so i'm off to Argentina tonight. all that packing and shopping is finally over and done. maybe now i can get some sleep... hopefully on the plane.

i tend to be an overpacker. my aim is to plan for any plausible situation and to then pack the corresponding clothes, shoes, medicine, snack, gadget, entertainment, toiletry item, etc. that may be required. this leaves me with a big pile of stuff to bring with me. that's why 2 am last night found me going through piles covering my entire bedroom trying to figure ut what i actually needed....

uh oh, gotta go. finish this when i get back?

it's snowing in New York City! well, more sleet than anything. The best part is that it had to warm up in order to snow, so that's a plus.

On my way to work on Tuesday i saw that the farmer's market in Union Square was running, which was weird because it only operates on M/W/F/Sat. Well, whatever. But when i went over at lunch to pick up a snack (i'm addicted to these Amish/Mennonite pretzels), i saw that the market was just a movie set. The security had a heck of a time convincing people that they couldn't go in and shop because the market was full of people buying stuff (movie extras), and it looked like all the usual vendors were there.

It's too bad because i really wanted those pretzels.