Ah, It's Good To Be Back

I haven't been in NYC for a weekend since the middle of June. I decided this weekend that I would not go anywhere, because of errands and just a general need to relax. I went as far as The Upper East Side. I walked around. I bought things. I ate things. I witnesses fights. I watched things. I talked to people. Ah, it's good to be back.

And here are, like the old days, 30 things from this weekend:

1.Enjoyed watching Little Miss Sunshine alone after being cancelled on for the zillionth time in a row by JH, who I may have to de-friend because dear god, you do not cancel because the weather is nice and because that makes you want to stay in! Wtf!? (Sidenote: run out and see this movie immediately – it is absurd but darling, and caused the normally jaded NYC audience to erupt in a standing ovation at its conclusion – seriously – rush out – NOW!)

2.Talked to Brother and admired again what a big heart he has.

3.Amish Market again, this time for strawberries and yes I bought the pre-cut ones even though they are more expensive because they just look so strawberry juice-y when they’re cut!

4.Reunited! and he handed me an orange Kit Kat as a souvenir and I gushed.

5.Laughed and laughed at the moustache that I coerced into existence. He didn't think it was funny, but kept it for a day because I did.

6.Repeatedly encountered and was shocked by scary pile of string or other debris outside apartment door that bears uncanny resemblance to a dead miniature octopus (miniature dead octopus?).

7.Phone call that first annoyed but then produced optimism when it became “Let’s not have any more conversations like this…” Yes, let’s not, ever, and I mean it.

8.Amazing exhibit at ICP with R, who is up for anything unlike JH (his ex) and arrived at a moment’s notice. We were both inspired.

9.Bought exhibited-related book at ICP despite ambitious yet somewhat successful attempts at the saving of money (but I am a member! and therefore get 10% off! that’s a whole $5, folks!).

10.Drank water and ate banana/blueberry/mascarpone tart while R drank Malbec and ate vegetables in the courtyard.

11.Acquired new keyboard from The Upper East Side and admired the view and the carpet.

12.Witnessed two (heat-related? racially motivated? insane person-instigated?) subway fights break out at the exact same moment on opposite ends of the train car! We in the middle could only laugh at the absurdity despite the worry.

13.Laughed at moustache again and wondered about its magical powers.

14.Saw MC Chris with an audience of other nerds at UCB.

15.Waited too long for good enough Mexican food.

16.Watched horrid TV at 3 am because of mood and inability to sleep and feeling lonely and upset and confused and tense.

17.Requested a hug.

18.Missed brunch due to sleeping too late due to having finally fallen asleep at approximately 5:30 am.

19.Ate banana and nothing else due to late Mexican food, and was grateful that brunch didn’t happen.

20.Bought fabulously complicated bounce flash with American Express gift check from work that didn’t quite cover the costs.

21.Walked aimlessly and ended up at movie theater watching My Super Ex-Girlfriend in the front row with a bunch of other people who were by themselves and who felt the need to talk to me, which was actually quite endearing despite my not being a movie-talker.

22.Made phone call I didn’t want to make and became agitated.

23.Post-phone call sitting-on-stoop while crying and eliciting sympathetic stares from neighborhood passers-by while overcome with incomprehensible desire not to be in my apartment.

24.Made phone call that helped immensely and I am so proud of what an amazing person she has grown up to be. I can’t imagine life without her.

25.Fixed feelings from #20 by repeating phone call, and was honest with him for the first time in my life and cried to him for the first time in my life and said “I need to feel like I am important to you for once because I don’t want to be out of your life.”

26.Cried in the windowsill, the location of best crying (hiding behind a curtain) and best cell phone reception.

27.Ate fondue too late (too many phone calls, which is the story of my life these days) after having only eaten banana all day.

28.He revised and earned a kiss and apology after saying “What I mean to say is that I’m worried that the relationship might be damaged by your not involving me and I don’t want it to be” after being accusatory and confrontational and eliciting confusion.

29.Jokes, wine, tears, honesty.

30.Sharing apple movie trailers in bed and saying “Well, I have to live at least until July 2007 because of The Transformers movie.”