first public christmas tree sighting

Bloomberg building

who ate lots?

after 1 hour of cooking



after almost 3 hours of cooking



after "the flip"



after 4 1/2 hours cooking... done!!



YUM!

happy thanksgiving!

sorry, i can't be bothered to straighten these things in the scanner or with photoshop... !

day off

really sunny, but really chilly!!



lunch at clinton street bakery



huevos rancheros for me, omelette for josh and shared salad



record shopping at gimme gimme records



i wanted to do more, but was too cold. will be out again tomorrow... i'm not used
to winter so soon. who's ready for Thanksgiving?

the Met

i went to the met a couple weekends ago... to see the Morandi exhibit. The show is really beautiful, but i had issues with the space. The space is shaped like a donut and so, it was never clear where the show 'begins'. Also, the walls were covered with a beige-y fabric, that the paintings were hung on, but for some there was an additional fabric covered 'stretcher' that the paintings were hung on, and therefore, i guess, brought out different colors in the painting. I thought it was more distracting and awkward than good.



anyway,i wandered through the french period rooms, because i wanted to compare the Versailles experience... well, it doesn't compare, obviously, but the advantages of not being at versailles, is that i was the only one in most of these rooms....

And, they have quivering fake candle-bulbs.



it's hard to explain, but the entire blub, moves, not just the filament. no one has believed me yet... i know. it sounds crazy. and it's a bit Disney Haunted Mansion for my taste, but it's kind of a neat technology!

cats for obama

how did i ever miss cats for obama??!!

shopping

thanks to tommy, i'm completely immersed in reading (looking at) Sonya's Shopping Manual. Unfortunately/fortunately it is written in Japanese, so this will be a good reason to really buckle down and practice my kanji-reading.

speaking of shopping, i'm already tired of christmas tv commercials. Also, i am predicting a not-so-festive christmas this year... just me personally. why, you ask? well, i think it's gonna get here before i am ready, and i'm gonna be scrambling around shopping like a crazy person, and then... i'll be too tired for the actual holiday. This basically happens every year, except that this year, i am anticipating this to all happen, so, maybe i won't be so surprised.

am i crazy yet?



the Metropolitan Museum of Art getting ready for the holidays

getting older?

i'm not feeling a day older.... in fact, i am really enjoying the possibilities of being a little crazy and forgetful (not that all old people are crazy and forgetful, but you know what i mean). it's already trickled in, but i feel like i am at the 'limbo' stage of young vs. old. Maybe there will always be a mixture of young vs. old in everything (especially the way i dress) and that's okay too, right?

so, on the 'young' theme... i have been playing little big planet. A gift from J. It's a wild game, and i'm not so good at it (a lot of timing-your-jumps-perfectly situations that i am not patient enough for) but it is so fun to dress up your character, and, i've done wonders with the interior decoration of my 'pod'.

breakfast this morning

Siggi's yogurt w/honey

dinner tonight

instant mapo dofu. it was quite good.

hmmmm... not accurate

gender analyzer

more pictures from Versailles

Josh seems to think that these pictures look funny because the rolls of film have been X-Ray-ed several times at airport security.... they are strangely "old-looking"... i like the effect, they look dreamy and kind of like a distant memory. It was also kind of foggy/hazy when we were there... so it isn't too far off.

on a separate note: i had purchased an audio book to listen to during my travels, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I finished it, really enjoyed the book... but was puzzled when I went to the website and was reading reviews and stuff... and some things didn't make sense. Well, i just looked at my Audible playlist and low and behold... i listened to part 2 and part 3 and somehow managed to not download part 1.

i guess i am going to read/listen to this again. maybe i'll buy the physical book this time...