Quick update before I go to work:
New roommate for a few days. More on that later.
Going home tomorrow and on vacay Saturday. Should be fun.
New intern. She's hot, but really crazy. Anti-McDonalds, anti-corporation, and tries to convert the non-believers. She referred to me as her boyfriend yesterday when I was out. Really weird. She's also a raw vegan, meaning she tries to eat only uncooked veggies, fruits, etc. Far more extreme than my simple vegetarianism.
Been going out a lot recently -- Tuesday with the co-workers to a comedy club, yesterday with the new Italian fam's eldest two daughters and two of their friends to a karaoke bar. After checking with a guy's friend, I serenaded Don's (the guy who had just sang a love song to his wife previously) wife. Justin Timberlake's Senorita. The chorus goes:
Senorita I feel for you
You deal with things that you don’t have to
He doesn’t love you I can tell by his charm
But you can feel this real love if you just lay in my aah-aah-aah-arms
As his friend predicted, they took it quite well. That was fun. A bit hung over when I woke up today, but I'll be fine for work.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Enjoying the Nicer Comforts
Yesterday, I took a long bus ride to Hyannis, MA to visit my uncle and fam in his house (formerly my grandpa's house) in Cape Cod. It's BEAUTIFUL.
He expanded the houses that were there, and he really made them quite lavish and comfortable. I used to walk around grandpa's house sneezing every six seconds and rubbing my watery eyes, but I'm now quite comfortably lying back on a couch, plugged into the internet. They put in a pool, a weight room, and total ballerness. My uncle really knows how to live in style. Uncle Josh, the youngest of my dad's four siblings, and his wife, Cristina, have done quite well with themselves.
The Cape is full of fun people. Josh, Cristina, and their two kids, Max (~12) and Harry (~9), are loads of fun. We played in the pool yesterday, and it was just wonderful. Also here is Cristina's brother (Stefano), his wife (Lydia), and their five kids. I still don't remember all their names. Here's what I have: (as I realize this, I just realized I called the middle child by the wrong name for a solid 10 minutes last night and just almost screamed SHIT out loud. That would've been bad, because everyone else, as far as I can tell, is still asleep.) Lily? 17; Phoebe, 16; Vivian, ~9 (two months apart from Harry, I'm told);Italo, 2 or 3; and (cough cough ahem I forgot her name -- E-something), 10 months. They're also fun.
Cristina is originally from Italy, and her family is super spread out. Her brother is a photographer (one of the premier photographers for children) and uncle Josh told me he's good enough that he's figured out a way to work 60 days a year and just chill the rest of the time. He and his family live part of the time in London, part of the time in Italy, and travel a lot in the States. Her sister, whom I probably have not seen since Josh's wedding, at which I was around 8, lives in Hong Kong. I don't know her deal.
Josh has told me I should start visiting on my own in the winter while at school. If you go to school with me and are reading this, bug me about it. We should totally go up a lot of three-day weekends with a lot of friends. Plenty of beds, lots to do. It's an hour and a half bus ride, and from there we'll just need to take a taxi to the house. It'd be better if we could take a car so we could do things such as grocery shopping, but we could work around it.
Well I'm going to grab some food. People should be up soon. Taking a nice boat ride today. This place is awesome/ridiculous.
He expanded the houses that were there, and he really made them quite lavish and comfortable. I used to walk around grandpa's house sneezing every six seconds and rubbing my watery eyes, but I'm now quite comfortably lying back on a couch, plugged into the internet. They put in a pool, a weight room, and total ballerness. My uncle really knows how to live in style. Uncle Josh, the youngest of my dad's four siblings, and his wife, Cristina, have done quite well with themselves.
The Cape is full of fun people. Josh, Cristina, and their two kids, Max (~12) and Harry (~9), are loads of fun. We played in the pool yesterday, and it was just wonderful. Also here is Cristina's brother (Stefano), his wife (Lydia), and their five kids. I still don't remember all their names. Here's what I have: (as I realize this, I just realized I called the middle child by the wrong name for a solid 10 minutes last night and just almost screamed SHIT out loud. That would've been bad, because everyone else, as far as I can tell, is still asleep.) Lily? 17; Phoebe, 16; Vivian, ~9 (two months apart from Harry, I'm told);Italo, 2 or 3; and (cough cough ahem I forgot her name -- E-something), 10 months. They're also fun.
