Which will be great! Like last weekend! (I'll talk about the future before the past.) For one thing, the annual Bloomberg Summer Picnic (/Party) is Saturday! This is an employee vacation day, where Bloomberg rents out a part of Randall's Island and invites all their employees, even from non-NYC offices, to come and have a fun day! Families and children and guests are welcome, but unfortunately not for interns :(. We go solo. In fact, interns are encouraged to go, because we'll be performing a special (mandatory) surprise for all the regular employees there... Lol. It's somewhat "hazing ritual," but even more obviously it's older adult intern program coordinators thinking how cute it is for the younger rookies to do something cute for everyone. Meh. Proud to say I'm one of the more skilled performers among the throngs of compuer programming interns haha. Can't say what it is, in case I spoil the surprise! ...
Anyway, the party is bound to be great. An all-day affair! It features sponsorship by a lot of NYC organizations that Bloomberg itself donates to, i.e. museums like MoMA and dance groups like Alvin Ailey and the Bronx zoo, so we will be able to participate in a slew of cultural events. And I hear... they also have... ZORB BALLS I AM SO RIDING ONE. And to make matters even better, there's alcohol. Maybe even free, knowing Bloomberg. So on the amazing list of things to do is:
- (drunken) zorbing
- archery?!
- wall climbing
- lounge river-side
- learn to dance? tango/capoiera?
- see the choir/orchestra perform @ 4p, maybe the beatboxers @ 6p
- paintball???
- visit the museum booths, partake in activities
- RIDE SEGWAYS
- bocce, bumpercars, human foosball?!
- KARAOKE
- lounge in hammocks <3
- dance dance dance
- Eat wonderful foods
Yeah that's a good list! It's gonna be great. Also, all this week is NYC Pride, culminating this weekend! I plan to go to the parade on Sunday and maybe a bar or two... I'm sure it'll be jumping!
Finally Saturday night after the Party, I'm meeting with Michelle (finally now that she's done her horrid MCAT!) and we're going to see a comedy show downtown woo! No idea what it'll be like...
So, so far I haven't kept up well with my plan below to see a Broadway show every week. Turns out I'm pretty busy with other NYC events... But Tuesday I see Mary Poppins! And I really want to see The 39 Steps with Janey, and The Lion King, and I'll be seeing Mamma Mia!, and really just so many others... Turns out I have so much I want to do! Haha, predictable me. Here's a kind of updated, appended list of things to do:
- Write about the amazing Imogen Heap experience I.. experienced.
- Go to an amusement park w/ JHU peeps
- Meet up with the old Prep folk
HIT THE BEACH- Done! Now let's do it again!
See Pete perform in the city with his band!His gig was cancelled :(Climb the Statue of Liberty- Go to the Bronx Zoo
- Go to Pride 2010 - soon!
- Go on runs through Central Park - maybe in an impromptu marathon?
- If not, bike! With Becky!
- Row a boat on the pond in Central Park!
- Go sailing on the Hudson??? (or kayaking, as I hear they offer it for free!)
- Maybe picnic there too...
- Buy something awesome and expensive with my new paycheck
- Visit Chinatown (a lot!)
- Eat in Little Italy
- See a show - every week! (already behind on this one, haha)
- Host guests - every week? haha
Visit Coney Island- Go to the Hamptons?
- Visit the UN
- Go to museums! MoMA, Gugenheim, the Met, Nat. History,
MAD, all of Museum Mile, Japan Society, ...Sex Museum? - I get in for free with my Bloomberg badge, so let's go everywhere!
- Visit with my NYC friends, and have other friends visit me!
- Find love, or something
- Attend the Summer Stage / Shakespeare plays in Central Park
- See an indie film, perhaps, in Brooklyn? Or at Herald Square
Woosh. I need a better schedule. Only like, 7 weeks left pretty soon? Oh boy.
Last thing for the future is, I'm going back to JHU for the 4th of July! Hope to see the friends who are staying in Baltimore while I'm there, and get some work done for the Vocal Chords and to prepare for the fall with APO.
Ohhhhh geez I am writing too muchhhh. Okay what has happened. Yesterday Rebecca and I went unexpectedly to see "The Karate Kid" "remake." Not only did it feature not karate but kung fu, but it was also very different from the original... not exactly what I expected, but still entertaining! Not often you see African(-American) and Asian cultures collide... or Jackie Chan cry for that matter. The finishing move was bad ass though. I have resolved that I retroactively want to have spent some of my younger years in China. The end.
Tonight I went to the Museum of Arts and Design with a colleague, Wolfgang. It was really interesting, their "dead or alive" exhibit was particularly evocative! A lot of beauitful art created out of dead animals and plants in a not-so-morbid way.... Like a beautiful 3D flower portrait made out of the bones of various animals (you can't even tell at first glance), 60 shaped human skulls each made up of different types of herbs, and a Chinese scroll print recreated as a shadow of plant fronds etc. on a backdrop... All very cool stuff. I recommend you go!
Random news:
- I CAN'T get this amazing a cappella out of my head. Listen! BYU Vocal Point sings "Nearer My God To Thee"
- iPhone has a new OS! Woo. Now I can listen to a cappella on Pandora while doing other things, sweet.
OKAY BED.
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