NEW JERSEY??

12 10 2008

Yes. I am home for the first time since August. For the next two days, I will reconnect with my childhood and experience some serious suburban culture shock. I’ll keep you posted as I go along. But right now, it’s time to eat takeout Chinese food from Kam Luang Kitchen – the same place my family has been going to for over a decade. Okay, so along with culture shock, home also revives some familiar rituals.

Update: Okay, so maybe I didn’t keep you posted while I was at home.  Maybe because my tendency toward lethargy and television (they go hand-in-hand) completely overthrew my focus while taking hostage my ability to be productive.  To be fair, I did accomplish some reading AND I got a haircut.  As soon as my hair actually looks clean and my new Macbook (!) is purchased, I’ll post a picture.

So pretty!

So pretty!


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What I’ve Missed About Home

29 06 2008
  • lightning bugs
  • my friends
  • driving late at night with the windows down
  • Princeton – the ice cream, the fountain, the quaintness
  • homemade Thai food
  • my doorbell that plays “Frosty the Snowman” year-round (& has since high school)
  • my parents

at Thai temple

(Mom at Thai temple, looking adorable)


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NYC is a drug (+ Jersey Girl, the movie)

27 06 2008

I spontaneously decided to come home for the weekend. I haven’t been back since mid-May, which is a long time considering I’m an only child and home is so close. NYC was getting to be too stressful – as it usually does after a while – and I needed a short break (no threat of withdrawal) to detox in New Jersey.

+Update:

Since I’m in NJ, there is little else to do but watch TV. Or, rather, I have plenty of other productive things I should be doing, but since I have no TV to watch in NYC, this is my only opportunity to do so. Ironically, Jersey Girl is on right now (yes, as in the movie starring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler that came out circa Bennifer, v. 1). And yes, I’m still watching the movie despite the fact that I’ve seen it before and that the acting isn’t all too great. Plotline = Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a Jersey-born media publicist who used to work in NYC, raises his daughter after his wife (J.Lo!) dies at childbirth. They live with the grandfather in Jersey (good old “Pop” is actually played by the late George Carlin), though Ollie struggles between pursuing his old life in NYC and staying in NJ. Not that I’m in the same situation at all, but it’s interesting to see different perspectives on the NJ-NYC relationship.


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