Cynically Optimistic

Now back to regularly scheduled nonsense. I have a ton of photos to post from my unplanned trip to NC. A lot of old family photos, some creepy graveyard stuff, and wobbly jello treats. I also had the best landing in New York ever. The pilot called it an "Expressway Landing", which meant if you were on the left side of the plane you got a beautiful view of New Jersey's oil refineries, Staten Island's landfills, the Statue of Liberty, Manhattan, Shea Stadium and the National Tennis Center. All of this, then the plane makes a sharp left and touches down and slams on the brakes. Those runways at LGA are short, yo!

Tonight I went to the Roosevelt Field Mall to try finding a brown sportcoat to wear at my remaining three grad school interviews. No such luck, although the guy at Bloomingdale's let me try on a $1000+ jacket that I liked, but was "European Cut", meaning my American gut was showing. Nordstrom's was a bust, as was Macy's. I also thought ahead and went by the Apple Store, hoping they'd be able to replace my tab key and maybe tighten my LCD hinge. (Nobody likes a floppy LCD) Unfortunately, they didn't have time to help me because they were "so busy" meaning that too many 14 year old girls were in line ahead of me with pink iPod mini problems. I tried waiting them out and got online in the store, but it just wasn't happening for me. At one point, one of the staff members wearing a "genius" shirt walks by me, and asks, "ooh, is that a new Mac Book Pro?". And I'm all, "um... hello... this is a 4 year old TiBook that's scratched to hell!"

Genius my ass.