Cristina is originally from Italy, and her family is super spread out. Her brother is a photographer (one of the premier photographers for children) and uncle Josh told me he's good enough that he's figured out a way to work 60 days a year and just chill the rest of the time. He and his family live part of the time in London, part of the time in Italy, and travel a lot in the States. Her sister, whom I probably have not seen since Josh's wedding, at which I was around 8, lives in Hong Kong. I don't know her deal.
Josh has told me I should start visiting on my own in the winter while at school. If you go to school with me and are reading this, bug me about it. We should totally go up a lot of three-day weekends with a lot of friends. Plenty of beds, lots to do. It's an hour and a half bus ride, and from there we'll just need to take a taxi to the house. It'd be better if we could take a car so we could do things such as grocery shopping, but we could work around it.
Well I'm going to grab some food. People should be up soon. Taking a nice boat ride today. This place is awesome/ridiculous.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Brokeback Brooklyn
So I've pretty much destroyed my back, probably from exercise. Yesterday, after trying to rest it, my back just gave up. At work I could hardly move around. Then I got home and it got worse. Saw a doctor who gave me prescription Aleve (same active ingredient), but that didn't work. This morning I went back and got more meds and an x-ray (I get the results back tomorrow). My coworker Sabrina has been wonderful -- her dad's a pain doctor (rated #1 in NYC!), and he got me these great local anesthetic patches. She dropped them off for me today as I didn't go into work, but I plan to go back tomorrow. Boris has been helpful too. He's helped me every step of the way -- pulling me up when I couldn't stand, helping me pick up things, etc. He's been awesome.
The first doctor I went to last night, I waited 2 hours and was seen for 5 min and left with an ineffective prescription. The second one, I got a more thorough exam, better meds, and an x-ray. She was quite helpful, but again being first when it opened up, I waited for over an hour. Moral of the story? Don't get hurt in Brooklyn.
I'm in the process of planning a dinner party with my friend Roxanne. She's really into it, and she's getting me pretty excited about it. It's fun! We're inviting 16 others over, and hoping for around a 15 person party (including the two of us). So all's relatively well, outside of my (now improving probably due to the massive meds) back.
The first doctor I went to last night, I waited 2 hours and was seen for 5 min and left with an ineffective prescription. The second one, I got a more thorough exam, better meds, and an x-ray. She was quite helpful, but again being first when it opened up, I waited for over an hour. Moral of the story? Don't get hurt in Brooklyn.
I'm in the process of planning a dinner party with my friend Roxanne. She's really into it, and she's getting me pretty excited about it. It's fun! We're inviting 16 others over, and hoping for around a 15 person party (including the two of us). So all's relatively well, outside of my (now improving probably due to the massive meds) back.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Office Life
I left work early today because Dad was in town. We went to the Jewish Museum and talked. Meanwhile, my coworker Sabrina (who has been there since the beginning with me), suffered with our two other co-workers. Here is an email she sent me after work:
Max is driving me crazzy!!! He is drinking a pink coolatta and being himself....ahhhhh. I realize that I only find him amusing when you are here. When you are gone, he is simply annoying.
He keeps saying out loud what he is doing...... now he is dancing...and is asking me if I have seen Indian dancing in movies.
Now he is explaining how NYC has multiple area codes to Olivia.
Max: Supervisor at eastchester dot org
Max: that is no fun we spelled the name of the city wrong.
Max: Are my teeth all red?
Me: Yes (they aren't)
Max 2 minutes later: Are my teeth all red?
Me: Yes (they still aren't) and your mouth is all red too (it is not)
Max 3 minutes later: I can't believe my teeth are all red.
Max 2 minutes later: Olivia, are my teeth all red?
Olivia: No
Max angrily: Sabrina, why did you lie to me?
I just laugh.
Max: They ended their day at 3.
Max: That is funny. I am laughing.
Max: Colavida. There is a guy named Colavida.
Max: I have that. I have that. I have that. I have that. I have that.
