NYC
So Longtime, no journal post...
Brief catch up: Australia was awesome. The exams were hard as hell, but I survived. The Great Barrier Reef is beyond comprehension... Its a universe barely touched by man.. Once those pictures find a scanner, I'll send them this way.
Ok, so I came home for 2 days and then headed up to Charlotte for some mantime with adam. We had a wonderful weekend. I am now in NYC where things are good. The Internship is questionable at times. The American Geographical Society has some really cool history stuff going on, but I am doing more clerical stuff at the moment. I'm writing grants for the next week. It a valuable (boring) skill to have. My apartment is tres cool. I have a 3 bedroom apartment all to my lonesome. It in Morningside heights... which is nice neighborhood. Not terribly exciting, but safe and friendly. Columbia's campus is crazy beautiful.
I ride the subway to work every morning which gives me time to wake up and figure out what my day is going to be like. The society is on wall street so I am walking around with all the crazy money crazed financial gurus of America. Wall street energy helps me through the day though. The other intern Meryll eat lunch together. He is writing corporate grants while I write foundation grants. Our work schedule is strange... somedays to 5, somedays to 2... I will most def, get most of my research done this summer.
Friday night I went out with Adam from WV and Mike Mussa (the first openly gay college Athletic Director in America). We hit like 8 bars/clubs.... Spash, G, Xl, Monster, Stonewall, Baracuda and some more that I can't remember. I tested my drinking limits, and the end of the night wasnt so pretty... Won't do that again. Mike took us back to his place in brooklyn so we could go to brooklyn pride in the morning. Brooklyn pride was very casual and very real. After pride, Adam and I went walking in Manhattan, from 9th street to72nd... We got to see a big chunk of the city which was nice. Central Park was the high light... There was a drum band with a 4 year old dancer... and man could she dance! then we saw some sort of postmodern, anticolonialist operatic interpretation of native man... We chilled for a bit by a lake and then I went back to my apartment to catch up on sleep. I am glad adam (wv) is around. It will be great to have a friend to hang out with in NYC.
Brief catch up: Australia was awesome. The exams were hard as hell, but I survived. The Great Barrier Reef is beyond comprehension... Its a universe barely touched by man.. Once those pictures find a scanner, I'll send them this way.
Ok, so I came home for 2 days and then headed up to Charlotte for some mantime with adam. We had a wonderful weekend. I am now in NYC where things are good. The Internship is questionable at times. The American Geographical Society has some really cool history stuff going on, but I am doing more clerical stuff at the moment. I'm writing grants for the next week. It a valuable (boring) skill to have. My apartment is tres cool. I have a 3 bedroom apartment all to my lonesome. It in Morningside heights... which is nice neighborhood. Not terribly exciting, but safe and friendly. Columbia's campus is crazy beautiful.
I ride the subway to work every morning which gives me time to wake up and figure out what my day is going to be like. The society is on wall street so I am walking around with all the crazy money crazed financial gurus of America. Wall street energy helps me through the day though. The other intern Meryll eat lunch together. He is writing corporate grants while I write foundation grants. Our work schedule is strange... somedays to 5, somedays to 2... I will most def, get most of my research done this summer.
Friday night I went out with Adam from WV and Mike Mussa (the first openly gay college Athletic Director in America). We hit like 8 bars/clubs.... Spash, G, Xl, Monster, Stonewall, Baracuda and some more that I can't remember. I tested my drinking limits, and the end of the night wasnt so pretty... Won't do that again. Mike took us back to his place in brooklyn so we could go to brooklyn pride in the morning. Brooklyn pride was very casual and very real. After pride, Adam and I went walking in Manhattan, from 9th street to72nd... We got to see a big chunk of the city which was nice. Central Park was the high light... There was a drum band with a 4 year old dancer... and man could she dance! then we saw some sort of postmodern, anticolonialist operatic interpretation of native man... We chilled for a bit by a lake and then I went back to my apartment to catch up on sleep. I am glad adam (wv) is around. It will be great to have a friend to hang out with in NYC.