New York, New York

i've been in new york for the past couple of days now, mostly just wandering around the city and looking at stuff. on saturday, when i first got in, i went down and walked around central park. pretty nifty place, skirted the edge of it until i came to the met. museum of art where i hung around for a while and watched some guy paint himself bronze and do the whole living statue routine. his main act seemed to be spooking japanese girls who seemed endlessly amused with the routine. almost lost my favorite flannel, but after aprox 30min of backtracking, found it again. sat. night went to a party with taybin. the friend whose birthday it was became completely drunk and unruly in that falling down a lot and spilling beer on everyone way. i can't really complain much because i know i've been there myself. taybin's sisters were there as was taybin's girlfriend. she seems nice. and not in that "i have nothing good to say so "she's nice"" but she legitimately seems nice. sunday, went to the museum of modern art. they are currently redoing their normal building, so they were in a temporary location in queens with a very limited collection. it was kind of like a best of show. saw 'starry night' a jackson pollock, some picassos as well as a lot of other stuff. the whole exhibit seemed to have a much higher ratio of really cool stuff to what the hell is this crap than modern art normally has. later taybin an i helped his sisters move into their new apartment. and then went for sushi. raw fish is so damn yummy i may have to start experimenting with other raw foods, bacon for example. today was a walking day. i started out down around chinatown just wandering around seeing the streets and neighborhood. ended up wandering through little italy, and then into the restaurant supply district. from there i ended up in the east village then through the edge of soho and into the pantyhose and bead wholesale district. stopped and bought the last issue of transmet (sigh, but a good ending. now all i have to do is read all the previous comics that led up to it) and loitered in union sq for a while reading transmet. finally ended up getting back on the subway a couple of blocks away from times square because i was starting to get a little tired and punchy and didn't feel like dealing with comercialization on a massive scale.tomorrow i leave for the conference at cold spring harbor. yay science geeking.