Got a Tinder date after work today lol. This should be hilarious. Accompanied my mom for a 5:30AM spin class today, everyone was tremendously middle-aged but it was a surprisingly solid workout. Early morning exercise is the absolute best thing ever, just gotta get yourself moving. Turns out the abandoned house that my friends and I were chilling in, which got shut down after someone got caught trying to steal our amps and a drum kit, was actually inhabited by a few Mexican squatters that went to work during the day and then came back to the crib at night. Turns out, the creepy wind-up monkey toy that was sitting at the top of the stairs with a bowtie on its head wasn't placed there by one of us for shits and giggles.
Life's a gamble!
What is the girl like? Good luck. I tried Tinder for a month but never got a match or a decent conversation, so I got rid of it. Tinder was so boring for me. It was just swipe, swipe, swipe with very little personality to the profiles. Ok Cupid, Plenty of Fish and strangely enough Craigslist was much more funner for me and it occasionally led to dates and sex.
Tinder is super, super duper weird. It's insanely awkward 99% of the time. We had a mutual friend though and she kinda set us up so we were able to skip a lot of the awkwardness. I was just praying this girl was half genuine and she kinda almost was :D Super wealthy family though and she was jaded to shit (lives across from the Empire) but actually knowledgeable.
There's a french restaurant-ish chain in NYC called Pain Quotidien, it's decently classy and a really warm/homey setup. They have these huge communal tables which is always fun. Then hopefully we'll go bang or something.
clapping hands emojisThen hopefully we'll go bang or something.
Went really smoothly, she was super cool and definitely attractive, but I decided not to go for the "big bang" if you will– we just chilled for a while at a park after eating and I walked her home. I was half-expecting a lot less cute girl I talked to on Tinder and much more Gabe Newell with three dicks or something. Definitely exceeded expectations. Are you in/around NYC??? Why the hell aren't we hanging out??
I'm glad your date went well and you didn't get seduced by the tri-phallused Gabe Newell of fantasy. Is there a date #2 happening or naw? And lolno on the NYC bit. I spent 3 days there in the Spring and one of my primary touristy activities was eating, that's all. I definitely want to go again, but too much time there would drive me crazy.
A patent litigation firm in the Empire Goddamn State Building. It's a team of 20 ballers, half of whom come to work in shorts, that just grind all day and night until they meet the deadline and then get fucked up and take the next day off. One of our most recent clients won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics; one of the partners had me go to the hardware store and turn the conference room into a lab so we can physically test infringing products. We have poker nights. It's paradise, work hard play hard. This is the view when I swivel 180 on my chair. That's right, I have a swivel chair and it's fire. 
It's very temporary, so I'm trying to make the best of it. Sorry for bragging so much on the 'Ski:D What do you do?
Working too, I like it mostly. It's at the bank but my department is know as the shit disturbers so it's pretty fun :) airBNBing an apartment and working on side stuff too. Otherwise, i'm living the summer life too seeing friends and whatnot but past week has been kinda quiet on that side. Half my friends are leaving Montreal, so goodbye parties coming up. Fkin sucks, gotta find new friends.
Dude, it's a kick-ass view. There's a lot of energy in that view, and you can get the same sort of majesty from it that you would from a mountain range. I used to take the train from Whitefish MT to Chicago IL. It would basically start in Glacier National Park amongst some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the US. -Huge mountains, waterfalls etc. Then, MANY hours later we would be in Chicago and you'd get out right downtown amongst some of the largest buildings in the US. Honestly, it's a similar energy. Glad you are digging what you are doing. But non need to apologize for that view at all. It's fantastic! Have a great day
I get what you're saying. The marvel of this view is more invoking of the power and energy that is surging through this city, rather than a breathtaking mountain range or something. It's also not the best side of the office: This is the uptown-facing side, Brooklyn in the far right past the skyscrapers. The first one I posted is the NJ-facing side over the river. Idk, I think it's pretty crazy. Imagine how much happened within the frame of each shot in just the instant that I took these photos.
Now that's a thought to think over. Maybe I'll write a short story based on that. Sounds appealing. As for the view... I used to marvel at it, too. I had a wallpaper of an American city on my desktop, and that view brought warmth to my heart. NYC doesn't give that. Now that I think of it, the city is scary: it's too big, too populous, too damn ugly from upstairs - a nightmare for a deep introvert like myself. That being said, I think I'd love to walk it early in the morning in the summer.Imagine how much happened within the frame of each shot in just the instant that I took these photos.