Stories from the past week...

I've realized that there are several disjointed stories I wanted to share, so I figured I would do that!

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As some of you may know, my sisters from Japan were visiting the past couple of days!  We had soo much fun.  I can't believe I haven't seen them in 2 years!!

I also bought mini cupcakes because they were just so freaking adorable

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The other day at work my phone rang (which it never does because I'm not important enough for people to actually call me lol) so I answered it.  This was our conversation:


Me: Hello, this is Allison.


Guy on phone: Hi, do you have time for a [didn't understand what he said here] in the next 20 to 30 minutes?


Me: I'm sorry, time for what?


Guy on phone: A men's haircut.  Do you have time in the next 20 to 30 minutes to get a men's haircut?


Me: um...no?


Guy on phone:  Oh, do I have the wrong number?


Me: I think so?


Guy on phone: Ok bye.


Me: Huh?

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I'm kind of famous!  I went into TC and the description of my thesis is up!  Granted I was the one who wrote it so I knew it was going up there, but I thought it was exciting nonetheless to actually see it.

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I thought this was a fun picture from when my parents were here :)

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This place has the best french fries.  And it's around the corner from my apartment! Yaaay!

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Ok, I think that is all of my random stories for now.  I think I'll go get a hamburger from the above place and then get started on my unpacking!  (That I, again, have put off in favor of updating my blog hehe)

My Apartment!

Here it is...the post you've all been waiting for...pictures of my apartment!

(Again it was either this or actually unpack boxes...shudder)  The unpacking boxes portion of the moving will come after I finish getting over this cold of mine.  Stupid cold.

Aaaaanyway.  What can I tell you about my lovely new apartment?

It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath.  It is within walking distance of where I used to live and a subway that I can take to work is only 3 blocks away and gets me to times square in about 20 minutes depending on how the trains are running.

I live with a girl, a guy, and a dog named Ice (The dog is named Ice, the people are not, just to be clear...)  My roommates are super nice and I think we are going to get along really well!

AAAnd here are pictures!

Ok, so the front door is on the left and that's a window to the right with a hallway curving to the left.  My roommates' rooms are to the right of the picture off camera.

This is standing next to the window in the above picture and looking left.  The doorway on the right is the bathroom and the one straight ahead is my room.  There's a hallway that continues past my room.

My room is the door on the right and you can see how the hallway curves.

The same hallway as before that opens up into the living room and kitchen.

The kitchen and part of the living room.

A dark picture of the living room.

A dark picture of the kitchen.

A better picture of the living room.

My room from the doorway.  Don't judge...I've been sick so it's a little bit messy.

Looking to the right in my room from the doorway.

Standing in front of the mirror and looking back. The door is the door to my room.

Ice the dog :)  He's really sweet and very quiet and well behaved.

And that's it!  That's my awesome NYC apartment :)

Bonus Post!

Yes indeed, it is a Bonus Post!!!!

First of all I want to brag about myself a little bit, so I thought I'd share the photos my grandma sent me of the cross stitch that I made for my grandfather.  I worked really hard on this and I'm really proud of the way it turned out :)

The finished piece

My grandfather! :)

Anywayyyy, back to other matters.  So many of you know that I did indeed find a job but you probably have no idea what I do!  Well, let's clear that up right now.  I may not have posted in a while but I have been keeping a running list of things I wanted to share about my job so here goes:

I am indeed working freelance for BBC America (yes, the TV channel).  My title is Digital Content Assistant in the Digital Distribution Department.  Basically we deal with the shows that get shown online, in places like Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and XBox Live just to name a few.  It's pretty cool and the people I work with are really awesome so so far, it's been great!

