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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
8:33 pm	ok so that wasn't the last entry. i'm back in georgia now but i feel i should recount the very end of my trip so here goes. last night jathiyah slept over and helped me pack and clean my room. she is like, the nicest person i've ever met i think. anway then sei came and left a note on my door while i was wandering around that was like "we're waiting for you come up to my room" so i did. and it was so sad because there were sei, evan, sarah, and some other people getting ready to go out. i wanted to go so bad. oh brian was there too!! =) we took a picture! =) =) he's like, the greatest guy i met in nyc and i already miss him mucho!!! anyway brian's like "you only live once, you should go out with everybody" but i coudn't, i had to be up for my flight this morning and i didn't want to risk missing it. i know, i stink. but we all said goodbye to each other. i hugged mary like 3 times and sei a bunch too. me and evan hugged and then he patted me on the head cuz i'm so much shorter than he is. aw. and the whole time i'm like tearing up. it was so hard saying goodbye. jahthiyah, brian, kevin, me, and some other random dudes ended up hanging out and watching some kung fu movie that i fell asleep in the middle of. you know i was glad to be hanging out with brian though, hehe! anyway then this morning woke up early, took a cab to penn station and then nj transit to airtrain to newark liberty, then flew 2 hours to augusta. i can't even express how sad i am right now. i cried in the airport, on the plane, etc. it's really bad. i keep wanting to call people and see if they're as sad as i am. but i know most of my friends are still there so i know they're not sad...yet. i'm talking to monica right now and she's definitely going back to nyc next spring and she wants me to go too, and i want to go. funny though, she's like "i wish you didn't have friends" because she knows how much i love my friends in georgia and stuff and how hard it is for me to leave them. but i am really scared about going back to tech. i don't want to go!!! i told matt that i didn't want to come back and he was like "aw i want you to" (hehe good answer matt!) and then i realized that i did want to come back, just to see everyone. i watched "what not to wear" with my family tonight and cried when i saw they were in mexx!!! argh! i was just there! and then i was mad because the package with my mexx skirt in it still hasn't arrived at my house! argh! my computer hasn't come yet either!!! this could be very bad... anyway...i just...i've changed so much. my feelings about things and my life and stuff. i told holly i wouldn't be meaner when i got home. and i wouldn't say i'm meaner now, maybe just more serious and more independent. i don't know. but new york. oh man...my heart is there. when i got home i rolled in the grass. grass is so nice. and drank sweet tea. and ate a lot of food. and walked around outside in my bare feet with no trash on the streets. holly took some good pictures of me loving the grass in our backyard, hehe. i'll post them when i get back to tech. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004
10:16 pm	wow...this is my last post...how sad! =( ok so sunday afternoon i hung out with lil steph, big steph, mikelle, and therese and we went to the met and then church. i'm going to miss those girls so much. they've encouraged me so much. i just found out that theres is filipino and she's like "let's go eat filipino food, when are you free?" and it stinks to have to say "i'm leaving in a couple days." =( anyway we had a lot of fun, at church i said goodbye to grace and joe and erin but i know i'll be back soon, i hope at least! then sunday night i saw kanye west!!! beckie came in to visit and she was like "i think kanye's in town" so she called him and he was like, come up to the studio. so we did. i don't know why i wasn't freaking out at this point. i was in the studio with kanye west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow. and his producer and some other dudes that i know were famous but i'm not sure who they were. but they were like, listening to beats and tracks for kanye's new album. oh man. it was crazy. and me and beckie and this other girl hosanna were just sitting in there hanging out with them. they were so nice too! kanye is a complete gentleman. he paid for our cab and everything. this other dude asked us if we wanted another coke since there was only one in the fridge and he went and got it for us. so nice!!! it was so surreal. i mean, we just walked right into sony studios, said hi to the security guard, beckie goes "i'm kanye's cousin" and we just walked right in. craziness!!! and then there he is behind the board just listenin to beats. we hung out in this lounge too after the session and watched the shyne interview. it was so funny to see them so normal. like they were just like you or me. then in the studio kanye and this other dude were imitating usher's dance moves, it was so great!!!! i was laughing so hard. ok i'll stop rambling about kanye but he is amazing and i just feel so privileged to have met him. i feel even more privileged that beckie drove all the way up from delaware to visit me before i leave. she's the best friend i've ever had. 15 years of friendship!! yay beckie!!! monday ran some errands, went by signature to pick up and drop off some stuff. saw the plaza hotel. then met up with mary and took the long island railroad to jones beach. gorgeous!! the beach is like a mile wide. it took us like 10 minutes to walk from the parking lot to the water across the sand. anyway i love jones beach! it's really clean and the waves are enormous by east coast standards. i got stuck in a ripcurrent and that was kind of scary. mary had a little accident with her bathing suit not wanting to stay on. hehe. so then we just laid out and then we went swimming in the big pool they have, it was really nice. yay jones beach! after the beach, aimee, gordon, and christy came in to visit. we went to little italy and just hung out. so sad because little italy was like the first place me and aimee hung out when we met back in june! =( anyway it was really a lot of fun, our waiter was hilarious and he gave aimee his #...uhoh! hehe. gordon was hilarious, he's so talkative, and christy is awesome, she's a drummer in a band in minnesota. then aim and christy spent the night in my room (hehe that's a story in itself) then they left this morning. i almost cried saying goodbye to aimee. she's been an amazing friend and helped me get through a lot of stuff. i held together though but then when i turned away and walked towards the 23 i started to tear up. i am so upset about leaving. it's not time for me to go yet! this afternoon i had class and then ran some more errands, like h&m, almond cookies from chinatown, and bagels from h&h to bring home. mmm yummy! then we had the closing reception which was really sad. everyone gave their presentations, mine was last and i had a video of everyone with collective soul's "the world i know" in the background. ahhhh! i can't believe i'm leaving!!! well i'm all packed up, i just printed my boarding pass, and tomorrow i'll be up bright and early to leave around 7 am. wish me luck as i try to haul my 40 lb suitcase all over manhattan and eventually to newark, nj, where my plane leaves for augusta at 10:30 am. i love new york! see y'all soon! peace out (Comment on this)
Monday, August 9th, 2004
10:37 am	oh man...last night i hung out in the studio with kanye west. oh man...more to come later...gotta run! =) =) =) (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 8th, 2004
