"PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?
Its Monday afternoon at just about the time when I mentally checkout at work and have the inability to muster up enough brain waves to cope with even the simplest of tasks, that must mean its time for the usually weekend breakdown.
Friday: Left work a little early since no one was really working on anything. I met up with Eric and decided to go get some dinner so we went to this restaurant down the block from the mega -plex known as the Lowes on 14th Street/Union Square. I used to Intern at 770 Broadway when I was here for a summer at PDN. I was given $10 a day for lunch and not being as NYC savvy as I am know (i.e. having the knowledge to live off of pennies a day since in NYC you are perpetually just making the bills and 2 steps above hopelessly broke, well not that bad but lots of extra money is a rare commodity around these parts) I found out that I could go to the restaurant across the street (Silver spur) and get a avocado wrap for just about that amount, sometimes when I had a little left over it was a treat to get a milk shake. I learned this after one day not really knowing enough to have ordered a $9 salad expecting it to be a good amount and keep me fueled for the day... 6 corresponding pieces of basil and mozzarella slabs with 4 cherry tomatoes later I was the one with egg on my face rather than in my stomach where it would have been greatly appreciated for its nutritional value. Well, we graced the Silver spur again for dinner on Friday. It was fun to remember being here on my summers with no pay internships and hoping from apartment to apartment, at one point I was sharing a bed with a friend and splitting her rent for the room and living off of a bagel a day, as nostalgic as they might be I am glad that I can afford a bagel for breakfast and well as a good lunch and dinner after that. Being that broke and hungry wasn’t great at all. I got my usually avo wrap and Eric got a cow (not technically a cow but pretty close with the gigantic size of the burger). Then off to Spider man! There was an hour wait after scoping out the shortest line and scrambling for seats so that we could enjoy the movie. In the end it was a pretty good flick, I could have waited to see it instead of rushing to get tickets and stand in lines. Honestly Tobey McGuire cried way too much in it.
Saturday: Usual Prospect Park, then off to the city to meet up with Sara, Becky (in town from Boston), Heather, and Cate for Brunch at this place called Prune. It was pretty good, but I don’t think I want to make it a habit to pay $12 for eggs and a burned potato pancake. Afterwards went home walked Murphy and relaxed for a while. Got some Thai take out for dinner and met Cate to go to Steve’s Cinquo de Mayo/Studio warming party. It was incredible, I am seriously impressed with how well Steve is doing photo wise…really his studio is stunning. He was saying he wants to have people over to hang out on the balcony for summer Fridays, so I now have that to look forward to. It was awesome to see a ton of people from RIT and all the photo kids I see from time to time, I even saw a professor and accidentally called him by another profs name and quickly corrected myself (yikes!).
This is the view from the balcony, its not the best picture but gives you an idea of the glorious dight you got from 15 floors up!
Met Eric out at the party, he was super ampted cause that night was the last night of his externship. No more 70-hour weeks for him, now we actually have to spend time together…. I’ll keep you updated on how that goes (oh jokes!)
Sunday: slept in and woke up with my usual craving of wanting to have breakfast at home. Usually on Sunday mornings I just want to be at home rather than a crowded restaurant where I will over pay for food I can make just the way I like it at home. It took a little bit of coaxing but Eric finally agreed to make breakfast with me (by the end of this 14 hour days of cooking at his externship on Saturdays he doesn’t want to think about food or cooking). Cate came over for some fantastic cheesy eggs and French toast with some boca veggie sausages. We then gathered ourselves up after washing dishes and checked out the Court street Block party (NYC fancy way for saying street fair with tons of stuff you actually don’t want). However I did get a very pretty flower for my polka dotted pot I had bought the last time I was upstate. It’s a bright pink Dahlia hybrid. I am hoping I can do my best and not kill it; I’ve been doing pretty well with my foray into green thumbed-ness. Even my forget me nots from Target are beginning to grow!
We spent the rest of the day with a quick trip to Lowes to get some paint for Cate’s room next weekend. And the Eric and I took a trip to the met to get some snacks, and I took about 6 million photographs of the grocery store, cause that’s what you do when you get into nerd mode.
On the way home we happened upon the 5 - boro bike race going down the BQE it was a sight to see. Usually its just back to back traffic, today was a million billion bikers!
And watched Smokin' Aces, it was all right. Got some DUB Australian meat pies (well I got a veggie curry…but same idea nonetheless). Sopranos- Entourage-and Bed.
