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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
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Find me here, b*tches.
Trying to make the switch to all things google.
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
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I'm so happy right now, I can't even contain it.
Last week, I met with my predecessor and he was a total a$$hole to me, talking to me in a way I've never been talked to in my life. Although he left the job voluntarily, he is trying to run the job from the outside, make a power grab of all these committees I run.
I always assumed he was gay, then I saw all these references to a woman in his life, so I was confused. Everyone always talked about this woman as if they were a couple. I did some internet stalking and have confirmation that he is indeed gay, and near-confirmation that he is in a green-card relationship (married to an Asian-American woman 10 years his junior so that he can be here and not in his native Singapore). I am so f**cking happy that I know this. Not that I will ever use it against him, but I really feel that I have enough info to get this a$$hole deported.
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It used to be that I would read about real estate for fun while I was a full-time urban planner. I liked how real estate news supplemented all the things I was doing in planning. Now, real estate is my full time job and it’s no longer fun. I used to read curbed.com, brownstoner.com, and apartmenttherapy.com religiously with naughty feelings that I was slacking off at work. Now that it’s necessary that I read these blogs for my job, I have to force myself to open the websites. I’d much rather be reading gawker or wonkette or playing online Risk these days, which really, have very little relevance to my job at all.
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Yet another meeting this morning where I was the only female AND only person of color in a room filled with 24 white men. I don't know if I can survive this misery.
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
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So, more bullsh*t at work yesterday. Went head-to-head with my predecessor over lunch. He was a total A**. I pulled out the big guns today to get back at him, but I'm in a bit of a sticky situation right now. I've only been here 5 weeks, can't a kid get a break?
I know I said this at my last job and ended up staying 3 years, but I really don't think I will last here more than a year. It's painful, man.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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I've been working out at the YMCA and went to my first class yesterday, called "Drill."
It was filled with 5 other slim, hot young ladies and then me, the stumpiest of the bunch. BUT, none of them were in touch with their bodies! We did this warm up which involved hip isolation and popping, much like doing hula-hoop, and I was the only one besides the instructor who could do it correctly! I think it's a white girl thing, they didn't know how to move their hips. The instructor and I were the only brown-skinned folks in the room, and he points at me and says, "I bet you're good at hula-hoop!" It was really amusing -- here were these slim, "fit" girls with no clue how to move their bodies.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
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I love beets.
But they turn my sh*t red.
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
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I spent most of the afternoon playing Risk online with 3 other pals across the US. OMG it is really, really dangerously fun. I sorta screwed up and didn't understand that you could only fortify ONCE per turn, cuz that's not how we played at home. I took Australia early, I'm about to take Asia. But I'm spread too thin.
Also, it looks legit (I think) b.c you just stare at this map. Isn't that what urban planners do? Stare at maps?
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
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Dinner last night at Blue Ribbon Sushi.
Dang, that's delicious.
*Wakame (seaweed) salad
*West coast and east coast oysters in a ponzu juice
*Dynamite - scallops and mushrooms with fish roe baked in a giant scallop shell
*Black cod in miso
*Blue Ribbon Roll - fresh lobster roll
*2 Asahi beers
*Green tea ice cream with red bean paste
OMG it was so good, the first thing K said this morning was "I Love Blue Ribbon."
It takes the #2 spot on my list of favorite NY restaurants, behind Congee Village.
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
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My bro and my future sis-in-law stayed over the apartment this weekend with their two dogs, Lady J and Scarlett, a la GI Joe (for those of us who remember the TV show). I don't really like animals, but I have to learn to like these ones cuz they are my neices.
It's been a nice weekend on Long Island and in Manhattan. I ate at inoteca and drank on the lower east side with my bro, meg, and their pals on Friday. I went to Queens on Saturday to hang out with Filipino WWII vets for an article K is shooting for Hyphen Magazine. I sort of translated, sort of not. The vets kept thinking that K was Korean for some reason, which is odd, cuz most people assume she is Japanese. "It's my wide face!!" K offered as an explanation.
There was one old Manang, the wife of a vet, who was hip to our queerness.
She asked me, "Are you always together?"
Me: "No, not ALWAYS..."
Later, the old lady asks, "Are you together?"
K says, "Yeah, we are."
