New York, New York

So I'm all moved in (mostly) to my new and wonderful apartment. I live with a lady in her early 60's in a hugely wonderful building in the upper east side of Manhattan. There is a 24 hour doorman and is just general 100% more safe than the place I was staying at before. I have a huge room with lots of closet space, and my own bathroom, as well as a kitchen I share with the lady. I will post a picture or video or something when all my furniture is here and built!

Classes are insane. like INSANE. grad school is hard. I cannot even believe the amount of writing and reading I have to do, but i'm hoping these are the "dues" i have to pay before I get a wicked sweet job. BUT on the plus side, attending a private university has the perks of it being excessively clean, large, and also equipped with 16 macs per classroom. I was agog at this. Again, I will post pictures when I get a chance, cause it will blow your mind. Also, it is excessively secure...you cannot get past the foyer of any building, including the library, without an NYU ID card. I'm used to U of M where you can get anywhere without anyone giving a crap.

My friend Laura was here the weekend before school started, so I was able to to a bit of touristy things...we did times square, and SOHO, and NOHO (now i know what these letters mean), and we went shopping on broadway by accident because we turned the wrong way but it turned out to be for the best! We ate lots of good food in trendy places, and I decided to make the rule that it is okay for me to indulge when friends are in town, because it won't happen THAT often. We went to see avenue Q on broadway, and decided it is my life, but with muppets. Look it up, you will laugh. It was really nice to see a familiar face during that time of homelessness and stress.

Other than that, I haven't really had a lot of time to explore the city during the day, but I've been to a few things at night. I went to Fashions night out for school, which was OKAY, but not my scene at all. I went on a boat ride around the island which was pretty cool, but packed full of grad students from other departments who were all insane, I ventured out on my own one night to see the canadian band Sloan play a show, which was awesome, and I went to see the comedian Bill Bailey the other night. I got discounted tickets cause I pay a million dollars to go to school here. sweet! I'm hoping to get out and about more, but it's pretty expensive so I gotta pick and choose. On the way home from BB I had my first insane new york subway experience! We got on and there was a man basically puking on the car, so we moved to the next one over. And then these crazy drunk men and women got on with a baby strolled (with a baby in it) and they started fighting. Basically the girls wanted the guys to hide their beers..." 'los (carlos) put it down...LOS PUT IT DOWWWWNNNN" and then she started yelling, for no apparent reason "DON'T DISRESPECT MY BABY!" which has now become a catch phrase in the magazine dpt after I shared this story. So, having an inkling that things may escalate, we went to the next car over. Sure enough, when we got off at our stop, the two dudes were having an all out brawl and people were running out of that car. So we told the conductor to hold to doors open so that a bunch of other people could get them out, all the while pushing this baby strolled which they left teetering at the top of the stairs. AH! I'm pretty certain one of us yelled "DON'T DISRESPECT YOUR BABY!" We watched until we knew the baby was safe and then went on our way. Fun times in the big apple.

This week nothing much is planned save for a trip to Ikea, which is exciting all on its own. I can't think of anything else to add at the moment, but I will update with photos soon. Miss/Love you all!

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