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Wednesday, May 21st, 2003
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7:21p - Some Rejoicing, Some Complaining
This morning I was accepted into the not-so-exclusive club of Verizon subscribers. Unfortunately, my phone line will not be installed for two weeks. I am very much looking forward to 4 June.
Until then, I will either go downtown to blog and check my email or spend more time in the computer lab which I am currently using. That is, of all computer labs, the Yeshiva University computer lab, located 30 (instead of 140 like the nearest NYU computer lab) from my apartment. Though I was with Dave at the time, it will be easy enough to get in alone. The guard let me through when I flashed my NYU ID. Supposedly it is fine in this building if you are just accredited by some institution.
Hmm, I am the only one in here without kippah. Perhaps I should wear a hat here next time.
Today we continued exploring new places, this time in the Bronx. We walked across the 155th Street Bridge to Yankee Stadium, which is just across the river from my apartment, down 161st street for a while, and up Grand Concourse to the Bronx Museum, which has a strange mix of exhibits including one called Commodification of Buddhism and one of a Korean-American artist named Theresa Hak Kyung Cha who used French, Korean, and English words as the theme of her art. Appropriately for a museum in the Bronx, all the signs and labels about the art in the museum are in English and Spanish. They are done very well.
After that, we went to Roosevelt Island and walked to the south end of the island, which is occupied by this odd private park owned by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. It surrounds the ruin of a 19th century smallpox asylum and can be entered only through one door in a tall chain link fence. At the south end of the island there were a couple of men fishing who had caught a very large fish. From there there is also a good view of the UN, and of U Thant Island, a rock outcropping in the East River with a buoy, named after the Burmese UN Secretary-General.
Then we came back up to the heights, ate some food, and came to this computer lab. This building is 20 floors tall and has some very nice views of the city, probably among the best in Manhattan.
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