This past Sunday afternoon, one of my roommates from senior year of college got married in Worchester, Massachusetts. Her bachelorette party was on Friday night, and another one of my roommate's birthday's is today, so we celebrated on Sunday night. It was a fun weekend - girls night out on Friday with all of my senior year roommies, a beautiful day on Saturday spent kayaking in Rockport, the wedding on Sunday afternoon and a crazy Sunday night involving pinatas, scorpion bowls, and crashing someone else's birthday party bus (at their request).
Next Thursday, my coworkers and I are coordinating going to a Mets game. I'm excited for my first game of the season, and when juggling the dates, it seemed better to see them play the Giants rather than the Diamondbacks the week after, but that meant that I had to reschedule my coop shift. So I went on to the website and checked out the swap shift board, and wrote my own ad since I didn't see any existing ads that would work for me, and voila, within a few hours, three offers, one of which will work out perfect. Amazing what you can do when you have 10,000 members.
An example of things not working out so nicely? This morning I got up at 5:45 this morning so that I could get to swim practice at 6:30. But what was I greeted with when I got to the Y? That the pool was closed for the next TWO hours! Grrr. Apparently someone got a bloody nose in the pool so they needed to clean it. On the bright side, I got into work really early, and since I'm making up hours this week so that I can leave early to head up to Boston on Friday, it means that I don't have to stay late tonight.
On Saturday we went to the Upper East Side to check out the Robert Moses exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. Somehow I forgot that the school I went to for kindergarten, the Patrick Henry School, was right next door. And I finally found out what the school's number was, since I never knew it by any other name than Patrick Henry in kindergarten. The exhibit was pretty good and it was neat to get up to that area since I haven't been up there in quite a while.
And today, I headed out to Brighton Beach to swim for the first time this season. Boy was that water cold! After a few minutes though, my face defrosted and it was actually quite pleasant. Thankfully, I was able to warm up in the sauna at the Shorefront YM-YWHA, which made the train ride back a lot more pleasant.
My company started a blog, and so I've been busy writing for it, hence fewer posts over here. However, if I had time to write a proper post, I would be talking about:
- the Tribeca Film Festival: I volunteered again this year and while I didn't get to use any of the movie vouchers I earned for volunteering, I did get to see a few movies while working. The ones that impressed me the most? Amexicano, a great movie about the friendship between a Queens native and a Mexican illegal immigrant. Hope it gets picked up so everyone can go see it. And The Education of Charlie Banks, a movie directed by Fred Durst of all people, which blew me away because it was actually a good movie with polished directing. Not the best movie ever, but an impressive first effort.
- Crazy Love: I got to see a screening of this movie at BAM last night and boy is that a crazy story. Well done movie, definitely worth seeing in a few weeks when its released in the theatres.
- Green buildings: I went to a talk on Wednesday about the Pearl River Tower being built in Guangzhou, China, and it was great. Did you know that even though they are spending all this extra money on the project to make it "green" and "sustainable", it will pay back in energy savings within 4.8 years. Meaning that if you did a 20 year lifecycle cost of the building, it would come out waaaaay cheaper than an equivalent standard office building. Awesome.
- I'm excited to go to Minneapolis this weekend.
- I wish there were a way to buy dresses without having to try them on. I need a dress, mainly because I haven't bought a new summer dress in longer than I can remember, for an upcoming wedding, but the afternoon I spent trying on clothes with no success made me remember why I don't like shopping for more than 10 minutes.