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March, 2015

The March Roundup

Here are all the photos I took in March 2015 that didn't end up elsewhere!

Sunday, March 1st

jane anne
Started the month off strong with a visit from Jane and a new flavor of ice cream, Peanut Butter Cookie Core!
ice cream ˆ jane anne
Egg sammich from Barnyard.
breakfast ˆ food
Hey, guess what? Dachshunds are so hot right now.
dogs ˆ newspaper
Smoking lots of pot via a glass pipe was getting rough on my throat so I decided to try out this giant bong instead. (Marginally smoother, but ended up smoking 2x as much weed. Haha).
bong
Little House of Cards Sunday afternoon.
laptop ˆ tv

Monday, March 2nd

brian b
On Monday evening I went to Brian Brunius' reiki circle at the NYC Reiki Center. Good vibes, kind people and your body covered in a blanket of 16-healing hands.
reiki ˆ reiki circle ˆ brian b
me
Left feeling so fresh and so clean.
mirror ˆ reiki ˆ me
Saag Paneer dinner.
food ˆ indian food

Tuesday, March 3rd

My Hispanic drug store has an impressive collection of questionable exilers all with excellent labels. I like to imagine the photo shoot for this pic, "No, hold the fish higher. Big smile...that's it!"
fish ˆ funny foreign products ˆ wtf
So good. Seems like it hasn't been updated since 71.
funny foreign products
Sipping on that Century 22 Syrup.
funny foreign products
It's official. Plastic bag on the bike seat means I'm a New Yorker!
bike ˆ snow
Later Wednesday night, I went to try an Aikido class for the first time.
aikido ˆ stairs

Thursday, March 5th

me
Woke up on Thursday REAL SORE from hitting the mat a hundred times.
ouch ˆ me
Got a nice overnight dusting.
e9th apt ˆ snow ˆ window
Radiator heat really dries out the humidity in the air...
DIY ˆ humidifier
...I tried to put off buying a real humidifier by placing this metal tray filled with water on top of the radiator.
DIY ˆ humidifier
jane anne
Got a late night visit from Jane Anne. Guess there is an upside to my apartment being so warm.
jane anne

Friday, March 6th

dylan, meredith
On Friday night, we went out to Williamsburg for a game night hosted at Dylan's apt.
house party ˆ dylan ˆ meredith
Explaining the rules of Cranium to new players!
cranium ˆ house party
matt, the dude
The Dude is no longer a little dude, but no one's told him yet! Shhhh!
best ˆ matt ˆ the dude

Saturday, March 7th

The next morning I awoke to discover that the water had evaporated from the dish I'd place out...
DIY ˆ humidifier
...but I'd really only succeed at making the bowl dirty in a unique way...
DIY ˆ humidifier
...and the air in my apartment remained nosebleedingly arid.
DIY ˆ humidifier
sarah
On Saturday night, I went to a bar on Rivington Street where Sarah was playing records.
dj ˆ sarah
amanda, me
Ran into this familiar face.
amanda ˆ me

Sunday, March 8th

maddy
Always love waking up to find out what configuration of blankets and butt-to-butt arrangements these two have come up with over night.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy
Spent my morning coffee working on writing the December 2012 Roundup.
computer ˆ ikad ˆ meta
Edie likes being smashed...
pillow
...into hidden sleeping spaces.
edie ˆ pillow
Ok, but why you wake it, though?
best ˆ dogs ˆ edie
The block.
east village ˆ window
Some healthy schnacks....
fruit
...before having to go to the dentist and get my first cavity in over ten years filled. Noooooo. Right as I was about to get injected with a giant needle of novocaine, the John Mellancamp "Hurts So Good" came on.
dentist

Wednesday, March 11th

maddy, piper, the dude
On Wednesday afternoon I walked to Washington Square Park to meet up with Ellen. We had 4 dogs between us.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy ˆ piper ˆ the dude
ellen, the dude
Ellen getting The Dude...
ellen ˆ the dude
the dude
...to sit for a photo on a star-shaped piece of ice.
dogs ˆ point ˆ the dude
the dude
Haha. Such a good boy.
dogs ˆ the dude
ellen, maddy, piper, the dude
Brought the pack back to mine to hang.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ ellen ˆ maddy ˆ piper ˆ the dude

