January 7, 2008

Day 7 - January 7, 2008

This is a picture of a coffee shop a few blocks from my apartment called Prospect Perk. The name always reminds me of the cafe Central Perk that they always go to in Friends.

I spent an hour reading The Glass Castle there today. It is a really good book and I am really getting into it.

January 6, 2008

Day 6 - January 6, 2008

Today was Epiphany so I thought that I would post a picture of my Christmas decorations before I take them down. My nativity is actually the Precious Moments nativity and I received the pieces individually growing up.

Also this weekend was wild card weekend in the NFL, which if you know anything about me you know I am obsessed with. This years wild card winners were the Seahawks, Jaguars, Giants and Chargers. I was going to take a picture of the giant blow-up Giant outside the bar on the way home today, but it looks like I'll have one more chance this season.

January 5, 2008

Day 5 - January 5, 2008

This picture really captures a lot of things that I really love about spending Saturdays in Brooklyn! Jen is my only friend from High School who lives in New York and she only lives about 15 minutes away, so we always go for walks in Prospect Park together. Jorge is her boyfriend, who is also amazing and it is always fun when he joins us. In the background you can see the arch at Grand Army Plaza, which Jorge always says makes him feel like we live in Europe. Also if you look really hard you can see the tents for the farmer's market which occurs every Saturday right across the street from my apartment.

January 4, 2008

Day 4 - January 4, 2008.

So this one is kinda an inside joke. The very first day of Teach For America training, they were going around interviewing people and videotaping it. Then they edited it all together and did a Meet the Corps segment. Well, Kumi appeared on this video answering the question: what is unique about you? by saying, "I really like pandas!" It was pretty hilarious.

She does in fact love pandas however, which is evident from the panda hat that she bought at the Union Square Christmas market, and her portrait with the new panda, played by Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda. Just for the record the movie we saw tonight was Atonement, which I have mixed feeling about, but would give a good rating overall.

January 3, 2008

Day 3 - January 3, 2008

Well, back in New York and back to the real world! I meet up with my friend Kumi for dinner tonight in the East Village. Let me tell you after spending the last couple of weeks in the South, I was not ready for the Arctic. Since we were freezing we went to Max Brenner after dinner for some hot chocolate. They have these really adorable mugs that are called hug mugs and you have to hug them to drink out of, which I think is pretty great!

January 2, 2008

Day 2 - January 2, 2008

This was my last day in Tampa, Florida. I spent the majority of the day walking around the mall in Tampa, because it was much cooler outside. It was only about fifty degrees, but all the locals were pretty depressed about it.

This picture is of Dana getting ready to go. She cracked me up because we were there for about four days and she had five bags. However if you can find me anyone with more paraphernalia from their school I would be impressed. She has Badger just about everything you can imagine!

It was an amazing trip and a vacation that I really needed, so I was really glad that everything worked out so great. Go Badgers!

January 1, 2008

Day One - January 1, 2008

I rang in the New Year in Tampa, Florida. Dana, a roommate of mine from Madison and I went to the game and spent four days down in Tampa for the Outback Bowl. These people were some fellow Badgers that we ran into singing Varsity obnoxiously in a bar. We all went over to the pier to watch fireworks and ring in the New Year.

We woke up about six hours later and went to the Badger Alumni tailgate. You know you're from Wisconsin when you can enjoy beer and brats even at 8:00 in the morning. The game was an amazing one and really close. Unfortunately my Badgers lost with an interception in the end zone with seconds remaining! At least it was a close game unlike most of the other bowl games and it was 80 degrees, on Sunday and Monday which made for great days at the beach and watching the parade!