February 2009 Archives

Circlesquare - Dancers from Bienvenido Cruz on Vimeo.

I spent this year's Hallmark holiday with my friend Banana at the movies. We sidestepped the ridiculous line to see He's Just Not That Into You to see Taken. It was sufficiently fun and badass (though lacking the wonderful scene with the nails in the commercials) and that was almost enough to ease the bitterness of movie tickets being $12 nowadays. Now I remember why I go to the movie theater like once a year. Perhaps almost 28 is long enough to finally experience this movie date thing that other people seem to do. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. Afterwards, we successfully sidestepped couples grabbing burgers at a diner, then drinking at semi-divey Gramercy area bar. Good night overall.

I meant to go upstate for the day, keeping with my new getting out of town more often mantra, but that didn't work out so well. Instead of cleaned out my fridge and danced around the house to reggae. Life is so exciting right now!

Skeletons - The Masks

I've been strangely keeping myself busy as unemployment has rolled on. It'll be a month tomorrow and I've limped past previous record of having a new job in 3 weeks' time. The going is a little slower this time around, but then again, I haven't been trying as hard either. A nice money cushion will do that to you. Plus I was dying for some time off. I've got bad robot workaholic tendencies.

I went to the grad school interview last week and the results are inconclusive. In about a month, I should find out if I'm in or not, so I'm trying to push it out of my mind. It was a trip having to fill out all the financial aid forms this time around since I'm an independent student or whatever. I definitely wanted to be magically transported back to high school since the government is under the impression I can devote a 1/3 of last year's salary to paying for school (they're nuts!).

DC and all the inauguration madness was great. I kinda miss that town and it was fun to stroll around as an actual adult. One of the first thing I saw in city limits was my old AU program dorm and I let myself go down memory lane a bit. A was my gracious host and we dragged each other all over. Being on the mall, though way far from the action and watching on the Jumbotron in the freezing cold, was pretty epic and I got to live out of my 02 fantasy of going to the Eighteenth Street Lounge (as awesome as I knew it would be). Getting out of town was surprisingly nice and painless. I'm that much more excited to go to WMC in March now because I've broken the streak of out of town disasters (I hope).

One of my resolutions for the year is to update here more. Once or twice a month is really lame compared to what it used to be like. It's kinda tough though because I just lack that oversharing compulsion of the old days, but I still think I can do interesting stuff here. We shall see. Meanwhile, I've got a newish blog I've been playing around with. It's all about bizarro ads that I've run into. It's a fun little distraction besides cyber window shopping (want!).