then going to stay at my parents' house in NJ for the week. But now with the derailed Metro North train, all the train service down to NYC has been suspended indefinitely. I told the organizer I might ( Read more... )

One of my friends just sent me this email, so I'm passing it on to people who are interested:

Does anyone know of anyone looking for a place in Brooklyn for the Summer ( Read more... )

Christian and I headed into NYC today to meet up with my college roommate Brent, who was in town on vacation with his new girlfriend Sook. We had a tasty lunch at a sushi restaurant near Grand Central that Christian and I had once tried before and enjoyed. Once again, we were the only ones in there for more than half our meal, which is weird since ( Read more... )

Saturday, Christian and I took the train into NYC to make the most of my month off from teaching and our train passes that expire in April. We also had business to attend to: exchanging clothes from the upscale clothing chain I had bought Christian presents at in Boston. It turns out the salesman in Boston was a douche: I told him Christian's next ( Read more... )

This morning we finished packing all our stuff and headed down to NJ, accidentally forgetting to take out the kitchen trash before we left. Oops! Our apartment's going to be all stinky when I get back on Sunday. We drove in separate cars: me in our new one and Christian in the one we've been borrowing from my parents. I led the way in our caravan ( Read more... )

We did it. We successfully finished our cross-country move. We dropped off the truck this afternoon in my parents' town in NJ and then walked back to their house (it was only a couple blocks). The walk back felt so relieving: there was nothing we were attached to, no obligations or sources of stress. And it certainly was a lot of stress, especially ( Read more... )

Today was an interesting day. We went into NYC around noon and met with rdore and gustavolacerda at the Port Authority. I hadn't seen Richard in about a year, but this was only the second time Gustavo and I had ever met. The first time was six years ago in Amsterdam, after I had gotten to know him over LJ (through easwaran?, himself someone I met first through LJ). In the ( Read more... )

In compensation for our expertise in selecting a computer and negotiating, my dad offered to drive us into NYC Wednesday evening so we could meet up with our friends for dinner. We were meeting tomtomtomtomtom and his gf Emily and Christian's ex Lawrence and his new bf Chris at an Italian restaurant Tom and his gf had discovered called Bianca. My dad insisted on ( Read more... )

Yesterday Christian and I drove down to Baltimore to see our friends Brianna (btblue) and her husband Noah. We wanted to give them a belated wedding present in person: something serious and something humorous. I can't wait to hear the intellectually stimulating reviews of Women's Studies from them after Christmas (Brianna was a gender studies major in ( Read more... )