My officemate’s boyfriend works at the American Natural History Museum. Earlier this week, she forwarded me an email, sent to the museum staff by the Director of the Hayden Planetarium, about this special Manhattan sunset. The “Manhattanhenge” is when the sun is in perfect alignment with the city grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight.

We were hanging out by 21st Street around the time of the sunset, so we stepped out at 8:10 for the sunset. According to the Director of ANHM, the best location to view this is on one of the wider cross streets like 14th, 23rd, 34th and 42nd. It was a pretty awesome view… If you missed it yesterday, you should try to see it today or in July…

Today: May 30 — 8:16 p.m. EDT

JULY
Half Sun on grid: Saturday, July 12 — 8:25 p.m. EDT
Full Sun on grid: Friday, July 11 — 8:24 p.m. EDT

I love this guy…

I kind of have an obsession with kimchi… It is usually in my fridge or I just think about it all the time.

I am doing a little bit of a clean out with the kitchen cabinets… and look what I found! Kimchi flavored potato chips made by Lay’s in China!  Asians are really the most inventive with junk foods…

How do you deal with the Tuesday after a 3-day weekend?

I played Tetris on the DS last night until 3:30am… I am super tired. I woke up late. I got to work late. I didn’t have coffee this morning. But something came in the mail today which made everything better.

Put on your headphones…

3-day weekends are really amazing. If weekends are always 3-days, I think this world would be a better place. This is my first hour in front of the computer since Friday at 2pm. I don’t know how I did it, but it feels pretty awesome.

Weekend roundup:

• Super-duper special visitors from the west coast and Boston! ^_^
• Brooklyn Flea Market… saw 2 rusty dogs
• A lot of sitting in the parks… Central Park and Fort Greene Park…
• A lot of walking around… Brooklyn and downtown, mostly…
• Corn on the cob
• Replanted my shiso plants
• Finished _The Alchemist_
• Watched A LOT of Planet Earth

Summer is here and I wish I had a bike. Give me yours or sell it to me for cheap! I am into those bikes that all the hipsters ride. Serious offers only, please.
I can’t understand a word on this site but they have cool bikes for boys and girls.

From a while ago…

Same location, same format. different things, different look, different times.

Same story?

Cutting through big buildings in midtown is something that I really enjoy. You gotta get out of work early enough so that the buildings are still open, though. Sometimes you walk into some pretty amazing spaces.

This is from Le Parker Meridien hotel building on 57th, the same building where The Burger Joint is hidden. I love this cheesy mirror vestibule. It is like a poor man’s Olafur Eliasson experience.

But I have a story to tell…

My officemate Heather likes to buy things on Craigslist. She showed this one to me earlier this week. It is probably gone by now…

My officemate and I have been eating this bar of hazelnut Ritter Sport for the past week. We realized that it really is a good design for a chocolate bar. According to Wikipedia, the square shape idea belonged to the founder’s ex-wife “who wanted to create a chocolate bar that would fit into every jacket pocket without breaking.” That is pretty sweet.

Tasty website award of the day… Appealing and informative even in German!

3:30am: Order of Belgian fries for 6 on Avenue A and 7th

12:15pm: Ramps fritatta & artisan (homemade) bread for 2 in East Village

4:00pm: Rooftop TV with no Cable.