Max: Will you help me find the town of Glenville. Wouldn't you like to go there with me Sabrina?
Olivia: You don't want to go to Glenville except there is a great restaurant there: The Water Edge lighthouse.
Max: Is there actually water there?
Olivia: Yes.
Max: What type of food do they serve?
Olivia: uh, ah, um....I'm not really sure
Max: Of the two pages I was originally assigned I am done.
Olivia: really.
Max: Yes, except now I have to do another one because of Josh. (He made me give him your sheet because he said he had to do it).
Max keeps playing with his little toy and looks bemused.
I laugh.
Max: What are you laughing at?
I can no longer see him. He is on top of Olivia.
Max: Which subway did you take to Coney Island?
Olivia: the Q
I am laughing
Max: Why are you laughing Sabrina? You need to take things more seriously.
Max 2 minutes later: Wow we all took trains to Coney Island.
Max to me: Why are you laughing? You be quiet.
Max to me: I don't appreciate your backsass
Max: Sabrina, do you want to live in the city of Co-hoes?
Josh corrects him and says that it is not pronounced in that manner.
Max: Why is it not pronounced Co-hoes?
Josh: Please try to elevate your discourse Max.
Max: I am so funny.
Max: No I am not.
Max: Why do you keep laughing Sabrina.
Me: I am bringing joy to the office Max.
Max: I like to question your joy. I wonder about your joy.
Max: Did you totally karate chop your list?
Max: Did you spend like years doing your handwriting.
Max: di da di dir dir dir dir dir dir dir
Max: Oh Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina.
Max is now staring at me. He won't stop. I am getting a little freaked out.
Max: The City of New Roch-elle.
Max: You're so vain.
Max: New Rock. There are people I know that go to that high school and they call it New Rock.
Max: What a good looking fella the Mayor is. Look at his photo.
Max to Olivia: How far away are you from Rye? How far away are you from New Rock? Are you near the Hudson?
Max: Would you go to playland a lot Olivia?
Olivia: yeah.
Max is coming towards me. He goes to the pencil sharpener. He sharpens his pencil and pretends to throw it at me and says: now I can throw it at you like a lazer.
Max: blade, lazer, blazer
Max: Bet you think this song is about you.
Max: Daniel J. Deliah
Max: This is such a bad website. There is nothing on it.
Max: it is just so bad.
Max turns to Olivia: The town of Princetown, hahahaha
Max: We must find Steve Motis.
Me: Max, if you could be a bird what bird would you be?
Max: an eagle because it has big wings and it has white hair.
Max: he looks like JFK.
Me: Max, if you could be any drink what drink would you be?
Max: a mojito, everyone loves mojitos.
Max: The City of Troy.
Max: Ok, this has to be wrong. I don't like it. I don't approve.
Max: I hear you laughing Sabrina and I don't like it.
Max: Oh Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina. That is your name.
Max while raising his hands in the air: Raise the roof, raise the roof, raise the roof. I am done.
Max: Apparently I am very popular. I got a lot of emails today. A lot. So much that I had to kill people to get them to stop sending me email.
Max: Apparently we need magenta toner.
Max: Did I just get more mail from more people.
Max sticks a pencil in his ear.
Max: It is time to shut down.
Max grabs his book and gives me a weird smirk. Now he is prentending he has a beard.
Max: Did Josh turn off his computer?
He touches your stuff.
Me: Yes, don't touch his stuff.
Max calls me and tells me to come over. I tell him I can't and he says fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
With that I am out of here.
Sabrina
Max is driving me crazzy!!! He is drinking a pink coolatta and being himself....ahhhhh. I realize that I only find him amusing when you are here. When you are gone, he is simply annoying.
He keeps saying out loud what he is doing...... now he is dancing...and is asking me if I have seen Indian dancing in movies.
Now he is explaining how NYC has multiple area codes to Olivia.
Max: Supervisor at eastchester dot org
Max: that is no fun we spelled the name of the city wrong.
Max: Are my teeth all red?
Me: Yes (they aren't)
Max 2 minutes later: Are my teeth all red?
Me: Yes (they still aren't) and your mouth is all red too (it is not)
Max 3 minutes later: I can't believe my teeth are all red.
