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 Well, I think I've just heard everything I'll ever need to hear. Someone I know, a mutual friend if you will, recently got engaged! Now that's always good news. Being young and in love and ready to settle down, that's great. Except... they met on the World of Warcraft. Apparently they've only met for a week in person; beyond that, the relationship has been through, well, warcrafting. Let that sink in for a moment. Because my reaction was mixture of amusement and "come again?" I've read about these kinds of things but I've never actually (sort of) known someone who's really going through with it. Apparently he's moving to the city for her, and, well... best wishes to them?  YES! Did you guys watch The Office yesterday night? It started with a bang and it was just so satisfying and hilarious. And cute. I've missed this show so much. Hurray, it's back!  - Type in the Toronto subway - Animated history of the NYC subway - Wes Anderson's AT&T commercials (article) - Best Mastercard commercial, ever - Slideshow of President Ahmadinejad's visit (article) - Monks and the military: what will the junta do? (Previously: Lists, part 3)  Some people yearn for human contact, others just want to lead a solitary life. I think I fall in the latter. Is that bad or is that good? I don't know. I think I'm just built differently from most. A friend of mine is having a tough time dealing with a mostly solitary life of working 9 to 5 and going about her everyday life. She likes having people around her, having human contact. Maybe I'm just so surrounded by people all the time that I truly don't know what it's like to really be alone. But I feel like I do. I feel like I do know what it's like to be alone because I choose to be a lot. I'm not a loner or anything, but I like those little moments I have to myself. Sometimes I wish I had more of those. But I guess choosing to be alone is different from... becoming alone. When it just happens, without rhyme or reason. Suddenly, you're alone and you don't want to be. And now I think I see why she's having a tough time. Sometimes it's difficult trying to see from another perspective. I try really hard to see it. Sometimes I don't, sometimes I do. And when I don't, I get frustrated because I don't understand why someone is feeling a certain way and acting in that way. I don't know why I have to figure these things out, but I do. I think it's like... it's like trying to solve a math problem. We each have a different way of figuring it out, and when you can't wrap your head around a different approach, you get frustrated because you want to understand how to do it in another way and why it also works. At any rate, sometimes the only perspective is to really be there (thanks, Charlie). Maybe I'll find out soon enough.  [Standing on line at the local Duane Reade] Me: (lets elderly man pass in front of me to exit) Elderly man: (stops and looks at me) "You're beautiful!" Me: (startled) "Oh! Thank you!" Elderly man: "You look young. How old are you? 16? 18?" Me: "Actually, I'm twenty-something..." Elderly man: "Twenty-something?! You're going to look like a baby when you're 30!" Me: (laughs) Elderly man: "Well, have a nice day." Me: "You, too." Mister, you just made my day.  My favorite game: Set. Trivial Pursuit is a very close second. What's your favorite game?  I've been waiting for months to see Helvetica, and I finally got to see it today (yay)! It was quite wonderful. I love typography and all things design, so it was insightful and really visually appealing. I liked the guy pointing at all the signs and just everyone they interviewed. Although, I kind of wished they interviewed a normal everyday person to get their perspective but it was still good nonetheless. The soundtrack was great, and I'm on a mission to find it. The band El Ten Eleven did a lot of the music, so that's neat. Afterwards, I grabbed lunch with Tall-J and Hip-C. Next to our table was this really awkward date. Well, at least I thought it was awkward. They didn't seem to be talking very much, and the guy was mostly trying to make conversation. Anyway, when the girl left to go to the restroom, the guy talked to us a bit. (I was playing with Hip-C's iPhone and that somehow always sparks a conversation.) Soon after the girl returned from the restroom, they left. I wandered into a local stationery store and found really awesome gift wrapping paper: maps! There was one with the map of the world, map of NYC, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London, the London Underground... and it was gift wrapping paper! Normally maps like these are more expensive but since it wrapping paper, it was pretty cheap. I bought myself a map of the London Underground, and it's currently hanging with (ha!) my Keep Calm and Carry On poster. Maybe I'll buy the Helvetica film poster, too. So how was your day?  Is love when your heart beats a little faster when you see that certain someone? Or when you get flustered? Or is it when you feel at home when you're with that someone? I don't know. I'm just feeling a little more tired than I should be at the moment.   Oh, lord. Did you see it? Did you see Britney's MTV VMA performance? Watch it. Relive how painful it was to watch. It was embarrassingly awful! My friends and I were looking at each other going, "What is she doing!?" She looked so uncomfortable and probably mortified by the end of it. 50 Cent's expression was priceless. He was so bewildered. Just... wow. Let the bashing begin: NYTimes | BBC News | CNN | People  So I was rearranging my feeds in Bloglines just now, and I thought that I had moved all my daily reads out of the folder. Thinking that folder was now empty, I deleted it. And gone were all my daily reads. This is not good, you guys. I can't remember every single blog I was subscribed to that I read on the regular. I guess I'll try my best to piece it back together. At least my other feeds are still there...  Sometimes I forget how wonderful this city is. Sometimes I choose to forget how chaotic it can be. As I sit listening to the conversations surround me in the park, I stare into the vast skyline filled with buildings and a hint of golden sunlight as the sun sets. I'm worn and weary but always the same: this city breathes life and I take it as I go. (I apologize for any wonkiness my comments system gives you when you comment. It's been acting a little strange so pardon its attitude. I'll see what's wrong or upgrade soon!) |
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Hi, my name is Amy. Be well, and say hello!
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