off the grid

2002-02-14T17:39:00.000-08:00

THURSDAY

went to impalla cafe with s and cuz
did the met
i had a vanilla mouse foam crap
very bat
tasted like goat cheese
rode the bus home
sheila is in class
i wait so we can go do v-day

WEDNESDAY

hung over severly
poor sheila has to do the show
cuz and i go to le bon bon
i have to do class prep
split a sandwhich with cuz from rafela
spend the day getting ready for it with a headache
went and had a good class
came home and crashed
sheila had to go to oscar dinner
bought s some planted tulips for her bedside, a card and some "ilove you" candies

TUESDAY

vox
cousin comes
eat at pepe
sheila is beat from getting ready for show
we all go to toy fair party at LOLA and proceed to get trashed on an open bar.
fucking cutting cold outside
sheila is wasted and thowing up in a trashcan by the bed when we get home
michael gets pizza

MONDAY

dig d

olympics

brought home pea soup
watched hawks take texas in ot
wow!

2002-02-10T18:38:00.000-08:00

sunday

watched olympics
wrote.

Saturday

watched the hawks win at chris's - beat bobby nite.
beforehand ate at le bonbon

folks are still half out of electricity.

sheila had to work, came home we ordered pizza wathced olympics.

went to mark and loris for marks 35 bday party.

FRIDAY

no scone friday.
wiped out sick agian

we ate at white horse.

watched olympic cermony - it was awesome.

gell asleep before they lit the thorch - first time i slept in days.

2002-02-07T17:48:00.000-08:00

thurs

sick again

2002-02-06T12:22:00.000-08:00

WEDNESDAY

had fmd - spent the day getting ready.

couldn't sleep all nite which i would wake up with a sick soar throat.

tuesday

hawks won last nite - a tuff ksatate battle.

vox - went to class - could be good - voice overs - yet another career

met with glen afterwards form howrich and brandwidth lisencing about website.

2002-02-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

Monday

Spent the morning feeling questionable and getting ready for calss. Sheila came home for a nap becasue she felt awful from her benadryl saturation from lawst nite.

Superbowl Sunday

Got up and made biscuts - skipped church. Feeling a bit more normal. Did a little prep work for school. Sheila and I headed over to harolds new place on 20th and 7th - great gaf - he was quite chuffed (i sound like hugo). Anyway then we headed to bed bath and beyond and then to whole foods. Got some of the sooperbole sutff. Came home afeter more shopping - beat. Made martha stewart chicken wings as tough as shoe leather and jalapeno poppers that mad sheila break out in hives. Mark and Lori, Chris and Vicki, ate some of the crap we offered - not to mention we had a whole nacho fonduestyle set up. So much work and so little food eaten - bbad bad. I will never due that again. By the way the partiots upset the rams with a last minute feild goal.

2002-02-02T09:07:00.000-08:00

Saturday

hung over

skipped boxing

hawks

Friday

Did our scone friday - it was a wet walk. Talked to my folks and they had been out of electricity and heat for over two days.

proposals

corner

diner

2002-01-31T14:57:00.000-08:00

got up and had to zoila proof everything.

sheila called and we got to chat for a bit. told her about the jason flash situation. escaped to le gamin on bedford then went over to marks for a bit.

waiting for my wife and csi.

2002-01-30T10:05:00.000-08:00

fmd today

got up early so i could finish the syllabus and do the crawl and other items.

at 515 i finished the syllabus. jeez.

went to joe jrs for chilli - got to the office made copies of my syllabus and taught in a semi coherent state. came home and watched a documentary on the remote control and nicholas tesla - followed up by ashow on thhe free masons.

2002-01-29T19:34:00.000-08:00

hi stranger

Tuesday

We get up and head over to vaselka for breakfast. it is a beautiful morning - yesterday was also beautiful for sheilas bday - te first she thinks she ever has had. we have a great breakfast andread the times then leisurely walk back stopping at st. marks books. get home to drop anchor then sheila has to leave - sad. her car picks her up and take her on her way to panama.

i go home and work on the syllabus and stuff and feel shitty and rest. watched saving silverman which was actually pretty good.

Monday

Bday - wake up the birthday girl and write the card. Sheila already loves her phone. She gets her blanket candle and fresh milk and fresh gift certificate. We go have scones for breakfast and she is off to work and i am on my way back home to finish up my syllabus for digital design.

