i suppose it's an occupational hazard, when you're a bathroom, that you frequently smell like shit.

yes, it's come to this

things i've eaten today:
- an egg
- three cups of coffee (real sugar! whole milk! that's the REAL FOOD REVOLUTION, BABY!)
- cheddar goldfish crackers
- baby carrots
- kirby cucumber
- grape tomatoes
- avocado
(all properly seasoned, of course)
- roasted asparagus
- cherries

things i'm currently fantasizing about eating:
- tequila shrimp with tons of garlic and lime
- a hunk of manchego
- gummy bears
- green & black's maya gold chocolate
- marinated white anchovies
- whole foods olive bar's herbed bocconcini
- salmon sashimi from kanoyama
- olive pizza from grimaldi's
- a root beer float

i suppose it's a good thing there doesn't seem to be a vending machine on this floor.

hell train?

it is my second day at my new job - and my second day taking the L train into manhattan at rush hour since i moved to brooklyn - and i've noticed a pattern. between bedford avenue and 1st avenue (that is, under the east river), the train stops. it sits, silently, in the tunnel for several minutes. then, it crawls a few feet forward and stops again. then, the L train lady voice comes on over the PA and says something like, "this train is delayed due to train traffic ahead of it". this process is repeated several times before the train eventually arrives at the first avenue stop, and several more times between first and third avenues, and maybe once or twice between third and union square.

that is the ballad of how a 20-minute commute takes me an hour.

i'm starting to remember why i used to be such a manhattan snob.

(note: i found that accurate picture by googling "l train" and came upon a blogger who understands my grief - check out williamsburg is dead when you hit your 3:00 slack sesh.)