Adventures Ahoy!: Deadlines

BAM! I am alive! I'm just really bad at updating when nothing exciting, at least in my eyes, is going on. But now I will do a HYPER MEGA CRAZY POST to catch up on everything right in time for me to be home..hahaha. Timing is everything...

SO HERE WE GO

Rest of October: Halloween was a hoot, the party was excellent apart from the ridiculously random snowfall that dumped on NYC for about a day. Regardless, I trekked out to Queens, as snow on Halloween is not a novelty pour moi. Drank too much, stayed out too late, but had an excellent time.

NOVEMBER: The first weekend was the NYC Marathon, which I was writing a piece for. The guy I wrote about ended up being a bit of a flake/too busy to actually meet me, so I ended up having to do the whole interview via phone and email. HOWEVER, even after all my panic and stress, I got an A, so I was pretty happy. The marathon itself was incredible. I was not expecting it to be as emotional an experience as it was, but I mean all these people are just giving their all for whatever cause, and you just become so proud of them, even though you will probably never meet them or see them again. It's a strange strange feeling, but it was great! The crowd was awesome and the race went right by my apartment so I didn't have to go out of my way to see it.

The rest of the month was pretty much just a build up to Thanksgiving, which is a ridiculously big deal here. I did a few more assignments, one involving a stint covering NYC night court (which was nothing like the TV show), and beginning my final piece which I will talk more about later. What else, what else....OH! I went to see a Jets game at Madison Square Garden which was AWESOME, even though we got our ass kicked. NY Rangers fans are jerks, that is what I learned. They called us "loser peg"....really new york? really? Joe and Tara were nice enough to fly me out to Kansas to experience a real american thanksgiving so I did that. It was great! So much food, and it was so nice to be in a normal house in a normal city with(relatively) normal people.

The night before I flew out, I went to a midnight screening of the muppet movie, which was so awesome that I felt it necessary to mention here. If you have not seen it yet, go.

DECEMBER: Now I'm just on the home stretch with school stuff. One of my finals is about canadians in new york, which has led me to meet many really interesting people. One of them runs the Canada Cabin, a bar in midtown only on saturday nights that serves poutine, keiths on tap, caesars, beavertails, etc. IT IS AMAZING. Another one is a lady who lives just two blocks away from me and has already taken me out for dinner and offered her second bedroom should I ever need a place to stay. And the last one, a guy I interviewed last night, took me to my first NYC party, which he called an "event" so I had no idea what to expect until we walked up and I saw that it was a cocktail party. At Swarovski crystal in Soho. I was wearing a sweater vest. Not ideal, but I went in anyway, rubbed elbows with the rich and famous (The OLSEN TWINS) and had free booze/food. Totally surreal but kind of awesome in an "I will never fit in here" sort of way. And now I know the code..."event" means "wear cocktail attire" Live and learn I suppose. So that piece is going really well, and another one I am writing is about a Slovenian church in the east village, but that one hasn't really gone anywhere yet so nothing really to talk about. This past weekend I went to Brooklyn to see my beloved Sondre Lerche...he was just as amazing as always, and i still secretly (or not so secretly) wish to marry him. So talented, so sweet, and so humble. When I told him this was my third show, he actually looked shocked that I had come so many times..and then after I said I used to go to Minni to see him, he remembered Heather and I. And then he inquired as to how I like NYU. And then I died. I fully intend to see him every time he plays.