Inspiration

It's 1:30 in the morning, WAY past my bed time. My only excuse is that I don't have to be in the office in the morning because I am flying out to Montreal, but I am not even packed!!! Well, I sort of started last night when I decided on the dress I was going to bring (I am such a girl sometime!!!), but have not made any progress since then... well, that's not entirely true... I picked out the shoes to go with the dress! (Darn it, there is the girl in me AGAIN!)

Truth is, I was distracted. Being a planner, I had a schedule in mind. But that all went out the window when once again I realized how small the world truly is!

JY and I went to a firm event out on Long Island. On the way there, we chatted about older friends and characters from our years at Scarsdale High. Random names came up with associated random news. JY informed me that M.E. was blogging about his trip crossing the country, as part of his self-discovery trip. http://michaelerbsen.blogspot.com/ I made a mental note to look him up on facebook and check out his blog when i get home and perhaps add him to my google reader. (Note to self: I really need to get internet at home and forget about this being zen at home bit, i HATE seeing that have 1000+ unread items when i open my google reader! It really adds a lot of stress to my relatively stress-less existence)

Anyway, after the event, I stopped by the office to pick up my laptop for my trip. Got home, decided to whip out the laptop to check the weather and the dress code of the conference. Of course, being a secret nerd, i cannot NOT check my email when i turn on the laptop. And what do you know! On the top, in my inbox was an email from facebook informing me that M.E. has just added me as a friend. Yipeee! .....WOH!!!

So I added him. Quickly sent him an email telling him this weird deja vu moment. Well, that's when I got distracted.

I decided to check out his blog. I sat on my bed and read it cover to cover. What an incredible blog! Such an inspiration. His writing seems so effortless and HILARIOUS, making my blog seem silly and inconsequential. OH well, I've learned long ago that I am NOT even close to being the best (Thank you MIT!).

I totally understand what he went through about turning 30. I remember how I totally freaked out before my birthday, only to to wake up being 30 and loving the fact that I am no longer in my 20s. Weird.

So after reading his inspiring blog, it made ME want to post another entry... so here I am, less than 10 hours from departure, still only have a dress and a pair of shoes packed...

WOH, i think this is BY far the longest entry, if not the longest, definitely the wordiest! And no pictures either, not even crappy ones!

So this entry is really turning out to be the introduction for my next entry, which is to appear on top... aiyaya, somehow I always seem to have more than one reason to laugh at myself.

NY Landmarks

For those of you who know me, you know that I love to walk. Sometimes I daydream or conjur up stories in my head, sometimes I simply enjoy the scenery.
Here are some pictures taken on my way home tonight.
First, you should recognize these-

Then, here is another one of my favorite structures in the city.


I thought these look cool.

CA parks

Aiya! Originally, I was thinking about posting pictures of the parks in alphabetical order... but after looking at these pictures, I realize that I will be here all night, coffee or no coffee, if I do it that way. So decided that the national parks postings will have to wait until another time. For now, here are some more pictures of parks in CA and more pictures I took on the way to the parks :) Looking at these, I can't wait until my next vacation!




For a city girl, it makes me irrationally happy looking at farms and... moo--moo- cows :) When I drove cross country with C years ago, he noticed that I mooed whenever I saw cows. Is that even normal?

No more coffee...

Still awake... to the point that I dug up my external drive and decided to go retro- and post pictures of the national parks I've been to. Ugh, did you know I have to analyze about 400 patents by Wednesday?!

Anyway, this is Arches National Park.

Let's see what else is on here...

This is one of my favorite buildings in NYC. I don't go to that area very often and just happened to be there recently. It seems misplaced, and doesn't quite scream NYC, but hey, I like old things :)

Excuses, excuses!

It seems that I have some really random pictures of Central Park. Well, one logical explanation is that I've been lazy. SO instead of running in the morning, my legs somehow negotiate with my brain and i get myself "pictures days." Instead of running, I stroll around in the morning for an hour looking and taking random pictures.

No relations

Ok, this post is really random. Not only do the pictures have nothing to do with each other, besides the fact that I think they are both pretty, they were taken at least 6 months apart.

The first one was just something I saw on my way to an event last fall. (To those in the know, this is the SHOE story night...it seems that I *lose* my shoes more often than Cinderella.)

I just took the second one last night on the way to get Pinkberry with D. Of course, my old little 4 mp was laughed out of Columbus Circle by 10 mp Canon super fisheye setup in the hands of a guy next to us, wearing an Adobe hat. I bet he is really good with Photoshop.