I'm sick. No work today.
Coming into this internship I thought I'd have a lot of extra money. I was planning to buy a digital camera, an ipod, etc. I guess I forgot about $500 rent every month, credit card bills, gas, food, and groceries. I'm broke.
I found a verizon cell phone on craig's list. The guy selling it is a taxi driver and is going to meet me today. So once again, I have no contacts. This is the fourth phone of this year; I really hope I don't have a fifth.
The Campus Progress conferences earlier this week were awesome. I met a lot of good contacts, and met some really impressive student journalists.
I got into the IR program at AU and they took all of my credits. I'm going to be making some important decisions soon.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Shows & Address
Here are some shows I'm going to this summer (so far):
FRENCH KICKS- 6/15 @ Rock n Roll Hotel in DC
VOXTROT-7/12 @ Ottobar in Baltimore
THE DECEMBERISTS W/ Baltimore Symphony Orchestra- 7/14 @ Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD
( I got really awesome seats--in the front secton. They cost almost $100. I don't care, though. The Decemberists with an orchestra? Well worth it.
If anyone wants/tried to send something to me, this is my REAL address (I had an incorrect one--fixed it now--on a previous post). The old address is some doctor's office. I'm going to check there for a week or so to see if anything came for me. haha.
My Baltimore Address:
514 Woodlawn Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21210
FRENCH KICKS- 6/15 @ Rock n Roll Hotel in DC
VOXTROT-7/12 @ Ottobar in Baltimore
THE DECEMBERISTS W/ Baltimore Symphony Orchestra- 7/14 @ Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD
( I got really awesome seats--in the front secton. They cost almost $100. I don't care, though. The Decemberists with an orchestra? Well worth it.
If anyone wants/tried to send something to me, this is my REAL address (I had an incorrect one--fixed it now--on a previous post). The old address is some doctor's office. I'm going to check there for a week or so to see if anything came for me. haha.
My Baltimore Address:
514 Woodlawn Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21210
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Week 1
My city trips never seem to fall short of absolutely crazy.
BookExpo highlights:
-I got a bunch of free unreleased books.
-I met people in the publishing industry from around the nation, maybe world, probably universe.
-I talked to an editor of The Nation and she gave me a hat and her card...hopefully she'll remember me when I apply for an internship.
-I missed Stephen Colbert's book signing. They stopped letting people in line five minutes after it opened. Instead, I creeped him for a half hour while he signed books and said the most ridiculous things to a bunch of book nerds. Then I covertly stalked him and his entourage around the Expo until he was escorted into his car.
I went to Animal Collective's free show Friday night at the South Side Seaport. I met Taryn and her friend Doug. I ended up running into Alex, Coz, Hannah, Jake, and Peto; Ithaca was definitely representing. I was more excited to see friends than Animal Collective. I never got into them and seeing them live wasn't very convincing.
Saturday night I went to a party with Jess, Lindsey, Nikki, and a few others near Williamsburg. It was what I expected: packed party with the Brooklyn assortment of hipsters. I met some cool people, though. Notably, Britney and Matt from Bushwick. They live in this awesome warehouse complex where all the apartments are spacious and have incredible views of the Brooklyn skyline. Britney helped me out a lot in the city.
I was scheduled to leave the city Sunday, but I bought a ticket to go home a day later because Mother Mother were playing in Brooklyn. To make an exceedingly epic story short, I got on the train with my backpack stuffed with clothes and a laptop, and a tote bag full of books, got confusedly lost, found my way, realized I left my cellphone on the C train, then somehow made it to Union Hall. This is the...wait, 3rd time this year I've lost my phone? I don't get it. I wasn't stressed about it, though. I figured I'd never see it again, but I didn't want it to put a damper my Mother Mother experience.
I went to the basement of Union Hall where they held the show. The doors were locked and bands were doing sound checks. The show was +21 and I obviously didn't have ID. I was hoping I could hang out outside and at least hear Mother Mother through the walls. I was down for that. After a few minutes, three girls showed up. I talked to them about being underage and hating it. I had a book expo bag with me and one of the girls not with the other two, a nice vegan girl from New Paltz, asked me if I went to the expo. She apparently is doing an internship in the city and also went to the expo. I explained to her my desperate underage situation and I could tell she kind of felt bad...she then told me she's on the Mother Mother guest list, she knows their promoter, and that she'd try to get me in for free. It worked. I got into the show for free--they never carded me.