10:58 am	hehe...i'm trying to keep this thing updated, there's just a lot going on and i've been procrastinating about my project so i haven't really been in the computer lab. hehe. ok let's see...thursday evening bekah, sei, sarah, evan, and i went to chevy's, this tex mex place down by the world financial center. it was really good. the best part was just us being able to hang out together. since we all have crazy schedules it's hard to coordinate hang out time sometimes. but yay it was fun and our waiter was hilarious, because it was his first night on the floor. we gave him a nice tip though. friday was my last day at my internship. so sad! i pretty much finished all the webdemos, amanda just needs to add some arrows on certain frames and then link them all together. said goodbye to everyone...but then once i left i realized that i had left my intern contract and forgotten to turn in my id badge, so i guess i'll be back on monday! haha! friday night was just wonderful. i wanted to cry when it was over, hehe. we went on this world yacht cruise. we all got dressed up and got on this nice boat where we had a wonderfully delicious and fancy dinner. it felt like formal. i think when i get married i'm going to rent one of these boats and have my reception on it. i had a full course meal of lobster ravioli, some kind of chips and fancy dip called "intermezzo", filet mignon with mashed potatoes and green beans, and cheesecake. wow! hehe. it was delicious. at our table it was jess, christina, bekah, sei, mary, jathiyah, and terrence. then there were 2 other tables with some program alumni, brackett (the program head), sondra (program manager), and justine (program office person). justine is cool, she goes to pace and she's just a lot of fun. brackett and sondra are cool too even though they're grown-ups, hehe. just kidding. brackett was funny, he took a LOT of pictures "For the webpage." anyway so there was a dance floor and they were playing really romantic music and swing music and bekah and i are like "we need boyfriends" lol, well she has one but in michigan, and i don't. but then they played "party like it's 1999" and i looked at sei and was like "i love this song let's go dance" and he did. so we got out on the dance floor and sei is hilarious. and then everyone else eventually followed us. i was proud, me and sei started the trend! woohoo! hehe. so it was a really nice night of dinner and dancing with the interns! the boat went around manhattan and we got to see the sunset, then it stopped right in front of the statue of liberty when it got dark and we got some really nice pictures out there. after the boat we said goodbye to bekah because she left early sat. morning. how sad!!! i'm really going to miss her and all our sorority talks. and it was so great that we could relate because of dating delta sig's. haha. anyway after she left, mary, sei and i went and saw the bourne supremacy in the times square amc. it was good and the theatre was really nice, hehe. after the movie we took pictures in the subway because the train wasn't coming and we were bored, hehe. we finally got home around 2:30 am. saturday i went to harlem with donnie and we went to sylvia's, this awesome soul food place! when we walked in, the band was playing "georgia on my mind" and i was like, "oh my gosh it's a sign!!!!" hehe!! seriously though, sylvia's made me feel like i was home in georgia. i had fried chicken and waffles, mmmmm. and sweet tea! and cornbread! yay southern food! then we walked around and saw the apollo theatre and lots of bootleg dvd's and cd's. hehe. then i met up with lil steph and we headed to erin's swanky upper west side apartment to hang out. this was a really nice apartment. almost as nice as amir's penthouse. it has a great view of where broadway and amsterdam intersect. anyway it was steph, me, joe, erin, and erin. we ordered pizza and watched movies and then went to starbucks. i'm going to miss those people so much!! i keep getting sad when they start planning stuff for the time i'll be gone. like steph's outreach is next saturday but i'll be stuck in hot ATL rushing freshmen. which isn't a bad thing i guess...i'd just rather be here i think. oh but bobby called me while i was at starbucks all like "where are you? come hang out with us" and i'm like "well i would but i'm kind of far away still." hehe. so i do miss y'all a lot!!! i just don't want to leave here either. after starbucks we found a 24 hr duane reade and i got some shears for donnie to cut my hair with. she cut my hair when i got back to the dorm and i love it. it's not too much different, just a lot lighter and healthier looking. she gave me some good ideas for products to use so that was cool. then we watched a movie and went to bed. so today is sunday. beckie's coming to visit and then i'm supposed to meet up with lil steph and some people later. then both beckie and steph are going to stay the night with me i think. hehe. that should be interesting. ok...soon i'll be home... =( (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 5th, 2004
4:26 pm	i wish i could stop time! stop stop stop!!! hehe. it's not working. wednesday, adam and amanda took me out to lunch to "honor my Southernness" haha. they took me to virgil's bbq off times square, which professes to serve sweet tea, but alas, it's not very sweet and actually quite lemony. ew. anyway. the bbq was pretty good, and hush puppies were excellent. work was pretty uneventful, adam gave me a final review and he rated me the highest in all the categories, yay! after work, went running along the hudson in battery park, then started packing my new york city life into little cardboard boxes :(. how sad. then i worked on my project and washed amish in the city with people, haha. today i kept packing, i have 3 boxes now of clothes and stuff. after i finish writing this i'm packing up my computer. then for lunch, julie and i headed to the east village for pommes frites. it's this little hole in the wall place but it's the best french fries in all of new york. they're belgian fries and they serve them to you in a little paper cone with all kinds of sauces. i got the mango sauce and it was delicious. then you can sit at these little tables with holes in them, and you put your cone in the little hole. it's so great. then we went by dilara and then veniero's, a 100 yr old bakery on 1st ave where i got a chocolate napoleon, yum. anyway, it was just a good time of hanging in the village, one of my most favorite places that i will miss greatly! but if i come back for spring, then i'll live there, awesome huh? yay. plus i'm going to miss julie! aw...sadness. ok say goodbye to my computer! i'll still update, i'll just have to go down to the computer lab. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
11:19 pm	p.s. here are all the pictures i've taken so far this summer (i changed sites): http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/gtkiwis only 7 days left! how incredibly sad!!! p.p.s. i think i'm going to transfer to nyu for spring semester. i've been thinking about it all summer and i know it kind of seems crazy but gosh i love it here! the only problem is being away from all of you who read this!! but anyway, this is what i want to do, if you're curious: http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ssatfilm.html (Comment on this)
11:13 pm	ok i'll admit the terrorist threats on nyc were a little scary to me at first. after all, i work around all those financial institutions in midtown and my dorm is only a couple blocks from wall street. but i'm not worried about it at all, and i don't want any of y'all to be either (mom and dad). i feel completely safe. when i went to work yesterday there were extra police patrolling the sidewalks and lots of "police line - do not cross" barricade things to deter any possible vehicular attacks. so...i'm safe and just keep me and nyc in your prayers! =) ok here's some disappointing news...amanda and i went to install atm screen yesterday and it didn't work. it was cool seeing the back of an atm though!!! hehe. their atm's run os2 and they're supposed to pick up mpg's but they didn't for some reason. so then we converted to .flc's and that didn't work either. and we changed things in scripts and that didn't work either. gosh! so...we rescheduled for another day to make them work. i may not be around to see my work come to fruition, which is sad, but they'll eventually be up...and all of new york will see them! haha, not quite. but i think the real problem is that the atm's need to be upgraded to running windows. hehe. last night we went to junior's for cheesecake one last time. i sent cheesecakes to mom and dad, aunt debbie, and meg. (your cheesecakes should arrive on Aug. 11! yay!) actually now that i think about it, i might go again. it's just that good! i didn't even get cheesecake last night. i got "griddle cakes" and bacon. (griddle cakes are pancakes, just in case you were wondering, i mean i think it's obvious but just in case!) but anyway, these "griddle cakes" were absolutely wonderful!!! wow!!! (dad, you may have some competition, uh oh.) anyway a good time was had by all. haha. it was me, sarah, mary, and bekah. i think we're all crazy. they put us in a corner round booth table and we were like, why'd they put us so far away from everyone. and then we realized because we get really loud and laugh a lot. i don't think our waiter liked us. he wasn't even a waiter, he was the host who sat us, and then when no one took our order at first, he did it, and he kept having to ask other people to answer our questions. he was nice for the most part though. hehe