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What I Hope To Do This Summer

Remember in grade school in the fall when the teacher (who you would grow to hate because if she was making you do work on your first day back to school, the rest of the school year was going to be a bitch) would make you write that "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essay?

I always labored to get three-paragraphs out of it because except for a couple of occasions, I didn't go on family trips or anything. I spent the entire summer hanging out with my friends, riding my bike and going to the pool. No road trips. No Disneyland/World (I still have never been)

(What was the point of all this again? Oh yeah)

This summer, I want to do some shit aside the usual (although I'll still be doing plenty of that):

Shakespeare in the Park I always want to go but never do because of the ridiculous process of getting tickets. This is the summer I go. I have off one week and I am getting up at 6 AM, grabbing my iPod, PSP, a book and a chair and waiting on line until I get tickets. They are doing Romeo and Juliet with Lauren Ambose (Six Feet Under) playing Juliet.

2007 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival There really is no excuse that I haven't done this yet. It is a train stop and a couple of blocks away from work. I'm definately going to either Annie Hall on June 18th, Wait Until Dark on July 9th or Casablanca on August 13th

Bike Riding Yes, I did end up getting my bike. To sum up my Fuck UPS (Parts I & II), I ended up having to go to UPS, pick it up myself and carry the 35 pound box back home from the Bronx. Anyway, I put it together and am ready to ride except for the facts that 1) I'm terrified of cars and 2) I'm terrified of riding something I had to put together myself. I'll get over it.

Kickball I'm a part of a ZogSports Kickball team consisting of friends, friends and friends, co-workers and ex-coworkers. I was in a Touch Football league during the spring (we finished 4-3 and lost in the playoffs). Our first game is tonight. I can't wait.

Alone Again Or

Yeah, I heard a funny thing
Somebody said to me
You know that I could be in love with almost everyone
I think that people are
The greatest fun
And I will be alone again tonight my dear
- "Alone Again Or" by Love

So I think I have crossed a line where I have been single so long, I can't imagine being with anyone.

So this month will make it three years that I have been unencumbered with the wants and needs of another human being that isn't of my blood single*.

This is generally what happens to me. I go through long spells between relationships (Before my last relationship, it had been four years). But this time feels different because I no longer feel open to the idea of having a girlfriend.

I know this is kinda pathetic but I've gotten used to being selfishly concerned with my own wants.

I've gotten used to having time to doing the things I want to do and not having to do stuff I have no interest in doing. I've probably only seen a handful of bad chick flicks in the theater and most of those were by choice.

I like always being available to go out or to stay in. I love never having to ask "Well, what do you want to do/want to eat"

I don't know if I can see myself dating some which what cut into all this "me" time I'm used to.

Is it a lonely life I lead? Maybe. I have friends. I have stuff to do. I never find myself thinking, "I'm lonely". More likely, I'm thinking "I'm bored".

And I do bore myself a lot but at least it is a victimless crime.

I'm not a blind idiot. I know all it will take is one pair of pretty eyes, one kiss or one acquaintance to go left instead of right to make me renounce this post as the work of a ghostwriter.

That's why this will be the first post I delete when that happens.

* Just kidding, future love of my life.

Movie of the Week: Knocked Up

Judd Apatow can do no wrong.

Pretty much hilarious from start to finish. I think I liked it better than The 40-Year Old Virgin because even though some of the situations were ridiculous, the characters seemed more real.

Everyone was great but the standout was definitely Paul Rudd. The scene in Vegas with Rogan and Rudd had my friend and I in hysterics. Hopefully Apatow will make Paul Rudd the star of his next comedy classic.

Other standouts, aside from Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl (I forgive for the ridiculousness of the second half of this season of Grey's Anatomy), were Kristin Wig and the Apatow all-stars (Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Martin Starr) from Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.

The only reason I couldn't give it four stars was it was a little too long and I was traumatized by the birth scene at the end.