In the last 20 days I've...

-Gone home to Iowa for a week over Spring Break (very fun, very relaxing)

-Written some papers for school

-Read approximately 100,000 pages for my classes

-Got a sunburn when I went outside to read here:

(I'm not complaining...it was a beautiful day out. I sat on the bench on the right side of the picture and read. I didn't anticipate not understanding the article and reading it 4 times, so after 4 hours I came home confused and sunburned.)

That's it. Someday I'll have time to go check out this great city I'm living in...hopefully it will be sometime soon...I'll make sure to take some pictures.

Happy (Hoboken) St. Patty's Day!

Hoboken gets a head start on the St. Patrick's Day festivities...celebrating 11 days early. It seemed like the population of this city doubled on Saturday when I was at the Hoboken St. Patty's Day parade, which basically consisted of a lot of bands, bagpipes, firetrucks and Hobokeni dignitaries. This parade had several grand marshalls, the Irish policeman of the year, the Irish fireman of the year, the Irish woman of the year and, you guessed it...the Irish man of the year.

Although the major highlight was the corned beef and cabbage sandwich I had after the parade, there were other good parts:

The parade committee! This was a rather large

committee...I'm pretty sure each float had a

separate committee member in charge of it.

You can't see this very well, but it is a

fireman smoking a cigar on top of a firetruck.

For some reason I found this hilarious.

The random hecklers hanging out of their

apartment window. Hoboken had some harsh

punishments for public drunkenness ($2000 fine and a

night in jail), which was in response to last years shenanigans,

so people kept the party indoors this year...although there

were plenty of crazies out last night on my way home.

The kid with the green hair

I have learned that every police department in the area, including

the New York/New Jersey Port Authority police, have their

own bagpipe brigade. Interesting.

On Broadwayyyy!

This past weekend was not very eventful for me. Here's what I did:

Read, read, read, read, met with a group about a project, read,

went to Starbucks, and then did more reading.

It was a lot of fun.

However, in all my excitement about the dog show on President's Day weekend, I forgot to write about the other things I did!

On Friday, I met up with my friend and former co-worker Robyn, and her brother and we went to:

It was a lot of fun! Our seats were in the 6th row, which meant we got to see Michelle Williams (formerly of Destiny's Child...not Dawson's Creek) up close. She started in the show only four days before we went, but I thought she did a good job.

After the show we went to a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen called E. I decided I had to order something I couldn't make at home...but that only excluded one thing from the menu, so I went with my favorite, scallops. It was fantastico. I also had the best martini at E. I don't remember what it had in it, but it had something to do with mango. Soon after I had that martini, I found out they were $15 each, so I went ahead and capped it at one.

A Day At The Dog Show!

Today, my roommate Erin and I went to the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. Here's our day in pictures:

First, I woke up in the middle of the night.

Then, we were nearly stampeded while trying

to pick up our tickets at will-call

Next: Coffee, pronto.

7:40am: Now we're ready to party

Just like on TV!

First show of the day: Rhodesian Ridgebacks

The "Benching Area" where this particular

dog was having his hair straightened.

A little spritz of "Le Pooch" for good luck

and he was ready to go!

There you have it. A day at the Westminster Dog Show.

(not shown: me taking a two hour nap when I got home)

Czech it out!

I've been accepted into a 3 week study abroad program to Prague!

Interestingly enough, this program counts toward my degree, however, it is all about art. I chose to do my project in photography...now all I have to do is really learn how to use my camera so I don't look like such a dope when I'm working with the Czech photographers. The program is in June, so I have a little time. I'm sure I'll be the only "artist" there who learned everything she knows from "Photography for Dummies."

Snow Day!

According to the news, the storm of the year is coming through. 10 whole inches of snow! Everything is closed...1.1 million public school kids didn't have to go to school today for the 3rd time in 8 years, NYU was closed and possibly worst of all, I walked my two blocks to Starbucks, and THEY WE'RE CLOSED. Noooooooooooooooooo!!

Here's a picture of our winter wonderland:

Holy Canoli!

According to Jim, the Channel 4 weather man, today

was the coldest day of the year. What did I do? I went

and stood in line for exactly one hour in front of Carlo's

Bake Shop to see if I could catch a glimpse of Buddy

a.k.a The Cake Boss. This is probably the only bakery

that has a bouncer at the door. Unfortunately, Buddy

was "busy making cakes," but all was not lost. First,

they gave us hot chocolate while we waited in line.

Second, I got some goodies. Canolis and eclairs. YUM!

I was going to go to Starbucks and read for school, but

waiting in line in the freezing cold drained my computer battery.

So I went home. Big day.

Here's my day in photos:

The line was REALLY long...

Someone said Buddy stuck his head

out of the upstairs window. I didn't see this.

I don't believe them. Buddy would not stick his

head out into air that cold.

Success!

So Good. There were so many people in there

and when I got to the counter I panicked and just

ordered three of everything. I'm going to have to

give some of these away...or maybe I'll eat them all.