now what?

[bonkselle]

i live in ny now. again. except, this time, for the first time, i guess it's permanent. like, what with the job and health insurance and all. same apartment (thanks ma n pa), different prospects. three summers i've spent here working, and not one of them have i made any friends. which was always ok because i was going to be going back to my real

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[pallas_marisa]

my awesome friend meemoo lives in Stuyvesant Town. almost all her friends are from her psych program at NYU and they seemed like good people. you could drop her a line and tell her i sent you.

other than that, i dunno, take some kind of "enrichment" class or somewhere cool to volunteer maybe.

that's all i got.

[slimehead]

There's this place called Old Town Bar in Union Square. It seemed nice. My sister lives in Brooklyn. You can, um, say hi to her.

[anonymous]

1) buy a large umbrella -i think they are called golf umbrellas, but you know which ones i mean. giant. the kind that make you feel like the morton salt girl.
2) take it out when it rains, and go on all the errands you can think of. then, when you see people who look like they might make good friends, but who are not as well-prepared for the rain as you, invite them to share it with you, and walk with them for awhile til they get where they are going. it wont work every time, but i'd guess you get a phone number 1 out of 5. not that bad of odds. if you want to up these odds, tell them you are going to get coffee and do they want to come?

this is a good trick but be careful because boys are going to think you want to be specialfriends, not just friendfriends. really, thats true for all the tricks i know. i don't really know what to do about that.

[bonkselle]

i like that i can tell who wrote this just because, well, you know. it's easy.

[anonymous]

Second Thursdays, at 7:00 pm
St. Bart's Church
50th and Park Avenue

The University of Chicago Alumi Book Club. they seem like the read very reputable literature (geoge eliote, trollope, fitzgerald, etc.) and while the thing itself might be dumb, at the very least, it might be pleasantly reminiscent of your undergraduate days. and remember, you don't have to be actual friends with anyone. the trick is to be good enough friends to meet THEIR FRIENDS (which would probably be your first or second doing a thing anyway) and then you get several for the price of one. at least for an audition.

[anonymous]

Third Thursdays
7:00 to 9:00 pm

QUESTIONS?
E-mail Dalita Balassanian, AB'01,
at ucyoungalumni@yahoo.com

same idea, but this is UofC Happy Hour instead of book club. they don't say where it is though, so your gonna have to email Dalita