Confessions of a Korean-American Man in New York City

Alright kids, it's almost 1am and I can't sleep. My inability to sleep means I blog and therefore your gain. So what to talk about? I'm finished packing for a quick trip to Philly then to Chicago and back for Esto's ghoulish Halloween party this weekend at her phat pad on the upper east side. Esto IM'd me earlier tonight asking if I was going to make it out to her shindig, and she tried enticing me with the fact that her party will be populated with ladies. Esto should know that it really doesn't matter if the ratio is 100:1, I'm showing up b/c Esto's gotta phat pad and she's a great hostess. If I recall, Esto has hot white girlfriends. Anyway, she did ask me to bring guys b/c of the overweighted ratio of women to men, but why should I dilute the party with dudes. Just kidding Esto. I'll ask around if anyone wants to come. Btw, I'm not dressing up b/c I don't do Halloween. But if I were to dress up, I'd arrive dressed as Judge Ito or Shortround from Indiana Jones.

I'm heading to Chicago this week for an offsite. I like Chicago and the deep dish pizza. It's a great town but I wouldn't live there b/c I'm a coastal kinda of guy. Living off of Lake Michigan is not considered coastal, at least not in my book. Ahhhh the offsite. A time to hear guest lecturers and evenings of food, fun, and drinks. Hopefully more of the latter which will make the evening festivities more fun and the food that much tastier. Offsites are about bonding and take a break from the mundane so we can sharpen the saw. And upon returning, we yell "charggggggggggge!"

Go get Grand Theft Auto 4 when it comes out b/c a girl I know was the model for the soon to be cover. She's licking a lollipop and according to her, the artist "enhanced" her.

This sucks. I can't sleep. I'm in the dark blogging. I don't want to turn on the TV because that'll be more stimulation to the brain which may exacerbate my temporary insomnia.

Last week I drank way to much. I was out 3 straight nights, which means alcohol was consumed in large quantities. I dropped by the upstairs at Son Cubano for a work shindig. I like that place a lot b/c the vibe downstairs is great, especially when they have live music. Upstairs is pretty cool with a great room to have a private party.

I've definitely cooled off at work. I don't work as hard as I did a month ago. I'm still working long hours but the intensity isn't there and my mind is starting to wander about other things and stuff outside of work. This is all a good thing. Not to long ago I was waking up early in the morning stressed out.

What sucks is that I can't even triage correctly my sleep issue right now. There's nothing racing through my mind and there are no heavy thoughts. Trust me on this, there are no significant thoughts in my head other than redecorating my apt. I may go retro like Darko or Jason's apt. If I buy Molten Brown soap, that will bring me that much closer to looking like Jason's apt. He's got the nice fixtures and the very white bathroom. Oh congrats on the new baby.

Wait, I know what may be keeping me up tonight. I'm so glad the city of NY allows street maintenance and construction to occur during the night when no one is doing anything but trying to sleep. Arrrghhhhh! There's this loud hissing sound outside like they're releasing air from the sewers. Well, it's really like the sound of that thing dentists put in your mouth to clean out the garbage in your mouth. Maybe it is that constant noise that's keeping me up.

So this weekend, I disposed of Darko on the golf course. We went to the New York Country Club which should be called the Korean Country Club b/c 90% of the golfers are Korean. Even the white starter said to me, "is this a Korean holiday today?" We were able to sneak on earlier without the help of the clueless, but very well endowed (and Korean) register girl in the pro shop. I don't meet to many ditzy Korean girls but I met one this past weekend. I smoked Darko, but I will say that he had rentals so beating him by almost 18 strokes isn't a fair assessment of his game. With clubs, it would been closer by 9 strokes.

OK, I'm going to try to sleep. Let's see how it goes.