love the lovely friends

delightful weekend wrapping up here in nyc - i love seeing people i like a lot very often. in fact, i think it's one of the things that i am happiest about in my life post-college. they may not be across the hall or down wheelock street, but i get to spend a lot of time with people that make me happy and i love it.

in this case, i spent friday night hanging out with ally, who was in town for the night. met up with her at a dive bar near union sq (didn't know they had dive bars near union sq) that was kind of like a cross between the sd tv room and a basement or rec room from high school with a bunch of kids raiding their parents liquor cabinet. fun feeling - breaking rules and being scandalous and all that. ally is off to law school at gw in dc this fall - she's psyched about that, loving boston, and dating a guy who's totally into her. it was good to see her looking so happy.

sat, after a trip to the dentist (ugh), hung out with zana and huyett, who came down from boston for the night. had dinner with tunick - who's also doing very well. she's going to williams this fall to get her masters in art history, living in brooklyn, and running a marathon in vermont the weekend after green key.

all of us were impressed when she rallied to come out with us on the lower east side. we went to whiskey town, where we had originally wanted to have my bday party, and had many many gentlemen's lemonades and bud lights in cosies. really fun bar, good music, def think it should be a staple in the social repetoire. i also think we should throw a 'formal' there in may.

had a lazy sunday walking around the city in the sunshine, brunching at 7a and buying books before huyett and zana headed home and i crashed for a much needed nap. tomorrow is a big day - fingers crossed that the wall folks are coming bright and early at 8 am. really really hope they do - i want to move into my room once and for all. hope for the best i guess.

in other news, interesting article from the boston globe today about the ratio of men and women in certain areas of the us - 'a singles map of the united states'. as any nyc female will tell you, nyc is not the dating mecca that people think it is (thank you sex and the city). good places for men, where the number of single women outnumber single men, are the east coast and midwest, with nyc being the worst of all for women looking for a few good men. good places for women are dc, la, and san fran. it's looking like the new slogan for relationship destiny in the 21st century is 'go west young woman!'

incidentally, boston and the northeast do well for singles:

Greater Boston is unusual among large metro areas. It is one of the very few with a near perfect balance of singles - having just 1,600 or so more women than men - 604,960 men to 606,580 women. The entire region surrounding Boston and its immediate suburbs does well, too. Worcester; Portland, Maine; and Portsmouth-Manchester, N.H., also score among the top five for singles among small-medium-sized regions nationwide.

yet another reason new england is first in my heart.

another saturday night

pretty much sums it up

i don't want somebody to love me
just give me sex whenever i want it
cause all i ask for is instant pleasure
instant pleasure instant pleasure

rufus wainwright 'instant pleasure'

screw dating, marriage, the whole bit. just screw me!

henry the 8th i am

also, the folks at showtime were kind enough to post the premiere of the tudors second season on youtube. hottest show (not) on television and def not safe for work.



delicious

web 2.0

well kiddos, seeing how i work in digital media, i figured i'd better give some of these 'web 2.0' apps a whirl, mainly so i can tell my boss whether we should investigate adding them to our mobile portfolio.

to that end, i have created a twitter account, which i have linked to this blog so that you can keep up with what i am up to '@ now' - thanks to keving for that terminology, all the way back to the days of 'pong @ now'. should anyone be inclined to try 'twittering' out as well, let me know and we'll 'follow' each other. i continue to say, the hallmark of web 2.0 is legalized stalking . . .

which brings me to my current favorite someecard (also on twitter!):

Rather than asking me how I'm doing, I'd appreciate it if you just spent your day waiting for my micro-blog updates

haha. oh someecards. i would be lost without you.

just went for a run in central park, both to remind my body that it knows how and to remind my head that it does stay light and there are enough people out and about to make it decently safe to run there this time of night. the whole place is poised for spring, even if the temperature doesn't feel like it. sprouting flowers about to bud, sprays of green, a certain scent in the air. sooo excited for spring.

