work and clouds and things

Busy busy busy.
90+ hour weeks and Michelle gets in tomorrow to visit!
Pics from the past few weeks.

The last of the Coco man.

Makeshift repair area. Fixing a dimmer rack.

Buying some football jerseys.

View from the roof in the morning.

A rare glimpse of sunset in Astoria. Too many late nights (we got off early this night only because we were back at 4am).

That is a rental cart of boom bases. Each one is 50 lbs. If that falls on you, it will be bad.

View from the shop.

The new gel girl knocked over the entire gel cabinet. I thought it was funny. Our gel files are now on the floor.

10th Ave while loading a truck at rush hour.

We were pretty desperate for sandbags for awhile, which is why we were using this. It stopped leaking after I taped it up.

I got to climb on top of the freight elevator and hook up lights! Best: they did not stop using it.

Autumn

I've been trying hard to deny it for the past couple of days, but fall is here. There's a chill in the air. It's kinda cold in fact. And work wise, the busy season is here. One day you're getting out at 5pm every day, the next day you're happy to go home by 8.

Seems like summer only last 2 weeks in NYC. But what a great two weeks!

This and that....

Stopped by my corner Italian Bakery for a coffee on Labor Day morning and got this cup:

It is so patriotic!!


This came with some gel we ordered. Creepy, yet funny.

They showed some operas for free outside of the Lincoln Center. I went, and had more fun then I expected. This was La Boheme, but not just any La Boheme, the one I saw in Vienna. Which I love. It's crazy to me to think that 3 years ago I was watching operas outside on a big movie screen at the opera festival at the Rathaus. I still went alone, but it was such a different setting. In New York people sat on the ground, and were really quiet, and some brought picnics or would have a drink from the bar there. In Vienna people talked and yelled at the movie and danced around. Hardley anyone sat. It was so crowded! And everyone ate, I bought so much food there. That's where I had my first Apfel Strudel. But this was fun too. Good job New York.

Look! I used geometry in my everyday life! I had to fit these different size circles, which normallly would take up 14 sheets of gel, onto 9 sheets. And I did it.

They had a free grill-out on the roof for the employees the other day. It was nice. Pretty view.

The shop boys attempt to use cardboard to pre-emptively soak up the leak we sometimes get. I thought it looked like a bad art project.

For all that people make fun of me for my public bathroom pictures, people in New York talk about hand dryers. On numerous occasions people have talked about bars or restaurants and then then mentioned their hand dryers. Girls have made me go to the bathroom if there are really cool ones. And these are the coolest I've seen. they have a light on them! It's crazy!

Tara bought me a cupcake for my birthday! It was sweet of her. And the cupcake was sooooo good!

This is what it looks like when lift gates break. You can also see the broken cart in the background. That's what broke the lift gate. I was operating it at the time, with one of the guys helping me. It was scary, but not really as much as I thought it would be.

Dinner with Nick! Bruscetta.

Public bathroom: Central Park. They made the toilet paper holder out of an old street sign!

Christine, playing music on her back patio.

Ok, this is from a long time ago, but I never posted it. It is a pineapple filled with vegetables. A PINEAPPLE FILLED WITH VEGETABLES!!! How awesome is that?!

Summer dayz!!

Nick is in town every weekend!! It is good times!!

We went and saw The Bacchae, which is the second show of the free NYC Shakespeare in the Park thing. It's pretty famous. Or at least in the theatre world. Anyway, we had to get there way early in the morning (there being central park) and wait in line, but we got tickets! It was really cool to see the show and be a part of all of that, it's something I've wanted to do, this particular show, however, was awful. I don't know how they managed to make one of the most intense and gruesome plays of all time boring, but they did. Too bad I could never get tickets for 12th Night (the other show they did this summer, which sold out every night. Anne Hathaway was in it.)

Lots of waiting in line.

We got to play in the park afterwards!

Nick and I in Washington Square Park on the opening night of my show.

My roomie gave me that dress cuz it didn't fit her. Isn't it pretty?

More waiting in line.

Of course Evita impressions.

Nick likes to hug trees.

We are halfway thru the 2 hour trip to Coney Island!

Do not even think about trying to eat this food. It's for display only.

If this doesn't make you hungry I don't know what will.

Yah! Look at the size of those things!!

I was trying to build a sandcastle on my stomach without looking, and Nick just walked away from me!

Waves.

I have always wanted to be silhouetted by the sea.

Nick yelled at me for standing on this wall thing. I know it looks like nothing, but the waves were crazy because of all the tropical storms. They would take out about 2 feet of sand with them when they went back out. The lifeguards were having a fit at pretty much anyone who tried to swim. It was fun!

Nick got me, for my birthday, a kind of shared gift. It's a book that we've both been wanting incredibly bad ever since we saw part of it on display at the National Gallery. Jazz by Henri Matisse. It's pretty fascinating, we spend the whole night when we got back from the beach reading it and watching Youtube videos. Matisse says "Think that all of those who have succeeded, when they remember the difficulties of their beginnings, cry with conviction: "Those were the good days." I guess he would know.