All in all, this was a pretty good weekend. I got do to a few things I don't normally do, which can be a fun thing.
Friday night I had to go into the city to go to the New York Historical Society to look at some paintings for my American Art class. The paintings I had to look at for class were pretty boring, but to my surprise, (and delight), there was a Grateful Dead exhibit, and a really awesome Abraham Lincoln exhibit at the museum. Besides the Grateful Dead exhibit, the museum was also giving away free Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream. After the museum, I headed into Willamsburg (not the Colonial one, unfortunately), with Gwen, Mary and Claire to meet up with Gwen's cousin who was bar tending at a restaurant. This was actually really great news, because besides the free ice cream, and whatever lunch I had that day, I hadn't eaten, and it was pretty late by the time we got there. Anyway, I had a pretty epic burrito for dinner. In the burrito was radishes (which I ate for the first time, and enjoyed), chicken, rice, and other stuff. It was
awesome, and exactly what I was craving at the time. We hung out at the restaurant and had a few drinks, and then once Gwen's cousin was done with work, we headed to a different bar down the street. We got home around 3 or so, and I re-played a game of Madden that luckily didn't save because I lost. Unfortunately, I lost the second time as well, by one less point.
Saturday was cool too. At like 4 or so, Mai and I headed into the city to go to Guitar center so we could both get strings. At Guitar Center we met up with some other people, but that is not important. What is important is the beautiful left-handed Taylor Guitar Center had. Oh man. I could have sat in that Guitar Center all day and played it. I actually seriously considered buying it on the spot. Good thing I didn't because the price tag was a cool $850, which would have seriously depleted my funds. But hey, you can "finance," or whatever, things like that, right? Anyway, after Guitar Center we hung around the city for a bit, ended up at the restaurant where Warren plays piano. I'm fairly certain that you can assume that we went to hear him play, but I'll say it anyway. We went to see Warren play. Everyone ate, except me, but that was because I was saving room for Japanese food. At the restaurant I enjoyed a delicious German pilsner. At around 8:45 or so we left Warren's restaurant, and headed uptown to go out for Joe's birthday with 30 of our closest friends. The restaurant was called Chinatown East, and was pretty good. I think it was picked because of it's all you can eat/all you can drink menu. I didn't do all you can eat because it was sushi (I had chicken teryaki instead), but I did indulge in the all-you-can-drink aspect. Needless to say, the Sapporo was flowing. The food was good as well. I wish they had given me rice with the food though. I could have definitely used some. After we got back from the city a few of us tried going out, but to no avail. We just went home and hung around for a while.
Sunday was band practice. TSRJ is back and pretty much the same! I don't want to get everyone's hopes up. Keep your expectations low. But as Chris said in one of his most recent posts, keep your ears peeled because we do have some pretty exciting news coming your way. You didn't hear this from me, but, the news is actually exciting.
Also:
1) The mandolin is totally awesome.
2) Looking forward to going home for spring break.
3) Done with two-thirds of my graduate school applications.
4) NCAA Tournament/March madness bracket time very soon!
5) MLB opening day in less than a month!!!!
6) Started watching the O.C. It's actually not horrible, and kind of really good.
It's good to have these things to look forward to.
Thanks for reading.
peace, love, & the old grey cat,
m.w.w.
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