hey, so I'm going to new york for a consultation on May 28th, and barring a disaster probably going to hang around a bit because how often do you get to visit new york???

it does distress me a bit that the original appointment was set for THIS MONDAY and I found out yesterday which then makes me wonder how...much time do they expect the pills to work... but I suspect that's more because if we take this clinical trial option I also have to drop the pills for a month so it's just sooner is better. either that or doctors know something i dont OR doctors have no sense of TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS because really who tells someone on a thursday you're going to new york monday when they aren't business people with ducats to throw around.

but yeah in theory if any of you are in the area and want to guide me around for a day, I can't guarantee I'll be at my most dynamic or anything but post something here.

also I say this always but NO ONE GO OUT OF YOUR WAY JESUS CHRIST I'm saying if you are in New York City, you LIVE THERE, and you don't mind showing me and unfortunately possible, my family, some of the non-touristy I <3 NY bullshit that tends to be referred to as most accurately, soul killing, drop a post here? Diggity goes to NYU but they let out for the summer already and plus you know who wants to do that... but maybe someone else?

no waluigi soap.

the slight hypocrisy of that post is I'd probably meet psyburn before waluigi soap, and I just posted a bit about inauthenticy in that same post but yeah my mom might be there and psyburn is at worst nerdy and strange where as soap is not someone I want to meet my family.

DOSE ANYONE KNOW A GOOD CHINESE PLACE IN CLEVELAND?

EDIT: an important note I didn't mention; both of these clinical trials have really long term remission rates attached. long enough to say CURE almost; one saw about 70% of the patients have an astonishing three year remission with no return yet. so these are uh PRETTY FUCKING GOOD trials which is why we're going up to NY which is specific to mine.

double edit: forgot to mention we'll PROBABLY be staying in Manhattan when we're there as we have a family friend there and hotels are expensive as fuck and the Sloan-Ketterling we're going to is there.

i lived there for a while. get coffee at Zabar's, it's da best.

i don't know if this qualifies as touristy but you should also go to the Soup Nazi place since it is AMAZING

...w00t...w00t...

lol

steel, ramci and i are going to be in new york on the 28th. do you want to meet up or something? we're going to be there for like 4 or 5 days.

When I was in New York I just walked around Manhattan. It isn't very big, and it's pretty interesting to walk around.

I liked walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, too. When I got to the other side, I stood there and listened to Illmatic. Then I turned around and went back to Scotland.

he's the greatest guy i know.

i think it would be an adventure in strange.

He's always seemed pretty normal to me.

but yeah in theory if any of you are in the area and want to guide me around for a day, I can't guarantee I'll be at my most dynamic or anything but post something here.

also I say this always but NO ONE GO OUT OF YOUR WAY JESUS CHRIST I'm saying if you are in New York City, you LIVE THERE, and you don't mind showing me and unfortunately possible, my family, some of the non-touristy I <3 NY bullshit that tends to be referred to as most accurately, soul killing, drop a post here?

I'd show you around, but I'm not coming back to NYC until June 29th.  If you let me know what it is you'd like to see while your there though,  I can give you exact directions to whatever it is your looking for.

yeah, i think no matter what we're meeting soap in new york.

I'm not meeting soap with my family being there. meet's canceled.......

I'm actually being serious, soap has stalked someone's sister before, I'm not going to let him meet my mom! Ramci, Chef, sure what the hell, but soap has a history of fucking around with people's family and no thanks! my sister is already kind of fucked up she does not need to fall in love with waluigi soap or whatever the hell.

like if you are being serious about meeting soap I am serious in that I'm not gonna do that! I would do it alone in a heartbeat but today I had a terrible foot seizure which seems to indicate my mom will not be okay with me wandering around one of the largest cities in the world without someone who knows what they are doing.

also luckily I found someone we knew a long time ago who can do the directions thing. I definitely want to check out the MOMA and definitely don't want to go to Times Square as Hundley basically described it as A PLACE TO CONVINCE YOURSELF NOTHING IS WORTH IT (also it's a fucking street and I've seen it on TV, I don't care about it).

the issue is there's so much to do and see really! like I wish this wasn't three days plus a fucking hospital visit and leaving etc because there's actually a lot of fucking stuff to do.

but yeah I'm putting a thumbs down on Soap and Times Square!!!

times square smells like trash! it's kind of neat to be there but you can smell it from like two blocks away.

It didn't smell any different to whatever the rest of New York smells like to me. I got dragged along to times square by my family and it was stupid. It was just really busy, kind of frightening that we would lose each other in that pointless mess, and loud and flashy in the worst way. It's the worst tourist destination in the world.

the moma is cool. my dad and i were like "feh spending money is overrated feh feh" and just walked around the gift shop but they have some wiggidy-wack kitchenware so it was not a waste of time. also there are people from lots of different countries there so you can be a creep and try to translate overheard conversations. but you will probably be actually going in and seeing sweet exhibits. ah well, such is life

do you want to see the met too?

What what about soaps history makes steel so adamant about refusing to bring his family near the guy?

he's just a sort-of-weird and clingy guy. he's not really that bad or anything.