wall watch (day 26): wall is supposedly coming on monday. cross your fingers.

current favorite song: leona lewis 'bleeding love'. she's like a gritty mariah carey. speaking of mariah, i enjoy 'touch my body' a fair amount as well. the video is great.

model behavior

morning friends!

a couple tidbits - had dinner last night with zana and rosi - zana is in town on spring break from law school - she graduates this coming june and has a job in san fran lined up. she said it's nice to be back on the east coast and relax from the pressures of school - and hopefully i'll see her on sat as well! rosi, (our crew coach from freshman year) we discovered, literally works on the same street corner as my building in midtown. how crazy is that. we've both been with our companies for a year and we hadn't yet run into each other. oh manhattan. how you taunt us. but all joking and logistics aside, she's doing well. loves her job doing energy management (all that green stuff you hear about all the time), even if she doesn't like commuting 2 hours each way because she lives in new haven. she's trying to figure out what her next steps are, but she'll prob be down here for another year. gus is doing well, though getting old (he's 8!), and enjoys having a yard to play in out in the suburbs. i have to say, it was so nice to see them both - and really nice to have an adult relationship with rosi after all these years - though i still think of her as our coach with all the answers who will get us out of a sticky pinch that we have somehow stumbled into. there were a lot of those freshman year. haha. in the words of boxa, they haven't seemed to hold us back.

also time for a shameless plug/self-call. am running for the class of '05 rep to d's class council and if you haven't already, please consider voting for me. all you d folks should have gotten an email with the details, and thanks to those of you who already did vote for me - spread the word that i'm running and maybe tell your friends they should vote too. did hear from a few people who came out to tell me they'd voted for me - swanny popped up on gchat to say hi - she's been trucking along out west - and not often enough at her desk for regular gchat usage - but thanks for the vote and i'm always on gchat if you want to catch me/are bored. haha.

found out yesterday that my sister is moving to maui to work for the four seasons. wtf? that's a long way away from the east coast. on the plus side, it will be nice to visit!

my boss is about to have a baby - his wife is that is - which means imminently he will be out of the office for two weeks. not entirely sure how that's going to go - stay tuned!

crappy 'spring' weather continues in nyc. walking through times square yesterday i saw a fendi ad shoot. the model was balanced on top of two wooden 'f's that make up the logo in the middle of times square with the wind blowing in stilettos. maybe modeling is not all it's cracked up to be. 'here model - stand precariously in the middle of times square and look like a million people aren't watching you waiting for you to fall.' nbd kids. nbd.

rock wednesday yo.

dirty mouth? clean it up!

i think i swear too much for the upper east side. too many children running around while i'm talking. haha.

greetings everyone. a lovely weekend here in nyc - sat out on the terrace yesterday and got some sun. i'm thinking having this terrace is going to be a lot like the sd beach, in that a. we'll sit on it all the time and b. it's sheltered from the wind so you can sit out even when it's not that warm out elsewhere. senior spring was the tannest i've ever been, including when i lived in florida for two months, so i think this bodes well for the summer.

still no wall up in apt 7. we are flummoxed as to how this company does business, and are finding a new one to deal with tomorrow as this one doesn't seem to want do it for us. it's totally bizarre and chafey but i suppose it will get put up sometime . . . .

st. paddy's day in boston last weekend was outrageous. cody drove me and vin and two of vin's friends up on friday night for a short visit. we took over ceppos' apartment, to the dismay of her roommate, but had a total blast, shotgunning beer in the shower, eating green eggs and ham, dancing to basement mixes. drank from the time we got there until the time we left.