i'm laughing here at my desk just thinking about us at junior's. there must be something in the cheesecake. today class was really sad. it was about the world trade center. we watched tape of the planes and the people jumping off the building. crazy. then our professor told us what he went through on that day. i don't really want to talk about it on here. then we looked at the plans for rebuilding and then we took a field trip to st. paul's and ground zero and then through the world financial center and the winter garden (yay a favorite place of mine). our professor is so great that other tourists were following him and asking him if he was a tour guide and if it was ok to join the "tour." it was so funny. oh man. you just have to meet this guy to understand. sometimes he gets so excited about he talks so fast and he's like, gasping for air. it's great! what a knowledgeable guy! i think he knows everything about nyc history and culture. good thing he's teaching the class. me and mary ate at chevy's, mmm. my first time ever there. then we had pro dev class and it was alright, i guess. it was about interviewing. two of the alumni came in and talked to us and i found that really helpful because the jobs they have today have nothing to do with the kind of internship they had. but their internships helped them network and get to the jobs they have today. since i know i don't want an office job really, it helps me to know that this internship will still help me in the long run just because i've made so many connections. who knows where i'm going to end up? i don't know, but i'm excited! after class, mary and i went down to the seaport and shopped. i'm almost done shopping i think. i'm trying to buy everything i'll need for school...and i think i'm almost done. now if only i could find some ballet flats i like...hehe ;) (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
11:28 pm	wow. this summer has been amazing and i'm not ready to go. today i went to the flatiron district and saw the flatiron building (my mom's favorite) and went to madison square park where they have this shake shack. you can get shakes, but even better, you can get this concoction of frozen custard whipped with your favorite toppings. it's the creamiest thing i've ever had. i had the concrete jungle which is vanilla custard, hot fudge, peanut butter, and bananas all whipped together. mm yummy! i'm going to miss the food up here so much! because...whatever kind of food you want, you can get it! anyway i walked towards chelsea and shopped around. i really really really want some ballet flats. they are just so cute. but i can't find any that i like. i like the j. crew ones but i don't like the little heel and the colors are kind of weird. i found some cute polka dotted ones but they were too trendy for me, i don't want to buy a pair that i can't wear after this year. but then again, trends go slowly in georgia so maybe it would be ok. i dont' know. enough babbling about fashion. after chelsea i went to the journey church with steph. i love that church! i'm going to miss it so much! the people there have been like family to me. the message was about sex, hehe. it was good! if you want to know the details you can ask me. after the service we had ice cream and volleyball in the gym. the cool thing, well it's not cool at all literally, is that there is no air conditioning in the auditorium where we meet. so there we are like, hundreds of people drenched in sweat but still praising the Lord and fellowshippin with one another in His presence. it's so cool. it just really encouraged my heart to see other people who were there to praise the Lord no matter what. like who cares if it's 100 degrees in the room, we were there for the Lord. it was funny after though, because all the ice cream was melted. we had soup with toppings, haha. i met this girl from augusta!!! yay!!! she's been a missionary in new york for the summer. it was so good to talk to her!!! i miss augusta! we were both like, "i can't wait to drive down washington rd." haha! so i got to hang out with steph and grace and meet some new nyc people. i think we're going to all try to do something this weekend before i leave, like a going away hanging out party or something. aw. i'm going to miss everyone so much! so that was my day...the days go by too fast here!!! 10 days and i'll be back in the south, which isn't a bad thing at all...but i'm going to miss nyc like crazy!! gosh. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 31st, 2004
11:53 pm	oh man oh man...i love usher! he is so amazing! wow. that's all i can really say, haha. me and julie made signs, hers said "we burn for usher" and mine said "usher is my homeboy, a-t-l ga!" on one side and the other said "this georgia peach loves GMA and tony perkins" but i didn't hold my sign up during the concert because the director was like "no signs, because people can't see the stage" so that was kind of sad! anyway me and grace were in the middle right side somewhere. someone told me 9000 people showed up that morning, isn't that crazy?? i think grace and i should have camped out. we got there around 6:30 am and it was already insane. but so worth it!!! he sang "burn", "you make me wanna", and "yeah" with lil john. gosh usher can dance! and i loved his white outfit. wow. ok i need to stop gushing! lol. oh so then i went to work right? well grace told me usher was going to be on trl that same day. so after work i swung by mtv in times square and tried to see him again, hehe. but the crowd was just crazy. i couldn't stand it so i took a picture of usher at the glass and left. during lunch that day i went to st. patrick's cathedral. it's across from rockefeller center and it's absolutely gorgeous. i think the coolest part is that there's this little chapel and altar behind the main front of the cathedral and altar. if that makes sense. anyway so you can walk behind the front part of the church. i think i'm horrible at explaining. but it's really cool, the stained glass is beautiful. i sat in a pew and just thought for a little. then i went around rockefeller center and i swear i saw that theta xi with the brown shaggy hair. i forgot his name. but i saw him and did a double take. i mean, it probably wasn't him but i almost was like "hey i know you" but i would have been really embarassed if it wasn't him. but if anyone knows if brown shaggy hair theta xi was in nyc this week let me know, haha. friday night mary, donnie, and i went to see "she hate me" but donnie didn't know where the theatre was. so we ended up being lik 30 minutes late. i didn't even really want to see it and neither did mary and i think donnie was mad about being so late, so she just bought her ticket and left us! she didn't even wait for us to buy ours. so we left and went to taco bell. hehe. we took our taco bell down to battery park and ate and then went and saw "the village" which was decent. i only went because i wanted to know the twist. but the twist was awfully far-fetched. and i got annoyed by the way they talked, it just sounded so unnatural. but anyway, while we were waiting by the river me and mary reminisced about our first meeting and how we became friends...so sad!! i hate endings! today i went to the seaport with stephanie (lil steph), mikelle, cindy, and therese. we sat in these lawn chairs on the 3rd floor overlooking the east river and the brooklyn bridge and stuff, it was really nice! the weather was really muggy though, yuck. so we just sat outside and talked, ate lunch, shopped a little. then therese left and the rest of us headed over to bedford-stuyvesant in brooklyn to do a prayerwalk. we were supposed to do outreach last week, but it rained, then this week not enough people could come so we decided we would just go through the area and pray in preparation for outreach in 2 weeks (but i wont' be there! =( ). anyway it was awesome. we sat in fulton park for a little and sang praise song and prayed and talked to this homeless man a little. then we walked towards steph's house and prayed along the way. she lives in a 3 family brownstone. it's nice. but small. all the apt's i've been in since i've been here are so tiny. i could never live here. i need to live in a house. i just need space i think, to sprawl out and stuff. i would feel so trapped if i lived here and that's not a good feeling! i mean, even in nice places, the apt's are small, like jathiyah on the upper west side, that's a nice area...but her apt had 1 living area, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, and a shoebox sized kitchen. amir's apt is nice...but he lives in a penthouse, that's why. and even as a penthouse...it's still small. 