Storm of the Century

It’s been snowing off and on all day and there’s finally a light covering on the ground. The forecasts are still abiguous, calling for anywhere between three inches to a foot overnight. The snow will supposedly continue all through tomorrow and won’t cease until Tuesday morning. Some people are claiming it will be bigger than the “Storm of The Century,” also knows as the “Blizzard of ’96.” During that snow storm, I ended up stranded at a house of someone with whome I wasn’t really close friends. If I am stranded tomorrow, it will most likely be myself, stuck in my apartment.

Detour Through Lincoln Center

While I was at work earlier today, I got a message from Stacey asking if I wanted to go see Jazz at the Lincoln Center, since she was able to get her hands on two free tickets. How could I pass up an opportunity like that? So we went, and Benny Golson, a prolific Jazz composer, was the featured artist. The first set was with a quartet, then a quintet, then later his “jazztet.” The second set contained a big band for most of the tunes, and their encore even had a string quartet joining the band for Blues March. Though I don’t remember hearing about him before, Benny composed some well-known jazz standards like Killer Joe and I Remember Clifford, which have been recorded by all the “jazz greats,” and later he composted television show themes such as those from M*A*S*H and The Cosby Show.

Tomorrow night I get to go back into New York to see the Philharmonic play Mozart. I guess I’m lucky to be working so close to the city… and I’m luck I have a friend like Stacey who can get me tickets once in a while.

My Current Dilemma

I currently live in Lawrenceville, NJ, 73 miles from my office [DELETED]. My lease on the apartment is up at the end of April, so I have to make some sort of decision soon. Becky, my current roommate, would like to live with her boyfriend in the apartment once I leave, but I do have the option of staying if I want. Becky would continue living here, I guess until however long we extend the least for. I don’t want to put her in that position, so I’m looking for other options.

I can’t afford to live anywhere by myself unless a part of a house is rented to me. In that case, I would need to pay for storage for my possessions. Whether I like it or not, I’m also hardly ever home, so it doesn’t make sense to pay too much for a place to live. It would make sense for me to live closer to work, except that it is more expensive to live up here, and it would be more unlikely that I’d see my friends, who all still generally live in the same area.

If I do end up moving closer to work, there is a slight chance that the office might move from Bergenfield to Asbury Park as early as December this year, and an ever slighter change that we might move in August. It would not make me happy to move all the way up here and sign a lease, only to find out I will have to commute to Asbury Park from Bergenfield every day. In this case, I can forget about ever seeing andybody I know ever again.

Happy March!

Let’s make this a great month. I’ll be striving to improve my financial situation (seems we’re all having a hard time) and my outlook on life in general. I have a birthday coming up and I am determined to enjoy myself. After all, I will have been alive for a quarter of a century, and that has to be some sort of accomplishment in itself. Here’s my horoscope for today, from a different source since I wasn’t fond of Yahoo‘s:

Everyone seems to be having a good time these days. Pisces is adept, efficient and highly social. The cosmic forces conspire to get your work done in the tastiest, most artful way possible.