Thursday, March 12th

Spent Thursday cleaning my closet...
...and my dresser drawers.
Wash and fold is one of my favorite NYC luxuries. There are some areas of life where I am so productive and proficient. Clothing / laundry is not one of them. I'm so bad at this that most of the time my clothes don't make it into my dresser. I just peel the plastic off and choose something clean from the stack!
clothes ˆ laundry
meredith
Found funny Meredith drawings behind the dresser. Please don't pet my broken spine.
drawing ˆ meredith
alysha, maddy
Alysha was in town and came for a visit on Friday night. She tried my Kasina Mind Machine and got some quality hang time with...
couch ˆ dogs ˆ edie ˆ kasina mind machine ˆ alysha ˆ maddy
maddy
...the Sisters Houndine.
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy

Saturday, March 14th

Came in the living room on Saturday morning to find...
...this!
edie ˆ tongue
Crept upon her so stealthily to get this pic.
edie ˆ tongue
Whoa! What's happening here? Shitting myself ? Nope, just trying out...
...the latest book I've added to my weirdo library, the very excellent FACERCISE by Carole Maggio.
book ˆ facercise
me
This, however, is what you look like when you're doing face exercise, so you know, don't post pictures of yourself doing it on the internet or anything.
crazy ˆ facercise ˆ wtf ˆ me
me
Ah, yes! 11% handsomer in just one session!
me
I have this excellent Keri Smith list on my fridge and I took a picture of it to remind myself to think about each one.
Accidental photo. I usually edit these out, but sometimes I like to post the handsome ones like this.
Got a entire box of lacrosse balls. I use these to roll out myofascial trigger points. I'm always giving them away to other people I see rubbing their shoulders. Take this, I've got a whole box at home!
Breffis!
food ˆ fruit
Was slicing up my morning mangos...
...and made a little turtle friend out of the rind.
Sorry I'm about to eat your delicious friend!
Mango number two!

Monday, March 16th

Got this excellent set of rainbow-colored Cuisinart knives.
kitchen ˆ knife
Spent a long time trying to find a place to mount them on my kitchen wall, but in the end...
knife
...hung them on the fridge.
knife ˆ refrigerator
amanda, fatty, grant
Right below my FiASCO fridge magnet! Oh, (Fiasco pics, 2004-2007)
band ˆ fiasco ˆ amanda ˆ fatty ˆ grant
cut
Spent the evening cleaning...
edie ˆ hallway
...and steam vacuuming my carpets!
carpet ˆ living room
Trying to muster the strength to make it to Monday night aikido class.

Tuesday, March 17th

On Tuesday afternoon, I got a call from Scott that some mutual friends of ours from high school were in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I took the train up to Grand Central...
jeff m
...and met up with Jeff, Adam and Melissa
roxbury high school ˆ jeff m
Came back home and started watching creepy-as-hell THE JINX. His black eyes are so creepy! (I later learned he was wearing some kind of Japanese contacts that make the whites of your eyes seem smaller. Whaaa?)
creepy ˆ tv
Took this picture through a package of delicious wasabi seaweed.
seaweed

Thursday, March 19th

Someone in the neighborhood turned another vacant storefront into a gallery live/work space. They had this nice display in their front window that had me asking every time I walked by, TELL ME WHAT IS IT YOU PLAN TO DO WITH YOUR ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE? (Live more lives?)
art
Went to see What We Do in the Shadows at the Sunshine with Grant and Leah.
movie ˆ poster
leah
Afterwards, we went back to her apartment and held her handsome cat like a baby!
cat ˆ leah

Friday, March 20th

jane anne
Hung out with this lil beauty on Friday morning.
jane anne
Wet and snowy Friday weather.
Wants to go outside but hates the rain!
Listened to the excellent READY PLAYER ONE, by Ernest Cline on audiobook...
...and watched the snow slowly coat everything outside my window.
jeet
Gurj came over for a Friday night hang!
jeet
jeet, karen
We face-timed with Karen! Haha.
ichat ˆ phone ˆ jeet ˆ karen
maddy
Couch buddy.
maddy
jeet
Seamless dinner decisions!
laptop ˆ jeet

Saturday, March 21st

Snow on the art-trash fence across the street.
fence ˆ la plaza cultural
Picked up some frosty new buds.
weed
Went and got a massage, and on the way home stopped into the Filipino-specialty store called Johnny Air Mart in order to pick up some Filipino-snacks to surprise Jane Anne with. Ding Dong snack mix! I remember this from my trip to the Philippines!)
filipino ˆ food ˆ weird foreign food
Purple Yam ice cream. (Jane Anne actually likes this!! Ewww!)
filipino ˆ food ˆ ice cream ˆ weird foreign food
While I can't get down with the Ube, I can most certainly get down with an ensaymada.
filipino ˆ food ˆ weird foreign food
Butter-cheese fantastic!
filipino ˆ food ˆ weird foreign food

