You know, those double-decker bus tours are kinda fun. My family came in this weekend and they wanted to do the uptown tour in New York, which we did. They're long and they're kind of nice to just sit and take pictures and get an idea of where things are. I wish we had gone on the night tour or the Brooklyn tour more, but it was what my grandparents wanted.
It was nice that my mom was able to come up so that when my grandparents got too tired, they could go back to the hotel and we were still able to walk around the city and talk and play. I wish they would come up again every weekend I'm here until finals, but not only is that unrealistic, it isn't going to help much when it comes time to write these stupid papers. I also got my mom hooked on Sprinkles, which is reassuring that they are really good cupcakes, since this is the woman who swears she's not that impressed with cupcakes in general.
The thing is, most New Yorkers never want to be hokey. They avoid Times Square like the plague and try to avoid anything mainstream and chains. Yeah, there are times that I get frustrated when I'm trying to walk somewhere and I'm behind people who are stopping to look at everything or who are clearly tourists, however, some of those things are fun. It's nice to take a walk through Central Park in fall and take pictures of the changing leaves. It's fun to sometimes get on a tour bus and be driven around the city, especially when so many people seldom leave their own neighborhoods. Sometimes, it's nice to just go to Times Square and shop up there instead of near your apartment (though, this is the least important one). The thing is that everyone is a little cliche, and by trying sooo hard to not be cliche, you're fulfilling one of the biggest cliches of all and you're being annoying. I'm never going to like slow walkers, but I will make it a point to get to Central Park every fall to see the leaves.
In other news, I'm trying to think of places that my friends and I can live, but it is so nerve-wracking and I'm just scared we're going to end up someplace shady - which I know with Laura, we won't. It's just the first time I'm living in an apartment, paying my own rent without my family and that just feels so final. This could be the last summer that I spend in Pittsburgh for the entire summer and I can't handle that thought. I love New York and I'm so sad to have to start thinking about leaving and heading home for the summer, but it's weird to be thinking about completely changing my life for real.
It's finals time. I really need to just sit down and start pounding out papers, especially my Genre Meets Gender paper because that class feels as though it is a colossal waste of time and I need to just be finished with it all. My goal is to finish it by the end of the weekend (fingers crossed). Clearly, Adrienne and I are going to not be allowed to talk or see each other this weekend or neither of us are getting anything done.
One last thing, before I go to watch Glee and start thinking about my final papers - vote for my friend Kaitlyn? Her book blog, Kaitlyn in Bookland is a fantastic blog, if you haven't checked it out already and it would mean the world to me if you clicked this link and gave her some love: http://www.goodreads.com/book_blogger_award/entry/318
Thanks!!!
xx
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
April!?!
Okay, so I very clearly dropped the ball on this blog thing - but it's not my fault. Is anyone else SHOCKED that it is already the first week of April? It just dawned on me that these final papers that I feel like are a distant memory are, I realize they're due in just a month. WUT?!
Anyway, not too much has been happening here. Lots of work. Depression over Burger King discontinuing chicken fries. Scoping out the Gossip Girl set. I have been lucky enough to get pictures with Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, and KayLee Derfer while picking the brains of production assistants on set to see how they got their jobs and how to get into that kind of business. I went to a Careers Outside of Academia panel and that was much less helpful than talking to these two guys for forty-five minutes.
I'm QUITE ready to be done with school. Anything I may have said about continuing on to get my Ph.D is a complete lie (at least for now). I want the hell out of school and to get working and make real money. Even if I'm at the bottom of the income bracket, at least it's more than a part-time, minimum-wage job, though it is going to hurt a little when I have to leave my BBW family.
I'm trying to find apartments for next year, but it is so hard to try and find a place to live, especially in the city. I wish I could just stumble across a great deal in Hell's Kitchen, because that would be my ideal situation. The Village is nice and I'm really glad I had the opportunity to live here, but I don't like it. It's like living in a little mini-Pittsburgh, pretty much - people walk too slow, things are closed by like 10pm, only things are noisy so it's even worse because it's like living in the South Side on a Friday night every night. I'm looking at Craig's List and in general no-fee rental sites, so hopefully something comes up - but there's no point in really looking right now seeing as I don't want to move until August 1st.
My internship is good and super fun. I've made some great friends there and it's going to be a little sad when we all split up and go our separate ways at the end of the semester. I've learned so much and I'm really happy I got to intern with such a small and fun staff who seems to really care about teaching interns the ins and outs of their job. I also volunteered with the Tribeca Film Festival and that's starting soon, so I'm excited about that. I think it'll be a lot of fun and it'll be nice to see things from a film perspective to see if I'd rather stick around with television or flop to film and film festivals.
