I took Yoko to the hospital this morning. She had been having some lower back and abdominal pain over the weekend, but for the most part lying down or taking a bath relieved it. She woke up sore this morning, and had some bleeding right before we were to leave for work.

The doctor can't give any real specifics, but she's hooked up to some sort of pre-natal heart monitor, and the baby is kicking like normal. She's still feeling "swollen" (I don't know the precise term, as I didn't do any obstetrics when I was working in the hospital), and the baby is riding pretty low. However, her cervix isn't dilated and she's not feeling contractions. Her Ob/Gyn is keeping her for observation, and depending on what happens he may transfer Yoko to the university hospital for higher-level care.

I'm typing this from work, and I think I can get through my morning classes without wigging out. I'm taking the afternoon off so I can pack a bag for Yoko and just sort of be around if needed. Everyone cross your fingers.

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Older woman: So where's Bangladesh?
College girl, looking at MTA map: Oh, I think its uptown somewhere.

--F Train

Overheard by: Nehc

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Library staff: Was there brain damage?
Library work-study: Er, no.
Library staff: Well, then! How badly can you get hurt by getting hit in the head with a beer bottle?

--Fordham University Library

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Young woman to friend: And I was getting so fucking mad at my boss, so I reached into my bag and pulled out the emergency extra strength maxi-pad I always carry, and walked into his office and threw it at his face. And he looks at me calmly, picks it up, opens it up and sticks it to his desk, and then takes his bottle of water and starts pouring it onto the pad. So I scream, "what the fuck are you doing?" and he looks at me and says, "I want to see if the commercials are true."

--Downtown 1 Train

Located 15 feet below the surface of the Earth, I hide away and plot my next comic.

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Young woman: Who wants to be a spider!?
Group of children: Yaaaaaaaaaay!

--Park Slope

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Skinny gay guy: I think I tweeted about that.
Fat girl: Can we please stop using "tweeted" unless you have, in fact, turned into a bird?
Skinny gay guy: Whatevs! I'm going inside. I have to piddle.

--Graham & Frost, Brooklyn

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Girl #1: All I know is, you need to take care of your pussy first, then worry about your damn hair.
Girl #2: I already told you I'm goin' to the damn doctor to get that shit looked at, now lemme go get my extensions in peace.
Girl #1: You can get all the extensions, weaves and whatnot you want, but if your pussy stays rotten, ain't nobody gonna get anywhere near that shit.
Girl #2: Bitch, will you shut up about my damn pussy. Everybody gotta hear about my pussy? Shit, now we got half the damn city hearing about my pussy!
Girl #1: They probably smell it too.
Girl #2: Fuck you, bitch!
Girl #1: Say fuck you all you want, a weave and fixing your pussy.

--40th & 8th

Overheard by: SandmanEsq

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12-year-old boy to two 12-year-old girls, ending long story: So my dad peed in the apple pie!
12-year-old girls: Eeeeewwwww!

--W 77th & Columbus

Overheard by: Stephen

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Middle-aged socialite #1: I can't believe he forgot about the annual dinner!
Middle-aged socialite #2: He didn't forget, he just isn't coming.
Middle-aged socialite #1: Why would he not come?
Middle-aged socialite #2: Stacey slept with Rob.
Middle-aged socialite #1: Whaaaaat?

--Hell's Kitchen

Overheard by: Rob

Happy vernacular and slightly belated Birthday, America. Here's a birthday ghost. You can tell by the rakish angle of his hat that he is probably up to no good...

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Crazy dude with shades to woman chatting with friend: You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna blow you, suck you, fuck the two of you bitches hard, you know why? Cause I'm a faggot!
Women: (blank stare)
Crazy dude with shades: Then I can kill you, too. (maniacal laughter)
Women: (continue their jovial conversation)

--F Train

Overheard by: Craig

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Stressed fashionista to BFF: Do you know where I can get a decent elliptical machine for $600 for my apartment?
BFF: No. Have you tried Craigslist?
Stressed fashionista: Already tried Craigslist...maybe I just need a punching bag.
BFF: I know those are on Craigslist. Look under "personals" for "sub m looking for dominant f."

--57th St & 6th Ave

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Old Asian man: They don't have it.
Old Asian woman: It not problem. We go to Trader Joe tomorrow.
Old Asian man: We go where?
Old Asian woman: Trader Joe. You'll see. They have it.

--Trader Joe's

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Long haired guy: Jung would say I have a very low sensate rating.
Meathead: What? So you're retarded?

