monday, may 9. god that was a while ago.
it was soni’s birthday sometime around then and we went to zum schneider for some big beers. at that point she and adam were 2 1/2 months from moving to the bay area. today they’re less than a week away—eep!
adam finished law school that week—that’s exciting. he and i got in a pretty extensive east village tour that friday night: mark for sliders (and smelling like grease the rest of the night), mcsorley’s (an old old bar) for a dark and a light, fish bar because it looks cool on yelp (it is not cool at all), scratcher (because despite looking horrible on yelp it is actually cool), kgb bar for exactly 30 seconds (looks a lot cooler form the outside!), and boiler room (because duh).
and after all that, vaughn was in town so i met up with her and josh! we went to this sort of crazy dance party called cheryl. pretty fun stuff—we all got a little too into it.
dragged myself out of bed on saturday to go to the brooklyn flea market with the two of them. lots of junk, lots of food (but not enough pickles for vaughn and i)—the norm. one stand had a cursive typewriter—pretty hot.
back to my place so we could go to pieces, back to santos party house so vaughn could get her left-behind credit card, over to josh’s hood so we could have a grandad and water, then out.
sunday was pretty cool. tim and his friend and i went to this pretty great place in bushwick (i guess?)—roberta’s. super good. and the waiter who liked to give us the across-the-room thumbs-up to make sure everything was cool.. well that was comical.
went to the new museum after—pretty meh, i thought. and i hate paying for museums when they are just meh. half the place we shut down for installations. and the lynda benglis exhibit.. meh. the view from the roof is pretty nice though.
walked around ground zero after. i hadn’t been down there since moving here—had never seen a building there. it started to rain and i didn’t have an umbrella.
there was a big design show that weekend—icff, the international contemporary furniture fair. we went to a party at design within reach’s store in the meatpacking district. it was packed. i didn’t exactly know what was going on, but i gladly drank a beer and took a cool cloth gift tote that i’ve been using quite extensively since.
there was a little lego statue in the gift bag, of the empire state building. it now sits on my shelf next to a picture of pat me and my grandma. it’s strange a bit to think that, the woman who remembered everything about her family, she’ll never know i lived here.
after we went to another party for an in-the-works design website called groopti. they had champagne—props. and i met a girl who knows baker from home—a nice random encounter.
grabbed a bite at the standard grill—hanging out in meatpacking for so long made me feel so wannabe chic. like several places i’ve come across in new york, they had this beer—pork slap. i’m a sucker for a funky can.
pieces to round out the night, of course.
i must sound a bit contradictory and a lot whiny when i say i have no friends in new york but then come out with these these laundry-list socially-active weekend recaps. come next week, though, basically no one i mention above will live here!
but let’s just focus on what a great weekend this one was, ok matt?
