RWANDA

Okay, folks, it's finally here. I head off to Rwanda tomorrow, and I'll be back to New York on Thursday the 22nd. I'll pretty much be unreachable, so I'll catch up with y'all when I return.

I try to be manly. When people freak out about snakes, rats, spiders, etc.. I laugh and tease them for being like little baby girls. And, to be honest, those things really don't bug me for the most part.

But watching a very large spider come bolting out from under my bed and scurry across my floor just really jeebed me out bigtime.

I did it on myspace and now I'm doing it here ( Read more... )

I just had one of my top five most frightening moments in New York. I've lived in Williamsburg for a year now and am just now getting to know the trendy part of it. Tonight I went over to some friends' place and got pretty lost (stupid named streets). No more than five minutes from my street I found myself fully immersed in the middle of ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my room after after a horribly long day at work and Jeff comes home from the grocery store (the first time he's been out of the house all day). I hear "Wow!" from the kitchen. "Nick! This new low-fat Edy's Slow-Churned Rich 'n Creamy ice cream doesn't taste like low fat at all!" I turn around to look at him and give this overly- ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to hang out with Kim for the first time in a long long time. We went out to see Al, who I actually hadn't seen since last November. We went to this place that Kim had been a few times in the past, but apparently in recent times it had evolved into more of a gay destination. She and I went to the bar, I got an Amstel, and she got a ( Read more... )

I've established before that I live in the quasi-ghetto part of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Street corners laiden with congregating/loitering thugs are commonplace, but fortunately benign. I've never so much as been looked at sideways by anyone (though if anyone does we know there's sure to be a RUMBLE ( Read more... )

Okay, I've been back from Italy for over a month. Maybe it's about time I got those pics up....

http://public.fotki.com/misternickjones/italy/

Okay. I hate working out ( Read more... )