1 bedroom, 1 living area, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, access to the roof and gardens and stuff. it rained while we were in brooklyn but the sun was still shining, weird...but really cool. hehe. on the way, mikelle bought a sandwich for eric the homeless man but when we got back to the park he was gone. we also walked past a block party which was cool. it was like, out of a movie or something. they roped off the roads and people were just outside grilling and playing basketball and stuff. it was cool! i wanted to stop, hehe. we stopped by steph's church and closed in prayer and then came back to manhattan. after that we walked around times square and went to the only Christian bookstore in all Manhattan. hehe. at least we're pretty sure it's the only one. steph and i got the david crowder lime cd. so now i have something to remind me of her and everyone (as if i needed anything). i am so thankful for the brothers and sisters in Christ i've met here! they continually encourage me and i've learned so much from them! i was so sad, we were talking about me leaving and steph is like "you've been like my big sister". aw!!! so sad! it's so funny too because all this time i feel like she's been teaching me more than i've taught her. anyway she's going to try to visit me in georgia and hopeuflly tech and pace's spring breaks will coincide and we're both going to go to big break in panama city. but honestly, at first i thought i was going to totally fall on my face in new york. it's the most liberal, most selfish, and most materialistic place i've ever been. i didn't know if i was going to be strong and not let it change me or if it was going to change me or eat me alive. hehe. well i think that God has really blessed me with friends to keep me accountable and His supernatural strength to get through each day. i think this is the strongest i've ever felt, all around. i don't know who said it but "if you can make it in new york, you can make it anywhere." and i'm making it! yay! after bed-stuy and such, julie and i hung out. she's a model with ford models. she's really sweet and smart though, not the typical model stereotype. anyway she has a shoot tomorrow and hopefully she'll be in a runway show on friday that i can go see! she's so cool! hehe. she taught me the ropes of the modeling world, haha. i think we spent like over an hour looking at portfolios and her explaining to me how everything works. it's crazy. it makes me feel fat, it's awful! i don't understand why our society prizes your bones jutting out of your skin as "beauty." i think it's sick. and i'm so fat compared to these models....it's awful for self-esteem. oh well. i don't think anything can stop my love for food so i guess modeling is not for me! haha! oh i forgot to mention that tuesday for class we went to the museum of tv and radio. it's crazy, there are all these screening rooms where you just watch tv shows. and you can rent a little console and order tv shows and stuff. i guess it's a perfect thing to do on a rainy day but gosh, what a waste of time!!! watching tv all day is not what i like to do with my free time. and i forgot that holly sent me the most delicious sugar cookies!!! mmm...i eat like 10 a day, haha! ok i think that's all...i'm getting sadder and sadder about leaving! =( there's so much more i want to do!!! 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Thursday, July 29th, 2004
11:04 pm	ok so a lot's been going on...a lot of like, "the end" type stuff that makes me sad! tuesday night we met with a top nbc executive in their communcations department. it was pretty cool. we sat in a conference room with the big programming board on it, you know, the one with all the major networks' line-ups that you can move around the shows and stuff, and it's all color-coded. i wanted to take a picture so bad but i didn't want to come off as unprofessional, hehe. anyway he talked to us about the communications field and stuff and then he used us as a focus group on piracy. nbc just merged with universal so basically they're wagering that having more content will yield more profit as communications advances into a digital age. so he wanted to know what we thought about piracy and the best ways to combat it. i felt kind of cool. hehe. but we were there for a really long time and i was so hungry! hehe. it was cool being all the way up in rockefeller center and around all the brains that make it work. after that we went to the world's largest tgifriday's and the prices were awful! ok like, in georgia i can get chicken fingers for like, under $10 i thnk. well at this friday's chicken fingers were $15. can you believe that??!! i thought friday's nationwide were all the same, well think again! beware of friday's!!!! wed went back to work and had a horrible headache! i think the thing this internship has taught me the most is what i don't want to do with the rest of my life, and that is sit at a computer all day. gosh. it was awful. i've been working like hardcore on these web demos because adam and amanda really want them done before i leave (even though reality, i'm only going to get one completely done and finished). the atm screen installation got bumped to monday, so i'm looking forward to that. i'm kind of mad about the web demos. the atm's were like, the last thing i was supposed to do and when i finished early the web demos got slapped on me. and they are a lot of work! i feel like adam and amanda should hire a professional company to do this, not me. and it kind of stinks that i'm not getting any kind of compensation for it! gosh. ok just had to rant, i shouldn't be comlplaining, because this internship has been an amazing experience, and i think i would work for signature any time, it's a great work environment. it's just the computer part that gets to me, hehe. wed night had dinner with the interns and then went to nooma for the last time. how sad!!!! and the video we watched just spoke right to me, it was about forgiveness and moving on and the wounds that we all have. i mean, some of what the guy said was just like "wow i've had those exact thoughts in those exact words", it was kind of eerie and made me start tearing up but then i was so happy, because God knew exactly what i needed to hear that night. i am just continually amazed at the way He provides for me, spiritually, physcially, everything. I've really been thinking about those verses about Him knowing how many hairs are on our head and how He knit us together before we were born...I just keep thinking how awesome He is, and how deeply He knows me and loves me. Wow. What an awesome God! well while God was teaching me great things wed night i was very sad that it was the last night our little group would be together. only 5 of us could make it, so i was like, even sadder. i didn't get to see people i had hoped that i'd be able to say goodbye to...oh well we are planning on going to a yankees game together so hopefully i'll see other people then. but anyway...wow, the friends i've made here are just amazing and i just wish i could stay!!!! erin was talking about the fall and all the plans they have and i keep wanting to pipe in and be like "i want to do that!" you know?? it's hard to leave when you feel so comfortable...dont' get me wrong, i miss home like crazy!!!! i didn't want to leave florida. but i know i will really miss the people here and i'm saddened to think that i may never see them again. today i went to signature to make up my missed day on monday. no headache this time, yay! it was fun...ate lunch at popeye's with mario at this little like, hmm i'm not sure how to describe it. a plaza? well in new york there are all these little public plaza's that you can just sit in and stuff but they're always like, well not hard to find, but you have to be looking for them to know that they're there. anyway this one was really cool, it was between 2 skyscrapers off times square and it's a waterfall with a tunnel in it. i took a picture. so you walk through the waterfall tunnel and then there's chairs and tables and benches and foliage. so we sat in there and ate. he treated me too, yay mario!!! i got an extra biscuit and we split the apple pie, hehe. after work i went and bought posterboard to make signs for good morning america, because grace and i are going to see usher!!!! oh my gosh i can hardly contain my excitement!!!! i've been looking forward to this ever since i got here!!!!! we better get on the front row!! hehe. after that i walked to the wtc and spent some time reading my Bible in the winter garden. i LOVE the winter garden. i'm not sure why i haven't spent more time there. it's so gorgeous, it's all glass with