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Catchup

Sounds like ketchup...Joke time!


OK, enough with the comedy. It's time to play some major catchup! It's been a while since I've posted a detailed blog, and that's mainly due in part to my frustrations with Wordpress (the blog site I was using). So, that is why I've switched to blogger. For all of you who commented on my old blog, I'm sorry, but I could not transfer the comments. But please feel free to comment on the new site!

So, I'm starting my first day at a paid internship at PC Magazine tomorrow...or rather, today at this point. I really should be going to be soon, but my sleep schedule is so off from not working for the past month, which, by the way, has been awesome. Except for the part of not having an income, I've really enjoyed not having to work. But all good things must come to an end, so I'm getting back in the swing of things. Now, that I have a job, I can (soon) start looking for a place, but it will take some time.

Robin gave me this cool little journal that allows you to keep track of everything you do for a year for five years. So, Ive been writing down everyday what I've been up to. Since I'm so behind, I'll just write what I wrote in my journal for the most part and elaborate on the things I feel need elaborating on...
Thursday, Sept. 25:
Went to Grimaldi's pizza in Brooklyn with Mikelle, Sierra and Angela (another Colorado person). Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. Then, we went to China Town because Mikelle and Sierra wanted to buy cheap, big purses. We haggled with the sales people. It was fun. Then, Sierra and I bought weird, cheap pastries. We weren't really sure what they were, but we bought them because they were so cheap ($.65). Then we ate a Chinese restaurant. Good food! Then, Sierra and I went to this cute bar in Williamsburg called Pete's Candy Shop to see Sierra's roommate's band. They're called Motel Motel.

Wednesday, Sept. 24:
Got the internship at PC Magazine. JUST realized there's blocks of shopping literally a street away from me on Austin St. (took long enough to figure that out!). Spent day shopping (not a good thing). Went to cute bakery called Martha's Country Bakery, and bought cupcakes for Sierra and I. We went to the Brooklyn Biergarten and heard Slavic music. The band was called Panonian Wave. We had a lot of fun!


Tuesday, Sept. 23:
Being unemployed has caused me to become a bum! I sleep ALL the time! Today I slept until noon and then took a nap from 3 to 4:30! WTF?! Nothing exciting today. Ate eggplant pizza....it tastes so good!

Monday, Sept. 22:
Went grocery shopping. It's so different than shopping in CO. I used to buy so many things, but now I have to buy less more frequently. BUT, you can buy cheap and yummy food from the deli (a lot of Jewish food). Did luandry...it sucks. I want my own washer and dryer again!

Sunday, Sept. 21:
Slept at Mikelle's again last night (4 out of 10 days). Went to DSW in Union Squre. Boring day. I'm addicted to the new 90210. I miss watching it with Shayna.

Saturday, Sept. 20
Spent day with Lalita (mom and aunt's friend from way back). Went to her apt. on W. 83rd and Broadway. Looked at old architecture, Riverside Park, St. John the Divine Cathedral...
Grant's Tomb, sorry Grant...it's not yours...
We also saw Barnard College and the Columbia campus. Mikelle and I ate at Artie's, a Jewish deli right near Lalita's house. It was OK, but I hear there are better ones. They did have good matzah ball soup though! I ate a turkey Reuben, but I really wanted a pastrami one...I've been contemplating becoming an all-meat eater. There are so many wonderful foods that I've been missing out on because of my turkey, fish and chicken thing, but I haven't gone through with it yet. We'll see.

Then, we went to a cute little place right by Lalita's called Cafe Lalo. It is definitely cute. They filmed a lot of You've Got Mail there. Anyways, the best part of being there was this guy who was eating dinner with three of his friends. Mikelle and I walked in and she was like, "Oh my god, look at that guy." The guy she was refering to looked like he was having a religious experience with his salad. He was closing his eyes and chewing really slowly and kind of waving his head around very gracefully. We couldn't help but stare at him the whole time we were waiting for our coffee. But, he soon started sinking lower and lower into his salad. I'm pretty sure he was on some sort of drugs, but he was definitely falling asleep. His friends didn't even seem to care. They just ate and chatted like this was an everyday occurance.

