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woke up late feeling like the couch I've been living on was about as comfortable as I've been since I've left home. Me and Karri went to go meet up with Sophia from our Hawai'i program and her husband Rob.

We went to among what is probably the shishier places in nyc at Jean George in the Trump builing. It's one of the few Michelin 3 star restaurants in the states. I think the only one on the west coast is the French Laundry if that means anything to you. Anyways it's 3/3 stars for them so it should be pretty damn good, and it was. They had a $29 two course winter thing so it wasn't like mind-bogglingly expensive. If you're curious about the food peep my yelp review here (http://www.yelp.com/biz/jean-georges-new-york#hrid:Eg790-CMNQBa0kk5QhnmaA/src:self) I was also the only person there wearing a shirt without a collar. I had my "the city" hoodie on so it was sorta awk but u gotta represent!

After lunch we went to walk around Central Park which I actually haven't done yet. Central Park is pretty awesome. It's absolutely huge and has like a variety of ponds and a mini lake or two. One of which is named after Jackie O, random. Rob works for apple as an engineer so he wanted to check out the mac store here which is like the biggest in the world or something. It's on 5th ave and has a cool class cylindrical elevator too. The new imacs a pretty fucking sweet and he got me a deal on the new mighty mouse which I'd check out. I'm pretty happy with it so far. There's no scroll wheel you just move ur finger on it and it scrolls up down left right. Pretty cool.

Later that night I went to meet up with team VSU at Susan's apt in Harlem. Susan is Thuy and Van's older sister and it's kinda funny because they all look like sisters and say a lot of the same stuff in the same way. they told me to come at 6 and i got there at 6:30 making me still the first one there by like an hour. They made fried rolls, spring rolls, and curry and I ate entirely too much. I got a pretty good buzz going which I was sadly unable to recapture for the rest of the night.

The journey to the club in brooklyn was sort of epic. It's pretty far from harlem and the streets in brooklyn aren't all salted like the ones in downtown manhattan so it was pretty slippery. Thuy actually fell and the battery cover popped of Layhannara's camera. I think Van found it and I was able to reattach it and it worked just fine after.

The club - Here's my yelp review:
OH HOW YOU SUCK. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS.

1. YOU HAVE 4 TOILETS. If you have over 100 patrons and 4 toilets the bath breaks down pretty quickly. Not to mention they're not divided into men's and women's toilets so I'm basically wasting my NYE to girls doing makeup because that's what takes so damn long most of the time.

2. YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH RACKS FOR COATCHECK. When half of your customers have to throw their coats into the giant pile, hoping beyond hope that their black wool coat, which looks just like everyone else's black wool coat will come back to them you are a poorly run business.

3. YOUR BOUNCERS SUCK. If I wait 25 minutes in line only to be told I'm not in line when the person in front of me was just served makes no sense. Do you not want my money? That's fine with me. BTW if you're the owner and you're reading this figure out who the bouncer was on the right side of the bar around 12;30 and fire him because he's costing you money. Money I would gladly spend because I'm at a club but am being prevented from doing so due to the prick you hired.

4. YOUR DJ SUCKS. Notice all those people sitting? Yea that's not what's up.

From what I heard the cops that showed up were their because apparently they don't have a liquor license. I Sincerely hope this is true and that the Old American Can Factory will survive only in our memories of it's crappiness.
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I had more fun than that review would indicate but i'll blame that on the a-a-a-a-alcohol. It was kinda funny this asian girl from la was in front of me while we were in line for the bathroom. She was cute and clearly quite the drunk and was sort of trying to dance with me in line but I had to pee way too much and wasn't really having it. Anyways the impunity with which people were lighting up at the club was pretty redic too.

Aferwards we tried to find some other bar to go too but even at 2:30 they still wanted us to pay cover so we ended up having some pretty bad pizza and headed home. I had to transfer trains so I did half the journey on my own and I was afraid I'd fall asleep since it was already 4am and I was pooped, luckily I made it back but it was pretty touch and go.

Today was more chill. So far I've woken up at noon, had a slice of ridiculously huge pizza (i couldn't even finish it) and I just sorta went for a couple hour walk in central park. I'm gonna meet my friend Jen from ucsc, Poochie, for dinner and I'm watching avatar in 3d imax at midnight possibly myself haha. Buuut i need to see it before i go back to dc cause we got no imax there.