Monday, June 13, 2005
あばよ和邦 (Farewell Kazu)
Back in NYC after another night in the 'burbs. As I explained yesterday we went to the movies. After some debate we settled on Crash, a movie getting a lot of positive buzz. Unfortunately I thought the movie was completely ludicrous and I'm not just saying that because someone decided to cast Ludacris in a dramatic role. The movie was chock full of one-dimensional stereotypes, none of whom behaved in any manner resembling a real person. Dylan really liked it though so we had a quasi-debate on the matter driving home.
While I returned via train this afternoon my phone rang much to my surprise. It was Kazu. He's going back to Japan tomorrow which means I'm not going to see him for a long time. Although he is not very familiar with the city I was able to communicate to him how to meet me at Grand Central. We walked around midtown for a while, chatting and such, eventually stopping at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Even though we were just blocks from the UN Headquarters Kazu was much more interested in the Trump World Tower, especially when I told him that Derek Jeter lives there (I think). We went uptown and I helped him plan his trip to the airport. I offered to take him to dinner tonight as a going-away gesture but he already had plans made. So I bid him (and Jung Eun) farewell.
I hope Kazu and I get together again in Japan. He spent three weeks here in New York since school ended and I hardly saw him at all. He simply never called me, even after I e-mailed him invitations to meet up. Things like that used to send me into a self-loathing tailspin where I might imagine that Kazu was trying to blow me off. Instead, I'm quietly confident that Kazu simply got caught up in the magic of New York (and possibly Jung Eun) and he never got around to calling me. After all, three's a crowd, right?
PS: I just found out that my first submission to OverheardinNewYork.com was posted right here! The "bloody guy" is a friend of mine who really did fall down some stairs a few years ago and that was the real explanation he offered the ER doctor.
While I returned via train this afternoon my phone rang much to my surprise. It was Kazu. He's going back to Japan tomorrow which means I'm not going to see him for a long time. Although he is not very familiar with the city I was able to communicate to him how to meet me at Grand Central. We walked around midtown for a while, chatting and such, eventually stopping at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Even though we were just blocks from the UN Headquarters Kazu was much more interested in the Trump World Tower, especially when I told him that Derek Jeter lives there (I think). We went uptown and I helped him plan his trip to the airport. I offered to take him to dinner tonight as a going-away gesture but he already had plans made. So I bid him (and Jung Eun) farewell.
I hope Kazu and I get together again in Japan. He spent three weeks here in New York since school ended and I hardly saw him at all. He simply never called me, even after I e-mailed him invitations to meet up. Things like that used to send me into a self-loathing tailspin where I might imagine that Kazu was trying to blow me off. Instead, I'm quietly confident that Kazu simply got caught up in the magic of New York (and possibly Jung Eun) and he never got around to calling me. After all, three's a crowd, right?
PS: I just found out that my first submission to OverheardinNewYork.com was posted right here! The "bloody guy" is a friend of mine who really did fall down some stairs a few years ago and that was the real explanation he offered the ER doctor.
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Is it supposed to be funny that your friend (I think I know which friend that was) called the ER Dr. a bitch? Why the hell did he do that?
Sounds like you had a fun weekend. And we live so close, that I swear--we must have passed each other in the street by now without even knowing it.
lol!
hyde
lol!
hyde
I believe he would have said "bitch" regardless of the doctor's gender. She let it slide given the circumstances. It was late at night and he had just fallen down a flight of stairs, so manners wasn't high on his list of priorities.
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