EMPIRESTATEOFMIND

I'm in New York, apparently some sort of concrete jungle where dreams are made of?

but first some news from the district:
Had over Mable, Seng (who had to leave), Meagan, Tara, and Sarah for dinner. Made steaks, chicken suprise, green beans, and broccoli. Everything seemed pretty edible. I mean ppl finished all of it so it couldn't be that bad right? We watched anchorman after and due to the way i get excited with that movie i pretty much had a bottle of wine to myself...

Anyways. Showed up for work today on time at 9:30 am and did some stuff and at 10:30 one of the ppl there came and was like why are you here? we're off today. Since the feds got the day off due to the snow apparently non profits run of their schedule so i got a day off too. I finally got me a mattress and a tuna gyro and was talking to my mom on the phone and she was like you should go to nyc since u have so much time off.

I thought about it and couldn't think of a good reason not to go so I talked to my friend Karri who's other two roomates were out of town so she said I could totally crash at her place. And here I am. I took the boltbus which took about 4 hours but has power outlets and slow internet so I really just watched the wire the whole time.

nyc is pretty nuts. I've never felt that small-town before but here you feel it. this city is fucking huge and it's full of so many people it's kind of nuts. DC feels like FC in comparison. I got off the bus by penn station and walked into a pizza shop got myself a slice (it was pretty damn good) walked out and got a hot dog (not very good) and went to the take the subway to Columbia University where Karri lives. The subway here is way more rickity than the DC metro. It squeaks. It's dirty. It's confusing. But hey, it got me here!

Karri lives in columbia grad student housing so its a full on apt, her roomates are from cairo and have lots of really cool posters and blown up photos they took around. Karri is way into baking, no joke tonight we made 24 cupcakes that look like cookie monster (marshmallow/m&m eyes, oreo mouth, blue sprinkles and shit), some pound cake, and banana bread. It's 2 and she's still baking. I had to go to the market at 11:15 to get some more eggs and sugar and not only was the market open, it was super nice, had leffe, and the deli was still open too! Got myself a sandwich, ate half of it and also copped some Jordan IV's of CL. The guy drove here from queens and i got them for 90 which is pretty good.

So far this city is pretty cool, lets hope the next few days are similarly awesome.

new yooooork concrete jungle where dreams are maaaaadeeee ooofffffff!!!!