A fleeting night in the glimpse

Long time friends for the moment. Goodnight means a month to five years. This is the expat for life. I don't know why I tried to fight it because this is the life for me. I'm an expat in my own land. It is hard to say goodbye when you know it could be for years. Procrastinate as you may, he needs a she and you need the sleep. Same as it is. What am I doing here? Moving through life tasting it all. It slips by and each new experience is a balm and the draw. I can't imagine a better taste! The flavor is life and it's always new. Why not? For I am but a shrew. Would there be any value to write something that only I could understand... and only now in this moment? Probably not. Who do I see? Who waits too? Brown coat w/4 buttons and orange Vitamin H2O, black winter hat, thin black glasses, greenish blue slacks, dark brown shoes. White pitchy sweater. Becoming very abstract, my thoughts. Thoughts I cannot express. Well then, they shall be savored.

Metuchen

Winding down from what was a gorgeous weekend.
Last weekend was Halloween and was also quite nice. My team played in a tournament on Ward's Island and we went as Mario characters. I was originally going to go as Thwomp, which was cool in its obscurity, but really lame as a costume, so I ended up as Wario. Brandy made my purple overalls and this really great hat so I definitely had one of the best costumes at the tournament.
The night before the tournament, a CS friend of ours, Jeremy came in from Bethlehem, PA. Since he was going to take 278 to Staten Is anyway, I decided that I should take the train to Metuchen and ride into the city with him. I'd never been, but Metuchen turned out to have a really cute downtown and I found this cool bookstore where I picked up what is definitely on track to being my favorite cookbook. It's a sauce cookbook written by this guy who studied chemistry at UC Berkeley before spending ten years as a chef in France. The book is really well done and his style of writing works really well for my scientific mind. I have been spending a lot of time just randomly opening pages and reading. So while I was making this fateful purchase, Jeremy ran into some traffic on the highway and made the ridiculous decision to get off the highway in NJ without a map. Not sure what possessed him to do such a thing, but it did lead to me spending a lot more time in Metuchen than expected.
More later when I have the time.

Cars

Over 95% of all murders since 1975 occured within 1,000 feet of an automobile. If that isn't damning evidence against cars, I don't know what is.