A long day

All too often "a long day" is a shitty crappy hard one where you just want to collapse at the end of it or punch someone. Or cry. Or cry and punch some and then collapse. Whatever.

Today though, has been a long day but not in the bad sense. Its been a day where I could do anything I wanted to do and had plenty of time. Absolutely nothing has been rushed and if anything, time slowed down for me today. There was time to linger, time to observe, time to enjoy and time to relax. Hell, I even managed to eat right, save for a tiny Halloween sized pack of M&M Minis.

The day started off on a good note with Diego Sanchez beating Nick Diaz in a great UFC fight that featured sweet BJJ technique and a goodly amount of ground and pound. While it did not match up to Griffith vs Bonnar it was damn close. It makes me want to head back over to the Santos school but then I really don't need another injury.

As for my day...

I managed to sleep in a bit and woke up around 9:30 A.M., made some coffee, poured a bowl of Kashi Go Lean and watched some T.V. for a bit while I thought about where I would like to go today to shoot some film. Disinterested in the various talking heads I flipped on my PS2 and screwed around a bit with Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. It's a good game. I left off with a little teleporting hottie called Femme Fatale (The Wink?) that just kept kicking Wolverine's ass. My skillz have left me it would seem.

I took a ride over to Tarrytown to the waterfront to shoot the Tappan Zee Bridge and the surrounding marina and park area. It was foggy out and the bridge was just a black silhouette in the mist. My first low key black and white photography! Then, a nice treat happened and the mist burned off a bit. Same place, completely different look so I loaded more film and kept shooting until I felt I had exhausted the area. I drove around a bit, took some more pics near the Fordham Tarrytown campus and headed back home. It was only 2PM.

The whole day has been like this - just slow and relaxed and nothing seems to take a lot of time. Right now the clock says 7:26 P.M. - just about the time I usually get home from work. Usually I get there about the time I woke up today. I imagine myself down there in the City today instead of kicking it around here today. Holy Fuck that IS a long day. Yet there never seems to be enough time - not down there.

Here though, there is plenty of time.