Thursday night Dan and I had an impromtu date night. We had burgers and fries at one of teh best dives in NYC, according to most reviews--a little place in the West Village, I believe, called Corner Bistro. Quite delicious. Afterwards we saw two movies--"Hard Candy" and "Tsotsi." We snuck into the latter of the two after the first one was over, ( Read more... )

i was sitting in union square park on thursday. a beautiful, sunny day. the benches were full, yet i'd found a nice shady seat. i was reading the paper, and the next thing i know i was hit by a frisbee, thrown by a little tyke in the kiddy playground across the way. luckily i survived, but the kid did it several more times, nearly decapiating ( Read more... )

This has been a busy week. Wednesday I babysat 10-9 for my family of three kids. It was the first night of Passover, so i stuck around into the evening to help out with the youngest during the readings/seder.Afterwards I joined them at the table, the one non-jew there. It was a cool experience, and the food was delicious. However, this was merely a ( Read more... )

this was a busy morning. i left with dan to get on the subway at 7:45, then had to transfer to the 7 halfway through. got home by a little after 8:00. unpacked. got ready and went to my first yoga class at the gym from 9-10. it was much more intense than i expected, and i think i'm gonna make it a regular weekly thing. there were only 4 of us in ( Read more... )

i left the upper west side from babysitting around midnight last night, but did not arrive to dan's until 2 hours later, which should not be the case. i stood on the platform waiting for the R train, only to find out after more than 20 minutes that it was probably not coming since it was late night. this nice told me she realized this and that i'd ( Read more... )

So, the party on Saturday was great. Open bar, lots of delicious food, and some dancing. Then Sunday we had brunch at Dean's, a friend of Dan. We were both exhausted because of our late night, but it was still a good time. Sunday evening we headed out to Long Island to see Coldplay. Very, very good show. Despite some immature and annoying people in ( Read more... )

I was supposed to babysit tonite after working here at the ticket place, my usual saturday schedule. But that fell through. Though some extra $$ would have been nice it means I can now go to a big shindig for Dan's cousin who graduated with her MSW in December. I am very excited--these people have $$, but are very down to earth. It should be an ( Read more... )

countdown to getting off work--three hours! is it bad that here i am living in ny and all i want to do when i get off work is go home, be lazy and watch tv...? in any case, i think i am going to check out this massive exhibit on slavery at the ny historical society tomorrow before work. it closes this weekend and i've been meaning to go for a while ( Read more... )

This past Saturday evening I babysat for my main family with three kids at a wedding. It took place in Jersey City at a hotel on the Hudson, with an incredible view of Manhattan. I had never been to such a function in my entire life. In between babysitting, I had some downtime to partake in some delicious food and wine during the cocktail hour, and ( Read more... )

Ca-razy. That's the kind of day I've had. I'm working the ticket place today, and tonite I'm taking myself out for an evening on the town. This afternoon a lady called for what initially seemed would be an easy transaction. Wrong! She had ordered tickets online and wanted a confirmation, so I told her I'd look up her order amd get her confirm ( Read more... )