I only have a couple of weeks left of my internship, and then I'm going to spend a week traveling around NYC and D.C. with my best friend Jenny, and I'll come home for a few weeks before my last year of University begins. It's all pretty mundane, but for the most part, it's been everything I've expected, and even hoped for.
I know it makes me incredibly nerdy, but I picked up some guide books at the public library, while perusing for Lethem novels and design books. Zagat rates the top 1,350 bars, clubs, and lounges in NYC, which even the worst of them stomps the Walla Walla and San Luis Obispo scene to the ground. I'm stoked to go to hipster music clubs and art bars, horribly themed dives, and wait in hideous lines to get into pretentious new hot spots with rumored celebrity sitings, to maybe even be turned away at the door. I think we'll just invest in some pepper spray and a rape whistle and maybe even one of those tasers, if necessary.
A youth pastor from Albany raised $10,000 for an event that him and his youth group call: Run for Love. It's nice that we're a public charity, but our work is very humanitarian, which is very embraced by the Christian church, but also respected by the atheist and agnostic community. We're not concerned with pushing our beliefs on anyone, but we would like to protect and restore exploited and trafficked children. And you're very welcome to help us. The Run for Love team is running from Albany, NY to New Haven, CT which is 150 miles, in 5 days, 30 miles a day. Some are breaking it up into relays, but Mark, the youth pastor, is running all 150 himself. Amazing. We're having a party for him when he arrives at a restaurant across the street in a few minutes.
Then, at 3pm, Elizabeth and I are going to promote Love146 at the Paramore show on the Honda Civic Tour. Hayley donates a substantial amount to our organization every month. She's amazing! I designed some postcards that we'll hand out at every show for a contest we'll be having. The tour will have a slew of those pop punk bands that are huge at Warp Tour, making me nostalgic for my teen days of black eyeliner, studded belts, jagged bangs and bad highlights.
Gonna be good day.
Best wishes.
3 comments:
you wore black eyeliner? i don't like you with make-up....:) well i like you however...but not as much with eyeliner. :)
haha..studded belts. so true. you didn't wear eyeliner very much though...and you're forgetting your band shirts. you wore them all the time!
ha ha no, i wore eyeliner when I was like 13 or 14, before we ever met :) ha ha, it was a bad idea. but yeah, band shirts, that took me a bit longer to grow out of, ha ha . . .
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