Tuesday, March 27, 2007

my bicoastal disorder

i never thought i'd entoil myself in a long distance relationship... but i'm in one. a serious one. it's really ironic how we started dating AFTER i moved to new york. we met a few months before i moved and we didn't go exclusive until a month after i moved. well, considering my move to nyc happened so unexpectedly it was really by chance that we started dating. we reconnected at my going away party! i had met him only once before that.

maybe my bicoastal disorder is fueled even more by the fact that i miss my boyfriend so much. that i long to be with him every moment... although, even if we lived and worked in the same town, we wouldn't be able to see each other during the day because of work! but i do miss san francisco and surrounding areas, my friends and family... and my boyfriend, of course.

he's coming out this weekend so i'm looking forward to doing our usual new york city stuff... we have a broadway show planned, a nice restaurant and probably a run around central park. but i wonder how long am i really going to be here. we have discussed me moving back or him moving out to new york. but i'm not quite ready to move back... although, at times, i feel like i've had enough of the big apple and ready to back to the foggy city!

i'm so torn...

Sunday, March 25, 2007

the shake shack

so i waited 45 minutes in line today for the shake shack burger, fries and diet coke. i guess it's better than your average hamburger but still... 45 minutes? and after i paid for the cheese fries, the guy at the counter who handed my food told me that their cheese isn't coming out quite right so no cheese for me. ugh! i was highly eager to chow down on my cheese fries and i was severely disappointed. and my friend who got paid her food at the same time i did was told that they were out of cheese. not that i want my .50 cents back but the whole thing was kind of annoying. their fries weren't all that either, gimme mcdonald's fries anyday!

granted, the idea of having burgers in madison square park is rather appealing. and of course, the electricity at the shack is powered by wind... and i've been told that they do have the most off-the-hook shakes and frozen custard. which i didn't try today. maybe because i was starving by the time i got my food, i have say my shack burger was delicious. it was smaller than expected but then, what was i expecting? a whopper? fries were just ok. even though they were trans-fat free and made from organic potatoes.

shake shack is owned and operated by the same people who run the union square cafe and grammercy tavern so you know the food is going to be good. overall, my $9 lunch was pretty good and filling. but, i don't think i ever want to stand in that line ever again...

Friday, March 23, 2007

from the metro-north

i missed my train this morning. i don't know how that happened exactly... considering i pressed the snooze button only once and woke up at a decent time. i blame my 6 train... it didn't come at 7:35am like it normally does. it came 5 minutes late. which in turn made me miss my hudson line. but it gave me an excuse to go grab a breakfast sandwich at frank's papaya (no, not grey's... but frank's) on the corner of 125th and lex. for $1.75 it's a pretty good deal. big and tasty. yum. i needed to wash it down with something so i grabbed a coffee from the little snack shop at the harlem-125th station but sheesh, it was bad bad coffee. watered down and bitter. i suppose i should have bought one from the cart outside where they boast the sign "best coffee since 2001" or something close.

i can't believe i've been in new york for 6 months already. 6 months! it seems like just yesterday i packed up my stuff from san francisco to new york. i must say the russian-hill-to-the-upper-east-side transition was pretty smooth. considering the job offer to the move date was exactly 3 weeks. and i wasn't even planning on moving. i've had a long love affair with san francisco but really.... maybe my true love is new york city. like those delta airline advertisements that line the walls of the subways. it says something like "cheat on new york... we know your true love is new york city but..." and so forth. sure i can cheat on new york. i do it every other week. i was just in san francisco this past weekend as a matter of fact. with a job that gets me out of the office once a month, a boyfriend back in the sf bay area and planned (and none planned) vacations, i've been in and out of airports every other week!well, here's to my first post on blogger! :-)