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| Tuesday, August 24, 2004 |
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The tattoo was a false alarm. J and I were going to get henna tattoos (I know, that's like cheating or something) right before we headed to NY. We wanted to freak out the friends we were visiting but it just did not work out. *shrug* Maybe some other time.
Today is my first day back at work. I may be physically planted in front of this stone age computer with stacks of mutilated trees in front of me but my mind is still running the streets of New York. Brooke, I totally know how you feel. I have spent the last five days just staring in awe at buildings... and not sleeping much!
Things I did in New York:
- Never slept at night (would sleep when the sun was starting to rise)
- Saw Times Square at 4am
- Went clubbing in the Meat Packing District
- Ate pizza in Times Square
- Saw Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station, Wall Street, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, etc.
- Ate dinner in Little Italy (ordered calamari. I was unaware until this point that calamari could come un-fried ... with little baby squids... It is hard to eat food with more arms and legs than me)
- Danced with a couple hot guys
- Spit off the edge of the Empire State Building (the view is wow - like really wow)
- Survived a taxi ride
- Navigated my way through the New York underground
- Tasted various wines (including Strawberry Wine) at a vineyard.
- Had a beer in the Times Square Brewery
- Laid out by the Atlantic Ocean in Montauk ("The end of the world")
- Pretended I was rich and famous in Hamptons (made everyone else feel like they were retarded because they did not know who I was)
- Had Richard Gere say "Hi" to one of my best friends at the airport where she worked (OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!)
- Rode glass elevators in the W Hotel - 47 stories (the first elevator we entered contained two students in formals sitting on the floor discussing the deconstructionalism of a turkey - however, after quickly exiting that one, the other elevators were thankful free of Socratic club debates)
- Had a random lady teach us (group of six girls) how to through guys off track when they are using pick-up lines. She was kind of weird...
Overall, the experience was crazy, new, exciting, weird, and totally sweet. Words do not exist to express my feelings and reactions to the time I spent in the state of New York. However, I am planning on moving there in a month so just come visit and you can experience it yourself.
Shoot... work demands attention... later y'all
(and just because I'm slightly sadistic, I am not going to spell check or review it at all! Hahaha!) |
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