wide open spaces

last night i felt the urge to re-arrange my room furniture again. i've been told that i do it more often than most people. it is a bit of an obsession and i get my kicks out of seeing how many different set ups i could have. its all practicality too, based on drafts from the window and sunlight according to season, noise factor depending on which wall is most sound-proofed (none of them really) and so forth. its so refreshing. it gets tiring quickly looking at the same set-up...same pattern. for me life is a good life if you mix things up a little (or even very much). Edgar Allen Poe compared the windows of a house to eyes and the inner furnishings and arrangements of the house parrellel to the human mind and soul. maybe its like our modern form of Feng Shui too. i have more energy with change on the horizon. i will be very bored and sad if i have a weekend without plans.

i've been thinking about spatial arrangements lately especially after I had an awesome lecture on it in art history. I found that Puerto Rico was relatively easy to map out. The streets in the old city were parellel and perpendicular (unlike my part of Queens there isn't much of a pattern to the streets). we had no trouble finding our way around Condado and Santurce, and by the second day I almost felt I could tell the cabbies where to go. I realized again how much I like being by the ocean. There's a sense of freedom to it. Last year in Chicago, despite the great lakes, I felt like the city matched with its fashion sense to New York, but it was landlocked. There is also something really thrilling about being near an airport (JFK) that shoots out directly to all these different destinations...no connected flights necessary.

there's alot more to say about the trip to San Juan, and there's kind of alot to say about the past few weeks occurrences too. but i'm saving that blogging for another day. it is a rare event when i'm up way before noon on a saturday morning so im off. would catch the next wave but there's a no surfing law in scranton. instead though we drink like fish and go out pretending that our world here is an ocean ;) watch out for 'em sharks!