29 Oct 06

Time:

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Money:

$7, "pet food," gym store. (And that's the last time I'm putting quotes.)
$45, groceries - and we're getting more and more basic here - from Gristede's.

More interesting things:

Enjoyed a whole round-trip - to the gym and back, plus a stop at the grocery store - of appropriate and largely New York-ish songs. Maybe most notably, the subway pulled into the station as Benny Goodman started up with "Sing, Sing, Sing," which is of course a near-perfect match, and then I got "Arthur" as I was leaving the station for the gym. On the way back, Mahalia came in with "Joy to the World," just at the time that a very large cluster of people decided, for some reason, to, like, scrutinize the system map. All I could see was their backs as they bent low and close to see, and for all I could tell it might have been a reigning baby Savior there in the corner rather than a diagram indicating the best way to get from 59th Street to Penn Station.

Entertained some seasonable turkey-related thoughts when I noticed a woman whose bag - which hung down her back right about where a tail would be - contained Indian corn with the husks fluffed out over the top like Tom's big feathery November best.