Max 2 minutes later: Olivia, are my teeth all red?
Olivia: No
Max angrily: Sabrina, why did you lie to me?
I just laugh.
Max: They ended their day at 3.
Max: That is funny. I am laughing.
Max: Colavida. There is a guy named Colavida.
Max: I have that. I have that. I have that. I have that. I have that.
Max: Will you help me find the town of Glenville. Wouldn't you like to go there with me Sabrina?
Olivia: You don't want to go to Glenville except there is a great restaurant there: The Water Edge lighthouse.
Max: Is there actually water there?
Olivia: Yes.
Max: What type of food do they serve?
Olivia: uh, ah, um....I'm not really sure
Max: Of the two pages I was originally assigned I am done.
Olivia: really.
Max: Yes, except now I have to do another one because of Josh. (He made me give him your sheet because he said he had to do it).
Max keeps playing with his little toy and looks bemused.
I laugh.
Max: What are you laughing at?
I can no longer see him. He is on top of Olivia.
Max: Which subway did you take to Coney Island?
Olivia: the Q
I am laughing
Max: Why are you laughing Sabrina? You need to take things more seriously.
Max 2 minutes later: Wow we all took trains to Coney Island.
Max to me: Why are you laughing? You be quiet.
Max to me: I don't appreciate your backsass
Max: Sabrina, do you want to live in the city of Co-hoes?
Josh corrects him and says that it is not pronounced in that manner.
Max: Why is it not pronounced Co-hoes?
Josh: Please try to elevate your discourse Max.
Max: I am so funny.
Max: No I am not.
Max: Why do you keep laughing Sabrina.
Me: I am bringing joy to the office Max.
Max: I like to question your joy. I wonder about your joy.
Max: Did you totally karate chop your list?
Max: Did you spend like years doing your handwriting.
Max: di da di dir dir dir dir dir dir dir
Max: Oh Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina.
Max is now staring at me. He won't stop. I am getting a little freaked out.
Max: The City of New Roch-elle.
Max: You're so vain.
Max: New Rock. There are people I know that go to that high school and they call it New Rock.
Max: What a good looking fella the Mayor is. Look at his photo.
Max to Olivia: How far away are you from Rye? How far away are you from New Rock? Are you near the Hudson?
Max: Would you go to playland a lot Olivia?
Olivia: yeah.
Max is coming towards me. He goes to the pencil sharpener. He sharpens his pencil and pretends to throw it at me and says: now I can throw it at you like a lazer.
Max: blade, lazer, blazer
Max: Bet you think this song is about you.
Max: Daniel J. Deliah
Max: This is such a bad website. There is nothing on it.
Max: it is just so bad.
Max turns to Olivia: The town of Princetown, hahahaha
Max: We must find Steve Motis.
Me: Max, if you could be a bird what bird would you be?
Max: an eagle because it has big wings and it has white hair.
Max: he looks like JFK.
Me: Max, if you could be any drink what drink would you be?
Max: a mojito, everyone loves mojitos.
Max: The City of Troy.
Max: Ok, this has to be wrong. I don't like it. I don't approve.
Max: I hear you laughing Sabrina and I don't like it.
Max: Oh Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina. That is your name.
Max while raising his hands in the air: Raise the roof, raise the roof, raise the roof. I am done.
Max: Apparently I am very popular. I got a lot of emails today. A lot. So much that I had to kill people to get them to stop sending me email.
Max: Apparently we need magenta toner.
Max: Did I just get more mail from more people.
Max sticks a pencil in his ear.
Max: It is time to shut down.
Max grabs his book and gives me a weird smirk. Now he is prentending he has a beard.
Max: Did Josh turn off his computer?
He touches your stuff.
Me: Yes, don't touch his stuff.
Max calls me and tells me to come over. I tell him I can't and he says fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
With that I am out of here.
Sabrina
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Longer post coming eventually
A quick update:
Another coworker joined in. She seems nice, but so far she's provided very little entertainment/personality. Hope she opens up soon.
Going to the mermaid parade today. May or may not see a few people around (including but not limited to brother Ben, who is visiting).
