It’s not on my Yahoo Calendar for some reason, but today’s officially the first day of spring. So why the hell is it so damn cold outside? Really though, it’s much more mild than it was last year at this time, so I think that means we’ll have a nice, long spring. It better not be two weeks long like it was last year. Anyway, my show is now over, and Ash is in Wisconsin for three months, so I’m going to be rather unoccupied throughout the spring. This is a perfect time to visit me if you’re a friend of mine, and a perfect time not to visit me if you’re not.

We had elphabagels at work again today, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. This year I was brave enough to actually try one. They’re just plain bagels with green food coloring, so they shouldn’t taste weird. But… they tasted weird. Sort of like… lots of green food coloring.

People on Flickr were complaining that this shirt from Fossil is no longer available, so I went ahead and recreated it on Spreadshirt for people who still want them.

At my office, in addition to coffee, we have hot chocolate. It’s not the greatest hot chocolate (because it’s made with water and powder instead of milk and syrup), but it’s still hot chocolate. And if, when I was ten years old, you told me that I would one day be working in a place where I could have as much free hot chocolate as I wanted, any time I wanted it, I’d have been really freakin’ stoked.

It snowed a lot on Saturday night and Sunday. I posted a few cameraphone photos on flickr.

I’ve been working at this location for over a year now, and today I found out that the quarts of milk in the refrigerator are supplied by the company for anyone to use. I always thought that they belonged to an individual, because the refrigerators are there for the purpose of storing employees’ personal food. All this time I’ve been drinking black coffee at work even though I hate it!

Has anyone else tried Sara Lee Chocolate-Dipped Cheesecake Bites? They’re really good. They’re like bon-bons, but filled with cheesecake (including the crust) instead of ice cream. And just one is enough to satisfy you for dessert, yet it’s only eighty calories. Go buy some and try them.

I missed this sketch back in November, but apparently SNL did a great job poking fun at the speed of obsolescence of new iPod models. Watch the clip.

I turned my head toward the express track just in time to miss seeing a guy jump in front of a C train at the 42nd Street/Port Authority station this afternoon.

At about 1:20pm, I was standing on the southern-most section of the platform with a handful of people, waiting for the A train, and the A arrived a few seconds before the C. As I turned toward the arriving A train, I heard a loud “thwack” behind me. I turned back around, and one of the people on the platform was suddenly missing, and a blood-curdling scream, mixed with the screech of brakes, emanated from beneath the C train as it halted halfway into the station. Other people on the platform, still shocked at what they’d seen, uttered, “There was a guy standing there a second ago!”

I can’t say for sure if it was suicide or an accident, but the platform was uncrowded, and the man hadn’t attracted any attention like a drunk person would, so I’m pretty sure it was an intentional jump. I’m glad I turned toward the express track when I did, because I wouldn’t want to deal with seeing that firsthand nor retelling it to the police.

About a year ago, there were 165 Starbucks locations within 5 miles of my work (near Broadway and 55th Street). Now there are 177. I’m actually quite surprised that the number has only increased by a dozen, but I guess I’m already close to the most Starbucks-dense part of the city. Cory points out that the Starbucks “center of gravity” is around 5th Avenue and 40th Street.