First Date Conversation Material

I had to convince myself that my life was truly interesting enough to continue with this blog. Actually, my sisters had to...

"You saw a Broadway show!" (which actually was really cool)

"You ate meat on a stick off the street!"

"That's good blog material!"

So the past couple of weeks in The City have been so, so much fun. I'm really beginning to fall in love with this place. I never thought I would considering my first two and only trips here: being trampled by the Hare Krishna parade and being snowed on while wearing a skirt during my interview. Let's just say I was a little less than stoked to live here for 10 weeks.

BUT SILLY BRITTERS. This place is unbelievable.

My Hood:

I live on the LES (that's texting jargon for the Lower East Side) on Ludlow St, just 2 blocks south of Houston. My roommates and I have appropriately coined our neighborhood "LoveLow" because we are just enamored by the area. Soho (South of Houston) is much more low key than Midtown and a little less posh than Uptown. We live just a few blocks up from Chinatown, which makes for funny smells and undecipherable signage (I could really use my good friend Stephanie Nappi, chinese-speaking extraordinare, up here).

Our area is full of young people, some of New York's most popular bars, quiant restaurants, cool, trendy people (although, everyone up here seems to be cool and trendy), and let's not forget, bargains. NY is split up into districts with names, e.g. The Fashion District, The Meatpacking District, The Bargain District. We're really close to Canal St and all of the faking it that goes on down there. I'm not complaining though. I bought a romper on Canal St. last week. Anyone who wishes to ridicule my fashion-forwardness can go ahead and Google up-and-coming trends of 2010....Rompers, jellies and fringe. That's what's up.

My Suite-ies:

My roommates are friends from home, Jamie Blacker and Wynn Smith. I've known these two since high school, so it's kind of funny we've ended up living together in New York. They share a bedroom and I have my own room. We're connected by a bathroom, Jack-and-Jill style. Our building belongs to the School of Visual Arts and we live really, really high up. (For the sake of my mom not calling me as soon as I post this saying "Brittany! You can NOT have what floor you live on in your blog!"), I live somewhere above the 10th floor, which makes for a beautiful view of all three downtown bridges. The Williamsburg Bridge and all the cars on it is what I fall asleep to every night. You wouldn't beleive the perpetual traffic coming into Manhattan on that bridge. I'm always saying to myself, "where are those people going at 2 am?" And then I remember how cool the LES is.

So Bleecker/Bleeks (my nickname for Blacker. Bleecker is a really pretty street near us) and Wynn and I have so much fun together, sometimes out of want, but mostly out of need. You see, we don't have a TV...or a couch....or carpeting for that matter...So we really have learned to rely on eachother, wine and skype for fun at night. It's actually much better than TV, although I wish I could be keeping up with Jon and Kate's drama. We all get along really well and love exploring The City together. I don't know about them, but I've come up with a list of things to do before I leave. If I don't keep a list I'll probably just spend every weekend shopping and going out.

MY NYC TO DO SO FAR:
-See a Broadway show (check)
-Go to a museum

-Go to a Yankees Game (I have a hat!)

-Throw a frisbee in Central Park
-See another Broadway show

-Eat Thai food

-Talk to a celebrity
-See a third Broadway show

-Go on a Circle Line ferry tour

-Go to the Today Show
-Visit different boroughs, and not just micro-boroughs in Manhattan.