Andee from the internet.

Well okay, two.

fuck. three am. why am I awake... oh well, play on LJ time. I should make a post about the impending trip to NY. But I don't have a good NYC icon... no, the subway ones don't quite cut it, I need something kinda generic and iconic - like times square or something. Something people will be all like a-ha! new york! *makes new icon* Not really what I want to do, but will do for now. hey, while I'm at it remember those snowstorm pics I took with the phone a while ago? wasn't I going to make one into an icon? *makes new icon* *makes default icon* ... damn. Still have thirty someodd left... and two more in the pipe...

That's more or less my train of thought at the beginning of this entry. Course the best icon I saw in the last week was Penn Jillette saying "Shut the fuck up!" No subtitles. It's pretty plain what he's saying. So wanted to steal.

Course instead of making the aforementioned post I want to go to sleep again... *yawn*

Anyways, it's official - this trip to NY I will have the company of a morlock. We're going to head down on Saturday morningish and come back Monday morningish, since neither of us have work on MLK day (he said something about coming home, finding our white girls and doing some overcoming... well ok, the overcoming was me. Yes, we're going to hell. Shut up.)

This is going to be fun for many reasons, the most important of which being if I bring someone with me it not only means that I automatically don't have to spend the entire weekend cooped up in The House, but I get to play tour guide on crack. Seriously, one of my favorite things to do is meet up with people I know that didn't grow up in teh City and play tourist. It's mutually beneficial - if they've got a New Yorker with them that actually knows what they're doing they're not going to look all "hey! I'm a tourist! Mug me!" And I get some serious pavement pounding time and the chance to go places I haven't been in a while. So... I'm kind of excited.

I'm also a little nervous. morlock gets to meet the crotchety old man I call Dad. I'm pretty sure he's going to fall under the umbrella of "Andee's weird friends" my parents have been lumping all of my associates under since, oh, middle school, and that's really fine - explaining him would probably make Dad's head explode. :)

Anycrap. morlock and I have been piecing together a bit of a packed itinerary:

• Nintendo World (really that's how the idea of this trip got started)
  
  
• The transit museum (I've never been, which considering my subway fetish, is rather inexcusable)
  
  
• Times Square and its environs. Just cause.
  
  
• Grand Central - I was making a crack to sundart recently about how they put a transit museum annex and a satellite of Junior's in the basement of Grand Central so that the hipster Manhattanite yuppies don't have to a) go to Brooklyn or b) risk getting shot, though by the time they put those in, both the neighborhoods around Junior's and the museum had started the scary gentrification process that's been sweeping the city like a rash, sort of making the point of the satellites moot. Still, I'm for Junior's being in a more accessible place - somewhere that makes cheesecake I will deign to eat (normally I hate cheesecake) has something going for it... but I digress.
  
  
• General Andee stomping grounds - 34th street, the Village, 23rd street, possibly the south end of Central Park West, maybe a bit of Prospect Park and Park Slope if we can fit them in... oooh, haven't been to Cousin John's Bakery in a while...
  
  
• OMG so much subway riding. Note to self, bring the fucking Metrocards home with me, 'cause they're doing so much good in Massachusetts. Honestly, I think morlock would be happy just if we skipped the rest (not the Nintendo store though) and spent the weekend traversing all 656 miles of in-service track... can you do that in one weekend? I wonder.

I'm also playing with the idea of hitting either the Apple Store (cause it looked really cool in this week's Advocate), MoMA (they're featuring Pixar, but ouch, admission (we've got student IDs but still), and eep, museums on weekends - crowded!), or the Museum of the Moving Image (again with the whole museum problem - the Transit museum by contrast is rumored to be dead quiet and confirmed to be dirt cheap). Will probably ditch all three ideas and head for quieter ground somewheres. And some hangout time with Dad will be in order, plus he made some threat about taking us + Amanda and Alé to dinner somewhere (not Stan, though - he must be working)... wonder if they've been to Jekyll and Hyde's? I also need to spend some quality time picking at Mom's piano (hmm, pack music), and I'm thinking of bringing the SNES down with me so that morlock and I will have something to do at home that's *ahem* parentally kosher, since I'm not bothering with the complicated explanation.

Soooooooo, yeah. We'll be busy. :) oh and jaicat and aisha7576, this is your official notice - if you would like to tag along for any bit of the above, call me. :)

and now, back to sleep.

morlock finally finds out this morning what his birthday present is after putting up with me teasing him about it since last week.

morlock: Why are you dressed up?
kjpepper: For tonight.
M: Where are we going?
KJ: [mysteriously] Chicopee.
M: OMG we're gonna get shot.
KJ: [peeved] We're not going to get shot.
M: You're going to get me shot for my birthday.
KJ: No I'm not.
M: [suspiciously] You're not taking me to Anthony's, are you?
KJ: If I were taking you to a strip club, I'd tell you.
M: [relieved] Ok.
KJ: I wouldn't just spring that on you!
M: Thank you.
KJ: Besides, Anthony's is in South Hadley. We're going to Chicopee.
M: It's right on the line. It's still on Memorial Drive.
KJ: Oh. Well, we're going to Memorial Drive...
M: Are we going to the HuKeLau?
KJ: Yep.
M: [suspiciously] Who's playing?
KJ: Someone who's going to give you stiffy material for weeks.
[pause]
M: [incredulously] Caroline Rhea is NOT playing the HuKeLau!
KJ: [with big "I win everything" grin] Yes she is.
M: [tacklehugs KJ]

birthday + keeping track of your partner's favorite stand-up comedians = I think I just got the best girlfriend evar award this morning.

Now please don't let the show suck.