Mother Mother were one of the most explosive and energetic bands I've ever seen live. Their ill variations and flawless improv during transitions and bridges were so well done. Ryan, the singer/guitar player, had such a charismatic stage presence, and he shredded Mother Mother songs with his classically trained chops. Debra and Molly had intoxicating and powerful voices that synced perfected together, not to mention how endearingly attractive they were in person. There wasn't a second of the show I was disappointed; I hyped them up a lot, and they still shattered my expectations. This band is going to blow up. They were mentioned in a Newsweek article last week! Canadians just know how to kill it.
Oh yeah, about my cell phone...a girl found it on the train and called my dad. She returned it to a station in Brooklyn and I think Nikki is going to pick it up and send it to me. I got lucky this time.
I'm at work now kind of on "a break." I'm the only non-vegan in the office. I'm horribly discriminated against...just kidding. But after doing research and being around reassuring vegan doctors and supporters, I'm most likely going to convert. I'll miss cheesecake, but I'm sure there's an awesome vegan recipe somewhere in our books or online.
Well, until something else exciting happens to me, I'm out.
BookExpo highlights:
-I got a bunch of free unreleased books.
-I met people in the publishing industry from around the nation, maybe world, probably universe.
-I talked to an editor of The Nation and she gave me a hat and her card...hopefully she'll remember me when I apply for an internship.
-I missed Stephen Colbert's book signing. They stopped letting people in line five minutes after it opened. Instead, I creeped him for a half hour while he signed books and said the most ridiculous things to a bunch of book nerds. Then I covertly stalked him and his entourage around the Expo until he was escorted into his car.
I went to Animal Collective's free show Friday night at the South Side Seaport. I met Taryn and her friend Doug. I ended up running into Alex, Coz, Hannah, Jake, and Peto; Ithaca was definitely representing. I was more excited to see friends than Animal Collective. I never got into them and seeing them live wasn't very convincing.
Saturday night I went to a party with Jess, Lindsey, Nikki, and a few others near Williamsburg. It was what I expected: packed party with the Brooklyn assortment of hipsters. I met some cool people, though. Notably, Britney and Matt from Bushwick. They live in this awesome warehouse complex where all the apartments are spacious and have incredible views of the Brooklyn skyline. Britney helped me out a lot in the city.
I was scheduled to leave the city Sunday, but I bought a ticket to go home a day later because Mother Mother were playing in Brooklyn. To make an exceedingly epic story short, I got on the train with my backpack stuffed with clothes and a laptop, and a tote bag full of books, got confusedly lost, found my way, realized I left my cellphone on the C train, then somehow made it to Union Hall. This is the...wait, 3rd time this year I've lost my phone? I don't get it. I wasn't stressed about it, though. I figured I'd never see it again, but I didn't want it to put a damper my Mother Mother experience.
I went to the basement of Union Hall where they held the show. The doors were locked and bands were doing sound checks. The show was +21 and I obviously didn't have ID. I was hoping I could hang out outside and at least hear Mother Mother through the walls. I was down for that. After a few minutes, three girls showed up. I talked to them about being underage and hating it. I had a book expo bag with me and one of the girls not with the other two, a nice vegan girl from New Paltz, asked me if I went to the expo. She apparently is doing an internship in the city and also went to the expo. I explained to her my desperate underage situation and I could tell she kind of felt bad...she then told me she's on the Mother Mother guest list, she knows their promoter, and that she'd try to get me in for free. It worked. I got into the show for free--they never carded me.
Mother Mother were one of the most explosive and energetic bands I've ever seen live. Their ill variations and flawless improv during transitions and bridges were so well done. Ryan, the singer/guitar player, had such a charismatic stage presence, and he shredded Mother Mother songs with his classically trained chops. Debra and Molly had intoxicating and powerful voices that synced perfected together, not to mention how endearingly attractive they were in person. There wasn't a second of the show I was disappointed; I hyped them up a lot, and they still shattered my expectations. This band is going to blow up. They were mentioned in a Newsweek article last week! Canadians just know how to kill it.
Oh yeah, about my cell phone...a girl found it on the train and called my dad. She returned it to a station in Brooklyn and I think Nikki is going to pick it up and send it to me. I got lucky this time.
I'm at work now kind of on "a break." I'm the only non-vegan in the office. I'm horribly discriminated against...just kidding. But after doing research and being around reassuring vegan doctors and supporters, I'm most likely going to convert. I'll miss cheesecake, but I'm sure there's an awesome vegan recipe somewhere in our books or online.
