It's a bear!

It was Corporate Day at the Bronx Zoo. So I invited Katie and Maggie to join be there.
I thought I would slip into museum syndrom, where I get really tired, but It was really cool to see all the animals.

Winner!

Every morning when I get into work I sign up for the Virtual Ticketing for Shakespeare in the Park. It's a raffel system for couple seats for that nights performance. I've been doing this for about a month now, ever since Ali won them on HER FIRST TRY.
Well I'm proud to say I won.

It was a pretty good show, I grabbed a $5 dollar footlong before hand, gah. I hate eating at chain restaurants while in the city, I would rather eat something local. But it was cheap!
I was napping outside the theatre before the play waiting for katie to get there. It was really nice out, until a violinists decides I need to wake up and played right in front of me. I think he got the picture that I was trying to sleep when I rolled away from him.

1 CMP

image credit: http://weblogs.cltv.com/features/health/livinghealthy/2009/06/yogathon-2009-comes-to-chicago.html

Class in 1 CMP today. 60th floor =)

Went to lunch with Lexi, tuna on my salad.

Then took a nice nap after work. Ran to Brooklyn Bolders and did yoga. Wow that hurt.

Then met up with Jayme and Sarah at The Smith.

Lazy Sunday

Image credit: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2007/09/16-week/

Maggie invited me to another Lincoln Center Show called A Disappearing Number. I saw the play on their website while looking up the other show she invited me too and was intrigued.

The play intertwined two stories, Ramanujan, a famous mathematician, and a math professor and her husband.

The play started off with some good math, and then started a story line about the two main characters life. The play was painfully slow, where the lighting only kept my interest. An intermission would of been much appreciated.

image credit: http://blogs.nyu.edu/residential.education/residence.halls/university.hall/2008/10/one_thing_i_love_one_thing_i_h_23.html

After the show I went for a run with Willi in Central Park.

As a recovery meal I went to Shake Shack with Jamie and Sarah. First time having the shroom burger and it was great!

Ratatat

Willi and I decided to venture to MOMA P.S. 1 to try to catch one of the Warm Up concerts. Rajib told me about how Ratatat was playing this evening. We went to Queens and realized that it was going to cost $15 with our student ID's. We decided to just walk back over the Queensboro bridge (image above).

I then went over to Javed's roof with Rajib and Kavitha. What a nice night.

The View is Wonderful Up Here

Image Credit: www.nycvp.com/InfoCenter/Hotel/marriott.htm

I met up with Jayme and her family visiting from Houston at the The View in the Time Square Marriott. I knew about the hotel because on my recruiting trip we took the glass elevators to the 45th floor. But I did not know about the restaurant.

Its a 360 degree floor circling the hotel. The whole platter rotates around the building. So by the time you're done with your meal you have been the whole way around.

The waiter we had was great giving us free cover and bottled water. When we were spinning by the desert bar, Jayme's sister couldn't resist and grabbed a plate and started dipping strawberries and marshmallows in the chocolate fountain. We tried to hide the plate under the table, but our waiter caught us. But played it off the best way and told us we could have some desert.

After the View closed at 1, we went to Dorrians in the Upper East Side. Where Sarah's boyfriend got us in the back door. There was a old Yankees baseball player having a few drinks there. The music was old school with some country.

Restraunt week

Photo: Hannah Whitaker/New York Magazine

It's Restaurant week in the Big Apple, me and my cowoker Alexis decided to take our lunch and go to La Fonda Del Sol. It serves spanish style food and is located in the MetLife building. Very nice place, the food was good and it was nice to take an hour lunch for once.



Maggie got Katie and me box tickets to "Fondly Do We hope..." choreographed by Bill T. Jones, who also choreographed Fela!
It was in the Rose, which is the 6th floor of the Time Warner building in Columbus circle.
It started out with a loud noise, like an airplane flying by and then it's completely dark. I guess thats one way to get the audience to be quiet. The whole dance is a remembrance of past debates and how the way we live doesn't change, we still argue over things, we still kill each other, we still love and die. They had this screen curtain around the center stage where projections of shadows and words were shown to enhance the experience. I loved the 5 man orchestra, they did a fantastic job leveraging all the instruments and voices.




Photograph by Jen Chung/Gothamist
We then picnicked on Lincoln Center's new Illumination Lawn. Some more bread/ turkey / hummus. mmm

Monday night

image credit: http://misslissa.wordpress.com/2009/07/
Yesterday after work I met up with Katie and Maggie.

I took a nap in Washington square park while waiting for them, but was woken up by this irate women with her child throwing sticks at squirrels that were trying to get to her child. She started yelling at this other guy who was feeding the squirrels, "That's why they're so aggressive!"
I looked at the tree to my right and there were about fifteen squirrels going down the trunk waiting for some food.

Once Maggie and Katie got there we ate a smorgasboard of bread, cheese, dumplings and some grain salad.
It was nice out so we decided to get some wine and walk across the brooklyn bridge and drink a couple of glasses at brooklyn bridge park pier 1.
We went to trader joes wine shop and got some cheap red. We then ran across the street to the chipotle condiment cups, they make great temporary wine glasses.

The trip over the bridge was nice, a little crowded. I prefrer the manhattan bridge because I like to run over the bridges. But I saw the park of the gym that Brooklyn Boulders is modelled after.

I discovered pier one while going to a Annie Hall showing there last week with Alison. Its such a great view of downtown from across the east river.

World cup finals

Photograph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahadeva/795444858/


Decided to start composting my kitchen scraps. Started collecting all my food scraps from last weeks 4th party where we had a bunch of corn husks.

During the heat wave they started smelling awful so I threw them in the freezer.

I usually make tea in the morning so the tea leaves get thrown in my compost bag (just a grocery bag) in the freezer. I managed to fill up a full bag besides the corn husks.

Theres a bunch of community gardens near my summer sublet in East Village. I want to have a picnic in one of them soon. But I looked it up and the one on 7th st between B&C takes food scraps every sunday. One of the few places that does this. I think the community garden at columbia also composts. I'll have to start during next semester.

Went for my run through Central Park. First run of the summer in the Park, probably because I run there often during the school year.

Went to a restaurant bar on ludlow and stanton with Alison and her friend to watch the World cup. Pretty tired from the run, but got some good coffee and a burger which they used an egg muffin as the bun.

Then ended the night by starting my laundry and then running to 14th street traffic to get a shot of manhattanhenge. Got honked at by the M14 bus while standing in the middle of the road.

I got a good picture, if only I had my camera cable.

Pieces

Before I started blogging

May 26 - Cape code
May 31 - Battery Park
June 1st - Move in
June 5 - Jersey Beach
June 20 - Sunday Sermon Concert @ Riverside
June 27 - Ballet
June 28 - Picnic @ Prospect Park with Passion Pit
July 3rd - Guggenheim Haunted Exhibit
July 10 - The Met