I've been subletting at Bay's place in Park slope for the last week. Mostly to avoid the troubles of home, but also to enjoy his awesome neighborhood and close proximity to even more awesomeness. His roommate Jaygee is great too. She's an actor who does shows for disney and off broadway and USO tours and stuff. I love their roof more than anything...
Took my friend Emily up there for a couple Yuenglings Thursday night to kick off my 5 day weekend. Then we went to 4th ave. pub and watched the big Obama speech. I must admit, I was moved. Up until that point I had never heard him speak but standing at the bar half drunk with a mob of equally buzzed and enthralled young liberals all cheering was sorta' exciting. Obama has a bunch of big ideas and I like to pretend that he'll be able to follow through on them without falling into the usual presidential puppet role.
Also spent a lot of time with Casey this labor day weekend. She just came back from Spain. I accompanied her to Ikea for bed shopping and hot dog eating. Went to a really awesome Japanese yakitori style place in times square called "Hagi" apparently as close to authentic japanese as you can get in the US. Quite delish. Anthony Bourdain loves it so it's good enough for me!
Unfortunately I fell asleep on the train that night and didn't get home till' 4am. LAME!
Other highlights include sangria brunch and a riverside walk on sunday with Casey followed by beers "to-go" at McCarren park with Emily and her friends :) It was rad...you go to this bar directly across from the park and they sell you a giant Bud in a to-go styrofoam cup complete with straw. Then you walk on over to a grassy field and get tanked while watching hipsters play kickball. It's my new thing.
I went to a wild party in Williamsburg that night with Emily and her friends also...it was quite the night...needless to say I was up drinking whiskey and white wine till the sun rose. And then crumbled out of bed at 4pm the next day. Yikes!
I played tour guide a couple weekends ago when this girl, Sydney, that I met at Beerlympics came out to NY for vacation. It was fun doing the touristy thing again. We went to the David Byrne art project called "Playing the building". Basically there's a big organ set up in the middle of a warehouse and hitting the keys triggers all these different clangs and bangs and air horns throughout the walls of the place. Pretty nifty.
Then we hit the staten island ferry and back up to Chinatown for delicious ice cream and miles of Central park. All photographed beautifully by C. Bay...
www.cbaymilin.com
Which basically brings us up to date. I'm fuckin' sick and tired of my summer internship. The classmates i'm with have all formed a secret gang that i'm not apart of and their little condescending additudes and retardoid conversations have become infuriating. This is my last week there in Far rockaway. After this i'm in a small clinic in Staten island with a girl that i'm actually friends with. She's a complainer though, and not exactly the best worker. I hope we can get along after the next 2 months of just me and her in each others face 3 days a week.
I'm trying to keep the ol' hopes up. I've got interesting things happening and i've been squeezing in alot of good times with good people. I can't really complain at the moment. Positivety is the motto as Jaygee has told me. And with my cousin gone I can enjoy my home base relaxation again at least.
Here's to the beginning of my last year in New York!! Cheers, Motherclucker!
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