saturday we spent on the couch drinking mimosas and watching sex and the city (we're simple girls at heart) and then people came over later on. saw whit, who was up in boston visiting grad schools for education - she just got in to harvard and columbia so she's deciding between the two. congrats go to her, and she splits this week's boones for braines with ceppos, who got promoted last week as well. saw diana who is going to school on weekends to get her masters, and living in the suburbs with the boy and a puppy. they're around for a couple more months, so get at her while she's on the east coast. elise came out, apparently she and the boy have a lovely house in the suburbs and elise is going to school at harvard for many more years. reiten and i were refugees at ceppos' all wknd - both of us thoroughly enjoyed the fact that we got to hang out for two wknds in a row. boxa was in town for an impromptu jaunt home from med school, so she and little boxa came over to hang out. great to see her for however short. huyett was shotgunning in the shower along with me and hosting some guests, although none of them actually slept at her apt on saturday night. we're very excited for huyett to move down here this summer! christine also came out, as did my sister and assorted other coworkers and friends. it was a total blast.

headed out to the suburbs for a party on saturday night in a party van that appeared miraculously as we were trying to find enough cabs for 9 people. got in, turned up kiss 108, and chugged beers. hilarious.

sunday was a blur as we spent it lugging keystones around boston and drinking them at random apartment parties. that part about boston is a ton of fun - you can party at someone's apt and not even know who's apt it is. saw about 2 seconds of the parade, spent the rest of the time playing flip cup with kids from tufts dental school, wearing the felt beer mug hats that ceppos stole and coercing random boys into making out. had an epic dinner in chinatown on sunday night - was just about blackout so i don't remember much of it - and then passed out for the entire ride home on the bus. easiest trip back from boston i've ever had. all of us lost our voices and were feeling the effects of the irish disposition for the rest of the week. didn't even have a drink on the actual day, but i feel very certain that i celebrated adequately. the st. paddy's day tradition continues - already looking ahead to 'show me your shamrock '09'. love the usual suspects, and missed you guys that weren't around. ceppos, reiten and i called laurak on sunday to tell her that we were drunk, although not going to foodstop, and that we loved her, and it wasn't just because we were drunk either. oh man - good times.

lots of discussion of trip to washington, dc in april if anyone wants in, and then a trip up to portsmouth in august. it's always good to have something to look forward to folks!

quiet week in nyc - hoping the weather warms up and the sun stays out. trivia on tues night on the ues if anyone in the metropolis wants to join, let me know. am going downstairs to get a cupcake from crumbs.

the weather is here

anyone else really tired of it being 40 degrees and overcast with the kind of cold that chills you to the bones all the time? i guess that's spring for you, but it's getting a little ridiculous, even though i know that soon it will be 70 at 7 am and i will be longing for the cool, sweet days of spring. but right now i kind of don't care.

today is ding! round 3 of our attempts to put up our wall. i'm hoping what they say about the third time being the charm will be true as am rather tired of living like a transient even though we moved 20 days ago. as a result, if all goes according to plan, i will be hanging out at home for five hours tonight, and will do my best to update on st. paddy's day and do things like my taxes, as april 15 is fast approaching and they still aren't done. i either am getting a good amount of money back from the government, or i owe them a lot. not entirely sure which.

at the risk of being cliche, thank god it's friday

the wall

no - not the pink floyd song, nor the one in berlin, but the one that is SUPPOSED TO BE UP IN OUR APARTMENT @ NOW.

that's right - despite a sizable deposit and confirmation call yesterday, we still have no wall. weekend update on st. paddy's day in boston when i've calmed down enough to see straight again.

even so, like this a lot:

you don't know about my past
i don't have a future figured out
and maybe this going to fast
and maybe it's not meant to last
but what do you say to taking chances
what do you say to jumping off the edge
never knowing if there's solid ground below or a hand to hold or hell to pay
what do you say?
- celine dion 'taking chances'

shipping up to boston

am headed up to beantown with a good deal of the sd usual suspects - honorary and otherwise - this afternoon to run st. paddy's day back. went out tues and wed, and last night had to go to bed at 6:30 in preparation for the raging that is expected to ensue.

