Month: April 2005

At Tucson, Arizona

Yesterday, we went ot Saquaro National Park and, during the afternoon and evening hours, we went to Univ. of Arizona. In the university, we got a tour at their clean room to make camera for the coming Mar’s expedition. Very interesting. Yesterday, I could not find a place for free wireless. Today, I kind of lucky to find one. Today, we are heading to New Mexico. 🙂

Missing my poetry.

So I’m missing the reading of this poet I’m stalking. I had convinced Jeremy to take today off so I could head into the city and look at used book stores, a sheet music store next to Carnegie Hall and then go to this reading at the KGB bar. Jeremy did kind of take today off, but it just happened that he took the day off on the other side of the world. Joined a gym today, which is really strange becuase we are moving in 2 months, but it’ll be OK.

Jeremy’s at his hotel!

Hi sweetie, are you home?
Doris Lee: Yeah! Where are you?
jisaacmartin: In my hotel in Singapore
jisaacmartin: Very tired
Doris Lee: i miss you
jisaacmartin: I miss you too
Doris Lee: you got in 4 hours ago?
jisaacmartin: I don’t understand this het lag bit, why should I be tired when it is not even bed time in NY? I slept OK last night
jisaacmartin: yes I got in at 6
jisaacmartin: and then to the hotel at 7
Doris Lee: it’s bed time. it’s 10 pm sunday night. You should be wiped out
Doris Lee: i’m going to bed in a bit
jisaacmartin: Anyway I have a phone call to make at 10 (a few min) and then I have to kill time until lunch
jisaacmartin: How was your day?
jisaacmartin: I trust the kids are asleep by now
Doris Lee: good! We had a nice morning, Martin picked up the car. We ate at home, took the long walk with the doggie and went to Bard. Didn’t see the Beethoven concert, but did see Patty, Ira, Laurie, Melvin, Karen, Margurite, and Andy.
jisaacmartin: Cool, sounds like a good day
jisaacmartin: Obviously I have not much to report so far
Doris Lee: You mother made a fabulous dinner and we walked afterwards and they have Ruby which freaked Vince out because we were in Hyde Park before he realized that Ruby wasn’t there and he was sooo tired.
Doris Lee: How was Singapore air?
jisaacmartin: It was nice
Doris Lee:
Doris Lee: Who are you calling?
jisaacmartin: The seats are pretty much completely flat and only slightly sloped
jisaacmartin: Boon,
Doris Lee: Work or social?
jisaacmartin: a guy who worked in NY for a year
jisaacmartin: work
Doris Lee: Ahhh…
jisaacmartin: although I also really like the guy
Doris Lee: My parents are in Mexico now… Hee hee.
jisaacmartin: I did go out to the mall next door, but only the coffee shop is open
Doris Lee: They left a message.
jisaacmartin: Ah, they are in Mexico, an international trip
Doris Lee: Yeah baby!
jisaacmartin: Yeah, I got an email about it
Doris Lee: Cool
Doris Lee: Hmmm, what else?
jisaacmartin: I am going to go in search of a hair cut after my phone call
Doris Lee: Cool. Also look for toys and candy and toys and candy
jisaacmartin: right, they have good stuff in the airport
jisaacmartin: so I am not too worried
jisaacmartin: I think I will wait until my head clears before I buy anything besides coffee
Doris Lee: cool.
jisaacmartin: I was researching out finger lakes trip
Doris Lee: Yeah?
Doris Lee: I’m pretty excited about it.
jisaacmartin: Huang says Watkins Glen State Pa
jisaacmartin: rk is the best
Doris Lee: RK?
jisaacmartin: it is about 4-5 hours from our house and 2 from rochester/syracuse
jisaacmartin: rk is the second half of park
Doris Lee: OK
Doris Lee: yeah, i keep forgetting that patty needs to drive 6 hours home from Bard I always think it’s only 3 or 4
jisaacmartin: So the takashimaya is just around the corner
jisaacmartin: this place feels like a cross between taiwan and a beneton ad
jisaacmartin: there is a lot of diversity
Doris Lee: COOL! What have I done without the takashumaya
jisaacmartin: I watched a chinese movie on the plane and I could almost follow parts of it’
Doris Lee: ha ha
Doris Lee: really! cool, which movie?
jisaacmartin: I think if I watched the kids chinese shows like you used to I might pick stuff up
jisaacmartin: Hero,
Doris Lee: ah yes, the action movie.
jisaacmartin: It was made by zhang yimou
jisaacmartin: who made raise the red lantern etc
jisaacmartin: and it had jet li and maggie cheung
jisaacmartin: So an artsy action movie
jisaacmartin: the good part is they often talk really slow
Doris Lee: yeah.
jisaacmartin: So is Martin all set to take Vince tomorrow?
jisaacmartin: I guess I should go make my phine call now
Doris Lee: yeah, they took the car today to go to the Vanderbilt mansion
jisaacmartin: cool
Doris Lee: ok. i’m going to bed. see you later!
jisaacmartin: good night sweetie, I miss you
Doris Lee: i miss you 2!
jisaacmartin: we can web cam tomorrow night

