Let's skip Tuesday.
On Wednesday I stayed home for 4th of July and my wonderful roommate Megan made us all strawberry margaritas, in my case a smoothie. Then to celebrate I went to work at the Barking Dog for 5 hours and watched the Hudson River fireworks on tv. It was a beautiful experience.
I don't know if I've mentioned the fact that we didn't have air conditioning for all of June or even that we finally got it on the other end of the apartment (we live in a railroad style apartment--one long apt in which you have to walk through one room to get to the next) but it didnt reach my room or the living room at all, but that is the case. It was fine in the beginning while it was still cool out but then it started to get really uncomfortable. My reason for telling you this now is that we finally got air-conditioning on my side of the apartment! And boy, is it nice. I finally get to sleep with clothes on and it is actually comfortable to sit in the living room and watch a movie now.
On Thursday I went into midtown around 4:00 to sell some tickets. I sold 2 and then after about an hour I stopped because of the heat. I wasn't in the mood to go back to my hot apartment, so I went to about 5 broadway theaters to see if I could get a last-minute rush ticket. At some point while I was carrying my phone in my hand and running between theaters, my iphone dropped out of the case and fell on the ground un-protected. You can guess what happened from there--the screen broke. Luckily my phone is still working, but the screen is pretty shattered so I ordered another one since we have insurance. After I realized that God did not want me to see a show that night, I decided to compromise and hopped on the subway back to my apartment to see an 8:35 showing of "Ted" at the movie theater 6 blocks from our apt--all i wanted to do was sit in a cold theater for a few hours. I got a sudden craving for a coke and didn't want to pay movie theater prices, so I stopped at Papaya King on the way and bought a cup of coke for $2, which i tried to stuff in my backpack before I went into the movie theater. Of course it spilled all over my bag. I then stood in line for 10 minutes until 8:35 when there where 2 people in front of me and the guy at the counter yelled, "8:35 showing of Ted is officially sold out!" Yayyy. So I finally gave up--I was meant to be in my hot and sweaty apartment that night. I stopped at Duane Reader across the street from our apt to pick up a movie at Blockbuster Express (quite convenient!). After that series of rather unfortunate events, I got upstairs to find our Super installing an AC in the kitchen window! Although the movie that I rented was awful (Just Go With It, with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler), the AC provided for a pleasant ending to a not-so-pleasant day.
On Friday my roommate Melanie and I ate lunch at Jackson Hole and then went down to Williamsburg and stopped at this awesome Italian restaurant called "Acqua Santa" for a piece of cake. As soon as we stepped into the restaurant, it felt like we were stepping into Italy. The owner was quite jolly and immediately greeted us in Italian. Then we went shopping at a few thrift stores and I found two awesome Free People jackets for under $40 total! We then headed over to East River State Park, which had a big grassy area as well as a little beach with a beautiful view of Manhattan. After that we ate dinner at a fun seafood place and then headed over to BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for a movie. We saw "To Rome With Love," Woody Allen's new movie. Let's just say it would have made a few good short films, but it was pretty bad as a feature film.
Let's skip Saturday.
On Sunday I tried out another church called "Apostles." I really liked this one and I think I might stick with it. It helps that I know someone who goes there--my cousin who just got married's friend who I met at the wedding.
On Monday I sat at home all day so that I could sign the papers when the UPS guy came with my new phone only to find out right before I had to go to work that now it's not supposed to come until Wednesday. Then At 4:00 I headed over to work only to find out that I didnt need to come in that day (good thing I only live a block away!). I decided to go down and meet Melanie in the meat packing district for dinner. We ate outside at a cheap place that I forget the name of. Let's just say there were a number of weirdos that came
up to us trying to sell newspapers, cussing us out and muttering random
things about Hiroshima. Not quite sure what that was about, but we both decided that we would never sit that close to a sidewalk in that area again.
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