HoneyBee Boby

I really get a kick out of products packaged in Asian countries for American stores. A great little Asian run dollar store near us always has funny products. I took a couple of pictures with my phone of some toys today.

I think this HoneyBee Boby is supposed to be either HoneyBee Baby or LadyBug Baby. Some products that were not obvious had caucasion kids in the images but not a lick of English to explain what was inside.

A break from temping

Yahoo! An old boss working at an AR company recommended me for a position they were trying to fill in NYC and now I'm an environmental scientist. I don't think I'll actually being doing much more than glorified record keeping, but no more office clothes! I have to wear work boots, a respirator and at times, a hazmat type suit!

Work is at a construction site in the city and officially I'm monitoring air quality among other things.

All kinds of crazy stuff is happening in apartment land, but I'll save that for another day. The good news is that whatever happens, we're getting a dog finally!!!

Today I took advantage of not having to be at the jobsite, the warm weather and headed up to the Bronx Zoo. I posted a few photos from that on my flickr page. Nothing fancy, but just fun with my pocket-sized point and shoot. My flickr page is more of a blog than this is...

what's up these days

For anyone who actually looks at this but that I don't talk to much, post is for you. Email me to say "hi" sometime though because I love getting emails from old friends.

Craig (my SO and partner in crime as we move from city to city) and I are living in Brooklyn, NY. After a crazy lab job here, I've been toiling away in shitty office jobs as a temp. The fun part of temping is low responsibility and getting to see lots of different industries from the inside. I've worked at hedge funds, museums, magazines, design studios (clothing and architecture) and more!

Craig has an awesome job that he loves so that helps balance out my chaotic situation. He does math and programming--that's all you really want to hear about it from me.

The tv show Seinfeld has new meaning to us as we've lived so much of the shenanigans from that show. Just think about these tidbits: the man-bag, George sleeping under his desk, getting that apartment that an old lady lived in 50 years, mailman problems, and so much more.

I'm back!

I pretty much forgot about this thing. I tend to save my ramblings for small audiences via email. Are you on that list? If not, aren't you jealous that you don't get long emails about my daily life??

Currently, a better way to see what I'm up to is to look at my pictures

Lots of photos from my hikes (I hike while Craig and our friend Michael rock climb) at Mohonk Preserve. The pictures are mostly taken with a small digital point and shoot, so don't expect amazing art photos. They are enough for me to remember what I've done.

Back at it?

I'm going to try to get back to this, but no promises. Tonight I will ramble about music!

Luke Temple. I saw him about a year ago as the opener to to another show. He was awesome and the cd is still on my ipod. I saw him again this week, as the main event at Union Hall and was again impressed. He played all new stuff (not on the previous album). The new stuff isn't too far from the old but a little rougher around the edges, with a darker side that the first album seemed to be aiming at.

Also at that show was Adem. Good, charming performer. No cd for sale and I must say that I was a little disappointed. I'd be interested to see him again. Mostly indie rock with some experimental stuff like hand bells backing a reading.

I've been busy...

What can I say? The life-draining work I was doing at the attorney agency didn't leave me with much zeal for using the computer when I got home. I quit that job a couple of weeks ago, though. The lousy temp agency didn't call me for other jobs until yesterday so in the meantime I found a new agency. My first assignment with them was really short, but at a really nice place.

I was placed (shredding papers mainly) at a Japanese bank. Everyone was extremely nice and made a point to find out my name and come tell me many times to take lots of breaks, not to work too hard. One woman came in an whispered to me that she was giving me a key (all the doors--bathroom, main door, breakroom--had a key entry) and that I should "manage myself" and go outside for fresh air a lot. Isn't that sweet. To start the first day off, one young asian girl massaged the asian girl next to her for like twenty minutes. Weird, right?

We still don't have heat in the bedroom end of the apartment and we still need waders to try to talk our lawyer landlord about au problem such as lack of heat when the high temperature during the day is 45 degrees!!!

I promise more later.

updates soon?

So far I've not been very good about keeping up with this. I will blame my life-sucking temp job. This Wednesday is my last day at it (I told them to shove it, or something like that) so then I will have no excuses. When I catch up on this I need to do pictures and tell the story of me almost beating-up a beggar on the subway (note the word "almost"--don't get your hopes too high).

New York has claimed two more in my life: my very youthful car battery and my trusty umbrella. What's next, NY? What's next...