Hung out with frat bro Andrew the other day. It was fun.
Very little is going on. Still thinking about quitting. Aunt Ruth is checking out options for me working at her museum. I don't know if it'd be more interesting or not, but she says there are ~10 interns. Significantly more than the 3 others at the League.
Expect a bigger update soon enough.
Another coworker joined in. She seems nice, but so far she's provided very little entertainment/personality. Hope she opens up soon.
Going to the mermaid parade today. May or may not see a few people around (including but not limited to brother Ben, who is visiting).
Hung out with frat bro Andrew the other day. It was fun.
Very little is going on. Still thinking about quitting. Aunt Ruth is checking out options for me working at her museum. I don't know if it'd be more interesting or not, but she says there are ~10 interns. Significantly more than the 3 others at the League.
Expect a bigger update soon enough.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Okay, time for an update.
Okay, I've been alerted to the fact that I've pretty much abandoned this blog and I should update. Things I've been doing as of recent:
1) Enjoying my job more. A new intern started on Thursday, and though he's an annoying dick, he makes life interesting. He does dumb, obnoxious things such as watches me do work instead of doing his own, making me do mine and his (he's supposed to be taking over half of my large project of calling hundreds of municipalities and getting info on whom the Dems and Repubs have nominated for various positions). Anyway, he makes it interesting because my coworker Sabrina and I have a fun give-and-take relationship -- lots of poking fun at one another, a bit of mild flirtation, and generally getting along while pretending we hate each other. It's hard to understand, but it's fun.
Also on work, I've been doing more interesting things after I asked for them. I'm calling Senators supporting bills, more blogging, going to press conferences (I'm probably on some local TV channel because I was standing behind the city council Speaker as she supported the Mayor's environmental plan holding a huge sign for our organization).
2) Been hanging out with Boris some, and he's got a lot to share. He may rarely be at home, but when we hang out, he just shares his perspective on the world which is wildly different than mine, especially given his immigration and war-torn past. He has become a bit like you, Mom. He asks me about alcohol consumption too much and forces me to clean, but it's better than Max (college roommate), who never cleaned and left his beer lying everywhere.
3) Went over to Aunt Annie's place in Westport, CT, where I hung out with her and my cousins Jason and Alex. I've never been that close to that part of the family. She's almost finished with her Ph.D dissertation on child development re:tragedy. She called her work "healing." Take as you will. Jason and Alex are doing well. Jason's still strong in his opinions and knows a lot about computers. Talking to him about internet privacy makes me realize I should delete this blog and destroy my computer, because the NSA probably has me, you, and everyone else bugged. Alex is glass-blowing and plans to find a college that has a place where he can better hone his artistic skill. He's made some really sweet stuff. Annie forced me to promise I'll come back soon, and I plan to. Easy train from Boston during the school year to a really sweet house with a nice Aunt.
4) The working out is going well. I see my posture is improving, and though I see that I'm not actually getting significantly bigger, I feel bigger, stronger, and more energetic. Nevertheless, I'm still not sleeping. My back hurt last night when I went to sleep and hurt in the morning. I'm on ibuprofen pretty much round the clock now. Sabrina, the co-worker, her dad's a pain doctor, and she told me I could call him if I wanted. It's not nearly painful enough. I texted the trainer, and he said that it's my bone shifting due to my core muscles strengthening. I hope that's true. We'll see. I'm eating 5 meals per day, per his instructions. That's fun, but harder than one would imagine. It means I bring a milkshake to work, eat a big breakfast and lunch, a mid-size dinner, and then a shake after dinner.
5) Matt, Dan, Garrett, and Aja have yet to show their faces in the city. I just IMed Garrett asking if they were coming and he replied "perhaps, Matt wants to come, but I am still unsure about scheduling for my work so I havent been able to say which weekend we should go." So we'll see if they follow through.
6) After-work activities: not many yet. Been to a couple internbars (see: internbar.com for more details -- a few times a week, interns working in the city are advised to all go to the same bar, meet, and get discounts on drinks), Harrison's comedy show (it was good), and little odds and ends. Hung out with frat bro Andrew last week and will again Thurs.