Well, until something else exciting happens to me, I'm out.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Summer in Baltimore
My Baltimore Address:
514 Woodlawn Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21210
I had a tour of the office today. I have my own computer/office area/mail box--for the next six weeks at least. I’ll be doing research, writing articles, and random organizational stuff. The Vegetarian Journal has about 25,000 subscribers; in the magazine scheme of things, that’s not very many, but it's definitely a bigger readership than the 2,000 or less who read the Ithacan and Buzzsaw at Ithaca. I work everyday 9-5 with a lunch whenever. My pay comes in large sporadic sums. I got my first $500 stipend today…I wonder how long it’ll last. Charles gave me every book VRG published (15 vegan/vegetarian book) along with academic journals, children’s pamphlets, and issues of the latest Vegetarian Journal. I then got a lengthy history of the Vegetarian Resource Group followed by a verbose overview of the book and publishing industry, this was the crux: everyone who works in the industry are scums.
The place I'm staying at is really nice. It's in a section of Baltimore called Roland Park. It's pretty classy. There are two other people staying in the house with me: a girl from Elizabethtown who is doing an internship at John Hopkins and a teacher who is temporarily working in an all boys school in Baltimore. Anne Kern, the woman who owns the house, is a really friendly, laid-back artsy vegetarian who went to Art School and now just does artsy things. The boy whose room I'm staying in is a Politics/Writing major at New School in Manhattan and now, according to Anne, he is "fighting fires in Arizona to pay off student loans." His room is pretty nice. The best part: the spacious walk-on balcony connected to his room overlooking the development. The girl from Elizabethtown, the teacher, and Anne are all extremely friendly. I'm glad I got hooked up with this place.
Tomorrow I'm off to NYC for BookExpo 2007 in Manhattan. I'll be staying at Nikki’s place in Brooklyn for the weekend. Lindsey, Jess, and Taryn are coming out to the city to visit, too! I'm going to try hard to kiss some book publishers' and agents' asses and search for Stephen Colbert, of course. All right, I'm off to explore what this city has to offer.
Write to me or come visit me. I have a couch and a huge floor. You're welcome to stay here!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Next Month I'll be Kickin' with Colbert
I just found out the first event of my internship. It's the Book Expo 2007 in NYC. The Vegetarian Journal has a booth at the event and I'm going to be in the industry section tabling for The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG). The best part of this event is the ridiculously iconic cast of speakers. Check out this description:
The former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Dr. Alan Greenspan, will kick off BookExpo America's author events in a unique and special way by appearing as BEA's Conference Keynote Speaker on Friday, June 1 at 11am. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Khaled Hosseini and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus will be among the other many notable personalities who will be speaking at BEA this year. The other speakers who will be participating in BEA's Special Events programming are Alan Alda, Paulo Coelho, Paul Krugman, Ian McEwan, Rosie O'Donnell, Alice Sebold, Lisa See, Russell Simmons, and many more! Other events include Author Breakfast and Luncheons, as well as Speed Dating with Children's Authors.
It's a 3-day event and I'm not sure where I'm staying yet. A few IC kids from the city said I could stay with them, but I still have to iron out the details.
I'm going to see Colbert in person. This is pretty awesome. Seeing The Decemberists and Stephen Colbert in a two month period is pretty overwhelming for me. There's probably going to be a lot of people at this Expo, but maybe he'll come hang out in the closed Industry section and him and I can kick back and talk about how George W. is not a great President but The Greatest President.
I scheduled my classes today. I'm taking two Politics classes, two Journalism, and Arabic. Basically this means I want to work for Al Jazeera and have O'Reilly start a campaign against me.
The former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Dr. Alan Greenspan, will kick off BookExpo America's author events in a unique and special way by appearing as BEA's Conference Keynote Speaker on Friday, June 1 at 11am. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Khaled Hosseini and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus will be among the other many notable personalities who will be speaking at BEA this year. The other speakers who will be participating in BEA's Special Events programming are Alan Alda, Paulo Coelho, Paul Krugman, Ian McEwan, Rosie O'Donnell, Alice Sebold, Lisa See, Russell Simmons, and many more! Other events include Author Breakfast and Luncheons, as well as Speed Dating with Children's Authors.
It's a 3-day event and I'm not sure where I'm staying yet. A few IC kids from the city said I could stay with them, but I still have to iron out the details.
I'm going to see Colbert in person. This is pretty awesome. Seeing The Decemberists and Stephen Colbert in a two month period is pretty overwhelming for me. There's probably going to be a lot of people at this Expo, but maybe he'll come hang out in the closed Industry section and him and I can kick back and talk about how George W. is not a great President but The Greatest President.
I scheduled my classes today. I'm taking two Politics classes, two Journalism, and Arabic. Basically this means I want to work for Al Jazeera and have O'Reilly start a campaign against me.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Lost Cell Phone...Again
So as some of you know, I lost my cell phone before winter break. Last week a friend of mine gave me his old phone for free--I was pretty pumped about it. Today killed all my excitement.
