i took a short break at today and took the elevator to the 7th floor of the AP&M building that I work in. There, I found a encapsulated indoor patio with sky lighting in the middle of the hallway. complete with chairs, and what even looked like an ash tray. and i don't think you needed a special key to get in either. i would have loved to have known about that place when i was smoking. oh btw, Jan 26 2003 will mark 1 year of being completely smoke free. from about april or may of 1995 to jan 2002 i was a light smoker smoked 2-10 cigarrettes on a daily basis. i think in between those times, i had quit about 4 times in between from times ranging from 3 weeks to 4 months. but i always would start again because i relied on it as a time gap filler and a destresser. completely quitting meant that i had to disassociate smoking and its uses for destressing. and when i was able to do that, i was able to say i'll never need it again and mean it. back then when i had tried quitting, i had quit because of health reasons, but still saw it as a temporary remedy for stress. so whenever stress got the upper hand, i was in line at the market asking for marboro or winston lights. also, another reason i would never smoke is that i am a total health nut now. like unhealthy food, it has no place inside my body. end of story.



anyways, back to being at AP&M 7th floor. i got to the end of the hallway and it looked as though the doors to the balcony was protected with an alarm. so i took the stairs back down to the 6th floor, walked to the end of the hallway, went ouside the balcony, and took the outside stairs to the 7th floor balcony. and this is what i saw.


i'll go back on an absolutely clear day and try to take some pictures without the haze.