I'm actually at work au currant so I'm going to keep this to a minimum. Below are some abbreviated vignettes from my time in NYC which I hope are at least somewhat amusing for you. I'll be in DC starting Saturday for a week to counsel high school students at the IR camp. Aka engage in much needed Georgetown/IRC redonkulousness. Everyone who's on the Hilltop hit me up - I'd love to see y'all. After that, it's back to NYC for two more weeks for more intershipping and John Mayer/Ben Folds concert (!!) and then home for wisdom teeth pullings and other unpleasantness.
Here are some of the illustrious (or not) highlights from my summer in the Big Apple:
- Walking the Brooklyn Bridge to Crooklyn and chilling in NYC's Adams Morgan equivalent
- Leaking money faster than Enron
- Having an middle-aged man hand me a "Free Paris" button while walking along the Hudson
- Meeting up with Maddie and Ryan E. for a tasty BBQ dinner in Times Square following lunch at Grand Central with Anupam and Jasdeep
- The Brown-Town Odyssey with Ry to visit Anupam and other IRCers in NJ
- Waking up in Harlem at 6am on the floor of an unknown apartment after a night of dangerous debauchery and cabbing 140 blocks back to my apartment only to be locked out by the night guard
- Sunbathing in Central Park/Governor's Island/Battery Park
- Going for long runs along the South Street Seaport
- Getting sloshy in the UN bar with other UNA interns/smoking at the UN/attending UNSC meetings/strutting around with my UN id
- Partaking in essential NYC activities - Gray's Papaya, Hookah on 1st and 1st, Pick a Bagel, $3 lunches at the Halal cart, mojitos at Sushi Samba, 4th of July fireworks, Century 21, the Met, Little Italy, etc.
- Hanging with the hipsters in the East Village/Greenwich Village/Chelsea/SoHo
- Getting a little taste of LA with Ryan at Pinkberry
- Enjoying the break dancers on the A train
- Making friends with the guy at Pret a Manger who gives me free iced coffees during rush hour
- Barhopping with Vik, my UNA supervisor
- Cooling off in the World Financial Center every day on the way home from work
- Writing a 150 page book
- Petitioning for a Wee Britain in Greenwich Village a la Arrested Development
- Not getting carded (BALLIN)
- Many, many, many rando IRC/Gtown run-ins
- Developing a homeboy lexicon
4 comments:
so it sounds like you're having a lot of fun. except you are so not developing a homeboy vocab. if you are, you will have to stop that as soon as school starts
I may have to side with em on this one. but I do appreciate the BBQ shout-out, and I may be making my way back to your side of the country in a month...if you're still around, you'll have to show me some more good times!
I hope by Little Italy you mean Arthur Ave in the Bronx, that's the real Little Italy. And if I come back home, I need to take you to Hell's Kitchen.
You know how I know you're not street? You created a list. Then you started every bullet on said with a gerund describing how BALLIN your summer was. But, it did sound BALLIN.
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