eric had agreed to have a "being irate at stuff" party this afternoon after our 2:50 classes, so we met up around 4:15, and after a quick trip to the post office, got back in my car and were like "dude, what do we do now?"... for as irked at people (well just one or two in particular, not really at society as a whole) and at math i was yesterday, eric was even more frustrated than me today! (him, more at the whole educational system and at professors in general), so we made the perfect grumpy conversation pair...
anyhow, we get back in my car in the post office parking lot, and have the following chat
me: so what do we do now?
eric: i dunno
me: we go to subway and ihop and starbucks and our houses... do we know how to do anything else?
eric: dude, lets go to delaware
me: be careful what you wish for -- i don't have class again til wednesday, i so totally would right now
eric: ok, NOT really, i dunno, what do we do now?
me: we go to the ocean!
eric: it's new jersey, new jersey ocean doesn't count
me: it's the ocean, it belongs to the world, not to new jersey
eric: fine, you got a map?
(dig out my atlas, and decide perth amboy is our closest bet... it's the town right on the jersey side of the bridge to staten island... it's not the ocean per se right there, but it is where the raritan river lets out into the raritan bay, which technically IS a corner of the ocean...)
as we got on the interstate to get there, things were slow -- when i asked eric if he wanted backroads, his comment was "you know, this is fine, it's like a perfect metaphor for my life right now... stuck in traffic,,.. in NEW JERSEY"... then, he finally started cracking up instead of being vocally angstful (which is a rare state to see him in, it's moderately amusing... all his default responses to things are totally different than normal and he can never keep it up, at least being really loud about it, for too long at a time :-P)
anyhow, we arrived at the end of state st. in perth amboy (right on the snow-covered beach) as the sun was setting and came face to face with *this* view
-- for a stressful day, that really cheered both of us up, to sit back, relax, jump around in snow, and watch a gorgeous sunset over water :-)... we stayed out there for like 30-40 minutes until the sun really was all the way down and we were chilly..
a few other favorite pics of the afternoon:
eric in a garbage can... (don't ask :-P)
colorful waves at dusk, and lots of birds :-P
me, caught off guard
me in profile, caught off guard... again
seriously, just *try* to tell me this isn't one of the most gorgeous sunsets ever... you can't do it, can you? :-P
(you can see the whole set of 36 sunset pictures from this evening here -- enjoy :-P)
anyhow... we then headed back to our part of jersey for ihop for dinner, then eric made a quick run to his house and met me at mine for a csilag buli (hungarian for star party) :-)
we hadn't taken the telescope out since last august (oi), but we set up, and although the lowest powered eyepiece is MIA, we managed to find and focus in on saturn for a bit and re-acquaint ourselves with the winter constellations... AND we picked up starbucks on the way to where we go stargazing, so it was a good time all around :-P
for the first half of my day being rather long and dismal, the 2nd half was a much needed break from school reality, and fun with a good friend.
oh, and just in case it hasn't been a long enough post already... when eric came in with me to help bring the telescope back up (i have like a 4 foot long reflecting scope with a separate motorized tripod, so it's definitely 2 trips for 1 person), he started playing with our wall-sized dining room mirror... then we decided it was fun to take more photos, so enjoy :-P
oh! finally, in case you don't pay close enough attention to the sidebar, march is gonna be a freakin awesome month.
(1) alliswan plans to come to visit on her spring break (the week before mine)... she came to see me last year around the same time, and i visited her last may, but we haven't seen each other again in nearly oi... 8 months now... this should be a party... current thoughts include going to see "stomp" in NYC while she's in town :-)
(2) after alliswan's back at school, i have my own break... i should be on altar guild at church for march, so i can really only be out of town monday through friday... as such no peru or canada (current potential trips in the works with some of my friends) for me... however, i got something even better... roommate (who's been to visit me several times this fall,... most recently in december right before christmas) is back at school in columbia, south carolina and i haven't been down there to see her yet... so (a) i'm going to columbia to see her part of the world and have some fun... (b) my friend sheima (we were best of friends the first semester of freshman year of HIGH SCHOOL before she moved to virgina, although we kept very well in touch after that to the point that i stayed a couple days with her family during spring break of my senior year of HS 3 years later... we haven't been in touch as frequently, especially after she got married a few years back, but she too, is in columbia, and the plan includes me spending a night at her place and seeing her for the first time in (dude) 6 years... this should be great :-)... there's a couple other friends down that way i'm hoping to see, but roommate and sheima are the main ones to catch up with and i'm excited
(3) finally, the week after my spring break is arlene's spring break... she's a mutual friend of mine and eric's from our semester in budapest... she goes to school in washington state, and has never been out to jersey... i last saw her in august in vegas one night when she and her boyfriend were on their roadtrip and made plans to cross paths with me and eric as we started out on our own cross country trip... it'll be super cool to have her around too :-)
so yeah, march is looking to be a fabulously exciting month on all THREE counts :-) yay for spiffy friends to see and have come see me :-)
ok, seriously, enough typing for the night... time to read :-P
night y'all! :-)
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