Busy busy busy
Considering I'm not working yet, I sure have been keeping busy!
The sun woke me up around 7:30am. Believe it or not, I couldn't go back to sleep because I was so excited about the prospect of a beautiful day in the city. So I went to the gym around 8 and then began my day.
First, I had lunch with Mickey at the same place we had lunch when I visited over spring break. I had a delicious salad - spinach, walnuts, oranges, blue cheese and balsamic vinaigrette. I'm gonna have to make that for myself sometime! After that I headed back to the apartment for a bit, then went back outside because I couldn't stay inside since it was so nice. I ended up sitting on the "Columbia Beach" talking to mom and Kirsten for a while and looking at pigeons. It's more exciting than it sounds.
I then decided to explore Morningside Heights. I basically just walked down to 112th St. and back, but I found lots of cool things! For example, I found a NYPL branch library and decided to investigate getting a card. I walked in and told them I was working in the city and they just gave me a card right away! So now I am a member of the New York Public Library, so I'm going to check out the main one sometime this week. I then found Tom's Restaurant, which as you will see in my pictures is the Seinfeld diner. It's on the to-do list to eat there even though I already have (last winter break when I visited Jesse with D4).
Around 3 I headed downtown to meet up with Marla. I got a little lost trying to find her - I got off at the 59th-Columbus Circle Station (which is my stop for work!) but went the wrong way on 59th - I was supposed to meet her at 59th and Lexington but I went towards 9th instead of towards 7th. So once I figured that out I turned around, but I got confused because right around there the street signs don't say "59th St.", they say "Central Park West" so I didn't know if i was in the right place. At any rate, I did find her, and we went to Dyaln's Candy Bar on 60th and 3rd. Dude. It was SO HARD to not eat all the delicious things but I was a good girl and had an iced coffee instead of bad bad candy. After that we WALKED to meet Steve at 34th and 5th - got a good 30 blocks in there. My legs are achy, but I definitely got my exercise! We ate at the Heartland Brewery - I had a delicious salad with Chicken and Grilled vegetables. All in all considering I ate out twice today I did pretty well.
Finally I got home around 7ish...I'm not a fan of taking the subway by myself, but I guess I'll get used to it.
Tonight Celeste and I went down the hall to hang out with some people in 1408. I've been meeting people from all over and it's so cool - I met a guy tonight who is a PITT PATHFINDER! In case you aren't a huge loser like me, Pitt Pathfinders are one of the most well-known tour guide organizations in the country. We talked about being tour guides and how I want Images to be as well known as the Pathfinders and how I wish we got 300 applications a semester. it was fun.
Okay. I'm being lame and going to bed. I walked a ridic amount today.
Oh yeah, here's today's
Low Library
more columbia campus
This is my favorite pic of columbia that i've taken.
Pigeon!
Cute pigeons that I saw while talking to kirsty on the phone.
Tom's Restaurant. obvi
Central Park
Dylan's Candy Bar - celeb favorites.
The sun woke me up around 7:30am. Believe it or not, I couldn't go back to sleep because I was so excited about the prospect of a beautiful day in the city. So I went to the gym around 8 and then began my day.
First, I had lunch with Mickey at the same place we had lunch when I visited over spring break. I had a delicious salad - spinach, walnuts, oranges, blue cheese and balsamic vinaigrette. I'm gonna have to make that for myself sometime! After that I headed back to the apartment for a bit, then went back outside because I couldn't stay inside since it was so nice. I ended up sitting on the "Columbia Beach" talking to mom and Kirsten for a while and looking at pigeons. It's more exciting than it sounds.
I then decided to explore Morningside Heights. I basically just walked down to 112th St. and back, but I found lots of cool things! For example, I found a NYPL branch library and decided to investigate getting a card. I walked in and told them I was working in the city and they just gave me a card right away! So now I am a member of the New York Public Library, so I'm going to check out the main one sometime this week. I then found Tom's Restaurant, which as you will see in my pictures is the Seinfeld diner. It's on the to-do list to eat there even though I already have (last winter break when I visited Jesse with D4).
Around 3 I headed downtown to meet up with Marla. I got a little lost trying to find her - I got off at the 59th-Columbus Circle Station (which is my stop for work!) but went the wrong way on 59th - I was supposed to meet her at 59th and Lexington but I went towards 9th instead of towards 7th. So once I figured that out I turned around, but I got confused because right around there the street signs don't say "59th St.", they say "Central Park West" so I didn't know if i was in the right place. At any rate, I did find her, and we went to Dyaln's Candy Bar on 60th and 3rd. Dude. It was SO HARD to not eat all the delicious things but I was a good girl and had an iced coffee instead of bad bad candy. After that we WALKED to meet Steve at 34th and 5th - got a good 30 blocks in there. My legs are achy, but I definitely got my exercise! We ate at the Heartland Brewery - I had a delicious salad with Chicken and Grilled vegetables. All in all considering I ate out twice today I did pretty well.
Finally I got home around 7ish...I'm not a fan of taking the subway by myself, but I guess I'll get used to it.
Tonight Celeste and I went down the hall to hang out with some people in 1408. I've been meeting people from all over and it's so cool - I met a guy tonight who is a PITT PATHFINDER! In case you aren't a huge loser like me, Pitt Pathfinders are one of the most well-known tour guide organizations in the country. We talked about being tour guides and how I want Images to be as well known as the Pathfinders and how I wish we got 300 applications a semester. it was fun.
Okay. I'm being lame and going to bed. I walked a ridic amount today.
Oh yeah, here's today's
Low Library
more columbia campus
This is my favorite pic of columbia that i've taken.
Pigeon!
Cute pigeons that I saw while talking to kirsty on the phone.
Tom's Restaurant. obvi
Central Park
Dylan's Candy Bar - celeb favorites.