Old lady: "Do you live together?"
K: "No, not yet."
Old lady: "How nice!" She smiles then kisses us on the cheeck. I wish my mom was that cool. Alas.
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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When I was starting my senior year of college, my mom said to me, "This is your last chance to make all your friends, because when you get out into the real world, you are going to find it filled with really stupid people." I scoffed at her and told her she was being elitist. However, the closer I work with city government, old white farts, and real estate people, the more I realize she is right. All my life I guess I was shielded from stupid people. Not un-book smart, per se, but just people that are total tools, mean, and ignorant. And now they are all coming out of the woodwork and filling all the nooks and crevices of my life.
It smells bad in here. Some man is wearing too much cheap cologne.
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
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Do I really have to go to Bushwick tonight? And the L train is all messed up? Yikers.
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I waited on line for 50 minutes to get into the Steven Alan sample sale downtown yesterday morning at 8 AM. When it became clear that I had another 30 minutes of waiting and I needed to get to work, I left.
I'm going down there again shortly to give it another shot. Professional. I need shirts that make me look professional, while retaining my personality. This comes out of the past few weeks of everyone talking to me like I'm so young. Which I am, I just don't want to be told that I was wearing a "cute" dress.
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3 weeks into my new job and I now know: I need to learn Sleazeball Management ASAP.
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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I've been subscribing to Idealist Job Alerts since 2003 and I read them every day. It's really amusing to see the jobs of people you know get posted. It's a good way to keep track of what everyone is no longer doing.
And apparently the person chosen to take my old Times Square job bailed out. Anyone want my old job?
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
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What I've eaten in the past 24 hours:
Banana
1/2 scrambled egg wrap
Fresh fruit salad
3 large black teas
Scallops and broccoli in brown sauce
Brown rice
Small chocolate chip muffin
Congee with dried scallop
1/2 plate snow pea leaves
1/2 bowl rice
Eggplant with Bean Curd
2 Asahi Beers
Dried mango strips
Pretzel sticks with Baba ganoush
Peach Yogurt
Pre-bottled Starbucks Frappaccino
Black tea
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It was Abbie's birthday, but she was sick in bed all day long. Poor gal. A bunch of us rolled over to her house with surprise cake and surprise ipod nano.
K and I headed home to Park Slope afterwards. We ran out to get some Asahi and bumped into her neighbor and boyfriend. We ended up going to their pad and finishing off 12 beers between the 4 of us, talking about New York, greenery, subways, upstate New York, and how to be a good retail/restaurant manager. It was a really fun night.
Tonight, I'm heading over to the Brooklyn Arts Council benefit to try to make some friends. K came up with the idea of trying to use my knowledge of vacant properties to set up spaces/studios/residencies for artists in Brooklyn. I really like this idea. I want to make it happen.
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
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I swam for the first time in almost 2 years yesterday at the Atlantic Ave YMCA. Man, it felt good, but I am sore. I ended up in a lane with two fit lezzies, so we had a good, friendly rythym going.
It kept raining, raining. I made it back home to the UWS, did some cursory food shopping, and threw together a pathetic meal consisting of lentil soup, 2 types of cheese, crackers, and mint chip ice cream. K came over and I fed her. We went out into the rain to buy beer and toilet paper, both wearing wool, plaid hunter's caps with ear flaps. We went to 4 different stores looking for Asahi for our snobbish palates because Sapporo just wouldn't cut it. We finally found it, warm, so we bought giant cans of cold Sapporo to drink while the Asahis chilled in the fridge. We watched the finale of Project Runway for K's sake cuz she never saw it and wanted Michael to win so badly, just like everyone else. Of course, he didn't win, and never had a chance after Uli stole his muse.
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Spurred by some upsetting encounters over the weekend, I am going to try to be less of a Hater.
I went to Cattyshack on Saturday with the GF, Lucile + co and Catherine + co. It was jamming. Too bad the music sukked.
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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I feel fat and I forgot my exercise clothing at home so I'm doing that thing where I'm trying not to eat. Today, at least, no breakfast or lunch; I'm sure I'll crack by dinner.
I'm being honest about this b.c it's so ridiculous. I also think that most women have a little bit of an eating disorder, so I'm just trying to be honest about mine.
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