I'm starting to really get used to this lifestyle. Ask any of us ASME interns, and we'll say it already feels like we're in careers and are grown ups out in real world. Do I really have to go back to Marquette, take classes and study?! I really don't get to work at Sports Illustrated? Boo.
Oh quick off the subject note: Go USA women's soccer!!! Every desk television was watching the game vs. Brazil on Monday (Sunday?) and it was so, so exciting. I was never really interested in soccer, especially women's soccer, until I wrote that women's team preview for a June issue. So come time for the Brazil game, I knew all about the USA's history with Brazil in World Cup play and how especially intense that game was. With Abby Wambach's header to tie up the game, and Hope Solo's save in penalty kicks... USA beat Brazil. I literally had chills. What a great game. And... today! USA beat France in the semi-finals (which I was able to catch a part of). 2 goals in about 4 minutes. On to the finals!!!
Anyway, back to the real subject of this blog post. After a long Sunday and Monday of 12 hour work days each, aka 24 hours of work in 4 days.... my mom came into town to visit!!!! Wooohooo! A much needed break from work and hectic things. I met her Tuesday morning at her hotel by Penn Station area, we dropped our stuff off then headed to the Time & Life building so I could show her where I spend my working days. Then we grabbed lunch at Au Bon Pain and went to Times Square so we could wait in line at the TKTS booth in the hopes of grabbing some discount tickets for a Broadway show. After waiting, and waiting, we snagged some tickets to Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert. It's really popular on Broadway right now, and I remember hearing a lot about it in London.
Then it was over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the hopes of seeing the McQueen exhibit. I recently became aware that my Time & Life ID gets me free admission to several museums in the city, including the Met. But, I didn't know that I could also get a guest in for free. Sweet perks! I think my mom was impressed haha. We went to get in line for the McQueen exhibit, then after seeing the line wrapped around the whole museum... decided to forgo it. No time to wait in massive lines. So, gift shop it was. I got this really cool poster/print of an American flag but in the stripes is a written out, scribbly/artsy First Amendment phrase. Call me a journalism nerd.
^from the rooftop of the Met
After going back to the hotel to get ourselves together for the musical, we grabbed a really yummy dinner at this Heartland Brewery place near Radio City. And thankfully it was in walking distance of the Priscilla theater, so we easily got over there and grabbed our really good seats! I knew the show was going to be an over the top, fancy, high class drag show of the sorts, but other than that, I didn't know what to expect. I'm not going to spoil the plot, but there were a lot of sequins, glitter, bright colors, neon lights, feathers and everything else fabulous. The music consisted of a lot of Madonna and other "diva" songs like "It's Raining Men." And it was hilarious! Basically, it was a great mother/daughter's night out show. So fun!
And then. Dessert time. I had to introduce my mom to Magnolia Bakery's banana pudding. /I needed an excuse to get Magnolia's Bakery for the second time in 24 hours. Yes, the night before Steph, another SI intern, and I got some Magnolia cupcakes. Can't resist the attraction of Magnolia.
One of my favorite parts of her visit: getting to stay in the hotel with her. 2nd comfiest bed ever. 1st being my home bed. And it was so nice to sleep in and not get woken up by the sounds of the city and/or the massive sunlight that pours through my apartment window.
After a lovely continental breakfast at the hotel, I headed to work for a intern event of the sorts, with Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey. aka he's the EIC of all Time Inc. magazines aka he's the man. We had lunch and listened to him speak about the history of the company as well as about his background. He was quite the character. Southern accent, serious yet witty and absolutely hilarious. He was telling us to be excited about our jobs and that it's no good to be bored at a job... and he says, "I think that if you're bored, you may as well be dead."
Following that lunch with Huey, I met up with my mom at the Museum of Modern Art gift shop, grabbed lunch at this cafe place nearby and did some shopping in the area. Then it was time to grab our stuff at the hotel and part ways. boohooo! It was so great to have a few days break, see my mom and get some rest at the same time. :)
Upcoming plans: ASME has a luncheon at Glamour tomorrow, birthday party for Cathy (ASME intern) tomorrow, the SI interns have a lunch with Terry McDonnell (SI editor in chief) on Friday, then Friday night/Saturday I'm headed to Jersey to visit Jackie!!! :) And I'm not coming back until she shows me these amazing Jersey bagels I hear people rave about.
This is a scary thought but, I basically have 3 weeks left here. 3 weeks left of the most amazing internship ever, 3 weeks of NYC galavanting and exploring, 3 weeks left of this taste of awesomeness that I want for myself after graduation. I guess this summer is supposed to show us if this is what we really want, and while NYC is growing on me, what I do want is a job in magazines. Absolutely.
NYC and I were doing pretty well until Saturday night when a cockroach decided to scurry up my leg. I still get the heebie jeebies from it. yuck.
Well, that's all folks. Until next blog post. xxx
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