Saturday, September 1

17:00 :: Older

I feel like my creative ability has been going downhill ever since my junior year of high school. The teenage, angst-driven thought patterns, no matter how subjective and improper, had a sense of honesty that I will probably never ever be able to match again.

From Bleak Chamber Tactics (May 3, 1999), a modern lullaby I once dropped:

you've got your father's eyes
this i know for sure
because i had them taken out
and put into your op sockets

It used to be that I dreamt of beautiful cottages in the hills of archaic France, a wife and kids and a nice orchard for those summer days when the sun and the wind become friends and my next door neighbour. But things change: Every bead of fantasy that existed in my mind is being penetrated by reality. Not exactly electric sheep — I dream of the Nasdaq.

12:02 :: Notice

I just woke up, wearing shirt inside out, with slight recollections of taking it off the night before and wrangling random girls with it.

And I'm hurting a bit. K-Town hurts.

Thursday, August 30

18:39 :: Time

Wake up: 8AM. Take 4 train from Fulton Street to Union Square. Switch to 6 train due to overcrowding in the 4. Head up to 43rd Street. Drop off passport for renewal. Take 6 down to Astor Place. Supervise over Freshmen Orientation on 4th Street: Stern School of Business, the Undergraduate College. The time is 11AM. Impressed. Leave at 4:30PM. 6 from Astor Place back up to 43rd Street. Pick up passport — It is renewed. At Grand Central, have to wait for 5 train due to the 4 train being at full capacity. Come back down to Fulton Street. Walk home to Water Street: 6:15PM. 25 minutes later (now), take 6 back to Astor Place. Will walk over to St. Mark's Place: Go Sushi Japanese Restaurant. Dinner.

Later: K-Town? We'll see.

01:20 :: Festen

Having done this journal-esque outlet for nearly four years, it almost feels unnatural not to. Initially, it was quite "Yo, I did this today. It was tight and shit." But now, it has shades of some sort of magical psychoanalysis of my inner psyche and surroundings fused with plasma from some monitor that is too expensive for my wallet — quite Doogie Howser MD-esque, one would imagine.

That leads me into tonight's lesson: The world is good. People are good. And most importantly, I have good friends.

Tuesday night, Peter, Matt, Josephine and David took me out for my birthday. We hit up Sushi Sen-Nin on 34th Street. Some absolutely great tasting food there. The fish tasted fresh and the pieces were unusually large. If you get a chance, I highly recommend their spider roll: it melts in your mouth as if it were warm butter. Afterwards, we headed to Chinatown for karaoke. $25 a person, all you can drink, all you can sing, all night long — I dare you to find a better deal in New York City than that!

In short, I had a great time. A huge thank you to those guys for a great birthday. Usually, due to the fact that my birthday is situated around the beginning of the school year, nearly everyone lets it pass by. And that's what made this even more special — Plus, the fact I needed a taxi to get home alone should be evidence enough of a night well enjoyed.

Tuesday, August 28

03:32 :: Twenty

Approximately 210 minutes of being twenty years old.

Love me, no?

A two-thousand mile reboot (Houston to New York City), a two year reboot (Dequinix.com launched August 28, 1999), a twenty year reboot (yours truly born on August 28, 1981) gives birth to dequinixEIGHT :: reboot. We hope you like.

Now, in the wee hours of the night, as my eyes are droopy and my legs are aching, my voice is shaken and my mind is boggled, just one thought comes to me: Another bloody year until I'm twenty-one?

Yah, the "grass is greener..." cliche never ceases to amaze me at its absolute grip of reality. But: It's okay. I'm happy. Life is good.

Note: This is the first site of the dequinix.com series that is not complete at its launch. But, as I hope many of you will not only understand but can also relate, time can become limited this time of the year. Expect tweakings to occur in the near future, along with the addition of links that you may not be able to access as of now. Once again, we hope you like.