last day

Today I spent my last day as a zing intern organizing itty bitty plastic letters. I got a real job, so now I have to do that five days a week instead of the internship here. The job is not exciting. It has nothing to do with art, which is awfully disappointing. That's right, I'm using my $40,000 master's degree in arts journalism to be a proofreader for a real estate marketing company. Kill me now. But none of the magazines and galleries I applied to gave me a single response, so at this point I need to take any job that's offered 'cuz I've got bills to pay :(

Well it's been fun. Hopefully I will be able to help out with projects from time to time.

On the plus side, there's a party at the Chelsea Museum tonight. One last time to take advantage of my press pass.

dime bags of helvetica

all the letters came today and the office kind of looks like a drug den in that all the little white letters are in these small clear plastic bags and organized throughout the room. i'm real excited to start making these bulletins. i LOVE organizing things and putting things together in a certain order. i'm kind of ridiculous in that way.

yesterday my friends and i had "superfriends wednesday" again (miraculously a large group of my friends don't have work on wednesdays...including me, so we all get together and go on an adventure). yesterday we got kind of a late start but it was still action packed. i got my ear pierced then we went to Babycakes NYC where we got gluten-free red velvet cupcakes (http://www.babycakesnyc.com/), then we went for a massive walk through the lower east side and chinatown, then went back and walked across the williamsburg bridge and went to the Bedford Cheese Shop (http://www.bedfordcheeseshop.com/) where we sampled a large variety of cheeses including THE BEST CHEESE ON THE PLANET only i'm forgetting what it was called.

so that was superfriends for this week. here is one thing we noticed:

im getting old, but staying lucky

today i woke up in a malaise at yet another strangely cloudy, too cold august day. i had to put a scarf on for crying out loud. yesterday i saw (well, first i heard them) a group of teenage girls in the throws of a hummer-limo ride around nyc. their excitement could not be contained. they yelled and squealed at every person within a 20 mile radius of the over extravagentsicklyhugemonster of a vehicle. today i wondered what happened to that feeling inside me, if it ever existed at all. i must be getting old.
i just saw an article and pictures about some iraq veterans who have been permanently physically disfigured by their experience there. lets all just take a minute, to remember how lucky we are to be living a pretty comfortable life, and that there are people out there who aren't so lucky.when will the madness end? how many people are going to die before the end?
there must be a connection between those girls in the limo and the war but, i wonder if they ever think about life outside the tinted windows?
i may not be riding around in an suv limo, but even on these ugly cloudy days, it could be worse....

strangers

this morning i was asked to research an art critic for biographical info, so into google i dove. this is one of my favorite things. digging up things about people i've never met. usually it is someone i'm about to consider a potential coupling with, so the first date can be probed for lies and surprises. this time a potential professional aquaintance. i found the bio as usual, an episode of CSI (that i think didn't actually belong to him), and a picture of his back as he looked out over the balcony of his waitlisted rent controlled apt., and another picture of him on an art magazine site. finally! i knew what this person looked like. different than i expected though. anyway, i'm on my way to lunch, and out of the corner of my eye, i spotted him across the street smoking a cigarette! no way i thought. this never happens. i felt like a bonafide spy. alas, i could not say hello, as that would break all the modern social norms of networking and professionalism. maybe one day he will think it's a funny story...

really quick post!! really really quick!!! anna wants to leave!!!!

happy birthday to two zing interns who have the same birthday!! and three people at zing are leos which is very interesting. here is our horoscope for the day:

- This is a time to be very objective and cautious. This is also a time to buy property or to start your own business. It is time to build toward the future, establish new foundations for yourself and to assume important responsibilities. A very different path may be opening up to you now with slow but steady progress assured. Good Karma comes your way now.

new look

Today I spent a few hours trying to find an html tutorial for blogger, so I could make this blog personalized and pretty. But the only thing I could find was a tutorial for making and inserting a customized header. So instead I just picked a prettier template that blogger already offers and fiddled with the colors. I also added a new feature to the sidebar: CD, movie, and book recommendations. Hopefully those will continue to be updated every week.

Summertime is so slow. There's not enough to do here.

P.S. Go see Ratatouille. It's really good!



I want some sushi!

why i love new york

i had one of those mornings today that made me love this city.

i applied for work/trade yoga classes at Bikram Yoga NYC (http://www.bikramyoganyc.com/). what can be better than sweating and stretching in exchange for meeting some great down to earth yoga fanatics?

then i was off to report on exhibitions in chelsea. i had a few shows in mind i wanted to see, and stumbled upon a real gem. hopefully you are reading this today, and will get yourself to these galleries first thing in the morning tomorrow since a lot of them are ending soon....
if you don't see anything else this month go see "A Vicious Undertow" by Jesper Just at Perry Rubenstein Gallery (http://www.perryrubenstein.com/). i said go. NOW.
also, "June Bride" at Yossi Milo Gallery (http://www.yossimilo.com/) is a poignant look at that special moment...
you have a little more time to bask in the summer road trip feel of "Easy Rider: Road Trip through America" at Yancey Richardson Gallery (http://www.yanceyrichardson.com) until sept 8.
thats all for now folks, so get off your couch.