I can see it unfolding already, and its going to be a great summer, I just know it. The Shins concert was awwwesome!! Man they really played well and James Mercer's voice just makes you want to love him. Earlier that day my roommate and I headed out for what was suppose to be just a walk along the hudson but ended up being 7.5 miles of walking. We charted it when we came back and we covered the entire southern tip of Manhattan, from Christopher street down. Needless to say my ass is as tight as a brick right now.
My mom comes to visit tomorrow so I am in spring cleaning mode for these next two days. I am thrilled for her to see where I live and explore the area because I know she will love it. For any NYC'ers looking for something to do on Saturday, come out the Revlon Run/Walk 5k for Women. Its going to be a great event and hopefully it won't rain. The money raised benefits all women's cancers. After that there is the Upper West Side Bar Tour, which I am sorry to miss, but I doubt my mom would enjoy it as much as I would.
I really love not working right now (as all of you at your work computers cringe)- yea, but I've been where you are and I didn't care for it one bit, at least not now. So, my solution was to borrow a shitload of money and move here with the hopes I will land an awesome job and have an amazing time. Well the amazing time part can be checked off. I might be getting a part time job at school working as a grad assistant to the asst. dean, so that could be cool, especially since its paid. Truthfully though, I dont know how realistic it is for this summer though because I am traveling somewhere every freaking month. Next month I'm going to Fl, in June I am going to Hilton Head Island, and then in July I'm going to San Diego & Vegas. I am so excited about San Diego and Vegas. I have never been to San Diego before, but have always thought it was so beautiful from what I had seen. Now that my good friend Brandon has a beach house there, it would be crazy for us not to go. Plus being in Vegas with 3 of my closest college friends will be so incredibly fun.
No real news on the guy front other than they confuse the hell out of me, but what else is knew. I met up with some friends at The Black Door in Chelsea on Friday, one of the friends being a guy I worked with at NBC that I assured myself was too young for me (22 versus my almost 26). Yea well it didn't take long for the crush to start all over again. I can't tell if he is interested or not because he shows so many mixed signals. Damn guys. If he doesn't get in touch with me in the next week or so I am hoping the whole "out of sight out mind" thing will work nicely.
Poll- What is the best Broadway show you have been to? My mom wants to go see one while she is here, so Im looking for suggestions. We've already seen Phantom of the Opera, Fosse, & Cabaret- so something besides those. I was thinking Mamma Mia or Wicked......
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
And my life begins again...
I took my last final tonight and I can't believe that I already have another semester under my belt. What a whirlwind it has been since January. While I love craziness, the semester wore me out between work and school and I am in much need of a very awesome, relaxing summer. This is the first time in a looong time that I don't have work to go to tomorrow or a test to study for. What a weird feeling. I'm really glad that we had great weather the whole time I had to be indoors studying and now that I am done we have a cold front and rain, terrif. Even so, I have a fun weekend planned. Tomorrow I'm heading over to Queens to finally check out this famous beer garden with some friends. I've actually never even been to a beer garden, but it looks pretty neat and is supposedly the only one left in NYC, or so they claim.
Saturday there is some art and garden festival over by NYU, hopefully it won't get rained out. Saturday night is a party for a bud of mine who got a job at NBC and then on Sunday I'm finally going to see The Shins, woohoo! I'd love to see one of the films at the Tribeca Film Festival also, but I wouldn't know where to begin in choosing which one.
So the walls have finally come down on the West 4th station right where I live to reveal the front of a new IFC theatre. Pretty cool eh? At least all that clattering at 8am every morning will at least be for something neat. As far as I know it will have three screens and is set to open late Spring.
For those who are wondeing how my NBC internship wrapped up, it went superbly. I spent my second to last day on the Nightly News set talking to Brian Williams and watching him film an interview. It couldn't have ended it more perfectly.
A question for you NYC'ers--any suggestions on a good afternoon tea & pastry place in the village or soho areas? I know there are billions, but just wanted to see if there were any recommendations.
