Day Thirteen and Fourteen
I was completely exhausted Friday night, so I went to bed early and woke up late. I worked on college applications all morning. It was not very exciting.
I finally decided to face the world around 2pm and went shopping with my hilarious, yet crazy sister. We walked down to Fifth Avenue among the throngs on tourists. Yikes. It was also raining. It’s been awful weather for the past couple days.
For dinner, Meredith made delicious lasagna. Steve’s parents were in town, so they came for a calm dinner. After dinner, I took a cab uptown to hang out with some Calhoun friends. We watched The Big Lebowski. Very relaxing day.
I made it home around midnight, and went directly to bed.
Sunday started similarly. College apps all morning, then lunch by myself at Whole Foods. I went out walking with Mere again, then found myself shopping again. Whoops. We’re having dinner at the apartment, then I’m meeting my old roommate from Parsons downtown. I cannot wait to see her! She’s a freshman at Parsons now. I’m so excited.
All in all, it was a nice weekend. I’m sad though. I feel like I’m going home really soon. I miss my family, but I’m not sure I want to return…
Also, I forgot to mention that I met up with the Broadway Winterim on Friday! It was nice to see some familiar faces.
I wish it was that nice this weekend.
on November 15th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
New York sounds amazing, boss! Where have y0u been shopping?
on November 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am
A few thoughts:
Hard to picture Meredith cooking. I spent 25 days in Thailand watching her avoid pretty much everything but white rice… go Meredith’s lasagna! (and of course say hi for me).
Dora is one of Freud’s notoriously bad cases — he wasn’t great with women. There’s a bizzare novel loosely based on that case, The White Hotel by D.M.Thomas — it’s very surreal.
Is plopping poor, non-white kids down in Westchester county any different than doing the same thing at Miami University (notoriously un-diverse)? Maumee Valley? What kind of support to people need to succeed?
One of the problems with busing (public school integration) historically was that it moved poor black kids into schools with poor white kids — and no one got the advantages of the wealthy suburban schools. It seems like the Westchester plan tries to address that.
on November 16th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
What perspective do you have on teaching after working with these LS students?
It seems that some of the Calhounigans have invited you into their lives. Is hanging out with them just about the same as Maumee Vallians?
See you soon,
Mrs. K
on November 18th, 2009 at 1:58 am
you got home at midnight abby!!!!! promise me that you took a cab and not the subway.