--Greenpoint, Brooklyn

I have done THINGS. Kinda. So yay!

On Thursday, Julie and Ben and I went to the SAM -- Target Practice just opened, and we all really really wanted to see it -- so we did. It was particularly good as the first Thursday of the month is free, so, there you go! I REALLY recommend going to that exhibit, even if you have to pay. Which you probably would, since it's no longer that first Thursday. Really, really cool art -- a few Jasper Johns pieces, a couple of Lichtenstein (none of the pop-art comic pieces; one was a brush stroke piece (yaaaay!!!!) and one was a depiction of the backs of canvases), a couple Rauchenbergs, INCLUDING the Erased DeKooning Drawing (!!!!!), and and and a couple Yoko Ono pieces! Super super cool. I hammered a nail. Some really cool pieces by folks I didn't know, including some film work, including one by someone I forget the name of of a room being painted time-lapse in 6 different colors. That was awesome and hypnotic.

Seriously -- if you are in Seattle (or if it's a touring show, I don't know) -- you totally should see it. It's the kind of art that's totally up my alley, or at least one of the kinds of art, as I'm not really a one-type-of-art person. They also had one of the Warhol Piss Paintings, which was surprisingly beautiful with the way the acids ate the copper. Neato.

And on Friday, Ben and I were gonna see the Evangelion 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE at the Grand Illusion (which I've seen before, it's awesome), but it didn't work. Since I had the day off, I finally watched stuff in the Netflix pile -- Me You And Everyone We Know and PRAY TV. I... did not care for the former. (or the latter, really, but the former was more surprising.) I'd heard Aila mention that people'd compared it to Solondz (which, IIRC, she was all "Yeah, um, kinda? Not really, but kinda?" about), and yeah that sounds about right. It's kinda like Solondz if he didn't write about people with real problems. The dude in the film -- Richard? -- was such a colossal douche in ways I don't think were intended, and um, Miranda July was total MPDG, which... errgh. Does that ever really work? I guess if you count Maude in Harold & Maude. But yeah -- one of those things where what she's doing is basically stalking but since she's a MPDG, she's OK. Except that instead of being a Nebbishy Nothing like most of the male leads in MPDG pictures, the dude was actively a creep. It WAS however, very, VERY pretty -- the photography WAS gorgeous; and the film was compelling enough for me to not turn it off. (Though it was one of those weird situations where I kept thinking "God, do I really wanna watch the rest of this? Eh, I should turn this off..." and never did. Perhaps it was because of the prettiness or because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, or maybe to find out who the ))<>(( lady would turn out to be, but... eh.) I am glad that after like 4 years and having lost the copy Aila burned for me a while ago and having the damn thing on my table for like 6 months I finally got around to watching it.

PRAY TV, though -- at least I KNEW that was gonna be crap going in. I mainly Netflixed it because DEVO (as DOVE, the band of Love) is in it. And they were just in the end, in DOVE gear, miming (kinda poorly, which was a recurring theme -- people miming poorly to music... only Dr. John didn't mime poorly) to the Q: recording of "Shrivel Up". Which seemed like an odd choice? But it did have Paul Reubens in, and Dr. John, too. So that was kinda cool. Basic plot -- as Ben ended up putting it when I told him about it -- is that it's UHF with the "station becoming awesome" plot, only with the "awesome" swapped out for "religious". One of those films that wanted to be a sketch film, but then figured they should have a story as well... but they don't want to take time away from the sketches, so you get people going "YOU HAVE CHANGED, CHARACTER 1!!" when they haven't really just because they've had maybe 5 minutes of screen time, so we barely know what they're supposed to have changed from, but they don't seem that different anyway. And the ending doesn't quite work, but oh well! It was also weird -- an actress was basically doing a Poor Man's Andrea Martin... and in the credits it was Marcia Wallace! Which is weird, because she's usually really awesome. Oh well. It probably would have also worked better had they toned down the mugging and hamming a bit.

So, yay! Now I am at my parents' and we had chinese food. Hooray!

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Guy #1: She's the kind of girl that could turn you into a serial killer.
Guy #2: Huh. Wouldn't want to go there again.

--Metropolitan Museum of Art

Overheard by: KT

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Former frat boy #1: So someone said "shots," and someone else said "tequila," and I said I didn't like tequila, so then I'm doing Irish Car Bombs. Next thing you know, $120 gone like that! (snaps fingers)
Former frat boy #2: Yeah, but you thought you were networking.

--7 Train

Overheard by: Barry