Have my first dd class. i think i did an alright job conisdering i had a fever. came home and rested then went over to chirs and vickis to watch the hawks demolish mizzou - had shrimp pasta and pumpkin pie for a nice little bday. came home exausted and went to bed with a happy birthday girl.

Sunday

Skip Church and work on syllabus. We head uptown for a late brunch to see Scott and Aby - they were staying at Michael Walkers apt. First we stopped off at Union Square where i returned the juicer i had got us for the coffee maker Angela gave us for xmas. i came away on this final exchange with a wizard of oz dvd and some batteries. So we made the trek to the upper east side, just in time to see the patriots game. josh and Simon joined us - after halftime we headed home. I stopped off to get a few more bday things for sheila. got home completely exahausted. when sheila got back i was wrapping so she had to wait. i let he open up one bday gift - her cell phone- so she could get it charged. then we went to wxou for a beer - the bar tender was great. came home had some hot and sour soup - felt like shit worn out and went to bed.

2002-01-26T11:09:00.000-08:00

Saturday

We spend the day running around, back in time to go to Grange Hall for an excellent B-Day Dinner. Sheila was showered with products. Sheri Phil Harold Kathllen Melissa Sanje Chris and Vicki all attended. Then we went to Campi's new Bar - West. Excellent time even though i was sick and could not breath.

Friday

No Plans since everything was cancelled. We eat at white horse and I still fill sick. I have the best sheppards pie in the world.

2002-01-24T08:34:00.000-08:00

i am up - still feel shitty - too much to do - lastnite sheila asked what we were doing for her bday and all of my planning went out the window - for the past week i have been calling and organizing and arguing with odeon and bubble lounge only to find out she thinks it is all too much and that friday is not a good nite - back to square one.

I call everybody and spend the day figuring out where we will have birthday dinner. I decide on Grange Hall and on Saturday nite - everybody likes this - we are all happy and rejoice. I go to the store to get some groceriies so Sheila can make us dinner. Stop by WXOU and talk to Kelly to see iff there are any job opportuniites. Nope. We watch CSI in harmony.

2002-01-23T14:43:00.000-08:00

ipublish meeting at 3 - went soso - right now I am mulling over all of the possibilities of how the crawl would establish itself nationally. I think a national crawl would be a great vehicle to promote local and regional crawls - so I am interested in this idea. I am now considering all of the logistics behind it to make it work. I am also interested in having advertising sponsor and pay for local crawls. I especially like the notion of barnes and noble being a part of it.

sheila had her kate spade interview - they want to set up another interview - fucking run-around.

feel like shit and jasons check bounced.

2002-01-22T10:25:00.000-08:00

worked forever on crawl last nite - sheila made the worlds best hello kitty macaroni and chheese. worked more on the crawl then split to take pictures and drop off film reel resume etc. went to boxing lastnite.

2002-01-21T13:40:00.000-08:00

well fuck, i guess yesterday i didn't do anything or the da before that either - what the hell is going on here.

monday today, supporting cast - the plass where lori works. stopped by there and met with her and wendy. went alright.

Sunday

church - campbell spoke - so much better and uplifting. it is what religion is suppose to be. nto the doom and gloom walton preaches. got the times and watched ffootball most of the day. chris came over to give me some pointers on the reel.

Saturday

still no scones.worked all day on my reel - made some new break throughs - the graphics look great. watched the hawks play ou - closse game - low scoring - we won. had footbal playoffs on all day - backgrounded to them.

cowgirl - met mark wellie chris vicki and others for drinks.

Friday

no scone- bummer. waited for pedro as zoila left our toilet broken yesterday. the back tank came off - screws out and water everywhere - i spent time mopping - should of know when Zoila had left the water shut off. great! only if she could speak english or at least leave a note. pedro came in the morning to fix it.

sheila went after work to get manicures with her sis. then she had some wine at inos with her, so i had some at home. left over fetzer from the awesome french onion soup sheila made the previous nite.

we started watching pride and prejucdice.

2002-01-18T21:06:00.000-08:00

well fuck, i guess yesterday i didn't do anything

2002-01-17T19:44:00.000-08:00

had to escape before zoila got here. got on my bike and road to take pics for the flat iron crawl. man it was freezing. stopped at the mayrose cafe and ate french taost - great place. warmed and fueled i continued riding and taking pics until my camera was full. made it home and then began on my demo reel for the job i am applying for. i am starting to make some headway, but i don't like having quick cuts - need to change that. sheila and i watched sci and worked some more.

