Lots of birthdays, brunch, climbing — good stuff life on autopilot

Lots of birthdays!!

Friday, 2/20

Happy birthday Wayne! For you, I trekked to Long Island City. Your apartment is technically close to Manhattan, but takes 20-30 minutes doubling back from Court Sq.

Saturday, 2/21

Started as a pretty bad day, because the USPS got confused and lost my package, and I ended up spending all day waiting for something that would never come. Later in the evening, it was Luke’s all-chicken high-protein birthday party and Charley’s more traditional birthday cake and beer party, so lots to celebrate! I think I lost my touchscreen gloves somewhere, maybe at DL :(

Sunday, 2/22

I had amazing brunch at Public, which is one of the few Michelin star rated places that serves brunch. Sarah Bufano from Accenture had originally suggested it for a group dinner, but we somehow moved it to a way subpar place. This was much more satisfying and totally delicious, plus they had avocado toast. (I got tea-smoked salmon, which I couldn’t really taste, but thought Dean’s avocado toast was really a flavor bonanza.)

I was really tired and sick feeling for some reason, and passed out in the middle of the day, and ended up being quite late to Lillian’s. I’m doing IDEO’s Human Centered Design course with her and her roommates, and we had a lot of fun doing the exercises! I’m very excited to approach our challenge, which is redesigning delivery food packaging to reduce waste.

Monday, 2/23

It was a really really meh day, in that I got up early, waited in line at the post office for an hour, and spent 8 hours at work somehow staring at one document. I must’ve really looked like I was losing hope because one of the other designers asked me what was wrong. Afterwards I went to a meetup talking about the future of UX design of objects but didn’t really hear a satisfactory story, and just went home and made tomato soup and guacamole. Because of all of that, I’m including some photos from Nougatine restaurant week as a little bit of a cheat — the dinner concluded on midnight of Monday!