A Leg Grows in C Minor

So we are firmly downstaters now. Without the accents. I WISH I could pull off that My Cousin Vinny accent, sigh. I still haven't started my new job, but when I do (tomorrow) I won't have nearly as much time as I do now so I'm gonna post a bunch of pictures from recent events. Yes folks, this is another picture blog (with some tv recommendations thrown in at the end). Let's get started with pictures of going away parties! Firstly, my mom had a party for me at her house in Geneva. She invited about a million of my family members, but the only pictures I will post are the people I am closest to. My best Geneva friends: My favorite girl cousins: And my family (grandparents on dad's side and grandma on mom's): Oh and my brother got the cutest husky puppy, so I have to post pictures of her: Mike and I had our own going away party the next weekend. Almost 40 people attended, and it went from 1pm-3am. Yeah. There was TONS of video game playing, eating, drinki...

So Mike and I now live in Brooklyn. It's been a whirlwind of adventures, like navigating through Manhattan and half of Brooklyn in a 17 foot U-Haul. So far we have had no time to do anything but unpack and try out different restaurants in the area. Oh yeah, and we found an actual mall, a rarity for NYC! I really like it so far, it's a cute neighborhood with lots of dogs and places to eat. And...Steve Buscemi. Though I have yet to see him. I'm sure I will post much more in the near future. I also need friends down here, so if you live in the City or Burroughs, feel free to contact me!

Today was my last day at the sleep lab. Ever! (Unless we move back to Rochester rather quickly, in which case Wil said I would have my job back.) Everyone at work has been so nice to me lately, wishing me luck and whatnot. I wish I could tell them everything I felt about them, but I can't. I can write my feelings like a faucet, but when it comes to speaking, I shut up. I think about things a lot, things I'll say in the future to people, things I'll say to people when just the right moment comes up. This almost never happens. It happens when I am drunk or when someone has just said something meaningful to me. That's about it. Today after I hugged it out with Wil I managed to squeak out that he "is a really funny person" which sounds kinda weird but I know he took it well. I only said that because I felt like he was ripe from the hug. Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything, even though right now I'm starting to tear up because he's a rea...

I love the Chinese. Especially directors like Kar Wai Wong who puts the same people into his films over and over again. I just rented 2046 , which I'd been wanting to see for quite awhile. It stars Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Li Gong, and Faye Wong. Tony Leung and Faye Wong are two of my absolute favorites, ever since I came across my love for Chungking Express , another Kar Wai Wong film. This film is about a writer who is in love at one point in his past, but it slips away from him. He spends the rest of the film with different (extremely attractive) women, but none of them provide what he is looking for, because of his ideal from his past. So he makes up a story where you can travel on a certain train and go to a place called 2046 to re-live the memories you want. These androids (who just look like really hot women) take care of you, and it supposed to be the happiest place ever. There's one point in the film where they describe an ancient Chinese saying that if you have ...

Sorry folks, my life is going to be a giant rollercoaster until July. After that, things should be calmed down enough for me to write more frequently. I haven't announced yet that I have a new job! Mike and I went down to NYC the first week of April. I had three interviews, and at my first interview (New York Methodist) they offered me a job! That confused me a bit, so I decided to wait a few days until after my other interviews to see if I actually wanted to take the NYM offer. Well to make a long story short, NYM turned out to be the best place for me to take a job. It's in the exact neighborhood where we want to live in Brooklyn, I only have to work 3 days a week (although I have to work 7pm-7am), and I get a ton of awesome benefits. Plus I'm making NYC standard money, which means a hell of a lot more than I make at my current job. So as of the first week of June, I will be working and living in Brooklyn, NY. Scary! The only thing left to do is find an apartment...

From March 20th-25th I traveled all around the great southwestern state of Arizona. The weather fluctuated from 65 to 80 degrees, compared to 30 in Rochester, and I got to see lots and lots of cacti, never mind the GRAND CANYON! One of my best friends from college, Sara, moved to Tucson a couple years ago and wanted visitors. Angela and I decided to help her out with that, and it was a great time. The lowlight was my constant runny nose (I had to walk around the Grand Canyon with a roll of toilet paper in my pocket), but there were many highlights, including my wonderful new Mexican friends Adrien and Saoul (Sa-OOL) who declared their undying love for me whilst following me around Nogales. It was quite the adventure. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves: This was my view on the drive from Phoenix to The Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, baby: Silly Sara, always falling off cliffs.... Angela is very homicidal This is my "Where's Waldo" picture Sooo it seems as if ...