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This entry comes from the collegiately-vacated room of my G-dparents son. Adorned with trophies, graduation announcements, family pictures and the requisite sports posters - strangely having stayed here so many times in the past years, it almost feels like my old room at home. Down to the twin bed, which leaves me little runway to roll over.

I suppose this is a prime example of the diminishing size of New York City real estate.

The East Coast leg of Operation Winter 2005 has begun with some much needed rest. 5 1/2 days in Houston, TX preceeded NYC. It was a wonderful trip, including time with my parents, friends, revisiting old connections and even finding a few new ones. I’ve been in Chicago so long, that it sometimes surprises me with anything from the great state of Texas (written with affection for my hometown) makes a lasting impression on me. Then again, I’m surprised every day.

There were some late nights - revised: they were all late nights. With an average of 4 hrs of sleep per night, I imagine that Sanofi-Synthelabo could tap a vein and get Ambien right from the source. One of you should appreciate that reference.

As soon as I got to the apartment in New York I fell asleep in my shoes. Needless to say, again, it was a pretty amazing week.

In brief, here are some excerpts from the highlights …

- Seeing everyone, making good on the "I’ll call you when I’m in town and we’ll get together" bullshit pledge

- Consecutive 5:00a nights at Kris Palmer’s house; you rock, my friend

- Watching Mr. Schwartz hit on 22-year-old girls at the Bagel Ball

- My father’s Camaro. He never let me drive it in high school. Thankfully, he has given me operational control over it while I’m in town

- Making new connections; each more incredible than the previous.

And to everything I’ve left out - some of which was intentional or at request - leave a comment for me and fill in the gaps.

Here are the top five lead-off songs on the playlist right now. This is for the person who asked me what kind of music I like … here’s what I’m listening to right now:

1. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
2. Hard to Handle - The Black Crowes
3. The Way You Look Tonight - Frank Sinatra
4. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
5. Underground - Ben Folds Five

Ciao

It’s been a while. What can I say?

In a nutshell, I’ve recalibrated the things I don’t like about myself - most of them, at least. Let’s hang out sometime and talk about it.

New goals include: read ever Pulitzer Prize winnning novel from past ten years, skydive, learn how to knit, develop new "signature" dish to cook and practice Greek language.

While we’re waiting to make plans to meet, here are two sites to check out.

1. http://www.melissarauch.com/media/melissa1.wmv
- This the site of a really talented comedianne who I met six years ago through a friend-of-a-friend. We’ve lost touch in the time between then and now. She’s met some incredible successes since then and I am incredibly happy for her. Apparently she’s on VH1’s "Best Week Ever" although I am not sure what that is. Or what VH1 is.

2. http://www.thebar.com/
- This site was developed by ArcWW and headed up by my one of my dearest friends, Beardy. Beardy was kind enough to bring me in for a couple of days to write some of "Jack’s" dialogue. If you email me privately, I’ll tell you some of the pieces that never made it to film.