palm trees in it. the architecture is really cool. i think that's something that nyc has really done to me, fostered a love of art and architecture and music. i'm going to miss all the free culture when i go back to georgia! anyway so i spent some time in there and then i walked along the esplanade in battery park, another place i'm not sure why i haven't spent more time there. i need to start running there, its' really nice. anyway it's just a park and a walkway (kind of like riverwalk in augusta) with lots of cool architecture and sculptures along the hudson river. so i walked from wtc to wagner park (near the statue of liberty ferry) and back and then watched the sunset. it was so nice to get away from the noise and bustle of the city! so i LOVE battery park too. i'm starting to really like lower manhattan, where i live. at first i didn't because it's so quiet at night and there's not much to do really. but it's definitely growing on me, i guess because i'm starting to really value peace and quiet. oh yeah i forgot to mention that bobby called me while i was in tampa. awww i miss bobby!!!! and hearing his voice and his laugh made me miss everyone. it was bad enough i was already down in florida ready to stay and then get his call and think of all my friends at tech. awww i can't wait to see everyone!!! leaving nyc will be tough but i think missing y'all has been the toughest!!! =) can't wait to see y'all (although i can wait for classes, yuck). ok i think that's pretty much all...hehe. look forward to a post devoted to usher! haha. 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Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
11:53 am	so the secret's out...i went to tampa this weekend to help my aunt move in to her gorgeous new house! i love it, the kitchen is amazing. she has these white cabinets with blue and white corian counters. i can't wait to cook in there, hehe! anyway, it was a surprise for my sister holly, who had no idea that i was coming. she thought they were picking up debbie's friend charlie at the airport, not me. then she slapped me when she saw me and when i said "ow" she said "love hurts." haha!!! i don't know why she slapped me on the arm but oh well. it was a great time, being with my cousins and my sister and my aunt. oh yeah, and i drank sweet tea at every meal! yay! =) saturday getting to the airport was a little scary though. i got on the M60 bus and things were going fine until we hit the triborough bridge that goes to queens. well...after about an hour of sitting in traffic and seeing 3 NYPD helicopters flying mighty close to the bridge, i found out that an overpass ahead in queens had collapsed because of the torrential downpours we've been having up here. scary! i was safe though, it just took a long time to get around the fallen bridge. i got to laguardia around 6:20, 10 minutes before checkin closed. yay i made it!!! then on the way to tampa we flew through some really bad storms, with lightning all around and awful turbulence, like people were screaming, it was kind of scary. i thought it was fun though, it felt just like a roller coaster although when it first started they didn't really warn us and i had the fleeting feeling that we were going to crash so that was kind of scary. anyway, saturday night went to steak and shake and then just hung out at the apartment with my relatives. jesse has this awful game called manhunt that we watched him play. haha. sunday we went to orlando to see jamal and we ate at the rainforest cafe, mmmm yummy!!! we got the chocolate volcano thing for dessert and it was fabulous! wow. i still think about it sometimes. then the rest of the day we just hung out, played with the animals, i loooooove cheyenne, i want to kidnap her, haha. she's debbie's golden retriever. i think we have a special bond. i sing "you are so beautiful" to her and she looks at me with these cute big brown eyes. awwwww i miss the dog!!!! sunday night we moved into a hotel so we would all have beds to sleep on. monday we moved to the house! woohoo!! i drove the moving truck! yay! i felt so big. then we unpacked and got all sweaty and gross. joe flew in monday afternoon and then there we were, all the cousins united! yay! i love my cousins, they're the greatest! hehe. jesse got sick though, at first we thought he was exaggerating but then he threw up all over the parking lot and then on the hunt's driveway. ew. but he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag like a burrito, and then last night i was like "can i call you burrito?" and he was like "yeah" so he's my little burrito now. aw. earlier that day we had played this monster game of uno attack. it took us an hour and half to get a winner. that game is crazy. but good bonding time without manhunt. hehe. oh food...monday lunch we went to this awesome bbq place called smokeybones and monday dinner was chickfila. i miss southern food and hospitality so much!!!! wow. i never realized how nice people are in the south til now. anyway i enjoyed all the good food, debbie knew exactly what to feed me, haha! then this morning we woke up at a very early hour and went to the airport, and now i'm back in my room at pace. it was so weird coming back, like getting off the plane and seeing new york city, and not atlanta, or home. debbie was like "don't go home" and i was like "you're right, i'm not going home, i'm going to new york" isn't that sad?? haha. anyway, what a fun weekend!!! aunt debbie's the greatest and she has a spectacular new house!!! congrats on the home debbie!! =) i miss you all very much and can't wait to see you soon (i guess soon is Christmas). (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 24th, 2004
1:48 pm	today i woke up "early" and went up 5th ave to shop =) went to mexx and h&m (i know i know, i'm addicted to h&m, i used to LOVE their soundtrack but they've changed it! like i'd go in the store so much that i knew the songs in what order they'd come on, sad i know! it's such a happy place though!) anyway i found a skirt for rush that i like, i got it at mexx, it's sky blue with kind of pleats. it better pass!!!! then i was going to greenwich village but then i forgot that i had to go to times square and get some stuff from bubba. on the subway today: guy: you have a beautiful face me: um thanks guy: do you have a boyfriend? me: yes ok that's the typical conversation i have almost every day here with these random guys!!! now i hope you understand why i'm always so aggravated with boys!!!! i don't have a boyfriend but i feel like i need to get one just to fend off these weirdos!!! ok off to chinatown for food and bootleg shopping, then the M60 to LGA!!! =) be back tuesday! (Comment on this)
1:52 am	i'm getting sadder and sadder...i don't want to leave! well i do, but i don't! i'm such a confused person! haha. i about cried tonight, just being with my fellow interns and thinking about how less fun my life will be without them in it. =( aw. ok well first of all, my 2nd internship is kind of weird. my boss is really disorganized and spacey. i worked on the website for 2 hours, it's a complete mess. i don't even really want to start it. but the cool thing is that the guy in charge of the website is from georgia tech, so i really want to meet him, he wasn't in on thursday though. neither was the video production girl. so i ended up selling books for a while with this other intern. people donate books to us and then we sell them to make money. i was really struggling with my pride, like thinking i was too good to be selling books on the sidewalk. it was a real humbling experience! it reminded me of this devotion that aunt feli sent me and i really had to focus and not let my pride get the best of me. i will never be too good to do something, or at least i hope i never have that attitude! it's a bad one! hehe. then today was so tiring! but so fun! but so rainy! ok one thing at a time. went to work and worked on the web demos again, but i'm having trouble with some of the built-in flash components, (like the comboBox won't work for me, if you have any advice, let me know!) but they're coming along. i've almost finished the electronic bill payment. i even gave adam a little lesson today, it was funny seeing him confused haha! cuz i used to be all confused when he tried to teach me illustrator and quark. anyway so work was fun, i just really love my coworkers, and adam hinted about hiring someone in the future to do what i do now...so i'm thinking, hey, why don't you just hire me, hehe. today monsooned though. manhattan is flooding. there are huge puddles everywhere. the worst part is that everyone has their own umbrella. and the streets are already really