Also, I am sick too.
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for Tiffypoo to finally let everyone know whats going on in her life.
First of all I would just like to let everyone know that I am cold. I'm still cold.
okay.
So Rach knows most of this stuff already, sorry you have to hear this again!
living situation:
NYC/Jersey City is great! I live in Jersey City (which is like a stone's throw from NYC, it's closer than Brooklyn and Queens and its cheaper!) My place is not too bad. I live in a 3fl house with 4 other people, one of which is my landlady. I most definitely have the best room in the house. It's the cutest (it was already furnished!) and largest out of all the rooms. The only drawback is that it's in the basement so I can hear everyone walking around...and also the heater in the room needs to be fixed too, so its cold in there. Heat still not fixed! But, I only pay $500/month with everything included (electricity, water, laundry, and cable) I know that sounds like a lot for renting a single room but it's actually pretty remarkable that I found something that cheap. I would be paying at least $300-400 more if I were in Brooklyn, which is where most 20-something NYC transplants flock to. What else? The place is really cute. My landlord, Carson, used to run a bed-and-bath in the house so all the decorations and furniture and little knick-knacks are super cute. There's a lot of french inspired things around the house because she catered to French tourists. There are two dogs, Jules and Maggie. Jules is an old-man dog. He has doggie osteoporosis. :( Jules had to be put down two weeks ago because he couldn't move his back legs anymore. Maggie is young and full of energy. She likes to chew things like power cords and shoes and people's plush horses... The house is like a 15-min walk to the train I take to get into the city and in a pretty safe part of Jersey City.
View from my bed
Maggie
working situation:
WNYC (Soundcheck) is awesome. I still have to do mundane intern things like make coffee and sort mail but I also do like actual work that a real producer would do. I've worked on two preps (like scripts for the host) so far and in the process of one right now for Wednesday's show. I do a lot of research, reading, and writing about music in all genres. I'm also in charge of the facebook and twitter accounts too. It's pretty cool and I've met a lot of interesting people. Every once in a while a big name will drop by like Ben Folds, David Byrne, Alex Ross...Regina Spektor is coming next week. I'm not exactly sure when the internship ends but I think it will most likely be in Feb or March. Internship was supposed to end this month but the senoir producer asked me to stay for the coming semester! We'll see where I go from there. Grad school has come across my mind again.
I also work at Whole Foods as a barista in their coffee shop. It's a pretty great job. I get paid $10/hr and work about 30-35 hrs a week. Just about everyone that works there is either a hippie or a hipster (yes there is a difference) and an alarming amount of them are from California. My department (specialty) is the coolest; it includes cheese, coffee and beer. The WF I work at is in TriBeCa (there are like 5 other stores in manhattan alone) which means there's a lot of young rich families everywhere. Without fail, on any given day, I will hear at least 3 babies crying. In addition to doing coffee I also get to make gelato! It's super fun coming up with different flavors and experimenting with ingredients. We have this sorbet that I came up with now, Hard Apple Cider. SO GOOD! I basically stole 5 bottles of Crispin's Hard Apple Cider from beer and used that as my liquid instead of water. num nums. Best part of working at WF: everyone calls me Tiffypoo.
With my internship I usually end up working 50 hrs a week and have one day off...oh that glorious day off. I'm basically working all the time.
financial situation:
I'm poor! Not a lot of money to spare here. It wouldn't be so bad if a) I had not been sued last month and b) at&t would not have taken $400 out of my bank account without my consent. Now I know you're probably like "What?! Why did you get sued?" Well it's a long story...here's the abridged version: my insurance company decided to deny the claim from when I got into a car accident in March and the dude's insurance company who I got into accident with sued me $1600 for that claim. This hit me out of nowhere last month. I was supposedly not covered with insurance at the time of the accident, but my mom swears that I was so she's looking for documents to prove that I was right now. In the meantime though I am obligated to pay off that money. I had to put $500 down and will pay $150 for the next six months. If my mom can prove that I was covered then I'll get reimbursed all the money, so let's hope that happens. The at&t situation is also really long and stupid too. I was basically fighting with them for a week over the $400 they took out of my bank account without me knowing. They basically told me they wouldn't put the money back into my account (the money they took out without my consent) unless there was another $400 that would replace it. Uh what?! stupid, so that's a lost cause. Also both of these things happened in one week, so I lost almost $1000 in just a few days...thank god I had enough money in my account to cover everything. I had to defer paying off my loans because of this. Luckily I make just enough money from WF to cover all my monthly expenses, but I only have about $100 breathing room each month...things are real tight! So my finances kind of suck right now, but I like the fact that I am completely independent, paying all my bills and rent on my own. I'm a big girl!
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other things 12/20/10
I have a boyfriend. His name is Ryan. He works at WF too; He is the beer buyer. He's also a musician. We've been dating since the beginning of October. Things are good on that front. He loves the Dead, Phish, and pot....he's a hippie. He is an aries. Our signs go together at least.
I got a membership to Bally's for my birthday. So now I can work out n stuff.
I think thats it for now. I'm going to read all the posts I missed now.
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