The One Where Melissa Walks A Lot

This past weekend I hung out with a lot of friends who I haven't been able to see in a while because we're all so gosh darn busy.

Friday night I got dinner with Elle at a Thai fusion place near Washington Square Park called Galanga. Weird name, good food. We unfortunately sat near the world's LOUDEST four women, they kept talking extremely loudly and would periodically burst out cackling. It definitely made for a fun dinner, we had to keep pausing what we were saying until the four women next to us quieted down for a brief second. After dinner, we went to Sundaes and Cones and walked around the city. Apparently they've started showing movies in WSP on Saturday evenings, because we walked through and saw a huge screen put up in front of the arch. They were showing some foreign French film. I definitely want to look into what they're showing this Saturday, might be a fun thing to go to.

Saturday I stayed in and did chores, not very exciting.

Yesterday I went into the city to have brunch with my a cappella friend Jerry and his friend Lauren from high school. We went to The Penny Farthing (FAVORITE BRUNCH PLACE YUM) and then went to the Strand to book browse before meandering over to WSP to people-watch. Lauren got a text from her boss saying she needed to go to their company's booth in Tompkins Sq Park and clean off some chalk graffiti, so we walked over with her and helped her out. She works at some organization (I think it's called the Poet's Society of NY or something like that), and for the summer they've set up a wooden booth/shack thing with a typewriter inside, and during certain hours people can come in and write whatever they want on the typewriter. It's hooked up to an iPad which somehow logs every keystroke from the typewriter and puts it up on a website they've set up, so it's kind of like a live stream of the New York conscious. It launches tonight, actually, at 6 pm, but already someone tagged it with chalk. It's New York, what do you expect? Then after we cleaned off the booth, we went back to WSP and did some more people watching and book reading before heading back to our respective apartments.

I'd just like to say that walking from WSP to Tompkins Sq Park and back, and around the surrounding areas, is no small feat. I definitely got my exercise in for the day!

No New News

Sorry to report that there's no new news this week. Finished the third week of my internship, going into my fourth week. Living in Brooklyn is going well, joined a gym so I'm going to try to start doing that. Life is fine, just trying to get into a rhythm and figure things out.

Summer Craze & General Life Nonsense

Life has been crazy with both internships and trying to balance them without going insane. 

I'm now halfway through my third week of both internships, and settling into the swing of things. I've gotten into a bit of a rhythm with everything, and I feel less like a fish out of water.

I'm really enjoying working at Reservoir, I like the work I'm doing and the people I'm working with. The office has filled up the last couple of days with other interns for the summer, so I'm slowly meeting everyone else and figuring out names. Looks like there's six interns total, four guys and one other girl besides me. Also, my boss Cat told me that she's hoping to hire someone in the coming weeks to work under her (kind of a step between her position and mine), so that'll be fun to adjust to. She said I'd have the upper hand because I'll have been here longer, so even though this new person will be my superior in title, I'll be like their superior in experience at the company. 

Every Friday I'm tasked with completing something called Analytics, which is just a fancy term for data entry on the social media we're putting out and how it's being perceived. Pretty much what this means is going to various websites and figuring out what people looked at, how long they looked at it, how many people were engaged, etc. Ian (the guy who had this internship before me) said he hated doing Analytics because it was tedious, but I actually really enjoy it. I've had to do it twice already, and even doing it the second time I somewhat felt like I knew what I was doing. I wasn't totally familiar to the point where I didn't have to look up in my Intern Packet what to do, but most of the steps felt familiar. Plus, I really enjoy the whole data entry type of thing, I'm not really sure why. But I look forward to doing Analytics each Friday.

General life nonsense! 

I still have yet to do laundry, which really needs to happen soon. The laundromat around the corner from me closes at 7 or 7:30 every day, and most days I don't get home til close to 6. It takes about an hour and a half to do one, maybe two loads, so you do the math. They're also closed on Sundays. There's another laundromat not too far from me, it's by the subway station so maybe three or four blocks away. I could walk there, because I know they're open later and longer (sometimes they're still open when I come home from my second internship at 8 or 9). I just don't want to walk all that way with my laundry bag, I'd feel kind of silly. I'll figure it out though, I'm running low on clean undergarments.

The weather has been absolutely gross. It was nice and hot for a while, and then the last couple of days have been stormy and gloomy and icky. I thought it was June? 

Also, I got my first ever hair cut in New York the other day, which was totally as exciting as it sounds (sarcasm). I just got a trim and bangs, nothing special. I went to a Super Cuts, and the only reason I knew it was there was because I remember going first semester with Elle to get her hair cut. PLUS they gave me a student rate, which was awesome. 

So that's it for now! Updates on life to come.