crowded. so take crowded streets and add in big umbrellas and what do you get? really really crowded streets and people poking you with their umbrellas. this one lady got me good. ouch. i have a scratch on my arm! and everyone's umbrellas are black. mine was red. haha. but everyone else's is black. for lunch i ran up to h&m to return some shirts that were too big and then to wachovia to deposit my check. then i went to pax for a burrito that wasn't nearly as good as willy's or moe's. be thankful for willy's and moe's all you georgia people!!!! i had some good chocolate cookies though. hehe. after work i went to the whitney museum, it's pay-what-you-wish after 6 pm on fridays. it's awesome! it's all modern american art. i loved all the pop art, like andy warhol stuff. i'm sad, though, tomorrow brian's going to the met and i'm not, but it's ok because i'm going somewhere way cooler!!! =) it's a secret though ;) after the whitney i went to see stomp with the interns, it was great! i was just so tired though i tried to like, clap along when they get you to participate but man i was so sluggish. haha. i loved the lighter scene and the finale, it was pretty cool! oh yeah, before stomp i stopped at my favorite non-chain designer store, dilara on st. marks and got 2 really cute skirts for $30!!! i'm on this skirt thing, like everyone here wears skirts, all the time. and it's infectious. i love skirts!!! i wear them like, every day. well i have to wear them to work, and then even when i'm not working i wear them, lol. after stomp we were going to webster hall but the monsoons stopped us. instead, we got completely soaked and went crazy. haha. i guess you had to be there to understand. we're just a crazy bunch of people. i think the people on the subway were scared of us. i haven't laughed that hard in a while! aw i love my interns!!!! anyway my secret...is a secret! i'll be back...some day soon ;) hehe! love you all!!! miss you bunches! (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
12:23 am	another fun day! hehe. work was great! i'm really excited about the web demo's. i'm just excited that my employers trust me so much, hehe, and that i've been able to do way more than they expected me to. they though the atm screens would be like, my last project, but i finished them 4 weeks ahead of time. yay! hopefully those will get installed soon. anyway, for lunch, me and mario went to this little bbq stand where they had quarts of sweet tea for $3. i got one and it's pretty good, it had mint in it so i wasn't like, enthused, but it was still good. mario invited me out to drinks with him and some other guys next friday, but i don't drink so i won't be going, but i thought it was nice of him to invite me! i love my coworkers. vinny liked the tea i gave him, amanda was stoked about my bubba gump apron (i gave it to her cuz she needed one, and i'll never use it again), and then adam liked his crayons, hehe. during my lunch break i went to bubba and got my paycheck, and it's pretty huge. my tipshare was $44! my tipout at ok was like, $12 a night, if i worked up front. so i guess it's about the same actually. it just seemed big at the time, hehe. but i looked at the list and some people made like $100 in tipshare! i would have made that much but i was still in training at the time of this paycheck and they don't tip out to trainees. after work i went to an interview and got another internship. haha. they're taking me on even though i only have a few weeks left. they can't pay me though cuz it's too late into the summer. but i'll be doing video production and web development so it's more related to what i'm interested in, especially the video part. anyway, i'm trying to network. hehe. even though i'm sure i don't want to live and work in the city. i might live on long island and work in the city though. that would be fun. then i came home and met steph and went to john's apt for nooma and a bbq. he lives on the top floor so we got to go out on the roof, it was cool. the nooma was awesome too. it really reminded me of how much i always want what i want, but God has much better things in store for me. and if i'll only just walk with Him and be patient, those things will come. sometimes i get discouraged because i really feel like something is right and then it doesn't work out...but God always has something else planned for me, and it's always better than anything i could have imagined for myself. after nooma we went to mexican. i just have to say i love my friends here!!! i'm going to miss them so much! i can't believe i'm leaving them in just a few short weeks!!! =( i'm getting really depressed about it! at dinner i was just looking at all of us and how much i have grown to love my friends, i will miss them so much!!! i'm so torn, i miss home like crazy but i'm going to miss nyc like crazy too!!! what am i going to do?? oh yeah, i got a cool "live strong" lance armstrong bracelet from nora. (everyone here is crazy about the tour de france - the guys at work listen to it on the radio!) she's so cool, she's a film student at nyu, she's working on the set of julianne moore's next movie, and getting paid (a lot). i'm so jealous! well not really, but yeah i am. i wish i could get a cool internship like that! but i think the more i'm here, the less film looks that great to me. like between john's apt and mexican, they were filming some tv series in the street underneath his window. it's just not a big deal here. celebrities are "a dime a dozen" as adam puts it. it's just another occupation. it's definitely cool, and i would definitely enjoy it i think, but i guess being here, i've realized how much i enjoy other things, and how much i really enjoy the south and don't think i could part with it for much longer than a summer, hehe. but maybe i could! ok gotta wake up early for my other internship (i'm only working tues 9-12 and thurs 9-6 so i wont' be burned out). love you all!! see you soon ;) (and some sooner than others, hint hint) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
12:11 am	today was a long day of classes! yuck! we went to the guggenheim so that was cool though. although i had a hard time looking at some of it. i guess i am too conservative to look at some things as art and not as like, porn. oh well, i am old-fashioned! i tried to have an open mind about it but i just didn't enjoy it. i enjoyed the cezanne, picasso, and kandinsky though. plus the building is designed by frank lloyd wright so it's really cool looking, hehe. and what happened was, our class was divided by people who wanted to go to the int'l photography museum and people who wanted to go to the guggenheim. well guggenheim was the minority so our teacher gave us $40 and told us to go on our own while he took everyone else to the photography place. well, coincidentally, the guggenheim is in our citypass book. so we got in with our citypass and pocketed the money. hehe. hey, it's ours anyway, we're paying for the class! so yay, i got paid to go to a museum today! pro dev was boring, but at least dinner was good. we had chicken parmesan and baked ziti, mmm. one of the program's alumni came in and talked to us. he comes off as kind of full of himself cuz he works for goldman sachs and now he's started a hedge fund. don't ask me what all that means, because i do not know. but anyway he's like, ask me anything, i know everything. whatever. hehe. in other happy news, people from my church in augusta are here! yay!!! uncle jon and aunt joyce called me after my class, it was soooo good to hear from them! they did some street evangelism in times square today, and hopefully i'll be able to meet up with them during my lunch break tomorrow. it will be soooo good to hear some southern accents and fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ. plus nooma is tomorrow! yay! so many good things to look forward to! oh yeah - i would like to thank uncle kyle and flo mom for their fabulous letters. they were so funny, especially kyle's. i think i laughed the entire time i was reading them. also yay matt jones for another letter! it definitely encouraged me! =) yay for my friends!!! (Comment on this)
Monday, July 19th, 2004
