springtime in ny

it certainly feels like spring these days, although i think the weather is going to start cooling back down again. i've been getting up at the crack of dawn most days, which forces me to go to bed at like 9 but at least i do get to enjoy a lot of the weather when i'm done in the afternoon.

this evening, i ended up going to a mexican restaurant and then a very nice, quaint wine bar down the street from me. i don't drink to start with, and now i have even more reason (as if making me sick weren't good enough) since nobody likes an armed drunk, but i must say that wine bar was very neat. i ended up there through a mutual friend with a bunch of phi delts from classes 02-06. i had some reservations about spending time with random phi delts, but it was actually quite a pleasant time, i guess after you graduate and work 80 hours a week on wall street, you're just like any other working adult.

ok two random pictures:

this was at Columbia university on the first nice day this week (i had the day off). and contrary to the focus, i was not trying to take a picture of that group of girls there.
this didn't come out that well, but it's one of those huge container ships. i was always fascinated by those things, this one is pretty close to where i spend a lot of time sitting around in cars killing time.