Finals are over! I found some fun stuff instead of looking for work. This is one of them: Yes, I can work legally in the summer, and beyond!!! Got those papers sorted out. Sigh…the dilemma of fobs. Do I pursue Science, Technology, Engineering or Math categories so I can fit in the new STEM program… [Read more…]
April 29, 2008
My results for a quiz called “What American accent do you have?” (by the way, shouldn’t that be “which”?) was “the Northwest.” “Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people… [Read more…]
April 28, 2008
I had no idea buying a computer keyboard in New York would be so depressing. I needed one for my laptop, and was going to get it online, except I wanted to try out the real things before ordering. Circuit City, Union Square — stuffy, airless. When I asked the salesperson where the adapters from… [Read more…]
April 28, 2008
Eff Why Eye, I’m in a newly opened cafe today, the first sign of my area’s gentrification. Actually, what is there to gentrify here? It’s never been a hood…if you don’t count the historical Irish element of the neighborhood. Duane Reed, Rite Aid, Subway and Dunkin’-Robbins have been here forever. This is more like STARBUCKIZATION,… [Read more…]
April 26, 2008
I like graffiti. To be more highbrow about it, I like the artistic value of it. I even bought a trucker hat on which a former graffiti artist spray-painted “Queens”. He says he’s not tagging anymore, and trying to get recognition of his work as art. Along my route on the 7 train there’s a… [Read more…]
April 26, 2008
(Previously titled “Made in China Deja Vu”) This afternoon I was at H&M on 34th Street — why do I do these things to myself? — and had a moment of deja vu, except it really happened before, and it happened in the same place. A woman was holding the sleeve of a t-shirt and… [Read more…]
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