media sponge

tonight i watched two episodes of bad girls club, this week's rupaul's drag race, finished an episode of channel 4's embarrassing bodies, and watched a documentary on virgins. 

hellokitty episode

watching this week's episode of rupaul's drag race last night made me feel angry and restless for hours and i had to go to bed early. i rarely disagree with ru's eliminations but this time i felt the fire.

my life in seasons

i recently had my first experience of having someone i was previously involved with get married to someone else. it's not a relationship i pine for but it's a really unsettling feeling, even when you haven't responded to his e-mails in literally years but only out of anxiety.

lately i've been thinking about my life in seasons of game of thrones. first season, i was dating bagel who wanted to watch the show because he had seen people talking about it on reddit. i spent most of the episodes too drunk to understand what was going on, but enjoyed it nonetheless. second season, bagel abandoned ship and i continued watching the show on my own. my housemate in mid-city, chlom, always referred to the show as bone of thrones. third season i watched in bushwick at aijia's apartment, where we'd cuddle griffin and drink wine and watch the show while perched on craggs' bed and attempted to avoid drunkenly splashing the wine all over the sheets. aijia had read most of the books and was always able to explain wtf was going on. by season four we'd moved in together and watched it in our apartment huddled on the living room couch on willoughby, boozing and waiting for the new episode which had just aired to be uploaded for the pleasure of pirates everywhere. during the show we'd pause the show every few moments to discuss wtf was going on. fifth season is the first season in two years that i'm watching without her, where i'm in florida gchatting to ask if she's watched the episode yet, and i've watched the first two episodes thus far with my housemate/little bro figure kev, who sometimes talks during the episode but i forgive him.

after all

A treatise On how coincidences on coincidences build on coincidences

I was supposed to go to Typhoon Lagoon, one of the water parks, today, but I was feeling kind of sick again and spent most of the day drinking a frappuccino in the sun at Starbucks and then sitting on the floor of my living room watching Millionaire Matchmaker and Kendra on Top. My roommate, Sinay, was at Clearwater Beach most of the day and while today Mrs. Tuckersman was telling me about how it is fall turning winter over in New York, here in Florida my roommate came home sunburned and looking like a cooked lobster.

In the evening we spontaneously decided that we really needed dessert and, more specifically, chocolate. We decided to go to Epcot in search of chocolate and we wandered the World Showcase (Jefferson Starship was playing again, 'We Built This City') until we settled on Italy and Sinay would have a gelato cookie sandwich and I would have tiramisu. Our decisions had been made and we were getting in line when I decided that I wanted to find a bathroom, but the closest was over at the American Pavilion. Once we were there, Italy felt much too far away and carrot cake at the American Pavilion became an acceptable option. We got in line and at the register the cashier girl looked at my roommate said, 'You go to Miami!' and apparently Sinay had been an RA in her college housing back in Ohio. We took our carrot cakes to some nearby picnic tables and I looked at a table of people sitting and realized that one of them was Patrick, my parade trainer in Tomorrowland in 2006. I had literally found out via our dominant social network yesterday that he is now living in Orlando and here I'd spotted him sitting at a picnic table in the dark, over 2,500 miles away from where I'd last seen him. I was explaining to his friends that 8 years ago Patrick had taught an 18-year-old me how to work on the parade route at Disneyland when I realized that one of his friends was an Imagineer I'd had lunch with a few weeks prior, whom I'd sat next to and had pizza with as part of a work function, with whom midway through our conversation we had realized that I actually know his younger brother because we both worked in Shanghai at the Expo in 2010 together. I hate to say it but it is a small world _____ ___.   

nine fine irishmen

my whole fambly is in vegas at one of my favorite pubs. i'm in the outskirts of orlando watching tlc on my couch.

steps for moving to orlando

3am, woke up hot, couldn't sleep anymore. looked at things in the dark

6:30am, woke up anxious 

7:30am, woke up anxious, looked at things in the light until alarm at 8am

8:15am, said goodbye to aijia 

9am, said goodbye to jed 

cried

9:30am, said goodbye to weaver, jumped in car service to queens

10am, arrived at LGA

10:50am, boarded plane

cried

11:30am, plane started rolling around on the tarmac

talked to seatmate to the right, a NY lawyer who used to be an intern at Universal Studios

talked to seatmate to the left, a professional racehorse trainer, did the in-flight crossword together

