Weekend

The NYSE.

Great week. Kind of a blah weekend. I guess I have 10 more hours to
make it great. Off I go.

time

i need more time. but i won't get it. with the limited time that i have, i find it a challenge to pursue activities outside a streamlined core: work, study, lift/run, go out. i have made strides towards engaging in more offbeat activities outside of this core (see below), to break up the routine of work life - i enjoy my work life, but i hate routine and simplicity as ideas. anyway, i would argue that this focus on how to allocate my time and energy will lead me to strip out waste of these resources. this is a good thing.

over the course of my life there have been several watershed moments where my collision with a piece of work, a body of thought, or a mindframe of interpretation has altered the way i perceive and look at the world. one of the major moments (probably the only one i can clearly pin down) is my time spent studying economics in college. thanks to my wonderful professors. optimizing allocation to maximize utility... BRILLIANT.

other today notes:
super magic fingers massage parlor
buying more clothes

My Saturday night

I live for this - underground art shows, then late late dinners in clandestine restaurants with longtime friends, and then going to house parties and getting hit on. LOVE IT

OUT

rihanna - umbrella
stevie wonder - my cherie amour
cake - love you madly
madeleine peyroux - dance me to the end of love
raphael saadiq - just me and you

This is good

Cheese and grapes. Brilliant.

Life as a disaffected child of privilege

Yesterday was such an odd day. For a large part of the day I failed to accomplish anything meaningful, whatever that means. In the afternoon I met up with my good friend Zizzle at the 59th St Rec Center to do some rock climbing. That neighborhood is a wasteland. Nothing about it engenders any kind of happiness or optimism at all. It's nothing but bleak gray old run down buildings and destitute car lots. The Rec Center itself is a claustrophobic ancient relic of a gymish nature. After climbing several narrow staircases that looked like they belonged in a (New York City) public school, we arrived at this medium-sized room with skylight two stories up. The floridly painted walls were covered in little handholds and long ropes dangled from the ceiling to the floor. The space itself reminded me of a small church, with its high walls and light streaming in and casting stretched shadows throughout the space. Despite the large number of hipsters getting their climb on, and the harness cutting into my nuts, I enjoyed the experience very much.

In the evening I traveled with my good friend Bobbito to the Financial District for a loft party where everyone was a semester out of college. I failed to close any of the large number of gorgeous Indian girls there. They all remained standing with bad posture, one arm folded clutching their clutches under other arm, which clutched a cigarette and red solo cup. While listening to a short plain Allison, I spaced out and took in the towering buildings. While I enjoy the wider streets of the FinDis, I realized that there is just something so unnatural about the built environment in the neighborhood. Whether through existential crisis or excessive drug use, I started feeling a giant pile of angst crumpling inside my chest like a solo cup. The walls and floors began to undulate and ripple like granite lakes.

God help me.

the special one

the rock

i really enjoy the company of my closest friends from high school. trinity swim meet, bobbito's apt, rock-climbing with zizzle. i should take more photos - writing about things is difficult when my forearms have been blasted from hanging onto a square inch of fake rock.

i WILL take more photos. i also WILL stop floating along and move through life with purpose.

read this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars

http://nymag.com/news/features/42595/

poof, i'm gone

Wollongong

Xmas

South Ferry

2008

things that are/will be superb

posting blog entries via email from my mobile (see below)
murdering NASD exams
talking to people without wanting anything from them
new shoes. lots of them. already.
dressing like a prick and being loved for it
an overload of athletics
venezia
the games of the 29th olympiad
warm weather, thanks to both global warming and natural progression of the seasons
slaying CFA1 and laughing about it afterwards
attending offbeat underground events with open-minded friends
allocating time efficiently thereby increasing productivity in all facets of life
keeping a positive outlook
offsite
nation-building by me on the phone/internet
the dark knight starring christian bale and heath ledger
the concession
family, extended, immediate, and adopted

"it's a new year"
- clef

2007

Things that were great/monumental events

Aborted thesis
Academic collapse
Fogg events - secret rooms
Playing a lot of Super Smash Bros
Chelsea football in Eliot
Losing $300 on an Indian reservation
The Cape
Dover garden parties
Commencement speeches - twin Bill
Tavern
Kyoto
Banco de Lingo
Jenn's birthday
Hurstville
Al-Qahirah
Manly
Wollongong
Wentworth Falls - soaked
Maria - future

locale

i am here.