Mac memories [August 31]

Yesterday was a productive day travelwise. Since we'd gone to bed at 3 am again in the morning, got up at like 12pm, after which I caught up on various podcasts and my friends online training. We rideshared to Philly which again took an hour.

I love the bookshop Shakespeare and Co., which was the first place we went to in the city, it's cute and quirky and has the same sorta people coming in too. They also have this self publishing machine that can help publish your books, and I was happy about that, really because this world doesn't need any more independent bookstores dying. I'm ashamed of how much longform I've read recently but being in an independent bookstore and just browsing the titles makes me feel like I'm in a different, much better and nicer plane of existence, and I'm not just talking about the cute and smart people in there I think.

Then I had to do couple of rounds of shopping and spongebath at a friend's place because I had decided to skip the shower in the morning not realising how much of the Philly smell I had absorbed in my clothes and my self. We walked around Rittenhouse Square and the neighborhood for like five hours as one of our friends got ready to move.

This is something I wanted to write in the post from yesterday evening but forgot : I found it confounding how often we bumped into the same groups of people over and over again as we walked around the town. Like my friends bumped into their friends a couple of times, right there on the streets, and what are the chances of that right. I wonder if this was a one-off bizzaro thing that just happened while I was here or there's something deeper underneath. My theory is that the community is so strong, and everyone's just scoping the area out for the kind of people that live there so it's not surprising to bump into the same people all the time because they're doing the same thing as you are, in the same area.

My friend got dinner at a pretty interesting taco place, side note Philly food is not really That much cheaper if at all, and we chilled at our friends place for a bit before I got dinner at one of the hipper Mac n cheese places. Full disclosure: I thought it was okay but that was likely the last time I'll ever have it again anywhere because I had the worst lactose-intolerance reaction I've ever had and man it would have been so bad if there hasn't been any nice restrooms where we were at. We went back to our friends, watched Derry girls and the office for a bit and then went to my friends' college friend's apartment.

It was sick, we hung out at the roof at the twenty sixth floor for a couple of hours. You could see the entire city and all the other high rises from there and I felt soo uhh hyped, haha. We shut down the roof, until the building people kicked us out, and then played shuffleboards and pool (it was mostly me playing myself in pool) until very late in the night. Let me tell you that the buildings common restroom are great and clean and so well maintained and it was an honour for me to have had to use it for several times due to cheesy reasons. The other dudes, who drink got drunchy and got nuggets at fries and that was the end of the night. Or so I thought.

Then we walked to Rittenhouse Square and then to my friends' new apartment, at three AM. I'm not sure what the doorman thought about a bunch of dudes showing up at that hour looking for the new apartment keys, but it can't have been a totally new experience for him. We explored the apartment the morning before they were due moving, spent like thirty minutes figuring out what it was gonna be like, and then ubered home. I went to bed at like 3.30 am. I was supposed to help my friend move, but the diarrhoea and uhh the tiredness prevented me, need to head out soonish.

Yes I would love to move to South Philly for good career opportunities, and yes it's partly because how well I got along with so many people a lot of whom were cute women. Philly's a cool city though, regardless of what it did to my stomach or my body smell and I look forward to exploring it more. Gotta take a shower now and take the train down soon. Toodles.