Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Pickled PAPERS??

People here are completely crazy. I was walking to the subway, and the man that sells the New York Daily News was standing on the corner yelling as usual for people to come get their 25 cent daily news. But yesterday, it was like he was getting papers and peppers mixed up. He'd be like, 25 cents for some peppers, get your 25 cent paper! Peppers are good and they're 25 cents and papers are good for 25 cents. He just was going on and on about whether people should spend their 25 cents on papers or peppers. Yeah. Crazy.

This has been a pretty good week. I'm actually trying to type as quickly as I can because we're about to leave to go to CALIFORNIA for the weekend and we're really exicted, but I thought I should do a quick blog update...I finished my millions of midterms and feel pretty good about them- we'll see though- I usually am pretty confident before class and then go to class and then leave feeling much less confident. But that's slowly changing I think.

I got two interviews this week! On Monday I have to go to a "hiring event" at Google for an Administrative Assistant job. I don't know if that one really even has a chance of working out, but it will be good experience at least. Then I also had an interview at American Symphony Orchestra League and I'm so excited about the job. My interview went well, and I have a good feeling, but I haven't heard anything yet- keep your fingers crossed because I would be seriously excited to get hired there. I'm glad I got these interviews, because so far the temp agency hasn't been as helpful as I would like. It's nice to pretend to have a job, but if I'm not working, then I'm really no better off than I was before.

The most disturbing thing happened to me the other day- I kicked a rat!! I felt something solid against my shoe as I was walking through Washington Square park, and I looked down and there was a rat laying on its back by my foot. I don't know if it was already dead or if I kicked it and killed it (or at least stunned it)- but how sick is that??? I ran away screaming, I'm not even kidding.

Our waitress at this pizza place the other night (John's on Bleecker Street- a landmark!) was so funny. She had fake hair- extensions- and had no idea what was going on. Like she had no idea what was even on the menu.

Yesterday in the worst class ever we watched a short film about something that no one has any idea how it was relevant, and the woman who was being interviewed looked exactly like Mimi on the Drew Carey show. Again, I'm not even kidding. How can people look like that in real life?

So babies in New York ride around in strollers like nothing I've ever seen. The strollers all have thes plastic zip up bags around them, so if it starts raining or crazy people start yelling the moms can just zip their babies up in a plastic bag and everyone's safe. Well I guess they up the ante for winter, because yesterday I saw a baby in a stroller that looked like a sleeping bag. Wait, I take that back- I actually saw a stroller that looked like it was a sleeping bag and the sleeping bag was moving like it had a little mouse in it or something. I assume it was a baby, but I guess it could have been a dog or something (and, yes, I have seen a dog being pushed around in one of the plastic bag strollers)

It's cold here- I'm going to look like a little dumpling all bundled up all winter...