Days Go By

Today was once again breezy and gorgeous; I headed to Washington Square Park and lounged with some iced coffee and the new Voice for a while before running some errands. Even with most of the NYU kids home for the summer, the park was full of twentysomethings soaking up the sun. This is the kind of day that reminds me why I love living in New York, even if I'm not all that fond of my neighborhood. I'm actually coming up on the third anniversary of my move from Massachusetts; Last year I toasted it with some friends at the top of the Empire State Building just before sunset. I wonder what I'll do this year? With only a few weeks left before classes start again (which I'm actually looking forward to) and a momentary break in my freelance work, I'm enjoying the first real summer vacation I've had in a long time.

The next few days are going to be a little crazy, but tonight I'm curling up with a stack of freshly rented flicks and some Mike's Hard Iced Tea, which is a little on the sweet side for my taste but better than you might think alcoholic tea would be. I think the cranberry lemonade is still reigning champion of the Mike's family, though.

Incidentally: I tried adding Smart Bacon to the Giant Veggie Sandwich this evening, and while I'm usually not all that fond of meat substitutes (apart from soy chicken), it was delectable. As long as you pan fry the bacon (it's microwaveable, but I wouldn't recommend nuking it), you'll be fine. The Smart Chick'n strips are also tasty, especially in stir fry. I haven't tried any of their other stuff yet but with this encouraging bacon success I'll probably pick up some of it the next time I go shopping. Boca Chik'n isn't bad either, although I don't care for Boca veggie burgers. The Morningstar Farms soy meat stuff, on the other hand, is almost entirely vile.