roadtripping up with cody around 3 ('like on vacay? let's all go! ROADTRIP!') for what is sure to be an epic journey, and planning to meet up with whit, diana, elise, huyett, reiten, boxa and of course, ceppos. super psyched - i love mini sd reunions.

has been a busy week at work and the week has flown by. the bevy of boys continues - really enjoying being engaging to many. will this come back and bite me in the ass? probably. but for now it's distracting and fun. and since fun is my main guiding principle - will keep going with it for as long as the universe seems fit.

someecard of the wknd: this is the one holiday where our full-blown alcoholism could possibly go undetected. true dat. double true.

let's count how many times we've celebrated your birthday this week

oh my - epic last couple of days. been celebrating turning 25 since thursday - aka - have been in hungover, alcoholic haze since then - and the celebrating will continue as long as we have ben and jerry's ice cream cake in the fridge!

actual bday was amazing - had sugar sweet sunshine cupcakes with work, tons of bday wishes, mulley sent me a bouquet of beautiful purple orchids - everyone was just amazing and sweet and thank you so much! 25 feels pretty good when you've got amazing people to share it with.

thursday night went out with people from work - vin came along to meet the infamous characters i work with that she has heard so much about. we ended up at the bar with my coworker's two brothers - one of which i'm going on a date with again. seriously - don't know why the universe has decided to send all these boys my way, but bring it on. hallelujah!

friday christine and reiten arrived from boston for the festivities. despite the torrential downpours happening in nyc on fri and sat we ventured out to check out cody's new apt - she has moved to the upper east side and has a lovely studio - and then to a great mexican place for dinner. we had planned a sort of low-key night - so we ventured out to brother jimmy's to hang out. we decided to hit up this place b/c we saw some attractive boys going in. one way to be sure there are cute boys at the bar are to follow/stalk them and go to the same bars!

long story short, reiten told these boys (30-year olds from notre dame. every toast was to 'the irish. and i thought d kids were fanatical) it was my bday and they started buying us red-headed sluts and beer. chatting and chatting with one of them - he tells me at length that i will find true love at some point in my life and that i shouldn't worry about it. after some dancing complete with dramatic dips and a bit of making out, he tells me he's staying at the waldorf astoria and that i can go back there and hook up with him. so off we go to the waldorf. only other time i've hooked up in a hotel with someone in from out of town was the canadian hockey player over homecoming at the comfort suites in leb. the waldorf was nicer than that, but not as nice as everyone says. couldn't stop thinking about the movie serendipity - haha. this was the first bar we closed down this wknd.

said boy says he'll be back in a few weeks and we should hang out again. i'm game. we'll see what could occur. maybe his prophecy will come true. =)

sat we were girly and shopped and got our nails done. festivities started early when the gals arrived for ice cream cake, pizza and champagne. we decided the party was going to be dressy - so we were decked out in our finery, complete with the dress that huyett interofficed to vin last week. five bottles of champagne later off we went to the stone creek bar and lounge.

said bar had a sort of sd formal/coolidge feel to it - nothing fancy - but great music (hot dj/real estate agent. he had business cards) and plenty of space and easy access to the bar. had a great turn out - charlo and kit put in an appearance, celeste came out in a big way - she and christine t won the award for requesting amazing basement music, including 'all i want for christmas is you' played at around 1:30 am on a saturday night. haha. cody was out of control - she won mvp (most valuable partier) for forcing vin to do multiple shots and dancing on the balconettes. we had a mini d reunion when dax and slaine showed up - slaine bought me a shot of tequila, then a shot of cake batter, then a shot of kamakazi. i thought i was going to die. linsalata trekked up from virgina for the occasion with only the clothes on his back. i had to buy him a drink for that one. have no idea what happened to him last night but he gets major points for putting in an appearance. reiten was a vision in green and won for running around the bar in bare feet. saw megh for about two seconds, karpf and mahr, stein popped in to buy me a shot and then was off again. christine won ms. congeniality for dancing with everyone, and also for using the word 'pragmatic and proactive' in a bar on a saturday night. she also flashed the camera jb ice-luge style. basically we took over the bar. i was the perfect level of drunkness - swirling and running all around. lost my voice as usual and closed down said bar for the second time this wknd, and off we went to the snl after after which i am extremely pleased with myself for making it to.

