NYC

Eric and I spent a day in NYC, and that was plenty for me. It's such a dirty, depressing, drab city in my opinion. Yeah, there are cool touristy things to do, but I would never, ever want to live there or spend a significant amount of time there (a week for a business trip was almost too much for me).

We arrived Friday night, and met up with a couple of Eric's friends that were in town from Brazil. We walked to a restaurant about a mile away, and had a couple of drinks and dinner, then went back to the hotel. Saturday morning, we walked another mile or so to a diner for breakfast (which was actually really good--eggs with goat cheese and basil, mmmm), then walked again to the Intrepid museum, which is basically an aircraft carrier-turned-museum. That was really cool. We took a tour of the carrier, along with a submarine. It's amazing the small spaces in a submarine. I would be claustrophobic in no time if I had to sleep in one of those. My friend Chris from Connecticut met up with us, and we all went out to lunch (walked to the subway, then walked to the restaurant... another mile). After lunch, we walked to the Brooklyn Bridge, which was another couple of miles. By that time, my knees and feet were seriously starting to hurt as I was wearing sandals that are probably 10 years old, but I managed to walk another half mile up to the bridge before taking refuge on a bench. The rest of the gang, in their comfortable sneakers (I always overestimate my shoes' comfort, lol) continued a little further. When they got back, we walked the half mile back down the bridge to the subway, which was thankfully right at the opening of the bridge.

We all went our separate ways after that, and Eric and I drove home sweet home, and out of the craphole that is NYC (sorry Becky).

I start school tomorrow. Part of me is excited, part of me is stressed. I'm just not sure how I'm going to fit a job into all of this (working out, school, volunteering every other Saturday at the aquarium). I'm still looking for a job, but haven't really found anything.