Tonight is my last class for work. I can’t tell you how excited I am to not have to go to a two-hour class on Mondays anymore!
And that’s it.
Friday: Left work a little early since no one was really working on anything. I met up with Eric and decided to go get some dinner so we went to this restaurant down the block from the mega -plex known as the Lowes on 14th Street/Union Square. I used to Intern at 770 Broadway when I was here for a summer at PDN. I was given $10 a day for lunch and not being as NYC savvy as I am know (i.e. having the knowledge to live off of pennies a day since in NYC you are perpetually just making the bills and 2 steps above hopelessly broke, well not that bad but lots of extra money is a rare commodity around these parts) I found out that I could go to the restaurant across the street (Silver spur) and get a avocado wrap for just about that amount, sometimes when I had a little left over it was a treat to get a milk shake. I learned this after one day not really knowing enough to have ordered a $9 salad expecting it to be a good amount and keep me fueled for the day... 6 corresponding pieces of basil and mozzarella slabs with 4 cherry tomatoes later I was the one with egg on my face rather than in my stomach where it would have been greatly appreciated for its nutritional value. Well, we graced the Silver spur again for dinner on Friday. It was fun to remember being here on my summers with no pay internships and hoping from apartment to apartment, at one point I was sharing a bed with a friend and splitting her rent for the room and living off of a bagel a day, as nostalgic as they might be I am glad that I can afford a bagel for breakfast and well as a good lunch and dinner after that. Being that broke and hungry wasn’t great at all. I got my usually avo wrap and Eric got a cow (not technically a cow but pretty close with the gigantic size of the burger). Then off to Spider man! There was an hour wait after scoping out the shortest line and scrambling for seats so that we could enjoy the movie. In the end it was a pretty good flick, I could have waited to see it instead of rushing to get tickets and stand in lines. Honestly Tobey McGuire cried way too much in it.
Saturday: Usual Prospect Park, then off to the city to meet up with Sara, Becky (in town from Boston), Heather, and Cate for Brunch at this place called Prune. It was pretty good, but I don’t think I want to make it a habit to pay $12 for eggs and a burned potato pancake. Afterwards went home walked Murphy and relaxed for a while. Got some Thai take out for dinner and met Cate to go to Steve’s Cinquo de Mayo/Studio warming party. It was incredible, I am seriously impressed with how well Steve is doing photo wise…really his studio is stunning. He was saying he wants to have people over to hang out on the balcony for summer Fridays, so I now have that to look forward to. It was awesome to see a ton of people from RIT and all the photo kids I see from time to time, I even saw a professor and accidentally called him by another profs name and quickly corrected myself (yikes!).
This is the view from the balcony, its not the best picture but gives you an idea of the glorious dight you got from 15 floors up!
Met Eric out at the party, he was super ampted cause that night was the last night of his externship. No more 70-hour weeks for him, now we actually have to spend time together…. I’ll keep you updated on how that goes (oh jokes!)
Sunday: slept in and woke up with my usual craving of wanting to have breakfast at home. Usually on Sunday mornings I just want to be at home rather than a crowded restaurant where I will over pay for food I can make just the way I like it at home. It took a little bit of coaxing but Eric finally agreed to make breakfast with me (by the end of this 14 hour days of cooking at his externship on Saturdays he doesn’t want to think about food or cooking). Cate came over for some fantastic cheesy eggs and French toast with some boca veggie sausages. We then gathered ourselves up after washing dishes and checked out the Court street Block party (NYC fancy way for saying street fair with tons of stuff you actually don’t want). However I did get a very pretty flower for my polka dotted pot I had bought the last time I was upstate. It’s a bright pink Dahlia hybrid. I am hoping I can do my best and not kill it; I’ve been doing pretty well with my foray into green thumbed-ness. Even my forget me nots from Target are beginning to grow!
We spent the rest of the day with a quick trip to Lowes to get some paint for Cate’s room next weekend. And the Eric and I took a trip to the met to get some snacks, and I took about 6 million photographs of the grocery store, cause that’s what you do when you get into nerd mode.
On the way home we happened upon the 5 - boro bike race going down the BQE it was a sight to see. Usually its just back to back traffic, today was a million billion bikers!
And watched Smokin' Aces, it was all right. Got some DUB Australian meat pies (well I got a veggie curry…but same idea nonetheless). Sopranos- Entourage-and Bed.
Tonight is my last class for work. I can’t tell you how excited I am to not have to go to a two-hour class on Mondays anymore!
And that’s it.
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