Exploratory

Today (yesterday, rather) was pretty uneventful. It took two hours to read 15 pages of Hegel. But I'm slowly getting through it. I have 40 pages left to read and then I'm going to read it again. Maybe it will be more fun the second time around. Erin visited today. We hung out in a little park outside my place for a couple of hours and chatted. She's extremely busy but is loving the program. My roommates and I went to see the Banger Sisters. It's not very good but it's always enjoyable to watch two awesome women (Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon) on screen together. After that, I was able to make it to the library. And after that, my friend and I went to this restaurant called Dojo. I had a plate of steamed vegetables and tofu over brown rice. No, really. Vegetables and tofu. It was awesome. I couldn't finish it. And it was cheap. $5. Everything else is less than that. And it's a nice sit-down restaurant. Then I finally went home but not before getting off the train and seeing my first public urinator. He was a pleasantly dressed fellow (unzipped slacks and a button-up shirt) leaning against a pillar in a desolate part of the Brooklyn Bridge stop. Well, he hadn't counted on the arrival of the 6 train and all of a sudden, he had an audience of folks looking for the exit. Thankfully he aimed his stream away from the foot traffic. As I approached his "urinal," he was in the motion of zipping and turning conspicuously as hell to his right as if he had nothing to do with the fresh puddle now making its way down the station. I will no longer wear thongs in the subway.