Sunday, September 6, 2009

Rubes, Josh, and Missy Rock Midtown

Hey dudes.... what a beautiful morning it is. Seeing that I woke up unintentionally at 6:30 in the morning, and I have nothing to do for another hour and a half, I figured I might as well write a post.

Yesterday, I had a really awesome time in the city. Me and my roommate went down to Midtown in the city. Since he's new to the city, he wanted to explore Manhattan, and being a New York City native, I became his impromptu tour guide. We had a lot of fun, we went to Times Square, then walked around Central Park for a while. My roommate had a great time checking out Manhattan, it was also his first Subway ride, which was made pretty interesting by a homeless man who sang "Lean On Me" on the F train, lulz. We saw a break dancing troupe in the park, which was fun to watch, except for when the head honcho of the crew kept making sexually suggestive jokes to teenage girls, while he was at least 30 something... creepy, much? Other than that, it was good times in Central Park. We actually walked halfway up the park to about 80th Sreet, which surprised me... I didn't think we walked nearly that far. Then we met up with my girlf when she got out of work, and had some pizza. It was my roommate's 1st ever authentic slice of New York pizza, which is easily the highlight of any non-New Yorker's day in the city....yes, our pizza is that delicious. Btw, it took FOREVER to find a pizza place... not because there are none in the area, but because the GPS on our phones kept us going in circles. Fail. Then we walked up to 72nd Street and Broadway and dropped off my gf on the train. Then came the only real bad part of an otherwise epic day: the unnecessarily long train ride back to the dorm. The ride shouldn't have taken any longer than an hour and maybe five minutes, but thanks to the lack of an E train at Times Square and a super long wait for the F, it took about 2 hours! Wtf! MTA,(Jamaican accent) ya dun' fuck up, mon.

So this is Labor Day weekend... thus, I get a day off of school tomorrow. Sweet. More time to procrastinate, woo! Haha.. I'm actually not procrastinating at all so far, which I'm pretty proud of. Like I said before, I want a 3.5 GPA this semester, and it would be really swell if I can get my name on the Dean's List. That would be a great way to send myself off to Europe, with kickass grades. I know without partying that much this semester, it's gonna be boring sometimes, like last night, for instance.... but the potential rewards of buckling down and doing my work are so incredibly worth the sacrifice. I mean, that's what I'm here for, anyway. I don't think people graduate high school and go to a college based on how bangin' their parties are... and if they do, then that's just asking to not get good grades, and maybe even fail out eventually. I'm really focused on school now... I actually cant wait to get assignments for the first time in my life, I'm really excited about all of my classes, no matter how nerdy that sounds, lol.

I'm working on a new song on my guitar... the working title is "They'll Come Back." It's about a dude who got dumped by his girlfriend, and can't get over it. I know, super emo...hehe, oh well, I guess that's just my song writing style. I haven't a decent size post like this in quite a while... I know, I've been slacking.... don't worry kids, Uncle Rubes will always have shiny new posts for you to play with. Still have about an hour to kill....*sigh*. I can't wait until later today... I'm going to my first ever family reunion.... that's probably gonna be fun. I'm bringing my frisbee.

It's funny how my fam never ever had a reunion in my lifetime... I wonder why that is. We're all on good terms, but we just don't hang out much... my extended family, that is. And most of us live in The Bronx, too. I'm glad we're doing this though, it's always nice to reconnect, especially with family. I recently reconnected with my cousin named after the Lord, and he's pretty awesome.... What I really want to do is learn Spanish fluently and then reconnect, well, meet for the first time, rather, the majority of my family, who lives in Puerto Rico, still. But that's a long ways away from now, if ever.

A song from "The Secret Handshake" came on my iTunes on shuffle just now... they're a pretty cool band... they have interesting songs. Well, I think I'm gonna bounce for the day.. I've got a fun filled one ahead of me. I'll write something later, or tomorrow... later.

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