2pm, plane landed in Orlando

took train to baggage claim
claimed bag

2:30pm, took taxi 11 miles to towing company to pick up Snoopy the car

drove to hotel in Lake Buena Vista

promptly got on the internet, ended up videochatting cerrito

6pm, walked around Downtown Disney in 100-degree weather

drank a margarita while walking 

drank a beer in an outdoor Irish pub

8pm, had dinner at a brewery, talked to barmate, a welder who works on cell towers and goes to techno concerts

went back to hotel, watched reality tv about botched plastic surgeries and child dancers

Fifa

I'm watching the final world cup game of Argentina v. Germany at a bar in Williamsburg right now and I think I could hands down win the award for lowest blood pressure in the room.

new york timekeeping

I mete out my weeks in Game of Thrones and my months in metro cards

night off

I had a really really good presentation of my thesis tonight for someone from NYU engineering and an artist from Eyebeam (!) and decided to celebrate by watching Game of Thrones and taking the night off. Except now that the episode is over, I truly have no idea what to do with my time. I have been literally rolling around on my floor.

pony i know

tonight i learned that one of my schoolmates is the voice of one of the ponies on My Little Pony (the show that's currently on air, not the one we grew up with. though apparently the theme song has not changed.)

fraggle

In celebration of my recent decision to one name one of my future dogs Fraggle, here are some pictures I like from Fraggle Rock:

gorgs

trash heap

alex mack

During the show's heyday, children who met Larisa Oleynik (and were too young to understand special effects) would often ask her to "morph" for them. Rather than try to explain things, she would quickly glance around, then tell them "Not here - everybody would see!".

chocolate rink

Mrs. Tuckersman and I did not end up going ice skating yesterday. We had sushi at Osaka and then went and ate chocolate cake and drank hot chocolates with espresso ('torinos') instead. And then we went and watched reality tv ('World's Fattest Man' and 'Prison Wives') and ordered Thai delivery instead. and then we went to a mostly-puppet variety show in Williamsburg. Great day.

bad daughter

this is a bad thing to say but i really wish my dad wouldnt talk to me when im trying to watch long island medium

greek

totally forgot that this happened to me

ssn 2, episodes 18 and 19

thanksgiving photos

my thanksgiving domestic chen pie extravaganza. i spent all of wednesday making these while watching a marathon of the saga of The Little Couple's adoption of their Chinese baby Will. they turned out even better than expected and a request for a repeat apple pie for christmas has been filed by mama chen.

some nice thanksgiving pictures taken by my cousin

cinderella

Today was dedicated to brewing hot coffee, hanging clothes, performing feats of sweat-runs-down-your-legs yoga, boxing my online shopping returns, blowing an unreasonable sum online shopping for more things, eating leftovers and watching Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss, making mediocre Thai curry with sauce out of a bag, e-mailing with Katya, drinking iced coffee and laughing with Aijia at Swallow, getting caught in a full-sun rain storm and getting soaked and screaming through the streets, scrubbing the shower free of its multi-colored molds, washing dishes, watering plants, caring for Leonardo da Fishy, stitching broken things,  meticulously picking air fuzz out of my air conditioner filter, not drinking, myopically staring at my computer screen, and conversating with the Bagel for our telephone hour which apparently lasted two hours but blew by when time snuck away from us. Chatting on the phone while kicking around on my bed always makes me feel like Gidget. Tomorrow: hopefully more intellectual endeavors and band practice with Mrs. Tuckersman. 

epic tv

my emotions are see-sawing after an intense day of television. i finally watched the finale of rupaul's drag race and episodes 5 & 6 of game of thrones and i'm still riveted.

sunday afternoon

sunday afternoon feeling generally blue, watching drag race with trouble

day after glasslands

i'm hung over in bed watching say yes to the dress big bliss