ordinary people

museum of modern art

helloo

well, it's been a real eventful week again. but i guess we're becoming like the rest of the world...relatively boring workweeks and exciting weekends.

work has been getting both a little more boring & a little more frustrating...i've developed my first "sour relationship" with a girl in her late 20s who believes is ALSO my supervisor. although i always do the work she demands that i do, she is very rude about it & doesn't seem to understand that i have to complete the tasks my supervisor gives me. last monday, she gave me an all-day assignment, and got visibly angry when i didn't finish it by 6:30...i had to stay until 8:00, and she has since been nothing short of nasty towards me. the thing about this is, i am working 34 UNPAID hours for Sony every week...it wouldn't be ok for her to treat me the way she does even if i were her intern. which i'm not.

anyway, i'm getting through it & by continuing to do the work she asks me to do (although i'm definitely not making an effort to be nice to her), i hope there won't be any harm done. as for the boring part, sometimes i don't have any work to do, & at times i feel a bit worthless just sitting at my desk, trying to get excited by small things (like lunch or a coffee break). we'll have to see how it develops, but one of my lessons from this experience might be that a desk job isn't where i should be heading...

this weekend our friends from Northeastern University came down to spend some time with us. NU & NY friends combined, there were 11 of us in the apartment at different times. we did a lot of stuff and ate out for every meal (which my roommate & i avoid at all costs when we don't have guests).

a few of us at a new find...a diner on 2nd avenue...one block north of our apartment

One of the highlights was visiting the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown...here are some pictures of what we saw.

holographic lightbulb

starry night by vincent van gogh

the small one is not art.

we also saw In the Heights on Friday evening...we got standing room in the back for $21.50 a ticket...it wasn't a bad deal at all, although me & my IT Band Syndrome didn't appreciate the standing part too much. i enjoyed the show, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2008. however, i didn't like it as much as liked the other two i've seen in nyc so far (hair, jersey boys).

on sunday, we went down to the village for the first time...it's an interesting place, & the atmosphere is distinctly different from the upper east side (where we live). my friend bryan attends grad school at nyu, so he was able to show all of us around. check another area off my list...

washington square park

while millersville & severna park, maryland accumulated almost 4 feet of snow over the past couple weeks, the big apple got a measly 10 inches last wednesday (enought to get me out of work at 12:30). i was shocked to find that most of the snow had somehow or another disappeared by the next morning...and the temperatures had not yet climbed above freezing. oh well...it's not like there's any grass for it to rest on anyway.

on another note, i'm starting to really into touch with the nostalgia i've been feeling since september...it's not something i would usually think to write about, but i thought it might help to understand & process by writing it out. over the fall i was really missing my siblings, specifically when i was much younger and was truly playing the role of "little brother." there is something very secure in not knowing too much about the world...not having real responsibility (and being treated like it). it goes with the territory, but i feel like i'm moving into it slower than you'd expect. i also miss the friendships i had in high school...even middle school. it's funny to me, because i have become a better person with every year that i have grown. i was unhappy much more often, and didn't have a whole lot show for myself, but there are some things that i miss...i don't like the thought that certain periods of my life are over, and won't ever come back. my latest hypothesis is that i don't spend enough time relishing the fact that i'm in college and still don't really have the responsibilities and pressure i like to put on myself.

that's all for now...maybe i will continue to share my thoughts on that