I’ve been in Connecticut for 8 days and I’m still unemployed.
…what else is new?
Aside from applying for jobs and going to a couple of interviews in NYC, it’s been kinda difficult to fill my time. Most of my time has been spent:
- watching movies
- watching the ABC Family channel (shoot me now)
- playing Brain Age 2
- reading Guns, Germs and Steel
- organizing and reorganizing my temporary room
- reading all the entries in my google reader
- talking to friends on gchat
- “window shopping” on amazon.com
Luckily for my sanity, I had a the chance to break from that routine and join some friends in NYC for an All-American 4th of July celebration.
After couch shopping for a hot minute, Adam, Ryan and I went to a very American restaurant (Wildwood BBQ) for a very American dinner. One whole chicken, pulled pork, sausage, 2 pitchers of beer, mac and cheese, corn on the cob, and $150 later, we were mostly full and satisfied… although, I don’t think I’ll ever eat there again. Anyways, after dinner we met up with a friend of Ryan’s and made our way to a very casual party-shindig to view the fireworks. Fortunately, we had a pretty clear view of the sky:
Unfortunately, as soon as the first fireworks went off, the combination of smoke, clouds and rain put a damper on the rest of the show. Lame. It didn’t matter anyway because everyone was beginning to really enjoy (I didn’t) the extreme liqour supply at the party-shindig.
Saturday with Adam and Ryan began with a delicious breakfast and a bake fest gone wrong - a little worse than the one Adam and I had in May. On the whole, our banana bread and blueberry “cornbread” turned out okay, kinda… Eventually we ventured away from the apartment to attend the free NY Philharmonic concert on Governor’s Island. Of course, the event was canceled as soon as we got to the ferry. It had been raining all day.
We didn’t have the best of luck this past weekend.
To pass the time, we went to Governor’s Island anyway and took a look around:
A little history lesson…
I have no idea.
I really like taking pictures of flowers.
One of the waterfalls around NYC.
Extreme T&A… and another statue I can’t explain.
To top off our not-so-fortunate day, we had dinner at Pizzeria Uno - the last mishap of the day. Service was terrible and our pizza was bad. Go figure.
Eventually, my NYC vacation and all-American weekend came to an end. Despite all of the unfortunate events of July 4th and 5th, I still enjoyed hanging out with the guys. Now it’s back to the Connecticut grind until I make my way to Atlanta next week.
