The Weekend that Was

Many thanks to Cliff for the awesome room at the Westin on Times Square that we stayed at. Retail price of the room we stayed at: $499.

A few highlights from the weekend:

• A five-hour, relatively traffic-free bus ride, punctuated by a showing of "The Terminal". (Rating: 4/10. Catherine Zeta Jones gives a strangely leaden performance in the lead actress role, dampening what could be an inspiring movie about making the best of a bad situation.)
  
• Eating dinner with my sister, who happened to be visiting NY for residency interviews.
  
• Working out with Cliff, who's apparently more sedentary than the mammoth balls of dust accumulated on my window sills. After a few exercises, I can say that he did *not* fake 5 consecutive wrestling defeats to his 110-pound girlfriend.
  
• Lunch at New York Noodletown, an awesome cheap eats Chinese restaurant in Manhattan that I have to visit every time I go. After a meal spanning salt and pepper squid, wonton dumplings with whole shrimp, and an array of delicately prepared dark green Chinese vegetables, the restaurant makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
  
• Sake shots with Cliff, Asaf, and Audrey. And yes friends, he is so gone.
  
• Beams of pride at the unbelievable thriftiness of LB. In her own words: "if you drink tea, bring a tea bag with you to work, and stop by Starbuck's for a cup of hot water, and free milk, honey, etc." That's a $3 beverage for just 31 cents.
  
• Finding out that Yahoo! screwed up and just awarded my fantasy team 2 points last weekend - just enough to give me a 2-0 record against likely fantasy league winner Gideon. More importantly, I'm just one game back of our new current fantasy leader Andrew Kong, with 2 games left to play.