New York City @ MindSay

I AM A MESS

I only have to survive two more weeks...

But there's sooooo much to dooooo.

This goddamn Ivy League education had better be worth it.

 

Due Wednesday the 30th: 20-page paper about whiteness and the Rwandan genocide for Ethnic Conflict and Unrest

Due Friday the 2nd: 20-page paper for Social Entrepreneurship (haven't even picked a topic)

Due Thursday the 8th: 20-page paper for Theorizing Civic Engagement (still need 3 more interviews)

Due Monday the 12th: 20-page paper for Agricultural and Urban Land Use (already wrote a 10-page rough draft, but it needs lots of work)

 

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That was New York City.

Here's some more with my haircut:

 

 

(I was playing with my cat "burt mccrackhead")

 

i love those glasses, alot.

 

 

obviously.

 

 

 

 

THE END.

 

1. The lead singer of the New Pornographers. An AMAZING concert.
2. Emily outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
3. Emily and I at the Met with Anna and Sigourney, two of the girls from my ELP group.
4. The dinner party that Emily and I hosted.
5. Porcupine cake! This was honestly the best dessert ever. So friggin good.
6. Playing Apples to Apples. Only the best. game. EVER!
7. At the MMs store. Just so many small candy-covered chocolates. Just so many.
8. Fulfilling childhood dreams at the American Girl Place. I had to sneer at lots of little children in order to get them out of the way so Emily could take this picture.
9. Again, at the American Girl Place. Really, just too much excitement.
10. Outside of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where we saw Spring Awakening. Which was AWESOME.
11. At the Pumpkin Festival in Central Park. We are really adorable.
12. Again, at Pumpkin Fest. It was all to raise money for children with life-threatening illnesses. They were trying to get as many people as possible to carve pumpkins. There were LOTS.
13. At the Imagine memorial at Strawberry Fields. Emily and I had a real adventure finding it. But it was totally worth it. We got lots of exercise and saw tons of Central Park!
14. Emily and I. What a wonderful weekend!

ps. Emily is alabasterfae. And she's awesome.

We've all heard it said that we are what we eat, and this article in the New York Times gives credibility to that old saw. The article traces the decline of the hot dog and the rise of the halal platter as the preferred meal of choice offered by street vendors in New York City.

“The hot dog now is for tourists,” said a rueful Chafik el-Mokhtar, office manager at 2M Friend Corporation, a hot-dog cart garage and supply store on West 47th Street near 11th Avenue.

 

“The people usually go for chicken and rice because it’s good for hunger,” he added wistfully.

 

On some corners of Manhattan, halal carts outnumber hot-dog vendors by as much as three to one. Mr. Abouelenein’s cart, named 53rd and 6th, after the Midtown corner on which it sits, stays open from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m., feeding throngs of clubbers, foodies and cabbies. Its success has been such that Mr. Abouelenein recently opened a new cart across the street, supplanting — yes — a hot-dog stand.

It turns out that this shift in demand and food consumption is a result of the immigration patterns and demographic trends in New York. In short, as the ethnic makeup of New York changes, so do the food preferences and available culinary options.

The most obvious explanation for its popularity is that the city is home to many more Muslim immigrants than in the past.

 

Arthur Schwartz, a New York food historian who runs the Web site foodmaven.com, also suggests that a particular kind of customer has been instrumental to the success of halal carts. “You can always tell who the new immigrant group is by the cabdrivers,” Mr. Schwartz said. “Most of the cabdrivers are now Bangladeshi, and the car service drivers are Egyptian. And they are good customers for the carts.”

The rise of halal as the top selling menu item from street vendors in New York City is a good example of why the notion of cultural assimilation that is being advanced in the ongoing immigration debate is such a red herring. Assimilation would keep all New Yorkers eating hot dogs. But free market conditions allow New Yorkers to freely choose among competing food options, with little or no regard given to the cultural identity of the food.

 

People eat what they like and, as such, expose the proponents of assimilation to be anti-choice and anti-free markets. It seems to me that assimilation is about as un-American as you can get.

That was the weather forecast for today, funny ah?  And, it happened too.

Today we went to IHOP for  the morning, just made it in time not to be crowded with people who where celebrating fathers day. Then we did laundry (yay clean clothes)
Well today for the first time I went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean (Sachuest Beach), and it was quite smashing. Salty but fun, after about a half a hour in there I just lied about in the sun. Laying in the sun takes a lot out of someone who hasn't done that in a long time, Making all that vitamin D.
After that we stopped at a book store so we could look up some neat places to go to when we go to New York City and also D.C.  (If anyone has any IDEAS or knows of any really awesome places to go please tell me)
Then we headed over to the Navy Base, where I took a few pictures of the Newport bridge, and also a few photos of WWII Air Craft Carriers (there where two, one was being disassembled and the other one was being turned into a museum.) Number 59 which had one of the largest flight deck fires in Naval History.

I'm haveing tons of fun.

For New York City I was thinking about going to a few places
             American Museum of Natural History
             The Cloisters
             CHINATOWN
             Brooklyn Museum of Art

For D.C. I was thinking about going to
             International Spy Museum
             United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
             Folger Shakespeare Library
             Great Falls Park

Take care everyone, If you have any suggestions I'm open ears.