Sunday, March 22nd

Spent Sunday falling down an internet rabbit hole. Watched a ton of videos explaining Vortex Based Mathematics...
...and Rodin coils. And how it relates to the geometry of sub-quantum space.
Took this grimple on a long walk to the park.
Weird little grafitti and magazine collage on the La Plaza sign.
Creepy AF.
More obsessive reading about the ratio Phi (golden ratio) and how it shows up everything made my nature.
book ˆ phi
Had a morning fruit-smoothie...
aki
...and then went to grab a giant breakfast at Odessa with Aki, who was in town visiting from Vancouver!
breakfast ˆ diner ˆ odessa ˆ aki
Got my schwitz on afterwards with a nice long sweat and plunge at the Russian Baths.
russian baths

Tuesday, March 24th

aki, carla
On Tuesday evening I biked over to the West Village for a cheese shop dinner with Carla and Aki at Murray's Cheese Shop. (Grant and Aki split-up soon after this visit and I think this was the last time I ever saw Aki!)
aki ˆ carla

Wednesday, March 25th

Wednesday in the park with my dog and a broken camera lens.
broken ˆ camera ˆ east river park

Thursday, March 26th

Biked down to Wall Street to have lunch with my former colleague Ethan from SinglePlatform
flux capacity ˆ singleplatform ˆ work
I was biking home up 1st Ave when I saw a terrible plume of smoke.
All of 1st Ave was shut down and was filled with emergency vehicles.
While watching the smoke...
...I noticed that the people from Pukk (my favorite vegetarian Thai restaurant) were closing up the store and emptying out all the cool neon furntiture.
truck
Thanks for all the delicious meals over the years! :(
closed ˆ sign ˆ thai food
Got to the corner of 1st & 7th and could see that the fire was coming from somewhere on 2nd Ave & 7th.
Hung out with my little sweater-wearing buddy.
Watched a crazy dystopian sci-fi movie...
...but I can't remember what it was called. Anyone recognize this? Looks like a Terry Gilliam film?
Driving me crazy that I can't think of it!

Friday, March 27th

Friday morning was all about...
...canine dental hygiene! Brushed Maddy's dog teef.
me
Went and got myself a spring haircut!
haircut ˆ me
A new weird neck-pillow thingy that Penelope had recommended to me arrived from Amazon.
I laid on the floor and used to to stretch my very tight and sore neck...
...while listening to...
...an incredible two-hour interview with Alan Moore. He tells the story of what happened in his life after he turned 40 and declared himself a MAGICIAN.
magic ˆ podcast
jeet, karen, me
Later that evening I walked up to Karen's place to hang with her and Jeet. Before going out for an Indian feast, we made up a sit-com theme song for ourselves. I still remember the words and melody: "We used party ten years ago, and now we're all still friends!" Haha.
jeet ˆ karen ˆ me

Saturday, March 28th

maddy
Came home on Saturday afternoon to find Maddy with her head stuck through the blanket-hole again.
blanket ˆ dogs ˆ maddy
maddy
Uh, little help please?
blanket ˆ dogs ˆ maddy
Frozen fruit breakfast smoothie (trying to eat more fruits & veggies!)
juice ˆ smoothie
Spotted this neato mirror table taking Maddy for her late-night walk...
mirror ˆ table
...but decided to leave it for someone else to take.
mirror ˆ table

Sunday, March 29th

Started using a wall calendar in my kitchen to keep track of how often I was doing the three activities I'd committed to trying to do more of. AK = Aikido. CF = Cross Fit. PAD = Singing my Padmasambhava mantra.
calendar

Monday, March 30th

Monday morning man-cooking!
cooking ˆ kitchen
I usually just go across the street for my egg sammiches, but once in a while I get crafty and make them at home.
breakfast ˆ food
arm
Despite a gnarly wrist-bruise from getting my arm chewed up with wrist-locks at aikido class...
aikido ˆ bruise ˆ ouch ˆ arm
...I still made it to Monday night's class. Fun to get to the top of the stairs and see how big the class is going to be by the number of shoes laid out in the hallway.
aikido ˆ shoes ˆ stairs
Massamun Curry Thai dinner. Yes!
food ˆ thai food
Cool book by a guy who was a child chess prodigy who as an adult decided to start competing in martial arts, (Taiji Quan - push hands). Enjoyed reading it. The Art of Learning
book

Tuesday, March 31st

On Tuesday afternoon, I stopped by Yipit, my very first consulting client's office, to catch up with how their business has been growing! Happy March 2015!
flux capacity ˆ office space ˆ work ˆ yipit