So last week was Purim. Esther and I went to BJ (my synagogue) to celebrate. We met up with our friend Linda who was entertaining her friend Francesca for the weekend. Francesca is from Venice and had never been to a synagogue before. My Rabbi came out dressed as a Roman Centurion to start the service. Somewhere between that and the belly dancing, Francesca turned to Esther and asked if this is how we celebrate every week. Sadly no it is but once a year. We did look cute though. Esther went as Queen Esther and I went as Cleopatra. Queen Esther later treated us to Japanese food and we learned that Francesca not only is a lawyer but is a scuba instructor too. (I love the cool people I get to meet)
Friday I went to "normal" service but it was a treat because I got to go with my cousins Miriam and Daniel who were visiting from Cleveland. Saturday Sandy, Angelo, Mrs. C., and I went to dinner at a great Southern Italian restaurant in south Brooklyn.
Zaggats should hire me to review hospitals in the NYC area since I frequent them so much. I though I had something in my eye Monday morning, by that evening I was crying every time I blinked. I went to the ER at Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. My very hot doctor asked if I was a welder because I had a Cornea Abrasion that I guess is typical in welding accidents. Tuesday I met with my new Opthomologist at Lutheran Hospital in Sunset Park. He again asked if I was a welder...(the only welding I am familiar with is in the film Flashdance). Apparently my abrasion is responding to treatment and healing well. Don't abrase your cornea folks cause let me just say...ouch! Although I now understand why people become addicted to RX narcotics, that was the best sleep I think I have had in my life...ever.
Anywho I am now in Portland, Maine with my co-worker Melissa. We are presenting tomorrow as part of the Northeast Regional Meeting of Advisors. Our gift bags included a can of baked beans, blueberry chocolates, and handmade candles...apparently that is what they are known for in Maine. Well time for my meds (not the good ones, but the normal pain killers) and then off to bed.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Left a brunette, returned a red head
I just returned from a visit to Michigan. It is spring break so it was easy to take a couple of days off. I stayed with my friends Adam and Elissa. Saturday night was the Ireland Alumni Reunion. It was fun and it is always nice to see people that I don't have contact with often enough. The rest of this long weekend was spent hanging out and catching up with friends....I also got my hair done and am sporting a bob with red highlights now.
I love going back to see friends in Grand Rapids but I have to admit it is also emotional for me. I do LOVE NYC. I like my job and am starting to make friends here. It is hard though when you have such wonderful friends who have become family to you. You develop a history with people that you can't replicate with new friends overnight. It will come with time and I have to remind myself to be patient, that will come with time. I have no doubts in my mind that I am in the place I am supposed to be in right now. We'll just see what the near future has in store.
To those of you I saw this weekend, thank you for making time for me. I love you all and you are and will always be my family....oh crap waterworks have started again
I love going back to see friends in Grand Rapids but I have to admit it is also emotional for me. I do LOVE NYC. I like my job and am starting to make friends here. It is hard though when you have such wonderful friends who have become family to you. You develop a history with people that you can't replicate with new friends overnight. It will come with time and I have to remind myself to be patient, that will come with time. I have no doubts in my mind that I am in the place I am supposed to be in right now. We'll just see what the near future has in store.
To those of you I saw this weekend, thank you for making time for me. I love you all and you are and will always be my family....oh crap waterworks have started again
Sunday, March 9, 2008
World Travel Sans the Passport
So one of the perks to NYC is the diversity. There are certain neighborhoods that make you forget that you are in the USA. My friend Heidi's boyfriend David had his first solo show this week in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. The event was fun and David's paintings are incredible. Esther went with me and we decided to walk through Greenpoint and pick up the subway further down since neither of us had explored that neighborhood before. It ended up being a very Polish neighborhood. Esther and I split a pastry and had coffee in this cute little bakery where the menu was in Polish and the owner's cat tried to jump in my handbag and sneak home with us.
