What happened to today?

As lame as it sounds, I spent most of the day trying to convert a DVD into a readable format for Nico—I bought Ultimate Kylie, the Aussie-Pop queen’s greatest hits video collection, for my boy when I was in London in January. I thought that the “0” region would mean that it would play in my sucky American DVD player. As it turns out, it doesn’t—but I can burn it and change the region to play in North America… that is, if I can get my new DVD burner to work. I wasn’t aware that it would take three separate programs to rip/condense/burn the damn thing.

Yesterday was Nico’s birthday, and though I made him a present and took him to a nice-ish dinner in our ‘hood, I wanted to surprise him with a post-gift he wouldn’t expect, knowing that if I spent too much more money he’d be annoyed. But all I have is a wasted day and a long list of good intentions. Sigh.

I did, however, manage to meet him this evening for a sweet dinner at Veselka, a charming 24-hour Ukranian restaurant we used to frequent when I lived briefly in the East Village. We then met some friends at a book party for my friend Chris, whose Heavy Metal and You just came out officially yesterday. Good times. So I can’t say it was really a day wasted.

I have a few new poems I’m eager to post… though they’re not finished and I’m fading fast (open bar, what can I say?)