Only in New York City

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I was running in Central Park last week with some friends, when we passed by this guy walking in his work clothes, aviator sunglasses, and an arm cast... with a Louis Vuitton pattern on it!

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Today I was walking home from the subway on Broadway, when a flatbed truck passed by me. It was carrying a taxi, lights, a film crew, and a rain-making machine. Cool, huh? They were filming in motion right in my neighborhood! I wonder who was in the taxi!!!! I wish I could have gotten a look! It was probably one of my celebrity best friends.

I GOT PAID!!!!!

My first paycheck. This makes me feel happy!!! :D

Happy like this:

Who needs power tools?

I've been in my new apartment on the upper west side for 3.5 weeks. I JUST put up my curtains 2 days ago. When I didn't have my furniture yet, I would move around my makeshift bed back and forth in the morning to avoid the strong morning sun (which is actually a good problem to have in NYC!). After I got my furniture, I fashioned a temporary curtain with a bedspread by jamming the corners of the bedspread in the window cracks.

So I was determined to put up my new curtains, which were painstaking in themselves to purchase. First of all, the window is long and no standard rod will cover it. Also, it takes 3 curtain panels to cover. But the real problem was the rod, which I had to construct from 2 separate decorative rods. Keep in mind that I don't have any power tools or a screwdriver. All I have are a hammer and a pair of small pliers. And these are the tools that I used to install my rod and curtains. I devised a plan.

1. hammer in a nail to introduce a hole
2. screw in a medium length wood screw (w/ pointy end) to widen the hole
3. screw in actual bracket

Phew! This took me about an hour and a half to do. Oh but how satisfying. :) I put them up all by myself!!

Update (little by little)

Nadder and others of the Michigan group came to San Francisco for the Orthopedic Research Society conference at the end of February/beginning of March. Apparently, after the engineers leave (research is the first 3 days), 30,000 docs come into town to receive their CME credits. I hear that some docs get to the conference, punch in, and then go sightseeing. Reassuring, huh? You think that your specialists are keeping up with the times, but not necessarily! I guess, if I were them, I might actually attend only half the time. After all, what really happens in a year? Not much!

Anyway, after the conference was over, Nadder and I got to hang out in my neck of the woods, finally!

Monterey Bay Aquarium

And then we went on this lawyer retreat with my lawyer sibling and her lawyer friend. We also attended a crazy lawyer dinner where we ordered a ridiculous amount of alcohol because we could... and to compete with the other lawyer tables.
We also went for a hike/snowshoe in the Sequoia grove. We did some tree hugging we sure did. Jeanne heart trees.