11:59 pm	last night was awful. i worked at bubba til 2 am. we were understaffed by 3 people. that's a lot. i think at one point i was the only person setting tables in a restaurant that holds 380 people. yeah crazy huh? it was such a long night. i felt really good even though i was so beat, because the managers were all like "corrie you're amazing" so i guess they want me to stay because they really want me to stay, not just cuz they're desperate. hehe. so i felt really bad today when i called D and asked him to take me off the schedule. he was so nice about it though. he was like "you're overworking yourself, i understand! but if you ever need a part time job, i hope you'll come back to us." my first paycheck is tomorrow though! yay. finally! i'm sad because i didn't really say goodbye to my bubba peeps. i'm so relieved to not have to work such long nights but i'll miss the people i got to know. i mean just the past 2 days i've worked, i'd gotten to know this guy from atl, and he's going back to atl in august, like me, it's kind of bizarre. he goes to clark. and quincy and dane, they're like, big bros, always trying to scare me when i least suspect it or poking my stomach to make me laugh. and i'll miss joy being my "archnemesis" and singing all the time, brandi giving me hugs, ana and the time we didn't see clay aiken, prince and our training memories, D for being so understanding...good times. if it hadn't been for the management i would have quit next week instead of this week. haha. just kidding. so then i got a call today about another job at the pace computer lab. i'm going to interview on thurs. tomorrow i have an interview with the art organization. today at work was good, the atm screens are pretty much done, maybe wednesday we'll start installing. now they have me working on a flash file that will demo their online services. i want it to be like washington mutual's demo but i dont' know enough flash to do that. i was really craving cookies from zora and vinny on his way out went and got me some! i love the guys at work, they're always looking out for me! i'm going to buy vinny some green tazo tea, it's his favorite. oh gosh, this morning was awful though, i overslept, forgot my ID and had to go back one subway station, got stuck at another station when 3 of the trains that went through weren't in service, and finally made it to work at like, 11. (1 1/2 hrs late) so then i stayed til 6, which wasn't so bad i guess. tonight was beautiful though. i saw my first manhattan stars (there were only 2 that i could see). donnie and i went to see the ny philharmonic in central park. it was crazy. there were thousands of people there. so we had our blanket out on the great lawn and the orchestra played. they played scheherazade, i forget by who, but i love it. anyway so i lay on the blanket, gazed at the stars, and listened to the beautiful music! yay! then after the concert there were fireworks, and i love fireworks! it was definitely a new york moment =) ok now i have to do loads of homework, i'm really behind from working all the time. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 18th, 2004
3:13 pm	so i was definitely feelin that 17 hours on saturday. i woke up around noon, and i was sore and not feeling well at all, my throat hurt really badly. i talked to aimee and erika on the phone and then i decided to go to the met and central park. well then my friend simon (he works at bubba gump) called and was like "what are you doing? oh i'd love to go to the met with you" so i was like, ok. well i really wanted to go by myself, i just needed some alone time and i didn't want to have to like, entertain someone while i was going through the museum, you know? sometimes i just like to sit and look at things by myself and not have to talk about them. i don't know, maybe i'm weird. well simon paid for my admission and then halfway through the museum he's like "what do you look for in a guy....blah blah blah" so i was getting really upset! he totally ruined my afternoon! i thought we were just friends! every guy i've met in nyc is all like "i want to date you!" argh!!!!! i don't like boys any more! anyway so i tried to like, avoid that conversation but he kept bringing it up. then after the museum he insisted that we go to dinner, where he proceeded to tell me how beautiful i am and how much fun we could have if i would only give him a chance. i was like "no i live in georgia i'm going home and i DON'T WANT TO DATE ANYBODY" i said this like, 10 times. finally i'm like "i have to go meet a friend at 8" and dinner was finally over!!! well at least the met was nice! aside from simon turning it into a date, i really enjoyed seeing the egyptian stuff, the tiffany glass, and the period rooms. i still have to go back again, i don't think i've covered even half of it. and i love art so much! today i went to church at the journey and it was so great. the sermon was a little simplistic but it was good to be reminded. it was about transformation. we had the Lord's Supper though so i was really excited about that! the music was great too. i love that church, i really wish i could be more involved, like stay longer and help with outreach more. it's cool, they rent out space at the promenade theatre. so we have church in a real theatre, like where shows go one at night. it's kind of bizarre. hehe. anyway i love the people there, their hearts are really on fire for the Lord. i got chills during the Lord's Supper and we were singing "The Wonderful Cross." it was just so amazing to be there in that theatre with hundreds of other people who love the Lord and our voices just singing praise and love to Jesus. it's not something you see often in New York City, and to feel God's presence in the midst of His people today was just such a blessing! Thank God for leading me spiritually this summer into fellowship with believers who will keep me strong and encourage me in my witness for the Lord. after church i went shopping down at the seaport and got mom and holly some cute presents from the metropolitan museum of art shop. but i still can't find a rush skirt for day 3 that i like enough! it's so aggravating! alrighty...nap or homework before i go to bubba? hmmm...nap =) (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 17th, 2004
3:07 am	you would think that after working 17 hours straight i'd be in bed but i'm not. i'm so tired but not sleepy, i hate when this happens to me! argh. ok so i went to my internship and worked on the screens. during lunch i went to rockefeller center and got some cool stationery to write people back on. the envelopes are made out of subway maps, hehe. i thought they were so cute. then i got a call from this arts organization in NYC about a possible job opening, so i have an interview on Monday at 5:00 pm. so now i know you're all wondering, um corrie you have 2 jobs and classes and you're already super frustrated. well...so i get to bubba gump and i'm still in my business casual clothes b/c i figure they're either going to fire me or i'm just going to quit, so why bother changing clothes. i see simon on the way in and he's like "yeah, no call no show, they're pretty harsh about that" even though i tried to call, it's not my fault they were too busy to talk to me, you know? so then i walk into the side pantry and see D, the host manager and i'm like "do you have time to talk to me?" and he's like "Yeah!" so we have our little talk and i explain how i feel about the job and how i want to quit. and i thought for sure i'd be in trouble. but get this, he actually apologizes for scheduling me on a day i couldn't work and isn't mad at me at all, doesn't want to punish me in any way, and when i ask if he got my 2 weeks notice, he's like "what?? no! we dont' want to lose you, we want to do anything to keep you" and i'm like argh! i'm trying to quit!!!! so then D is like, just think about it and tell me what you think at the end of the shift and then we'll get your schedule straight. hm. ok. so my shift goes fine, i don't hate working at bubba gump at all, it's actually a lot of fun most of the time, it's just the absentminded management that gets to me and the fact that i'm working at either signature or bubba 75% of my time here. so the end of the shift comes and i'm still going to quit. so D sits down with me and he's like, really, i'll do anything to keep you, i'll give you another dollar. whoa. giving me a raise when i haven't even worked there a month yet???!!! bubba must be really desperate (or i must be really good? but i'll go with desperate). so wow, D is really tempting me, but i'm finally like, look, i'm trying to prioritize, and my other job and my classes are just more important to me than this, and i love to work here but i need to do what's important. and he's like, ok, well i'll schedule your next 2 weeks, and maybe at the end you'll decide to stay. so. i'm still like, wow i can't believe 1, i still have my job, and 2, they're going at great lengths to keep me. so the other job interview...if i quit at bubba i'll do this other job because i think it's more like my signature job, like design and computer stuff. i'm not sure though, i guess we'll see on monday. and i just have to say...there are so many people in nyc without jobs. i think i've been a really crappy person to complain about my job. i mean, i went and got hired on the spot. is that God or what? He is never slack in providing for me, and God really blessed me with the job at bubba. i don't think i've been really appreciative. just wanted to clear that up for myself, hehe. ok!! it's 3 AM, i'm going to bed!!! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 15th, 2004