Later this week I went to Midwood which is also in Brooklyn. Midwood is a predominately Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. There is this amazing Ukrainian take out place that sells fish and knishes. There are lots of bakeries, jewelry stores, and even a women's store that caters to Orthodox ladies by having a wide variety of hats, wigs, and scarves.
In other news I went to a great lecture at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side. The poetry series had an event with Paul Simon and Billy Collins. Billy interviewed Paul about being a lyricist. Occasionally Paul would pick up his guitar and sing. It was wonderful and as most of you know I LOVE Paul Simon (and Billy Collins).
Last weekend I went on a field trip with my class to the Mikva on the Upper West Side. It was really beautiful, it looks like a spa. Afterwards I met Esther, Michael, Sandy, and Terry at Barney Greengrass's. This is a very livly fish market and restaurant. It was so crowded that we got everything to go and feasted on lox, whitefish spread, and rugelah back at Esther and Mikie's place. Later that night I made Chicken Paprika (my great grandmother's recipe) and a lavender vinaigrette cucumber salad for Sandy, Terry, and myself.
Tonight was tragic. I was going to the Fusion Fashion Show which is a competition between FIT and Parsons. Austin Scarlett from project runway was one of the judges. I was so excited but then there was this huge down poor out of nowhere. Every one's umbrellas turned inside out and people were running to the nearest shelter they could find, which for me was an Ann Taylor Loft. I had really scary hair and raccoon eyes. I thought if I can buy a hat perhaps I can fix myself. But alas not very many women wear hats so Ann Taylor had none. I called my friend Josie who was at the show (we had planned to get there early to get good seats for us and Josie's family) but she said it was packed even when she got there. So I decided I couldn't possibly attend my first New York fashion show with scary hair and bad seats. Instead I went back home and enjoyed watching How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying on TCM...do I know how to have a rocking good Saturday night or what?
The lesson to be learned girls is...if you have wavy hair that will frizz when encountering unexpected downpours wear a hat (and Ann Taylor should sell some) and wear waterproof mascara.
Later this week I went to Midwood which is also in Brooklyn. Midwood is a predominately Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. There is this amazing Ukrainian take out place that sells fish and knishes. There are lots of bakeries, jewelry stores, and even a women's store that caters to Orthodox ladies by having a wide variety of hats, wigs, and scarves.
In other news I went to a great lecture at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side. The poetry series had an event with Paul Simon and Billy Collins. Billy interviewed Paul about being a lyricist. Occasionally Paul would pick up his guitar and sing. It was wonderful and as most of you know I LOVE Paul Simon (and Billy Collins).
Last weekend I went on a field trip with my class to the Mikva on the Upper West Side. It was really beautiful, it looks like a spa. Afterwards I met Esther, Michael, Sandy, and Terry at Barney Greengrass's. This is a very livly fish market and restaurant. It was so crowded that we got everything to go and feasted on lox, whitefish spread, and rugelah back at Esther and Mikie's place. Later that night I made Chicken Paprika (my great grandmother's recipe) and a lavender vinaigrette cucumber salad for Sandy, Terry, and myself.
Tonight was tragic. I was going to the Fusion Fashion Show which is a competition between FIT and Parsons. Austin Scarlett from project runway was one of the judges. I was so excited but then there was this huge down poor out of nowhere. Every one's umbrellas turned inside out and people were running to the nearest shelter they could find, which for me was an Ann Taylor Loft. I had really scary hair and raccoon eyes. I thought if I can buy a hat perhaps I can fix myself. But alas not very many women wear hats so Ann Taylor had none. I called my friend Josie who was at the show (we had planned to get there early to get good seats for us and Josie's family) but she said it was packed even when she got there. So I decided I couldn't possibly attend my first New York fashion show with scary hair and bad seats. Instead I went back home and enjoyed watching How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying on TCM...do I know how to have a rocking good Saturday night or what?
The lesson to be learned girls is...if you have wavy hair that will frizz when encountering unexpected downpours wear a hat (and Ann Taylor should sell some) and wear waterproof mascara.
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