I have gone all pink! Well, I thought I would try it out.. thoughts??
Anyway, news.
I took a few days off last week to gad about the city and do a few things I had yet to complete.
Thursday I shopped on 5th Ave, walked about, photographed and attended the absoulte final seminar, this time on jazz. It was suprisingly good for a MB seminar. Held in an old(er) building in the west village it was less formal than the microsoft building we have most of the classes in. The guy, named Bob, was as simple fellow. Armed with a Ipod and a record player he told us about the history of jazz in new york, Duke Ellignton and Louis Armstrong featured. We learnt the joys of a 12 bar rhythm and then I went for pizza with Justine, Nerys & Angela.
Friday was all about culture. I went to St Patricks Cathedral and watched the americans photgraph all the copied architecture from the cathedrals in Europe. There is always a service in progress here, so you can just stand at the back and watch. I video'd this of course in true tourist style!
Then I headed to the Museum of Tv & Radio. A marvellous place. As you walk in you are instructed this museum does not have any artifacts or exhibits and you will will spend most of the time by yourself in a room with headphones. This is the ideal place should you have a day off whilst everyone else is at work and you have nothing to do! I selected 2 films on the Duke Ellington (suprisingly) from the great reams of film, advertising and radio they have on file and was issued with a room, tv set and headphones. Here you can sit all day watching almost anything you can find!
I also watched a documentary on women in the work place and about an hour of family guy on repeat- there is an entire room devoted to family guy.
I left the museum arounf 7pm jsut in time for Banico to call and make plans for the evening. I emt Ban & Nick in Bar 13 at Union Square for drinks and from then we met up with Nic's Irish cousin & Flat mate in town for one night only, followed closely by a very drunk Justine & Jen- who were parading around warnings they had received for jumping the turnstiles at the subway station in their haste to reach the bar! No comment.
I photgraphed the drunken fools and then sent them to the bar from which they never did return. The nigt went on and the rain came down. Unfortunately I didnt dress for the weathe rhaving been out all day, Thus around 5am on friday you would have seen, nic, banico and I running down broadway to the only subway stations still open, soaked through and slightly merry, Fun times.....
Saturday I slept. I interneted a bit and generally didnt do a lot. Oh Suba's friend arrived from England.
Sunday I met up with Nerys and we headed off the Cloisters. A collection of medieval art and arctitecture collected from around europe and gatehred in upper Manhatten for the NY's benefit. The artifacts ranged from tapestries, crockery, furniture to herb garden and several foutains. All very pretty, if a little disjointed as none of these things would ever have been together before now..
Set in a nice 10 acre park the trip did make a nice cahnge from the city.
On our way out we found a baby squirrel on the ground no bigger than a mouse, its eyes not even open yet. We concluded it must have falled out of a tree and at that very moment a woman came by and announced her husband ran a squirrel hospital uptown and began to call him. She then promtly went over what she should do with said squirrel with him and then popped baby squirrel into her bag and walked off! She assured us squirrel (whom we later named alfi) would be released into the wild once he was bigger enough to survive.
Afterward, we headed back to the West Village for frozen yogurt and were just settling down in a street park when a man with a piano and another with a drum kit strolled up and began playing rigth in front of us. It was a good show,mostly jazz and blues very entertaining.
As Nerys and I were heading back to the station we came across said legendary bar 'fat cats' and thought we should really pay it a visit. During the day it seems to be an underground gaming warehouse. We played pool beside a sleeping dog and then chess for about 3 hours. Yes I know this was an odd sunday.
Following our games we needed food again so grabbed a pizza slice at 'johns'- its on bleeker street its amazing.
Monday was labor day. I dont know exactly what this day is for but I didnt have to go into work and thus we celebrate it :) However, I mainly cleaned etc today. Ah well.
Tuesday I went back to my old friend the gym.
Wendesday is today and tonight is the leaving dinner at Battery Gardens. There are promises of free bars and various prizes, a Rap by none other than Billet himself and of course a year book. Tomorrow does not look to be a pleasant morning!
Pics coming soon xx
