Underground Thoughts

I now have my first personalized business cards and stationary.

Yesterday evening my roomates and I decided to have a Roomate dinner. We have all already gotten to know each other really well but we thought it would be nice to set aside time to officially get to know each other better. Alex made a pine nut sundried tomatoe pasta. He recommended we each write three questions on scraps of paper. We then spent the evening taking turns pulling put the scraps at random and each sharing our answer to the question at hand. It’s was a really great evevning and we shared stories from everything such as what we thought was the scarriest monster to humanities progress in the next 100 years.

A summary of a campaign I worked on the last few months. Click pic to see entire article.

Here is the outside of my new apartment building. I live on the top floor. It’s not a fun climb but there are two major perks: 1. Nice legs. 2) Lots of light. 3) Close to the roofdeck. Ok that’s three. (The guy casualy leaning against the front rail is my roommate Adam.)

On our way home from the BBQ at Metropolitan I spotted a dresser on the curb with a “free” sign taped to the top. The dresser was in great condition, solid wood, with it’s original handles. Being that we were a good 12 blocks (1/3 mile) from home I was skeptical the we could carry it. Adam however was encouraging and said he thought we could do it. It was heavy, but we stopped halfway and ate pastries from a Dominican bakery. And so 12 blocks and four stories later I have an awesome new dresser that will probably be moved to many apartments with me in the future.

Saturday Adam was really cold so he wore Martha’s jacket home. The next morning Kaaren had a good time making fun of him for looking like a Shakespeare character and made him put on the jacket again. She then threw on another and challenged him to a dual.

–Manhattan bound L Train–
Today was kaaren’s last full day in NYC. Tomorrow she heads to Germany to begin a job curating for a museum. We met up with her friend Martha and headed to a local coffee shop.

On Monday our new intern on the digital team started. To make her feel welcome we got the other interns together and took Angela out to lunch. These girls are so great to work with. I don’t know how they do it but Fleishman seems to be really good at finding high quality candidates.

So as corney as this is I wanted to write a post introducing my friends and family to my new wing men. You will probably be hearing about them all the time, so now you’ll know whom I’m referring to.

Todd is a architect currently working under a registered architect. After a few more years he will be eligible to take the exam that will grant him his license. He to recently broke up from a long term relationship. We met a month ago when I accompanied my friend to a party at Todd’s house.

Kyle and I met randomly in times square over 4 months ago. We were both showing around girl friends who were visiting. I asked him to take a picture of my friend Kelly and I. We then started chatting and I invited them to go out dancing with us. Todd is a dancer who works as a retail manager between gigs.

Sunday morning Todd, Adam, Kaaren, and I treked up to Queens to walk with Christine Quin and the NYCity Council in the Queens Pride Parade.

Todd and I were asked to be water boys. We were happy to have a job that gave us something more to do than walk awkwardly along with the group.