Then, we went to Williamsburg and met up with Dave and Rachel and went to some bars. Fun stuff.

Friday, Sept. 19
Went to a film with Ballard called Chop Shop. View the trailer here!Got a museum card from nice intern. (That means free museums for me!) Went to awesome apartment in DUMBO (one of Dave's J-school friends). Met tons of journalists. Met Dave's new GF, Rachel. She's Jewish and awesome. Slept at Dave and Ballard's in Park Slope.

Thursday, Sept. 18:
Went to Mogwai with new friend, Tom. Very nice and cute (6'6"), but has GF. Oh well, concert buddy? Show was at Terminal 5 and Fuck Buttons opened. Very loud. My ears are still ringing.


OK, I'm way too tired. I'll fill you in on the rest tomorrow!

Jewish Garage Openener

Right in time for Rosh Hashana!

So, I was going through my hard drive the other day and came across a video labled "Movie1." "What could this Movie1 be?" I asked myself. Well, lo and behold, it is a video of Grant making guacamole and Jess being Jess. Nothing too exciting, just kinda funny. Bad quality, and the sound's not great unless you have good speakers or wear earphones. Hahaha, those were the days.

The Great Schlep

Day 4 to 8

Alright….back with more blogilicious info as promised! But first, let’s have picture time…yes? For all you Facebook peeps (sorry, Mom, not you) you can see these on the FB.

Day 4:

So, the next day, Sierra and I decided to go to Ikea. Now, if you're not familiar with Ikea, it's a magical place with unicorns and rainbows and lollipop trees. OK, it doesn't have any of that, but it is still mighty magical. It's a HUGE warehouse with lots of cheap(ish) furniture and everything you could ever want for a house. Sierra needed some things, so we decided to go. The one we went to was in Brooklyn. Now, we could have taken the train like boring, regular people, but instead, we decided to take the FREE Ikea water taxi. I mean, come on, two boats in one weekend! Whoa! So, we did, and here are some photos of that.

Day 5:

Today I had an interview at American Artist Magazine. It would be great to work there, but we will see. I got an offer from PC Magazine, but it is a paid internship, so no benefits, so we will see about that as well. I went to H & M for the first time of my life! I was a little disappointed, but that may be because I was holding it up to be some great, magical place, like Ikea. It was OK, but not what I had imagined. I mean, it is still a three-story store, so that was impressive. I also went to one of those little restaurants where there's a huge salad bar with a million different kinds of food (I think Miranda goes to them in Sex and the City), anyways, I ate alone (sad) and watched all the people below me on 5th Ave at the expensive stores. Exciting!

Day 6:

I had an interview today at here! Network. It's a TV network dedicated entirely to gay programing. It seems like a cool place to work. It's SMACK dab in Time Square, which is a little overwhelming. We'll see about that one as well. Later, I went to my cousin's house and we watched Planet Earth and then played Guitar Hero. I was a little rusty since I've been away from the casa of Trevor and Shayna, but I soon got back into the swing of things and kicked my cousin's butt! Yeah!

Day 7: End of week 1!

Well, I've made it a whole week so far! Today I went and had lunch with Robin and met a woman she works with who is close to my age and very stylish. She has my dream haircut, if I had straight hair. I'm going to a party for her bf's bday on Saturday. Anyways, we went to this place called Pete's Tavern, close to Union Square. It opened in 1851 as a local "grocery and grog," an early euphemism for liquor store. They opened a tavern in 1864 which has since remained open, which makes it an offical historical landmark and the oldest continuously operating bar and restaurant in NYC. It even turned into one of the most famous speakeasies during the time of prohibition and was disguised as a flower shop!

Later, I went to see Sigur Ros in concert! It was amazing. I've seen them once before, but my memory of it was a little hazy, so I'm glad I got to see them again. The show was sold-out and I got the ticket from someone on CouchSurfing who was selling it! I went alone (boooo), but it was OK. It was in this great big building called the United Palace Theatre.