soph year of college our standard for a great party was finding a black lace bra in the freezer the morning after. one party boxa put a black lace bra in the freezer in prep. ways to tell this was a great party:

1. i left my credit card at the bar
2. i thought i'd lost my camera. turns out, i had given it to celeste so that i would not lose it. basically, i outsmarted myself
3. dax motorboated christine in the bar
4. christine flashed everyone in the bar
5. all i want for christmas is you was played
6. i spent some time dancing by myself in the back room
7. cody dancing on the banquettes
8. reiten running around with no shoes
9. vin refused to go home from the snl after after
10. linsalata flew in from virginia and then 'left to go to a cheaper bar' around 3 am. still don't know what happened to him last night
11. closed down two bars

epic.

after saying a quick hello to aida at the after after, the boy and i bailed to go home and grab pizza and hook up. total success, total blast, thanks to everyone who came out - i think it was a great time all around.

next wknd is st. patrick's day and we are bringing an entourage to boston to celebrate. vin and her friend, celeste and my coworker are venturing up, and the word is whit and boxa will both be in town as well. anticipating another epic celebration and planning for a week of detox in preparation.

just an amazing amazing weekend and tons of great memories. thanks for coming out kids - well done all around. =)

things you do b/c they feel right and they make no sense

i've posted this quote before, but i stumbled upon it again today and literally got chills when i read it. besides, it seems like a good one for the eve of an impending quarter-century milestone:

be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old
- ralph waldo emerson

life is good

organizational announcements

well folks, as you can prob tell from the last post - we moved, we're in the new place, etc. SUCH a relief to have that over with. god, i don't know what to stress about now. it's like something is missing in some way - not that i want it back!

we still don't have a wall up yet, so i am living in the living room space. the good news is we actually got permission to put up a wall - it was touch and go for a few days there which really would have cramped our style - but we got the a-ok and as soon as the paperwork is in place up will go the wall. and then we'll be cooking with gas.

ipod was a move casualty and boy am i lost without it. i keep thinking of songs i want to hear and then oop! no way to listen to them. and glaring at people on the subway and street that i see listening to their ipods happily. music is making their lives better. and i am bereft. it is a sad state of affairs. anyone want to take bets on how long it is til i cave and buy one? not that i can afford it. in the words of eloise - charge it please!

lots of news to report - hayden and the boy are engaged! again - this prob surprises no one - but what's with the rash of engagements all of the sudden? i suppose with spring comes the birds and the bees. we want some pong table weddings folks!

also - was ceppos's bday on saturday and boxa's bday tomorrow - send them the bday wishes! - and i stop looking at and become 25 on thursday. kind of crazy! have post-work outing with work people planned for thurs night at a bar called 'under the volcano'. the tequila will be flowing i'm sure. kind of apprehensive actually. and then friday night reiten, christine and lingley arrive for the fiesta on saturday night. taylor will also be in town to take her gmats and hang out as well. excited all around for everything. if being 25 means i get to hang out with the usual suspects more then bring it on.

was on the subway today sitting next to a guy studying for his citizen test. reading over his shoulder i noticed the questions were super hard, and i was ashamed to say there were many i was stumped by. is it really fair to make other people know this stuff when the average and presumably educated citizen doesn't? i guess this is exactly why fox's 'are you smarter than a fifth grader' is still on the air.

off to trivia at a bar up the street with vin and aida. living so close to good friends is sort of a weird feeling - mildly college-like but not. ah well - more brunching and shopping and gossiping i suppose!

things we lost in the move

1. my ipod
2. my birth control
3. vin's camera

moving is hell people. it's going to take a lot of sangria on the terrace to make this better.