park lunch

ok, so work happy hour got canceled (which i am not too broken up about.) and we didn't get the apartment, which i am a bit broken up about. (though i am trying to look at it as the opportunity to find something even more perfect.) but i did have a lovely lunch with s, who worked in the morning and then in the evening, leaving him free to meet me for a delightful picnic in central park. we went to balduccis for provisions and then walked to a shady bench and enjoyed our food while listening to an angry park security guard complaining about some girl who liked to gossip (um, pot calling the kettle something?) and wanted her to bake something with sugar in it ("bitch knows my kids is diabetic!" was one choice line) to her silently put-upon friend. it was a beautiful day, sunny and warm but not at all humid, slight breeze, squirrels gamboling, birds chirping (and eating the noodles someone had dumped on the path), ladies complaining.

i wanted s to write a subway stories guest post, but he is blog shy, so i will share: today he sat on the train with a man with deli bags full of live fish (in water), taking them home to his four aquariums. "i just like fish!" the man kept explaining, also careful to clarify "i don't sell them, i only buy them. i just like fish!" apparently he was a large man with waist-length dredlocks, with bags upon bags of colorful fish. i wish i had seen him.