I was reading Gothamist and I came across an article about how today is the most depressing day of the year. The guy who came up with this has an entire formula in how to calculate how depressing each day is. Weird huh?

Like most people, I think I definitely have a case of the Mondays. Not only is the weather incredibly depressing (cold and cloudy), the toilets in my building are broken! How crazy is that. Pretty soon I will have to go to the coffee shop to use their toilet. It’s so cold outside. Earlier today I had a headache, but lucky for me I did not bring my bag of aleve with me today. To top it off, our office was fresh out of Excedrin. I debated about going to Duane Reade to purchase one of those travel packs of Advil. After what it seemed to be an eternity, I concluded that it was far too cold to go and buy Advil. I decided on ordering a large chicken noodles oup at my new favorite soup/chili restaurant, Guy and Gallard. I ordered their chili on Friday and tried one of their oatmeal raisin cookies. It was very moist and chewy. Just the way I like it! I really need to stop ordering lunch. Just because I don’t see it being deducting on my paycheck (yet), doesn’t mean I’m getting free lunch!

Lastly, I would like to give the Blizzard of 2005 a shoutout. It was a very terrible experience. I was stranded in NYC. My friend who I was staying with had to work all Saturday. My sister’s big birthday bash was cancelled on Saturday, which left me with no reason to be in NYC. By the way, Happy Belated 26th Diana!! I hope you spent it inside. Oh yes, I was wearing dress shoes the entire weekend too. Let’s hope we don’t get another “blizzard” for awhile. I’m not in school anymore, so snow does not equate snow day anymore.

I installed these cute smileys, if you guys haven’t noticed. I’m having a lot of fun using them. :geek:

Three hours until my most depressing Monday of the year is over.

Wow I never thought having a Monday off could really shorten the entire week. It’s almost Thursday! Woohoo! I think my week at work has been going by so well because I have a very short priority and now I’m just revising and updating menus. It’s quite nice. I’m enjoying it because I’m sure next week I’ll be working like mad again.

I’ve been thinking about writing about this little insignificant story from my daily life. So here it goes. Everyday I take the same subway train and get off at Herald Square/34th Street. Everyday I come out of the same subway exit. Everyday I see the same friendly guy distributing AM-NY. For you non-New Yorkers, it’s one of the free daily newspapers in NYC. I used to read it on the train, but now I just listen to my iPod and nap. Well, I will always take his newspaper because his happy attitude brightens up my day. He always asks me how I am and how my weekend was. I even remember when he asked if I’d be here the next day when it was 2 days before Thanksgiving. I usually end up throwing out his newspaper at the end of the block because I don’t ever have time to leaf through a newspaper. I also like reading all the rumors and trash news online. I don’t know if this makes me a tree killer, but I figured that if I don’t take the newspaper, it’ll probably be found on the floor somewhere. At least this way I discard it at a garbage can. No matter how crappy the weather is, I can be sure to find Mr. Newspaper guy waiting for me at the end of the stairs. His smiling face brightens up my day even if it’s only for a moment. The idea that New Yorkers are the rudest people in the world is very untrue. You just need to find the people who care and are willing to open their arms to anyone. Also, I went to Beijing in 2001 and the people there were so rude. They are definitely ruder than New Yorkers.

I will leave you guys with a picture of my friends and I at the club Strata last Saturday.

My friends and me!

Notice the guy with the pink trucker hat? HAHAHA!