So things are more or less stable in NYC. I'm looking for more after-work activities, but I'm finding more slowly but surely.
1) Enjoying my job more. A new intern started on Thursday, and though he's an annoying dick, he makes life interesting. He does dumb, obnoxious things such as watches me do work instead of doing his own, making me do mine and his (he's supposed to be taking over half of my large project of calling hundreds of municipalities and getting info on whom the Dems and Repubs have nominated for various positions). Anyway, he makes it interesting because my coworker Sabrina and I have a fun give-and-take relationship -- lots of poking fun at one another, a bit of mild flirtation, and generally getting along while pretending we hate each other. It's hard to understand, but it's fun.
Also on work, I've been doing more interesting things after I asked for them. I'm calling Senators supporting bills, more blogging, going to press conferences (I'm probably on some local TV channel because I was standing behind the city council Speaker as she supported the Mayor's environmental plan holding a huge sign for our organization).
2) Been hanging out with Boris some, and he's got a lot to share. He may rarely be at home, but when we hang out, he just shares his perspective on the world which is wildly different than mine, especially given his immigration and war-torn past. He has become a bit like you, Mom. He asks me about alcohol consumption too much and forces me to clean, but it's better than Max (college roommate), who never cleaned and left his beer lying everywhere.
3) Went over to Aunt Annie's place in Westport, CT, where I hung out with her and my cousins Jason and Alex. I've never been that close to that part of the family. She's almost finished with her Ph.D dissertation on child development re:tragedy. She called her work "healing." Take as you will. Jason and Alex are doing well. Jason's still strong in his opinions and knows a lot about computers. Talking to him about internet privacy makes me realize I should delete this blog and destroy my computer, because the NSA probably has me, you, and everyone else bugged. Alex is glass-blowing and plans to find a college that has a place where he can better hone his artistic skill. He's made some really sweet stuff. Annie forced me to promise I'll come back soon, and I plan to. Easy train from Boston during the school year to a really sweet house with a nice Aunt.
4) The working out is going well. I see my posture is improving, and though I see that I'm not actually getting significantly bigger, I feel bigger, stronger, and more energetic. Nevertheless, I'm still not sleeping. My back hurt last night when I went to sleep and hurt in the morning. I'm on ibuprofen pretty much round the clock now. Sabrina, the co-worker, her dad's a pain doctor, and she told me I could call him if I wanted. It's not nearly painful enough. I texted the trainer, and he said that it's my bone shifting due to my core muscles strengthening. I hope that's true. We'll see. I'm eating 5 meals per day, per his instructions. That's fun, but harder than one would imagine. It means I bring a milkshake to work, eat a big breakfast and lunch, a mid-size dinner, and then a shake after dinner.
5) Matt, Dan, Garrett, and Aja have yet to show their faces in the city. I just IMed Garrett asking if they were coming and he replied "perhaps, Matt wants to come, but I am still unsure about scheduling for my work so I havent been able to say which weekend we should go." So we'll see if they follow through.
6) After-work activities: not many yet. Been to a couple internbars (see: internbar.com for more details -- a few times a week, interns working in the city are advised to all go to the same bar, meet, and get discounts on drinks), Harrison's comedy show (it was good), and little odds and ends. Hung out with frat bro Andrew last week and will again Thurs.
So things are more or less stable in NYC. I'm looking for more after-work activities, but I'm finding more slowly but surely.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Shiznit and giggles
I've just received word (see the comments on the post below) that Lea will be visiting me. This is good news.
Boris and I have been hanging out (Boris and I are chillin' in the apt now with Colleen, Boris' gf). Times are good. Tonight I'm going out with a co-worker and her friend and going to a bar that a lot of interns are supposed to be going to. (There is a facebook group called internbar that lists a different bar for interns to go each night. There are over 1000 members of the group.)
That's all for now. Back to hanging out.
Boris and I have been hanging out (Boris and I are chillin' in the apt now with Colleen, Boris' gf). Times are good. Tonight I'm going out with a co-worker and her friend and going to a bar that a lot of interns are supposed to be going to. (There is a facebook group called internbar that lists a different bar for interns to go each night. There are over 1000 members of the group.)
That's all for now. Back to hanging out.
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