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change of topic....last weekend I went to prospect park.....an AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL park in central brooklyn. bordered by an equally beautiful neighborhood, Park Slope. it was an absolute blast sledding with my friends Geoff and Michele. A huge snow-filled field with real hills.....nothing the likes i've seen in oklahoma.

here are some links to some videos from the day:

btw, i have a new best friend and its name is yelp.com

no new updates really.

gonna try this new format of typing, inspired by http://www.aricwithana.com/

he's a great guy, also from oklahoma somewhere in between egypt and ethiopia right now. hopefully he makes it all the way down to south africa.

there is a blizzard today and it is beautiful. i didn't mind that my shoes and pants were sopping wet after walking to the bank.

didn't like how i looked like tammy faye bakker when i got home though (must buy ski goggles). then i hung my coat in the shower to drip dry and it scared the living daylight out of my roommate. she thought it was a person in there.

here are some pics that show my neighborhood today, thanks to http://www.newyorkshitty.com/






went to a testing center yesterday to see if i could get a census job.

don't think i can be an enumerator (those people that knock on all the doors in the neighborhood when everyone is sitting down to dinner).most of the neighborhood residents are polish and i can only imagine what i would think people with thick accents are saying with my hearing loss. i mishear my own friends' words all the time.

took a standardized test (btw, i love standardized tests. i also love being the first person to finish their test too). made a 98 on it. thank you christian heritage academy for having us constantly take the iowa standardized test.

hopefully i get a nice office job and can save up some money to take some courses at FIT or do an internship somewhere.

anyways, miss all of you guys and love you. i'm livin on a prayer and a depleting budget, keep me in your prayers.

run on sentences

last night was great, went to see a friend (drummer for NYCsmoke http://www.myspace.com/NYCSmoke ) play in Williamsburg at the Trash Bar. great show, met some great folks, and then nothing better than walking out of the place and seeing beautiful delicate snow waltzing down. it's amazing what two inches of snow does on a clear soft night in brooklyn, everything glowed and it was quiet and peaceful. geoff and michele giggling and having a snowball fight while we walked to the subway stop. impromptu stop for amazing falafel sandwiches on the way there. made it home without getting lost (note to self: expect subway construction late night, no matter where in NYC you are). got off in Greenpoint and walked home and had one of those moments where you feel so at one with yourself and everybreath rejuvenates every cell and membrane of your body. no cars, no throngs of people, i could hear the snow squishing underneath my feet (which is quite a feat). a rare moment in NYC where the streets are quiet.

and then the falafel you had the night before makes you sick in the morning.....maybe pickled onions and pickles were a bad call at 1 am. went to one interview, seemed to go well. rode subway for 45 minutes (which is a LONG time....especially with no ipod, reading material, and you're nauseated and think you're going to throw up. thank goodness for mint orbit gum) to jamaica, queens for a 1pm open call at the career workforce center. get there and realize i'm at the wrong one, it's actually in harlem. ride another 45 minutes to go to an open call at a spanish restaurant on the lower east side. note on door "open call CANCELLED."

nice. waste of a day. however i did enough walking to burn off all the cocoa pebbles i've stocked up on (the 3 for $4) and it was cold enough to break out the trendy faux fur wayne coyne earflap hat.

Here is my roommate katie modeling the trendy faux fur wayne coyne earflap hat.