I’m looking out my window and can see the friggin’ Verrazano Bridge from here in Bklyn Heights. This is one of the benefits of living on the 8th floor, another is the dirt that comes in to my room from my window is not nearly as great as when I lived on the 1st floor and I don’t get those striped multi-legged bugs anymore.

However, on the flip side when the elevator goes out I’m screwed. Right now, there is no elevator in my building at all. It’s being renovated for the next 2 or 3 months. Since my building is a twin building – there’s a walkway on the roof that connects the my building to the twin one and I take the elevator there. So it’s two sets of stairs and a roof walk across – which is awesome. In the mornings now I see Manhattan and practically all of Brooklyn. The downfall is that to get anything delivered here will be interesting. I suppose I’ll meet them in the lobby and then go next door and take the elevator back up. So far I’ve avoided that.

In a week or so I’ll be off to Thailand, no phone, no internet, no work, no depressing news with Bush’s big fat ears on the cover. It will be nice. I’ll be back around the 12th of June. I’ve been trying to square away some junk at work that actually isn’t all that important but will make life easier in the end if we can get it done. There’s a few “upgrades” we’re doing for some sites and it’s like fucking chiseling at stone to figure out what they want… and then to get our developer to do it is another battle. Although today I was padded with much, “I can have that done by tomorrow, and yes, let’s aggressively do this phase of work…” I’ll believe it when I see it.

I have a wedding in August that I’m unsure if I’m going to in Ithaca and then one in Sept that I’m definitely going to in Virginia…or N. Carolina, I’m not sure. I forget. I went to a funeral yesterday. One of J’s cousin’s husband died – we drove to New Paltz with her mom. It was a long ride home with the storm. I don’t think i’ve been that tired in a long time and I got sick.
At the funeral home I had to step outside and puked. Then I felt dizzy and sat down on a bench for a bit before going back in. I felt fine afterwards. But when we got home I felt funny too…
and right now I feel a little funky. I wonder if it’s allergies/vertigo/lack of something? My shoulder also hurts. Am I falling apart? I’ve been having mild headaches for days in a row and I’m not sure why other than the weather making me feel this way. I thrive in cold weather I think except for the dry air hurting my tiny nose.

Which reminds me- I got elbowed in the nose last night. J was moving and hit me right in the face. *POW* I think I whined. We were watching Arrested Development and next thing I knew I was hit in the nose. It hurt! I forgot that weird stingy feeling you get when hit in the nose… I think the last time I was hit in the face was when I was taking kung fu and accidentally stepped into a punch rather than blocking it. I was never very good at blocking/dodging in Karate or Kung Fu. I was good at falling down and rolling away – Judo – you spend a great deal of time rolling away and falling down. Karate you spend a lot of time with hard blocks and punches/kicks. In Kung Fu you spend a lot of time sharpening your skills at strikes of different calibers and open hand strikes- I also spent a lot of time beating a bag of rice into powder. It was like those old movies you see where the guy spends hours beating a log into splinters. I remember at one point I was able to reach down and touch the floor with flat open hands – while standing on boards that raised me an additional six inches. I can’t do that anymore, I think I’d fall over.

Now, I’m stronger than I’ve been in a long time but I’ve notice that my routine of 100+ crunches and various machines at the Y that work my stomach muscles as secondary – are making me stronger but also seem to be pushing out that layer of fat… so it’s like somewhere under this chub is a very strong set of muscles. However, they are well coated and kept warm by this Winnie-the-Pooh belly. I feel like a gummy bear.