Here are the highlights of my job so far:

• Bagel Fridays....yes, every Friday there is an assortment of bagels to choose from.  It's pretty much the best thing ever.
• I've learned how to spot British spelling from a mile away as part of my job is to "Americanize" episode descriptions, meaning that I end up changing a lot of S's to Z's and taking out a lot of U's.
• Also having to do somewhat with the previous bullet point, my first week I learned what a "spanner" was.  Turns out, it's a wrench.  Yup, I had to google that but hey, now I know...and so do you!
• There is a guy who sits near me who I swear sounds exactly like Alan Rickman.
• One side effect of this job is that I now have all these new shows that I really really want to watch, but of course have no time to do so.  It also means that if you give me a title of a British television show, I can probably tell you if it's from the BBC or not.
• Speaking of if a show is part of the BBC or not.  One thing I've learned, which yes, I didn't know, is that not everything British comes from the BBC.  Downton Abby is a perfect example of this.  Yes, it's British...No it does not come from the BBC.

Ok, well that was my running list :)  My next post shall be about my apartment but I haven't had the chance to take pictures of it yet so....that will happen eventually! Huzzah!

I solemnly swear...

Why hello there faithful blog readers!  Hopefully you all have not given up on me completely because I'm back!  Or at least I'm going to try.

There is so much to catch up on!  Where should I even begin?

I guess I'll start with shows!  You're probably asking yourself..."isn't she going to talk about her job, or her new apartment?  You know...the things we actually care about?"  Well, the answer is ...yes...eventually.  But first this hehe.

My parents were here last weekend!  That was awesome because I missed them!  Also they helped me move all of my stuff from storage into my new place which was also awesome.  Of course I still have to unpack most of that stuff...which is why when given the option between updating my blog and unpacking I chose....well clearly I chose my blog ^_^

We also did my laundry...aren't my parents awesome?

So anyway, besides unpacking we saw Anything Goes.  I saw it in the fall but was saddened to find out that Sutton Foster was on vacation when I saw it so I was unable to see her in it.  Fortunately, she was NOT on vacation this time and we had an awesome time at the show!  But, since I already have a post dedicated to this show I shall move on.

Way way way before this (like in January) was my dad's booking conference that he didn't actually attend this time around, however, he did send me to see a couple of shows in his place.  These are the shows I saw:

Say Goodnight Gracie is a one-man show based on the life of George Burns.  I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed this show.  It was funny and emotional at different times and explained enough of the references that even though I've probably never seen anything with George Burns in it, I know enough just from having experienced pop culture that I could follow the plot and knew what was going on and who this guy was.  It was definitely cool.

Another show I saw was called Intergalatic Nemesis.  Basically they turned a graphic novel into kind of a radio style stage play.  Images from the novel appear on the screen as the voice actors stand in front of the screen and narrate what's happening as well as perform the dialogue.  Then there is also a sound effects guy performing all of the foley effects.  Interesting concept....kind of boring in execution.  I definitely liked the idea of this show, maybe it was the book itself that I found kind of boring.  The plot just seemed very overdone and predictable and I was bored, that's the only thing to it.

The other show I saw...which I LOVED, was Broadway's Next Hit Musical.  Basically this is similar to Baby Wants Candy which I saw last year where the cast improvises a musical around the title.  In this show the cast gets suggestions for titles of songs and from that they come up with the name and brief plot of the musical, all in the background of an award show.  They perform 3 or 4 of the songs from different shows and then the audience choose their favorite by clapping.  Then, after intermission the performers perform the whole musical (albeit a slightly shortish one).  All in all it was a hysterical evening.  I really wanted my song title to get chose (6 ate 9, but 9's still fine) but unfortunately it did not get chosen.  Oh well.  Our song titles for the evening were "Go Get Your Duck" from the musical Kid War, "Don't Rain on my Laptop" from the musical Get Out of Here Demon! and "Lady Brain" from the musical Mrs. President.  Get Out of Here Demon! ended up winning the audience vote so they performed that show.  The whole night was pretty funny and very enjoyable.  It was a fun night of improv to be sure.

I also got to see How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...yes again hehe.  But this time it had Darren Criss in it!  So basically it was awesome.  And I think that sums up my theatre going experiences for now :)

Even as a poster on a slightly oddly shaped column he's dreamy

Oh, and one final thought for this blog post.  Apparently they film a lot of cop shows in my neck of the woods.  Word on the street is that they were filming the show 22 here the other day.  I've never heard of it, but I saw trucks and trailers!  I didn't see any cameras though...maybe next time.