I had an RA interview ar 3 o'clock and an interview at the Sciencenter at 4 o' clock. I got out of the RA interview at 3:45, then literally ran to the Park School and caught the bus to the Commons. I got to the Commons at exactly 4. I hurridly ran around Ithaca trying to find the Sciencenter. I called Greg because I left the directions in my dorm. He told me where to go and I found the street. I called him back when I was on the street to verify the address. As soon as I got off the phone with Greg I bolted down the street. I got the Sciencenter--which is, for those of you who don't know, a learning center for children that has hands-on science programs and workshops, Bill Nye The Science Guy chills there sometimes, no joke--and had my interview. I went to check the time on my phone when I realized my phone wasn't in my jacket. I then went up and down the street for over an hour in the frigid cold looking for my phone, my efforts were fruitless. I got on the bus back to campus and tried to make the best out of the situation. I mean, at least I don't have to ignore calls now. Not like I have to do that a lot the way it is, I'm a dick, I know.
I get back to my dorm and J comes out of his room and says, "hey, Bobby, did you lose your phone?" I said, uh, yeah, how the hell did you know that? "I called it and some lady said her 8-year-old son's friend was bragging about how lucky he was for finding a cell phone, she took it off him. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow. I'm going to strap the phone to my fucking body from now on.
Life is good otherwise. I went to DC for a protest a few weeks ago and I'll hopefully be going to Milwaukee in March for a Amnesty Internaional Conference. I'm going to be in Baltimore all summer working for the Vegetarian Journal. Check them out!
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/about.htm
Tomorrow is the Amnesty party, should be a lot of fun. I hope I go to sleep tonight; I have so much work ahead of me. I'm not complaining, though. Everyone has work, it's college.
LLLAAAATTAAA!!!!!@#$%!~!
I had an RA interview ar 3 o'clock and an interview at the Sciencenter at 4 o' clock. I got out of the RA interview at 3:45, then literally ran to the Park School and caught the bus to the Commons. I got to the Commons at exactly 4. I hurridly ran around Ithaca trying to find the Sciencenter. I called Greg because I left the directions in my dorm. He told me where to go and I found the street. I called him back when I was on the street to verify the address. As soon as I got off the phone with Greg I bolted down the street. I got the Sciencenter--which is, for those of you who don't know, a learning center for children that has hands-on science programs and workshops, Bill Nye The Science Guy chills there sometimes, no joke--and had my interview. I went to check the time on my phone when I realized my phone wasn't in my jacket. I then went up and down the street for over an hour in the frigid cold looking for my phone, my efforts were fruitless. I got on the bus back to campus and tried to make the best out of the situation. I mean, at least I don't have to ignore calls now. Not like I have to do that a lot the way it is, I'm a dick, I know.
I get back to my dorm and J comes out of his room and says, "hey, Bobby, did you lose your phone?" I said, uh, yeah, how the hell did you know that? "I called it and some lady said her 8-year-old son's friend was bragging about how lucky he was for finding a cell phone, she took it off him. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow. I'm going to strap the phone to my fucking body from now on.
Life is good otherwise. I went to DC for a protest a few weeks ago and I'll hopefully be going to Milwaukee in March for a Amnesty Internaional Conference. I'm going to be in Baltimore all summer working for the Vegetarian Journal. Check them out!
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/about.htm
Tomorrow is the Amnesty party, should be a lot of fun. I hope I go to sleep tonight; I have so much work ahead of me. I'm not complaining, though. Everyone has work, it's college.
LLLAAAATTAAA!!!!!@#$%!~!
Friday, January 5, 2007
Attention Mac Users:
Don't change the name of your directory, it'll scare the shit out of you. I thought i lost all my music/files/settings when really I just changed my Directory name. wow.
Another thing that really sucks is this:
PLEASE NOTE:
*ALL 5 ARCADE FIRE SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT*
TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE. The ticket purchaser must enter
the venue. Copies of ID, Credit Card or Confirmation email
WILL NOT be accepted for entry. Only complete parties will be
admitted. No exceptions. Please DO NOT buy tickets on eBay,
Craig's List, etc. YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED!
I should have gotten up at 9. shit.
Another thing that really sucks is this:
PLEASE NOTE:
*ALL 5 ARCADE FIRE SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT*
TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE. The ticket purchaser must enter
the venue. Copies of ID, Credit Card or Confirmation email
WILL NOT be accepted for entry. Only complete parties will be
admitted. No exceptions. Please DO NOT buy tickets on eBay,
Craig's List, etc. YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED!
I should have gotten up at 9. shit.
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