Today’s soundtrack: alimony alimony payin’ your bills
Today at 9:12pm: paying bills online


Okay I take back what I said about enjoying teaching. Today was crappy and I was of little assistance to anyone. Then in the second class I had this smart-alecky Russian kid who’s picking it up pretty quickly, start to get all uppity.

Also, and I know I’m gonna sound like a pussy here, one of the ultra-sweaty students poured a couple pints of his toil-juice on me and it started to, er, get to me. I think I did a good job of hiding it though. No one wants to hear an assistant instructor be like “Dude I would help you, but you are gross.”

When I got back to my apartment I heard voices in the kitchen. It was:

- my roommate Shady
- Shady’s girlfriend
- Reiko (our old friend from back in the day, just moved back to NYC)
- Photographer Mike and
- Mike’s sidekick/fellow photographer Tomi-kun a/k/a Tommy.

As I dumped my gear in front of the washing machine, Tommy pointed out I’ve got bags under my eyes. (Ain’t been sleeping right lately.)

Tommy’s this talented Japanese photographer Mike brought around a couple months back, and since then he’s been crew. He cooks a fuck of a lot so we frequently get to enjoy it.

Usually he cooks, one of us pays for the chow and the other does dishes or picks up dessert, you get the idea. The other night we had pork chops a la Tommy, which we’ve started calling Tommy-chops. The guy’s good with a camera and good with a frying pan. I just bought 24 legs of chicken and now Tommy’s whipping up some Japanese dish called Nam-ba chicken. If they’re anything like the Tommy-chops this will be a killer meal.

Right now Shady’s girlfriend, Cee (jewelry and textiles designer) is catching up with Reiko in our living room doing girl-stuff. Cee is showing Reiko a bunch of jewelry she did, they’re so cute together. They’re both like me, early thirties, but still both very girl-like.

My roommate started taking Muay Thai and he just came back from class. Tomorrow him and Cee are leaving for Norway for ten days. Cool, right? I want to go to Scandanavia. I been to Copenhagen quite a long time ago (man it was nice) and Finland is big on my travel list, right after Cuba.

I need to get out of the country for a spell. I go overseas every other year, and this is the year. I’ve heard the Finnish are famous for disliking conversation but I wanna check out Helsinki. I want to smoke Cuban cigars and browbeat Finns.

Talk to you later, I gotta help Tommy cut the chicken.