Random and Unconnected Thoughts
Thinking as I am paying my credit card bill that it looks good without my gym membership on it, but do I feel good; does my belly look good?
Wondering if people from New Jersey refer to, say Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, etc. simply as "Upstate". Just like they refer to NYC simply as "the City". I suspect they do.
New Jersey is an interesting State. Definitely much nicer than I ever imagined. I wonder, if and when, I ever leave it, will I defend it as veraciously as other people who are from or passed-through this State. One thing I will say is its "cities" suck (Newark, Trenton), but I'm not sure it needs a defining city. But without a defining city, the remainder of the cities/townships/towns seem merely suburbs of either Philly or "the City". Nothing wrong with that, per se, but it leaves it without externally-definable (a term I am making up right now) character and makes it more difficult to defend against those who have never been or only briefly passed through this State.
Pondering this past weekend. Conflicted about the highs and lows of it. Highs were very high, lows weren't really that low, but only considered low if I over-think things. If I were Bill Murray and it was Ground Hog Day, Sunday is a day that I'd do over and over and over again.
I am getting my "bottoms" (I'm not calling them bottoms --- the metal braces on the lower part of my mouth) put on tomorrow. I am not excited about how I will look.... I'm not excited about the pending headaches... I'm not excited about being awkward and getting food in them and all of the other complications that I cannot yet imagine that they will cause.... But I am excited about getting them and what I hope they will bring. I'm also getting the next installment of my "tops" (the invisalign) just as I got used to the last set... I guess that's the point. Thank god my dentist is HOT.
I will miss the Olympics. Not just because they are exciting and it's nice to see the world on stage, but also because it makes me (1) not really regret my huge cable bill that never seems to align with decent programming (shut up, I know NBC is free), but because (2) it is nice to have something on in the background that I can watch and enjoy, but also still be productive and do other things. I can also somehow hear Bob Costas over my loud window-unit AC.
I can't believe I will be moving again at the end of this month. I can certainly absorb a 5% increase in rent, but I just cannot justify paying what I am paying while knowing I can live 5-10 minutes away and pay $600 less. If I were still in my party days, I'd stay.. But I'm no longer stumbling home drunk from the bars and I certainly haven't taken any random girls home.... So I'll suck it up, pack it up and leave Princeton proper for Princeton.
I had a lot more in my head than I thought or expected. I'm tired now.
Wondering if people from New Jersey refer to, say Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, etc. simply as "Upstate". Just like they refer to NYC simply as "the City". I suspect they do.
New Jersey is an interesting State. Definitely much nicer than I ever imagined. I wonder, if and when, I ever leave it, will I defend it as veraciously as other people who are from or passed-through this State. One thing I will say is its "cities" suck (Newark, Trenton), but I'm not sure it needs a defining city. But without a defining city, the remainder of the cities/townships/towns seem merely suburbs of either Philly or "the City". Nothing wrong with that, per se, but it leaves it without externally-definable (a term I am making up right now) character and makes it more difficult to defend against those who have never been or only briefly passed through this State.
Pondering this past weekend. Conflicted about the highs and lows of it. Highs were very high, lows weren't really that low, but only considered low if I over-think things. If I were Bill Murray and it was Ground Hog Day, Sunday is a day that I'd do over and over and over again.
I am getting my "bottoms" (I'm not calling them bottoms --- the metal braces on the lower part of my mouth) put on tomorrow. I am not excited about how I will look.... I'm not excited about the pending headaches... I'm not excited about being awkward and getting food in them and all of the other complications that I cannot yet imagine that they will cause.... But I am excited about getting them and what I hope they will bring. I'm also getting the next installment of my "tops" (the invisalign) just as I got used to the last set... I guess that's the point. Thank god my dentist is HOT.
I will miss the Olympics. Not just because they are exciting and it's nice to see the world on stage, but also because it makes me (1) not really regret my huge cable bill that never seems to align with decent programming (shut up, I know NBC is free), but because (2) it is nice to have something on in the background that I can watch and enjoy, but also still be productive and do other things. I can also somehow hear Bob Costas over my loud window-unit AC.
I can't believe I will be moving again at the end of this month. I can certainly absorb a 5% increase in rent, but I just cannot justify paying what I am paying while knowing I can live 5-10 minutes away and pay $600 less. If I were still in my party days, I'd stay.. But I'm no longer stumbling home drunk from the bars and I certainly haven't taken any random girls home.... So I'll suck it up, pack it up and leave Princeton proper for Princeton.
I had a lot more in my head than I thought or expected. I'm tired now.
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