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January 29, 2006
Gong Hay Fa Choy!
Hello Folks,
I've had some requests to take pictures of the Chinese New Year festival that takes place in Chinatown, NYC every Chinese New Year.
It was a nice experience, very colorful, very crowded - all in all something I would recommend you do - once.
If you're interested in pictures, give here a click.
Enjoy.
Posted by lysa at 5:37 PM | Comments (2)
January 26, 2006
It's all for you, New York, New York
I don't care what you say about this city. Is it dirtier than Xtina Aguilarra? Yes. Does it stink like piss? Absolutely. When you have had a day like mine, where you get from the hours of 9-5 to accomplish a million things - there is no other place like New York.
I woke up at 7:45am and got ready to plea my case to the jury duty tribunal. I went in and listened for the magic words in the seminar "If for any reason you feel you cannot serve, please go to 60 Centre Street". Excellent! Off I go with the rest of unpatriotic slobs who have found better reasons to not serve their country. I arrive at "60" an make my way to the wrong room on the wrong floor where some jury duty propoganda was blasting through the televisions. "Back in the Roman times....." Blah fucking blah. I go back down the elevator and make my way to the "get out of jury duty free" room.
Strangely enough, the jury guys were nice. I managed to postpone jury duty for an entire year.
Which left me free to go to Hunter College and fin out why those fuckers cancelled all my classes.
I enrolled in www.tuitionpay.com because I didn't have the dough to pay up front. These fuckers took my money and told me I would have no problems with Hunter. Last night, when I went to confirm that school started today I noticed a distinct *LACK* of classes.
Turns out tuitionpay.com fucked up. Long story short, I got all my classes and those fucks at tuitionpay are on my shit list.
I still don't know what i'm doing for employment.
After the Hunter fiasco I went to the dentist only to find out I was imagining a cavity. He took an x-ray an relieved me of $40. Thanks.
I got some notebooks (not the kind that would inspire Ryan Gossling to read to me in my senile years) and am now in a Starbucks being charged out my gigi for bandwith.
All in all, a lot was accomplished today - seriously - where else could you go to two courts, register for school, go to the dentist, meet a buddy for lunch, buy some notebooks and drink chai all in the same day.
Now to get some more caffeine to endure back to back classes this evening.
The bitch of this is, is I know teaching is never going to be worth dealing with 5 more sociology classes.
Posted by lysa at 4:25 PM | Comments (3)
January 15, 2006
get home safe, sweety
I walked into my local Gristedes the other day, probably to buy more veggies that will turn brown in a week. As I was getting ready to take my overpriced vegatables home,the guybehind the counter said "Good-bye sweety, get home safe".
Now, I have several reactions to being called sweety by men I don't know. The ones who leer in the street and ammend the words "tits, walk, money or blowjob" don't get a lot of positive comments from me, but in this case it was the "get home safe" part that really got my attention.
It's funny, in a way, because I live across the street from the supermarket. It's also funny beause I live in just about the safest neighborhood in Manhattan. It's not the least bit funny that women have to be cautioned about their safety in the lowest crime district in this city.
Besides all the other stuff that occupies an individuals mind, women will always have one more item floating on their todo list: get home safe.
Posted by lysa at 11:31 AM | Comments (7)
January 14, 2006
Brilliant!
"Innovative solutions for your maintenance problems"
http://www.prolinkhq.com/dealers/edmar/edmar.htm
I saw this one a van while going to work the other day. What a great fucking slogan!
Leaky Sink? Plug it up with fiberglass!
Bad Wiring? Chill it out with water!
Stuck door? Kick it down! Who needs doors?
How can anyone hold you responsible for horrid work with a slogan that announces, upfront, that your solutions aren't guaranteed, but innovative!
Brilliant.
Posted by lysa at 11:30 AM | Comments (0)
January 13, 2006
deseo ser una flor
I want to be a flower.
People always describe flowers as gentle, fragile - something which needs a great amount of care, but that's not the flower I want to be.
That's not the flower I want all of us to be.
I was in a shop buying some bright, red, huge flowers. I noticed how careful everything was. The flowers all had arrangements - they all had a place they knew they should be. The flowers were put together with other flowers and they became more beautiful.
Flowers are handled with extreme care. We handle flowers with more care than we handle each other and certainly more care than we handle this planet.
Treat someone like a flower.
P.S. These images are courtesy of my new phone (teehee)
Posted by lysa at 8:07 PM | Comments (1)
January 3, 2006
The Grades Are In
Anthropology A
Art A
Biology A
Education A
Health A-
Statistics A
Yes, i am actually upset at the A-.
My GPA for the semester is: 3.96
Posted by lysa at 3:49 PM | Comments (5)