i spent 13 hours on a train today (xmas day). i took amtrak from charlotte nc to new york city. then i cabbed over to pete's place in brooklyn, only to find that i had the wrong set of keys. so i had a few drinks at great lakes and then came back into manhattan to spend the night at the w on union square. tomorrow egg will be home and i can get into pete's place. huzzah.

i want to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to elly and oliver for causing them to move away from new york. what an idjit i was to give up that palace in park slope. being back in nyc for just a few hours made me realize this. the bay area is great for gaming and hiking, but for good clean vodka and jager swilling fun, you can't beat this place. doesn't matter how long i'm gone, brooklyn always welcomes me with open arms. so my goal for 2005 is to get a job that will let me move back and forth between oak and nyc as i will. everybody cross yr fingers!

also let me just say that it's absolutely heart stoppingly shocking how cheap homes are in very nice areas of charlotte. my friends jason and austin have a place that must be three times the size of the house i grew up in, as big as the biggest of my friends' dot com millionaire houses, for ONE SIXTH the price. right on the lake. i'm so jealous. makes me want to invest in real estate down there. hell, since i found out that there are goths in charlotte, i could almost envision living there.