2002-01-16T13:55:00.000-08:00

worked on the crawl all morning. then jason stopped by to drop off the check, then sheila came home because she tore her dress, then jason left, then sheila left and i walked her out.

got my first e-fax from mike in idaho from howrich. told me to get any ideas together for toy fair.

2002-01-15T10:16:00.000-08:00

well...i got my hair cut...a little shorter than i wanted - so much for that brit pop mod look.

howard called today - he needs business cards - probably doesn't want to pay anything - can't blame him, if you have idots like me that will always lend a helping hand - so it goes. anyway he had a good idea that i should make a special addtion of the crawl for the toy fair -- which i will. it could be very cool.

sheila and i went to "the other room" to pick up her mail from angela. had out two beers for 5 bucks. then we went over to chris and vicki's to eat chilli and watch the hawks play. we rolled over osu at their home, which was nice. drew had a sports center dunk.

2002-01-14T15:52:00.000-08:00

worked all day on resume. went to the gym for five minutes then came home and watched boston public.

sheila and i then watched minus man with owen wilson - just didn't work for us. went to bed and read "french revolutions" a great story about a writer who decides to ride the tour de france route three weeks before it starts.

2002-01-13T13:15:00.000-08:00

yes today is sunday and we skipped church. guilt sets in. will god forgive us? we did go to bed bath and beyond however and had some silky rich-n-creamy corn chowder soup. came home and sheila went to brunch with unice. i stayed at home - whhen she got back we saw "oceans 11" it was exactly what i was hoping it would be and i really liked it. slick and fun. chic and cool.

2002-01-12T06:54:00.000-08:00

the hawks play the bruins today.

tamela called to see if we were going to watch the game and i told her we were going to go up to her neck of the woods and watch it at "the backstage" with the ku alums. went to the gym for boxing and got an ass wupping. came home and we decided to watch the game at home since it was on tv, so i cancelled with tamela. after terrible cbs coverage as usual the worse network to cover sports - they held off showing the no1 ranked team ku, because they decided to show us the end of an unranked game. bullshit. the final jumped into the game after tons of comercials and no transition. it was back and forth until ucla blew us away. after comisserating we went to josh and simons for naked chef pizza which was quite good. got a little drunk and taxied home - watched snl and fell asleep.

2002-01-11T11:32:00.000-08:00

we went to get our scones - no friday is complete without them. came home and cranked on nycovers then met alex at barnes and noble to pick up the cash. sucks. came home and sheila and i met chris and vicki at the corner bistro. we sheila and i got there, chris was already waiting, we waited for vicki as th place filled up. there friend james joined us. had the bistro burger and a coupla beers. then sheila and i split, went to kims and got "the dirty dozen". wasn't as good as i thought it would be but was pretty exciting once it got going. i stayed up late working on my resume.

2002-01-10T13:27:00.000-08:00

had to go to the unemployment office today....the trek wasn't too bad - everything went smoothly. had to cruise out to brooklyn.

went to thhe gym - on the way walking back (a beautiful nite) i stopped by sea grape and got some wine then i went to the health store and got some more goods. i really spent some time to get to know the health foodstore. came home and fixed a nice shrimp stir-fry for our tv nite. the final survivor took place. a three hour fiasco. what a dud. the show is getting more and more contrived. in a fetal attempt of trickery - the makers of the show created a facke africa in a hollywood survivor. thinking we wouldnot be able to tell with the added weight and make up to each character after months of eating mcdonalds frenchfries - the only camoglage was that they were wearing the same clothes.

2002-01-09T14:55:00.000-08:00

oh i am hungry...and so it goes. not having had smoked for several months now will do that to one...make them hungry.

i am again reformating my resume - cuz is giving me helpful advice.

went to gym - no smoke = more body mass

ku slaughtered nebraska.

2002-01-08T13:24:00.000-08:00

Busy day - cuz called from Berlin - talked about resume formating and him moving back to NYC. Had to run and meet Liron (film guy making a dj-documentary). We met at cafe eperante on McDougal - great cafe and cheap food. Told him I could help as a creative consutlant. Had to run up to the New School afterwards - dropped off contract and checked on my classes - also enrolled in one: "intro to voice overs" should be fun.

2002-01-07T14:30:00.000-08:00

Our Tiger friends leave today. Kinda sucks seeing how we only just met them and they have lived on our street for over two years. Anyway have to meet them at wxou for beers....moments later... We went and had beers at wxou, mark castellani stopped by which was nice. Snowed all day but did not stick - first snow of the winter.