Now, if you're not familiar with Sigur Ros, you should be. Here's a link to one of my favorite songs, Staraflur. It was in the Life Aquatic. They are Icelandic and make, beautiful, beautiful music.

After the concert I met up with a CouchSurfer and his friend and his friend told me he had an extra ticket to see Mogwai, a post-rock band who I've wanted to see for about four years, so I'm going to see them tonight! I'll let you know how it is! Miss you all!

Day 2 to 3...I am a procrastinator

OK. Well, I think we all expected this. I said I was going to try to make a post day, but alas, that has not happened. So, I'm going to catch up and try to be better at this. This is like all the times I kept a diary and would start it with:

September 16, 1996

Dear Diary,

My name is Jenny, I am 10 years old...blah blah blah.

That would be page one. Page two would say:

June 18, 2000

Dear Diary,

Oh my gosh, I can't believe how long it's been. Let me catch you up...

So, I'm going to try to make the frequency of my blog posts remain pretty constant. So, oh my gosh, I can't believe how long it's been. Let me catch you up...

I left you from Thursday where I dropped an egg. What I didn't tell you is that at the store, the song that was playing was Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby." It is Shayna and my song, and I felt like crying when I heard it! Here's a link to the great You Tube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wbxKgp0Cvw

Day 2:

OK, so then on Friday I went to my first job interview at PC Magazine. It was crazy! Just like you would imagine a fancy-shmancy magazine in New York. It went really well, and they called me a few days later to see if I want a position there...I haven't decided yet. The result will come later.

Later, I went to Mikelle's for the Mikelle and Jenny Sleepover Weekend Extraveganza. That's what I'm calling it because Robin had houseguests, and I had to sleep somewhere. Lucky for me, Mikelle opened her loving arms, and we snuggled a little too! Her roommates are awesome, and we all went out Friday night to a cute little restaurant (which we thought was Turkish) and drank Sangria. I thought I had photos of it, but I guess I don't. Mikelle has them all! Anyways, then we went to another bar that was full of chads, and that was lame.

Day 3:

Mikelle and I woke up and she did homework for a while and I read and looked out the window into other people's windows (some may call me a voyer...but whatever). Mikelle lives on the 4th floor. Then, we went on my cousin's boat! It was amazing! It's part of the New York Sports and Raquet Club and there were fancy-schmancey people on the boat! We got free food and drinks, and it was awesome. We got to ride around and look at all the sights. Best night ever! Here are some photos...wait...I am going to be late to Sigur Ros (a concert...Icelandic band...AWESOME!). More blogging and photos TOMORROW!!

Day 1: I dropped an egg

OK, so today was my first day in NYC! I am living in Forrest Hills with a family friend. She lives in a great apartment, but it is a little far from the city. The train runs right near her apartment, so it works out pretty well.

I hadn't even been away from Colorado for a whole day, and I was already home sick, so I decided that hanging out with Mikelle and Sierra would be the best way to remedy that. We met and walked around Central Park and the surrounding areas, and then went back to Mikelle's apartment to watch the McCain/Obama talk that was going on at Columbia University! That's where Mikelle goes to school, which means we were this close to our No. 1 man, Senator Obama...sigh. What a dreamboat. Needless to say, McCain was soooooo boring, and his cheek was looking abnormally large tonight.

Anyways, then I left Mikelle's and for the first time, I got really lost in New York! Oh my god. I ended up somehow in a place like Time Square, but it wasn't Time Square. I finally made it home, after about an hour and a half and decided to stop at the supermarket. While there, I dropped an egg on the floor. How embarrassing. I told the guy working and he said it was OK and when I handed him the box of 11 eggs, he looked at me like I was crazy. So I put it back and left. It was weird. Oh, and a big thing of ice cream cost $7 there! Good thing...because I need to watch my figure.

Tomorrow's another day full of (hopefully) more fun adventures. Oh, and I have a job interview! I know, so soon! I'm a little scared! Stay tuned for more crazy egg-antics!