misc. misc. tuesday

today my sister went to drop off the rented car at the airport and left me at colonie centre, a typical american sprawl mall with huge everything - rather, macy's, gap and the odd and ends - it wasn't a huge mall. i was running out of shower cream so i bought a few travel bottles of different fragrances at body works at a cheap price. i crossed the road to barnes and nobles to wait for her and flipped through some magazines whilst waiting and when she arrived we crossed the neverending carpark - target seemed like a mirage in the distance in the glistening sun - and reached said place where we looked around a bit and she bought some notebooks for the children involved in her phd pilot project and we waited for a million years for our bus that came late and ee jie was late at SUNY where she dashed off to class after giving me quick instructions on how to get back and so i set off across a small field, past the track, took the wrong road out for a minute or two, turned back and walked all the way out to the western avenue entrance.

the SUNY campus has interesting architecture - post modernist concrete mostly with pillars that curve to the ceiling at the top and slim windows that alternate vertically. ee jie said she prefers the downtown campus which is of an older gothic typical campus architecture, but i find this uptown campus's architecture pretty interesting as well. i shall take pictures when i go there tomorrow. i shall go for a run at the campus at six o' clock - which makes me a little nervous because everybody running around campus are young, athletic tanned university kids. well, i shall just gear up on the cap and i-nano and do an hour as a trial run today.

update: i went for a short run to the campus and around the track three times before i saw ee jie waiting for me at the side - she was on the way home and saw me running. so i walked home with her and we had macaroni soup for dinner - she cooks and i clean up. tomorrow i will go earlier and run the whole campus then arrange to meet her at the track again after her class. we're going to have lunch at washington park near downtown before her class.