Off to Singapore.

Jeremy just walked out the door to head to the airport. It was kind of a crazy day. I didn’t want to miss my last piano lesson of the spring semester and our friend Ruth is in town to celebrate Passover with her family and only had today from 10-2 to see Vince. So Jeremy drove to the city to see her. They went to the Natural History Museum and as soon as Vince saw Ruth, he took her hand and promptly walked away from Jeremy, Edda and the stroller. So the two of them wandered around the museum with Jeremy trying to follow. Bob was in town rehersing with his quartet and the 2nd violinist, Patty, was also there and they met up with the kid crew. Jeremy said it was quite a parade through the museum: Edda, Vince, Ruth, Jeremy, Bob, Patty, 1 cello, 1 violin and 1 double stroller with no kids sitting in it.

At lunch, since Ruth was in charge, Vince had a blue drink, Doritos, cupcake and a pretzle for lunch. I went to the mall and enjoyed a few hours without the kids in preparation for my week.

I got my period today and I’m in a much, much better mood. We’ll see how it holds out.

Grouchy again.

I’m starting to keep a log of my grouchy/happy days on my calandar. I need to know if my moods are mainly hormonal or if they actually have anything to do with anything that is happening with my life. Hopefully, it’s mainly hormonal so I can just ignore what’s happening around me.

So Jeremy is leaving for Singapore tomorrow for a week and I’m mainly grumpy about that. The two kids for 10 hours is brutal enough, for a whole week! Bleh! Argh! (Heh.) Amazon, now that they’ve introduced Amazon Prime shipping, where you pay $80 for “free” 2nd day air shipments for a year, now has really downgraded their super saver shipping so it is as if a camel is bringing my cordless phone. Our trusty Panasonic cordless phone has decided to stop charging and so I’m replacing it with some fancy Motorola thing-y which is arriving by camel sometime next month.

Tomorrow is my last piano lesson, I’ll have to pick it up again in Singapore where I believe the standards are higher and I’m a little bit freaked about it. I’m reading a book called A Personal Matter which is about a Japanese father whose first born son is born with a brain hernia and he goes around Japan meeting up with his ex-girlfriends and getting drunk and having sex with them. Hmmm, yeah, light reading. Jeremy tells me that most Nobel Prize Winners in Literature write pretty depressing books.

Today at Bright Horizons, it was Earth Day. We had purchased two really nice things, a butterfly bush and a redbud tree. It was a little bit disorganized, there was a dad there who was suppose to dig holes, but no one was around to tell him when to dig. He helped us a little bit, but for the tree, we hit rock 6 inches down. I’m pessimistic about them lasting any time at all. They are supposed to be watered and fertilized, but I’m pretty sure neither is going to happen. Oh well..