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February 07, 2004
where'd the cheese go?
yesterday was my 30th birthday, and we (Pete and the visiting-from-SF Greg and Summer) celebrated by dining at Aunt Sallie's, swinging by the Great Lakes for a couple drinks and a meetup with Nick, and then heading into Manhattan to Bulgaria. this last place is i think the Bulgarian community center or some such. it was filled with beautiful sweaty people dancing to a band playing what seemed to my uneducated ears to be traditional music, but really might have been eastern European top 40 for all i know. i got home around 3.30am, headed upstairs to boot heartily, then went back down to finish off the birthday cake Elly brought home for me from Two Little Red Hens.
rested and recuperated all of today. discovered that Naidre's TBLT is way better than the breakfast sandwich. headed over to Pete's around 9 for homemade pizza and DVDs (Hedwig and Hard Boiled). Zach (visiting from LA) showed up a little after i did, and we went out after midnight. first tried Loki on 5th ave which has a nice dark comfortable interior but was filled with meatheads and girls with back fat oozing over their painted-on jeans. leaving half-filled drinks on the table, we headed back up the road to the Great Lakes and hung out there for the rest of the night, after which we headed down to the diner at 9th st and 5th ave for drunken late night grease feeding.
tomorrow is the big birthday bash at the Three of Cups. if you are in NYC, feel free to join us from 8 to 11 or so, after which we'll probably move on to other bars.
once this week of self-punishment is over, i'm starting Atkins again and getting a gym membership. i've consumed way too much nicotine and sugar over the last couple months. somehow i've still managed to lose 15# since Xmas. i think i might be slowly fading away.
Posted by bcm at February 7, 2004 05:34 AM