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!