Holy S*#%$@!!!!!!!!! I am moving to NYC!!!!!!

I am still waiting for the official confirmation, but I post this because I need your help!!!!

Does ANYONE know anyone in the NYC area who is looking for a roommate for 9/1?

Or...

Does anyone know anyone in NYC who might know someone who is looking for a roommate for 9/1?

My plan is to move 9/16, but I realize that most leases don't start on that date.

I am very excited but will remain super stressed until I have an apartment.

The Week In Review

It has been a while since I’ve written because things have been a bit on the bizarre side. I feel like I might be on the verge of a major life transition, and therefore should not be devoting massive amounts of time to the writing and recording of music. This is not to say that I am not working on a bunch of things. It’s just that they’re never going to be presentable to the world because I don’t have enough time to focus on them. If things go according to my master plan, I will be completely alone within two months time and will therefore have time to write and record all sorts of songs. Until then, dear readers, I shall provide brief updates in journal form. As if you care.

Some things that happened this past week:

1. Certain Someone broke up with ME. Yes, folks, he blamed ME for our inability to form a connection. I realize that this is all for the best, because liking him is not enough when I wasn’t sure I liked us. I agreed with most of what he said, but its still absurd. He wished he could date someone like me. He never did anything to deserve me. I am disappointed, because I’d have liked it to work out even though I knew it was most likely doomed. I am also disappointed that I was so taken aback that I failed to rage and to articulate the fact that it is HE who is frigid, challenging, self-absorbed, and impossible to connect with. HE is the one who has never been in love at age 31 and whose parents keep asking him what is wrong with him. Not me. I’m EASY. Tell me you like my shirt or offer me a glass of water at your apartment and I’m yours forever. There was a decent amount of crying (not in front of Certain Someone, though, since his android program on what tears are is probably defunct) and a slight alteration in eating habits. Oh well. I guess my main regret is that I've lost a friend, and it was good to hang out as friends. And I'd still like to know him, although my suspicion is that I will not. The timing of this sucked as I had to go to NYC the following afternoon for an interview with a Large-ish Biotech Company in Greenwich Village.

2. I had an interview at a Large-ish Biotech Company in NYC! It was awesome. I am not going to say anything beyond this as I refuse to be optimistic again. It was lovely because they paid for me to stay in a hotel and I felt very business-person-like. I also slept like a baby because there was air conditioning. They took me out to lunch. It’s in the Village. It’s, dare I say it, a good job!

3. There was no air conditioning at my company last week. No amount of Hulk popsicles can make me feel better about the fact that they expect us to work in a 90 degree building while wearing a lab coat and gloves!

4. My company had its summer outing, which was for people with families and sporty types. I was originally boycotting it as I am neither a family nor sporty type, but I started getting nostalgic after returning from New York and thought to myself “I should spend time with these people because who knows for long I will know them!” As Val, I received a lovely beach chair with the company name on it (how cool will I be next year on the beach?) and soon realized that boycotting would have been the right thing to do. There was, however, a fabulous jump-in-the-balloon-castle-thing for children, which the adults took over for a bit of time. Jumping in that thing was the most fun I’ve had in a really long time – instantaneously I was 5 years old and felt like all of my coworkers were my best friends. I also received a temporary tattoo that I have fallen in love with. It is an elk (hideous) and it’s above my waist on the right and I am attached. I am thinking that I might get a real one, but what would it be? And as far as I know, no porno starring yours truly was being filmed at the outing this year.

5. Saw “Open Water.” A poorly made movie that assured me that I too can make a movie! Bad acting, bad cinematography, fairly lame dialogue. In spite of all this, it was awesome. It was awesome because I could barely breathe while watching it. Throughout the entire film you’re thinking “What would I do?” “This is the worst thing ever.” “This is so much worse than being stranded in the desert.” “Are the sharks worse than being alone in the ocean and being unable to go anywhere?” “This is utterly terrible.” “Those poor people.” We went for drinks afterwards because we needed to decompress. After we dealt with the movie I soliloquized in fabulous self-pity style about the world’s injustices. Darn sour apple martini made me crazy. That night I dreamt that I was in a ping pong tournament. Weird.

6. Yesterday my sister and I went to visit with my parents in Medway. We went to an open house in Franklin with them to see a really overpriced house that I can only ever dream of owning that my parents think is too small. They will never move. My sister wanted to go to IKEA to buy a platform bed for her new apartment, so we went on a road trip to the newly opened IKEA store in New Haven, CT. It was a zoo. Apparently they are getting traffic of over 20,000 people per day. We bought nothing. It was overwhelming and I feel like I might be a bit too old for IKEA, which is heartbreaking because how can I be too old for IKEA?!?!? I did find a very cool ceiling lamp, but it stressed me out because I don’t know how to hang things from the ceiling.

7. Took the commuter rail to work this morning (I can’t believe people do this every day) and the conductor (well, not the conductor but the guy who collects your money and I’m not sure if he’s called the conductor or something else) looked just like Eminem.