Happy Labor Day Weekend

After a few days of disgusting, horrible, wet rainy weather, we had a decent amount of nice sun today - perfect weather for walking around the city, which we did. We had a nice walk over the bridge before doing some shopping, and ending up near Cooper Square for some ramen (at Menkuitei, our favorite Japanese ramen shop). The whole city seemed to be packed with tourists today - and we were quite annoyingly seated next to a jabbering pair of (I would estimate, high school) girls who sounded like they were extremely sheltered suburbanites from Connecticut spending time in the city for the day. Weekend city visitors. Oh well.

Yesterday was dinner with our parents (both sets of parents), and my uncle and aunt in Chinatown. That was nice - dad-in-law was a little disappointed that we ended up going out for dinner and not having a barbecue at my parents' house (as was the original plan). He even special ordered and bought a cake! But, we ended up using that to celebrate my mom's birthday (a little bit early).

We're going to the US Open tomorrow! Unfortunately, there's a Mets game scheduled at Shea tomorrow so getting there (and back) is probably going to be a total disaster, so I think we're actually planning on taking the LIRR.

On another note, we're both very sad for Agassi - it truly is an end of an era...

I'm not sure how much I've mentioned it here but my previous employer (I switched jobs in May of this year) put me through absolute hell for the past year or two. It's seriously left me emotionally and psychologically scarred, but I find that writing about my experiences there has been a cathartic exercise. I guess I'll go on with doing some of that tonight...