i didn't think anything's been happening but actually it has
i feel like nothing has happened in the last week but i think that's just because it's quiet at work, and my sister and i went to new york on sunday for a couple days and had the pleasure of ignoring all the news. but things did happen! cheetolini was indicted on thirty-seven felony counts, in federal court, all related to the boxes of classified documents he snuck out of the white house and pretended he didn't hide in mar-a-lago. some of them were stacked in a BATHROOM. A BATHROOM. wtf. it's an ugly bathroom, too. also canada caught fire and the smoke is currently blowing down the eastern seaboard of the us and people are freaking out. (understandable. for the us and canada.) also sag-aftra (the screen actors guild) authorized a strike if necessary - their contracts aren't up until the end of the month so who knows if they'll have to call it - with nearly 98% approval. also i think there was something else but now i don't remember what.
so yes, my sister and i went to new york since we weren't going to italy. we did however have italian for dinner and i did not get it on myself go me. we did a walking tour - gangsters and ghosts - and went to katz's deli for lunch (my sister had a massive pastrami sandwich and i had a knoblewurst sandwich which was as one article claimed "garlicky as all get-out") and saw some like it hot - the musical version of the movie - which was FANTASTIC and saw the karl lagerfeld exhibit at the metropolitan museum even tho he was kind of a dick. gorgeous clothes tho. on the walking tour we went around
a short street in chinatown with a corner that apparently gang members would use to kill people - you'd chase someone up the street and when they rounded the corner another guy from your gang would jump out and that would be it for the chasee. it was a very violent street. the walking tour started in chinatown and went through little italy to greenwich village by which point we were into the ghosts part. we stopped in front of the site of the triangle shirtwaist factory - it's a science building at nyu now - so the tour guide could talk about the ghost that walks down the street and asks passers-by for a cigarette and the one outside light that's always flickering. little italy was of course all stories about the mafia. the tour guide had a favorite gangster - joe gallo - and she was so excited to talk about him, it was adorable.
yesterday at work we had the monthly admin lunch - chinese food, plus a cake for one of the admins because she won an award - and we went around and talked about where we were going over the summer and i said i wasn't going ANYWHERE which i remembered later is kind of a lie because my writing group is doing a weekend writers' retreat on cape cod next month. i learned on wednesday that one of my pi's is going to italy in august and after i shared my tale of woe he said "i should probably get travel insurance, huh". and i said he should.
in honor of the ongoing wga strike and the potential for a sag-aftra strike, have an article about the disney animators' strike of 1941. it went on for four months and the animators won all their demands.
and finally, in the department of what the actual and entire fuck, a korean woman killed someone out of curiosity because she just... wanted to know what it was like.
so yes, my sister and i went to new york since we weren't going to italy. we did however have italian for dinner and i did not get it on myself go me. we did a walking tour - gangsters and ghosts - and went to katz's deli for lunch (my sister had a massive pastrami sandwich and i had a knoblewurst sandwich which was as one article claimed "garlicky as all get-out") and saw some like it hot - the musical version of the movie - which was FANTASTIC and saw the karl lagerfeld exhibit at the metropolitan museum even tho he was kind of a dick. gorgeous clothes tho. on the walking tour we went around
a short street in chinatown with a corner that apparently gang members would use to kill people - you'd chase someone up the street and when they rounded the corner another guy from your gang would jump out and that would be it for the chasee. it was a very violent street. the walking tour started in chinatown and went through little italy to greenwich village by which point we were into the ghosts part. we stopped in front of the site of the triangle shirtwaist factory - it's a science building at nyu now - so the tour guide could talk about the ghost that walks down the street and asks passers-by for a cigarette and the one outside light that's always flickering. little italy was of course all stories about the mafia. the tour guide had a favorite gangster - joe gallo - and she was so excited to talk about him, it was adorable.
yesterday at work we had the monthly admin lunch - chinese food, plus a cake for one of the admins because she won an award - and we went around and talked about where we were going over the summer and i said i wasn't going ANYWHERE which i remembered later is kind of a lie because my writing group is doing a weekend writers' retreat on cape cod next month. i learned on wednesday that one of my pi's is going to italy in august and after i shared my tale of woe he said "i should probably get travel insurance, huh". and i said he should.
in honor of the ongoing wga strike and the potential for a sag-aftra strike, have an article about the disney animators' strike of 1941. it went on for four months and the animators won all their demands.
and finally, in the department of what the actual and entire fuck, a korean woman killed someone out of curiosity because she just... wanted to know what it was like.