nyc ny nye

we’re out in new york for the week, for new year’s and to visit hmc’s best friend jo. we flew out on the red eye on monday night/tuesday morning, which was fine athough i couldn’t quite get comfortable to get a really restful sleep and instead kept waking up to readjust. all the window seats were taken, and i was going to sit each of us in an aisle across from each other, but hmc wanted me to sit next to her, so i ended up in the middle, which is perhaps the worst seat for sleeping. what we do for love, i guess.

it was raining lightly when we got here, but it stopped after a couple of hours (which we spent asleep at jo’s), and it’s been relatively nice and warm, only in the 40’s and 50’s so far, which is great for new york this time of year. haven’t really done much as of yet; hmc’s still time zone adjusting. we ate at this tibetan natural food restaurant, which was yummy, except for the traditional barley soup, which was pretty fucking tasteless. they also had a great fuzzy yak which we were scheming to steal but were foiled at the last minute. already hatching plans to go back to abscond with it.

oh, and we saw tim burton’s new film, big fish. which was surprisingly mainstream. the trailers make you think it’s going to be all fantasy and tall tales-like, but it ends up being a mostly hearwarming family friendly movie, with a little bit of fanastic elements. fine but shmaltzy; perhaps his most mainstream movie to date.