11:56 pm	i've been slack with the journal lately, too much going on! tuesday night was awesome, i hung out with brian! =) he is so cool, too bad there's only a month left and we are too busy for each other! =( wednesday went to work, then went to madame tussaud's with the interns. it was cool but kind of creepy! hehe. i mean, people made out of wax? they had this like, "haunted house" that we went through and it scared me so much, i screamed and held on to donnie the entire time. today i saw brian as we were both going to work and then as i was coming home from work and he was leaving, both times in the elevator, hehe. so random. anyway he's been helping me sort out my housing mess, luckily he told me to talk to this guy theodore who assured me that nothing is going to happen to me as long as i stick to the visitation rules. so yay! i can still have visitors! so that means you have til august 10 to come up to new york and stay 2 consecutive nights as my only overnight guest (those are the rules). haha. work today was awesome. well it has been awesome this whole week, because i started redesigning the atm screens. i just took some jpg's that amanda made for the atm's and animated them in flash really. i'll try to post them on here or something so you can see them and then tell me which ones you like the best, what you would improve, etc, cuz it always help to know what potential customers are thinking! haha. and mario loved the sweet tea i think. he though it was too sweet but it was fun watching him drink it so excited. and then this other dude asked me "what's the good word?" and i didn't know if i should give the georgia tech answer ("to h*ll with georgia") or to just tell him how i was doing. so i kind of gave him a funny look i guess and he's like, "you know, like, how are you?" haha. so then i told him why i was confused. and everyone laughed. adam was like "It's amazing what you can learn from an intern." anyway i'm really frustrated with bubba gump. i'm going to quit. i didn't go to work on wed, i tried to call in, because they had scheduled me on a day i specifically told them i couldn't work. when i tried to call in they were too busy to talk to me! gosh. anyway it's a big mess. and i wish i could just enjoy being here without working all the time. i guess that's kind of selfish of me though. but i just dread working 16 hours straight, like i have to do tomorrow. =( i woudlnt' care if i was in like, atlanta, but here there's so much more that i'd rather be doing, and i'll probably never live in new york city again. but i'm trying to look on the bright side of things, like the cool people i've been meeting, the fact that i can look out the window and see hundreds of people and the bright lights of times square, the opportunity for outreach. it's just hard, i'm frustrated. i'm frustrated with other stuff too....arghhhh. oh so to take out my frustration tonight, i went shopping. i spent like 2 hours in H&M. there's jus tso much good stuff! i made 2 trips to the fitting room, lol. but in the end i got 3 skirts, 3 tanks, and 2 shirts. oh yeah, PICTURES! i totally forgot to post the link: http://community.webshots.com/user/gtkiwis i'll try to add more soon! like july 4th and long island, those are some good pics =) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
8:52 pm	yay long island!!! i worked all day saturday at bubba then took the long island railroad out of manhattan! it was so nice! i felt so old too, like traveling on the train by myself, it was neat! and there's real conductors, like with the cute little hats and everything, that come and punch your ticket. anyway so i arrived at the locust valley station around 8:30 on saturday. it is so beautiful there. like all green and cute. all the little stores and the little town feeling. so you know i was totally loving it! long island is great. i got to aimee's house and we went for a walk around her neighborhood and her old high school. i could see stars! plural! it was so amazing! haha. then Sunday i went to church with her and her family. she goes to a plymouth brethren church just like the one i go to back in augusta. so that was totally like being home again. i got to meet her grandparents, who are so cool! they were really fun to talk to, i love old people, i guess because i never knew either of my grandfathers, and only one of my grandmothers is left, but she lives in LA so i never really get to see her. anyway after church, everyone goes to wendy's, so that was fun. it reminded me of how we always go to taco bell or vallarta in augusta after church, haha. everyone laughed at me dipping my fries in my frosty, they're like "You georgia people are so weird!" but it's not a southern thing, it's just a weird corrie thing, haha. after lunch we went to crescent beach, which is on the long island sound. it was really nice, like really secluded and pretty. like there are trees and plants that go right up to the sand, i've never seen anything like it. and it's just nestled at the end of this road with some houses on it. there were lots of sailboats in the water and tons of people on the beach. we tried to lay out but we only made it for like, an hour and a half before we were totally baked. it was so hot, and no clouds. but still fun! i just love the beach so much! after the beach we ran through the sprinkers, which was great, i haven't done that since i was like 5. for dinner we went downtown and ate at this italian place called marra's, it was delicious! (mom you would have loved the calamari). i got gnocchi (because flo got it in little italy and it was so good) and it was delicious (yay flo). then we walked back to aimee's house after a little starbucks. i tried the new light frappucino but i didn't like it. oh well. then later that night aimee's best friend mary came over and hung out, she's really cool, she went to emmaus too. monday was rainy and gross, so we went to this place called claynation, and it was just like those paint your own pottery places that you see in like, a dating story on tlc, lol. it was fun, i painted a bowl with a kiwi on it, haha. later that night we went out for chinese with aimee's grandparents and great aunt and uncle, her aunt was so cool, she had just gotten back from a Bible conference in atlanta, so that of course made me homesick, lol. but the chinese was awesome! like some of the best i've ever had, almost better than chinatown. then we came back and made sweet tea! YAY! i have like a liter of it in mary's refrigerator downstairs. aimee's dad wanted to try some, but he doesn't really like sweet stuff, but then we poured him like a whole glass, i felt soooo bad. but he drank it all. aw yay aimee's dad! he's sooooo cool! so is the rest of aimee's family, her lil bro dylan is adorable and her mom is so funny. it made me really homesick though, because i was there surrounded by family and at a home for a couple days, and it just made me wish i was home with my family. aw. well then i had to come back today for class =( i fell asleep, oops. i'm so tired though! it's been a long weekend. oh hehe...i accidentaly overflowed the toilet at aimee's house! like you have to jiggle the handle or something to make it stop running after you use it, and i didn't. so it overflowed, like around midnight. so i ran to get aimee and she had no clue what to do, so she opened the hall closet and started throwing like hundreds of towels on teh floor. haha! it was so funny, i mean at first it was awful because i was so embarrassed but then it was just so funny, with my pj pants rolled up and a crazy amount of towels on the floor and me and aimee having no clue what to do. well fnally her mom woke up and was like mad at us, but it was just so funny she ended up laughing some too, and she was like "i don't know about you georgia people, but here we know how to use the toilet." oops! hehe. anyway...i dont' know if they'll invite me back or not...haha. oh well, it was still a fun weekend! aimee's the best, i'm going to miss her sooooo much when i go back to atl. we had lots of good talks about spiritual things and other stuff (like boys, yuck! haha) and she's just been such an encouragement to me! yay aimee! (Comment on this)