Saturday there is some art and garden festival over by NYU, hopefully it won't get rained out. Saturday night is a party for a bud of mine who got a job at NBC and then on Sunday I'm finally going to see The Shins, woohoo! I'd love to see one of the films at the Tribeca Film Festival also, but I wouldn't know where to begin in choosing which one.
So the walls have finally come down on the West 4th station right where I live to reveal the front of a new IFC theatre. Pretty cool eh? At least all that clattering at 8am every morning will at least be for something neat. As far as I know it will have three screens and is set to open late Spring.
For those who are wondeing how my NBC internship wrapped up, it went superbly. I spent my second to last day on the Nightly News set talking to Brian Williams and watching him film an interview. It couldn't have ended it more perfectly.
A question for you NYC'ers--any suggestions on a good afternoon tea & pastry place in the village or soho areas? I know there are billions, but just wanted to see if there were any recommendations.
Friday, April 08, 2005
Wal Mart red bow becomes scarlet letter of singledom
In the coming year if you happen to be in a Wal Mart and a wily looking character with a red bow tied to his cart starts falling you around with cheese and a bottle of wine, well you'll know why. Wal Mart has apparently entered the match making business. That's right, the one place I equate with shopping hell on earth is now the new hotspot for some singles. Luckily, right now this is only going on in their stores in Germany, but it has had such a huge success that they are testing it out in Puerto Rico, South Korea, and Britain. You know what that means...it's only a matter of time before it makes it here.
For those of you interested in what this entails (and you know you all are), here it goes:
On Friday nights between 6 & 8pm single shoppers can come in and are given a bright red bow to attach to their cart or their basket. This should signal other singles to approach them and ask them out. In case you are a little too shy for that, they have also set up what they call "flirting points" which are areas in the store that carry romantic type items like chocolate and wine. In addition you can post your picture on a bulletin board and are assigned a box for people to drop their card in if interested.
Personally, this grosses me out because I have been to several Wal Marts and good looking people are few and far between. Hmm..wait a minute. Ok, keep obvious joke to yourself. Anyways, anyone who has ever frequented a Wal Mart knows what I mean. However, I guess it's not all bad for some people. For example, this story from a Wal Mart in Germany:
"Another cute story," she continued, "is of a 74-year-old woman who posted her picture. A 74-year-old man saw it but was nervous to drop his card in her box. So the Wal-Mart associates first got him spruced up at the hairdressers at the Wal-Mart store, took a picture, and posted it on the board. I think the two of them are now seeing each other."
Now I have to admit that has the "awww" factor in it.
Personally, if it ever gets bad enough that I have to strap a big bright object to me and then parade around in front of others to get their attention...well, let's just hope that never happens.
For those of you interested in what this entails (and you know you all are), here it goes:
On Friday nights between 6 & 8pm single shoppers can come in and are given a bright red bow to attach to their cart or their basket. This should signal other singles to approach them and ask them out. In case you are a little too shy for that, they have also set up what they call "flirting points" which are areas in the store that carry romantic type items like chocolate and wine. In addition you can post your picture on a bulletin board and are assigned a box for people to drop their card in if interested.
Personally, this grosses me out because I have been to several Wal Marts and good looking people are few and far between. Hmm..wait a minute. Ok, keep obvious joke to yourself. Anyways, anyone who has ever frequented a Wal Mart knows what I mean. However, I guess it's not all bad for some people. For example, this story from a Wal Mart in Germany:
"Another cute story," she continued, "is of a 74-year-old woman who posted her picture. A 74-year-old man saw it but was nervous to drop his card in her box. So the Wal-Mart associates first got him spruced up at the hairdressers at the Wal-Mart store, took a picture, and posted it on the board. I think the two of them are now seeing each other."
Now I have to admit that has the "awww" factor in it.
Personally, if it ever gets bad enough that I have to strap a big bright object to me and then parade around in front of others to get their attention...well, let's just hope that never happens.
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