:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 ::

long time no post
Blogger was down for maintenance last night when I tried to post. Then, I tried to post earlier today, but this girl sat down at the computer next to me in the school library and dropped her book on the escape key on my keyboard, erasing my entire post. x.x;;; So, I just gave up and didn't bother retyping it.

only in new york
Yesterday, my parents and I went into NYC. My mom has a friend who's an artist, and he has a showing at a gallery that's due to continue through Thursday. We missed the opening reception on Feb 1st because Auntie Lyn was in the hospital. So, we went in to see it yesterday. We caught the train from Ronkonkoma to Penn Station, then took the Subway down to West 4th. Well... we miscalculated a few blocks and had to walk a few more down to the gallery. As it turned out, the gallery isn't open on Sundays anyway, so we ended up not getting in. ;_; So, we walked around for several blocks, trying to decide what to do. We ended up getting something to eat and just hopping the Subway back up to Penn Station to catch the next LIRR train back to Ronkonkoma.

One of the really cool things about New York City is the population. They're eccentric and love it. We saw several Subway and Street musicians, people handing out pamphlets for who knows what, selling just about anything you could sell, not to mention the everyday people that live and work there. We spent a lot of time down in Greenwich Village, SoHo, and the Washington Square area. NYU takes up several buildings throughout the Washington Square area. College students are funny. Being one, I know how crazy we can get. Some show it outwardly in their sense of style and others don't, but we saw some real eccentrics yesterday. It's been a while since I've been anywhere in NYC to really see any serious eccentrics. Midtown doesn't see as many as Downtown does.

The MTA also had this thing going on because of the Grammy's called "Music Under New York" (MUNY). They had a couple of 'shows' going on in Penn Station when we were getting ready to leave. There was a Salsa dancer and his 'partner', a female looking lifelike doll that he made dance with him. 'Her' name was 'Lupita'. He was funny. Then there was a Jazz/Blues band down at the other end of the station performing and selling some CDs. We bought one because Mom liked the music. It was good music!

Man, I love New York.

loaded with work
Well, now everything's due on Wednesday. I have to finish up the Chapters in the book, finish typing my presentation, and finish my CDP by 8:25 pm Wednesday night. Actually, I have to finish them by 4:30 pm so I have driving time to get to tutoring by 5. I won't have time to sit upstairs and do them before class.

movies
After I got home last night, I went over to John S's for a little while. We watched American Pie, 2. I hadn't seen it before. It was hysterical! I feel so bad for the character Jim. He always seems to have these horrible sexual misadventures. Poor guy. Basically, the story is about how Jim and all his old high school buddies come home from their freshman year of college. They get summer jobs and rent a house on the lake (Lake Michigan) for the entire summer, then have one huge blowout at the end of the summer. It's a really cute movie and a nice sequel to the first one. A lot of it is still about getting sex, like the first one, but it's also about how people grow up and change once they move away to college (or stay home and commute, like I did). I enjoyed it and got a good laugh at all the craziness.

job nothing-ness
Well, I haven't heard a damn thing from anyone about work. Guess I'm going to have to keep looking. I was so hopeful on those two positions with BnW and NBTY... {{sigh}} I just wish I didn't feel so overwhelmed with homework.