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I've been procrastinating on updating this thing because I've been telling myself that I need to figure out what I'm doing here. Should I just keep randomly updating about my life? Should I pick a theme for the posts (book reviews, food porn, etc) and try to stick with it?

But now I think that was really just me be lazy and you know what, I'm just going to post whatever I feel like posting (for real, not like once every three weeks). What you have missed in the meantime: Rosa came to visit (from Texas!). She is the mouse in this picture.
Then Cheng and friends came to visit (from Ohio... duh).
Plus Angela and friends came to visit for her bday. So basically the last days of my summer were filled with wonderful visitations but alas, that means I was too lazy to take any pictures for myself which means I haven't got any more evidence of recent shenanigans. Not that I've been up to much... just work, laundry, and catching up on TV watching.

Which, btw, is pretty exciting. I mean the Gossip Girl kids are at NYU making me all nostalgic (except when they make things up like ROOFTOP DRINKING PARTIES and then I just get angry). Mad Men is beautifully written (as usual) and yet still shocking (lawnmower in the office + drinking = bad things). SYTYCD is back and I can't wait for the 30 Rock premiere, especially since I saw them filming an awesome looking episode outside my office building recently.

And yes exciting things are happening in publishing too (though not, I should note, in movies. I can't remember the last time I saw a really good contemporary movie). No I haven't gotten myself a copy of The Lost Symbol and no, it's not even on my reading list. I did spend a good deal of time at The Strand the other day and found some cool East Asian books to add to that list, however. Now I just have to get my butt over to the library to request them.

Lastly, in terms of food the most recent new restaurant I have tried was the Hand Pulled Noodle place on Doyer St. Beijing niu rou mian it was not, so needless to say my undying craving for that 6 kuai bowl of noodles/beef/veggies/quail eggs has not been fulfilled. But for only 5 bucks it was definitely satisfying.

I'm not going to leave off by revealing my weekend plans because then I will be forced to blog about them at a later date, instead of waiting till next week to recap. Hah. Let's see if I can outwit my own laziness-ness.