It's kind of nice to be home for a bit. Not that I'm home under the best of circumstances haha, but it's still kinda nice. Getting the wisdom teeth out tomorrow afternoon [Nervous!].... at this point actually, I'm more just looking forward to having it done and over with more than anything. The oral surgeon I'm seeing is VERY good which is always some nice peace of mind, and I saw my normal dentist today, whom, in addition to filling a few cavitities, proceeded to severely chew me out on how apparently I haven't been brushing/flossing adaquately and my teeth are in worse shape than they should be for my age. I was afraid of this and I really can't be mad at the dentist becuase he is totally right, I need to be brushing ect.. more thoroughly, plus my teeth are genetically predisposed to have weaker enamel and increased susceptability to decay. Fun stuff. Anyways, I'm getting 'all patched up' in the week I'm here so to speak, so no big worries there. Enough of that boringness.
I went in to New York yesterday to visit my old friend Kari who I practically grew up with, her mom babysitted me and my sister for years when I was a kid. Though we've sort of gone our seperate ways in the intervening time, we still keep in touch pretty regularly and I haven't seen her in a few years so that was really fun. It had also been quite some time since I'd been in Manhattan, so I had a great time. I took the train from Dover and we met up in Penn Station, it's only about a 75 minute ride from where I am in New Jersey. From there we proceeded to get hopelessly lost in midtown NY wandering around trying to find a subway station; we ended up making a huge winding circle and ending up right back where we started, but it was a fun diversion since we were both busy catching up on what was new and interesting. Finally we just took the subway from Penn Station to get to the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art], which I thought might be cool to check out seeing as I hadn't been there in ages, and it's ten bucks for students which is a pretty unbelievably deal for New York.
Anyways the Met was fantastic as usual; I particularily enjoyed the Modern Art wing as I hadn't seen those galleries before; everything from Salvador Dali to Andy Warhol to Roy Lichtenstein; just marvelous stuff. The classics were impressive as well; the Met. has to be the best major Art museum in the U.S I imagine, the Getty in LA is quite impressive as well, but I prefer the Met, it's more traditional and concise in my opinion. After spending most of the morning/early afternoon perousing the Met., we walked down to Lexington and found a classic greasy New York Pizza joint, where I had the first real, legitimate pizza I think I've had in about 2 years, it was absolutely orgasmic; nothin special, just fresh, thin crust, plain cheese slices.... but god they were good. As much as I love the West Coast, you people know nothing of good Pizza. And Bagels? Don't even get me started haha... While enjoying our pizza at window seats facing the street, we enjoyed thje quintessential parade of NY crazy and questionably-sane people... the old people in particular just seemed totally out of it. NY strikes me as a particularily harsh environment for old people. Anyways, I digress.....
So Yeah, life's not bad. Making the best of this little dental-work vacation to the East Coast haha. Also saw a few old friends from High School I haven't seen in forever which was kinda cool. Well, I'm off to gorge myself on the last solid food I'll probably be having for quite some time. Good thing I like Smoothies and Ice Cream haha... Wish me luck.
Later Kids,
Phil.
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