2002-01-06T11:42:00.000-08:00

hurriedly we walked in the cold to church - today we are ushers. i got to do the balcony which was great. the sermon pissed me off again beacuse it is always such a doom and gloom stance with a quip of hope at the end. had some coffee and then headed back.

we watched the brittish film "greenfingers" with clive owen and helen miren. fantastic dvd.

made the trek uptown, as the ice-wind-rain began. met phil-sherri, harold kathleen, at citrus. excellent food and atmosphere - great pommegranite margahrritas.

2002-01-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

got up and walked to "once upon a tart" and had our scones. i bought 3 newspapers - the post, the times, and usa today. nice relaxing time. then we headed back to the apt.

went to joe jrs for lunch - sheila had pea soup, i a cheeseburger - what a great place, iit always makes you feel like you are really apart off the heartbeat of nyc. next stop, wallgreens - then fnailly home.

spent too much time outside today.

celebrity siting by sheila - she saw gwenyth paltrow at the gym - had to ask her to move from in fornt of her locker and gwen replied with a pissy huff.

watched csi on tape and napped.

chris and vicki came over and we ordered pizza and watched the hawks play a tough game against colorado - opening the bigh 12 conference play.

sheila went to bed and i stayed up and worked.

2002-01-04T06:38:00.000-08:00

good morning annd no scone friday. bummer - sheila opted out - we got up late and she had to be at work early.

jason came by around 12am and we went through ite revisions.
emailed and called a ton of people for work. no word.

sheila came home and we went to whitehorse and had curly fires, chees sticks and beer. got tired and went home to nap and wathc survivor. didn't feel like going to the theater but we went anyway. met josh and simon in times sqare - it is always so nice to see everything lit up in the winter time. we entered the henry miller theater and had excellent seats to see our play: "urine town". hillarious. lockstock and barrel - a song alaugh and a dance - your in urine town

we ate at a greek place (fucking cold walk to get there) great food though - beat we taxied home and watched the rest of survivor.

2002-01-04T06:20:00.000-08:00

hey

2002-01-03T15:38:00.000-08:00

pop's birthday and no celebrity sightings.

we got up in the morn and took the cats to the vet, phaed and scout were told to go on a diet. no more nachos for them. came home, had to escape from zoila and grabbed all of the notebooks from my class - must of wieghed a good 15 pounds - and peddled them up (very carefully) to the new school. tried on shoes afterwards - cool nikes - have to order them online - custom job. went to barnes and noble on unioun square afterwards and checked out fitness books - alos saw our upstair neighbor's book - "waiting for my cats to die".

met betsey and alberto for dinner at maltesta - she is converting to judaism. went to magnolia after - yum yum. came home and watched survivvor on tape and our favorites are left for the final four - lex, kim j, tom, and ethan.

jan 2. recap-
sheila went to work, while i worked at home on my book covers project. had to peddle up to the "new school" to drop off the grades - man it was friggin ice cold out! on my way back i cruised around the corner by "magnolia" (as i do when riding my bike) and saw a camera crew - with "lara spencer from g.m.a." - must be taping a segment for a later show. maybe i will see a celebrity every day of 2002 - so far i am 2 for 2. anyway, sheila got off early and i played a little "crazy taxi" and then we got ready to watch the "jayhawks" play - however there was a glitch in the system and we could not watch it at home - after spending over a half an hour in voice box hell with the cable company i did get through only for them to reaffirm that there "must be a glitch in the system". with that we put on our "kansas" shirts and headed to riviera where we got to watch the game at the bar on the big tv and with sound. it was way to easy, making this new year off to a fairly good start.

jan 1. recap-
so tuesday we brought in the new year very quietly on perry street with our "tiger" neighbors. no radiation detectors necessary. we did enjoy a nice evening of bowling in new jersey but this caused us to miss our other new years parties. after much champagne we managed to go over to the corner bistro to meet some more friends - as we called it a nite, we exited the corner and practically ran into "phillip seymore hoffman" as he turned the corner with a bag of what appeared to be cat litter. we went to bed and woke up that morning with cutting headaches. managed to eat "red berry special k" and drink some coffee. watched bowl games all day long and made it out (once) to "riviera" for lunch. we ended up renting "dick" at "kim's" and ran into jim (tiger) there - he was still in his yellow ruffled tuxedo shirt from the night before. anyway we went home and enjoyed "dick" before we went to bed - happy new year - and good riddance to 2001.