I FINALLY won the Wicked lottery, by the way!!! It was amazing. It's $26 for front row seats, which is a good deal. I think a few rows back would be better, but they were amazing and the cast was FANTASTIC. Chandra Lee Schwartz is the most AMAZING Glinda that I've seen (clearly Cheno doesn't count) and she's absolutely wonderful. She's so bubbly and has PIPES. She is absolutely hilarious. Jackie Burns was a GREAT Elphaba. I loved her Fiyero run in No Good Deed and her Defying Gravity. When she's just singing, I was not that impressed by her voice, but she can belt like no one's business and she was just adorable. I also loved Richard H. Blake as Fiyero. I was really excited to see him because I love him in Legally Blonde the Musical and he really shined as Fiyero. He was so adorable and I really loved the way he played him. He had a very good balance between being shallow and pretty for Glinda and secretly smart and caring for Elphaba. You should go see it immediately if you can.
I wish I had been able to get tickets for Seminar before Alan Rickman left :( I feel like that's my biggest NYC fail so far. However, on my bucket list of shows to see there is: The Columnist, The Book of Mormon, End of the Rainbow, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Newsies, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and A Streetcar Named Desire - yes, I just went through the list on Playbill.
Anyway, my last month here, I promise I'll get better with blogging. I'll even keep the periodic post while I'm home in Pittsburgh for the summer, with apartment news and whatnot. It's better, I swear.
Anyway, not too much has been happening here. Lots of work. Depression over Burger King discontinuing chicken fries. Scoping out the Gossip Girl set. I have been lucky enough to get pictures with Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, and KayLee Derfer while picking the brains of production assistants on set to see how they got their jobs and how to get into that kind of business. I went to a Careers Outside of Academia panel and that was much less helpful than talking to these two guys for forty-five minutes.
I'm QUITE ready to be done with school. Anything I may have said about continuing on to get my Ph.D is a complete lie (at least for now). I want the hell out of school and to get working and make real money. Even if I'm at the bottom of the income bracket, at least it's more than a part-time, minimum-wage job, though it is going to hurt a little when I have to leave my BBW family.
I'm trying to find apartments for next year, but it is so hard to try and find a place to live, especially in the city. I wish I could just stumble across a great deal in Hell's Kitchen, because that would be my ideal situation. The Village is nice and I'm really glad I had the opportunity to live here, but I don't like it. It's like living in a little mini-Pittsburgh, pretty much - people walk too slow, things are closed by like 10pm, only things are noisy so it's even worse because it's like living in the South Side on a Friday night every night. I'm looking at Craig's List and in general no-fee rental sites, so hopefully something comes up - but there's no point in really looking right now seeing as I don't want to move until August 1st.
My internship is good and super fun. I've made some great friends there and it's going to be a little sad when we all split up and go our separate ways at the end of the semester. I've learned so much and I'm really happy I got to intern with such a small and fun staff who seems to really care about teaching interns the ins and outs of their job. I also volunteered with the Tribeca Film Festival and that's starting soon, so I'm excited about that. I think it'll be a lot of fun and it'll be nice to see things from a film perspective to see if I'd rather stick around with television or flop to film and film festivals.
I FINALLY won the Wicked lottery, by the way!!! It was amazing. It's $26 for front row seats, which is a good deal. I think a few rows back would be better, but they were amazing and the cast was FANTASTIC. Chandra Lee Schwartz is the most AMAZING Glinda that I've seen (clearly Cheno doesn't count) and she's absolutely wonderful. She's so bubbly and has PIPES. She is absolutely hilarious. Jackie Burns was a GREAT Elphaba. I loved her Fiyero run in No Good Deed and her Defying Gravity. When she's just singing, I was not that impressed by her voice, but she can belt like no one's business and she was just adorable. I also loved Richard H. Blake as Fiyero. I was really excited to see him because I love him in Legally Blonde the Musical and he really shined as Fiyero. He was so adorable and I really loved the way he played him. He had a very good balance between being shallow and pretty for Glinda and secretly smart and caring for Elphaba. You should go see it immediately if you can.
I wish I had been able to get tickets for Seminar before Alan Rickman left :( I feel like that's my biggest NYC fail so far. However, on my bucket list of shows to see there is: The Columnist, The Book of Mormon, End of the Rainbow, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Newsies, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and A Streetcar Named Desire - yes, I just went through the list on Playbill.
Anyway, my last month here, I promise I'll get better with blogging. I'll even keep the periodic post while I'm home in Pittsburgh for the summer, with apartment news and whatnot. It's better, I swear.
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