I will start this blog post by saying I hope we get some
amazing updates in return given this may be the most boring post this blog has
seen. Also, since I haven’t written more than 5 sentences together since
graduating, I think I will stick to something much easier: lists.
Things I Have
Learned Since Graduating
+ Despite having a Netflix account of my own now, I still
walk the one block to the blue Blockbuster Express machine to rent movies
+ Keeping your beer monies fund stocked up is still
important – some would argue more important
+ I have become worse at pong…and I suck at Beirut
+ You do not put periods at the end of bullets because they
are technically not complete sentences. Although this bullet may be…
+ People “appreciate” my love of leonbergers just as much
(“You talk about that dog that’s not even yours so much that you need to be sedated”)
+ “Dinner parties” held by Dartmouth
+ All climbing gyms have that amazing-old-and-wise-guy-who-knows-all-the-beta-but-smells-a-little-funky
+ “That kid” from school still exists
Things I Have Done
Since Graduating/My Last Blog Post
To Do with the
Office:
+ Played pong in my office on the ping pong tournament table
with my VP and two summer interns
+ Beat a particularly unfit Managing Director in the ping
pong tournament by running him from one side of the table to the other. But
doesn’t matter, I lost in the next (second) round. People took the ping pong
tournament very seriously, and it was supposed to start with an exhibition
match between the two heads of our group. No, that is not his real hair
+ Tried to set up liquor-treating in the office but failed
(maybe this year!)
+ Successfully got the following nicknames to stick for interns
at work: Scooter, Nickelback, Ice Tea. Please feel free to suggest new ones for
the new first years
+ Hid post it notes with penises drawn on them around
another VP’s office. Locations included: in a drawer, in a notebook, under his
dry board eraser, under his hand sanitizer, in his coat jacket. He found the
last one (it had two on it) 4 months later. Sometimes when my associate and I
are trapped in this VPs office, we draw on the white board (why yes, that is a
sea cucumber)
+ Explained to the morning cleaning crew guy what kind of
dog Enzo/Teo are (he asked very politely)
To Do with Getting
Out of NYC / Forgetting I’m in NYC:
+ Went to Texas
+ Drove a Black Lincoln Town Car from NYC à
Hanover à
Rumney because the car rental agency ran out of all other cars. Elar refused to
sit in the middle seat up front
+ Watched Lizzy crush at the EMS UBC Bouldering comp in Central Park !
+ Cooked for a bunch of friends once – one lasagna (homemade
noodles with my pasta maker!) with 3-meat sauce, another butternut squash and
pesto one
To Do with
Experiencing NYC:
+ Survived a hurriquake
+ Survived a zombie mob (no joke, a HUGE crowd of people
dressed up as zombies were walking through the street, jumping on cars, etc. We
were a little tipsy so it didn’t seem so weird at the time but the pictures the
next day were funny)
+ Not seen any celebrities
+ Become obsessed with noodles (if you want to come to NYC and
eat noodles let me know! These are from Momofuku)
+ Watched the Rangers play the Capitals in the NHL playoffs
+ Met a man asking to smell farts. He was a proponent of the
Fart Smeller Movement (so his sign said)
+ Trying to find water at 10 PM before the hurricane hit –
and running into a guy in a full Spiderman costume on an empty street with a
supersoaker. At least I think we had enough water in our apartment to be
trapped for a solid week. Too bad Irene punted.
New Things that I
am Obsessed with Besides Noodles
+ This Modernist Cuisine cookbook. It took them an absurd
number of years to complete. Their kitchen is more of a lab than a kitchen, to
do all these cutaway shots they actually cut all their pots and pans in half…so
I guess you could say they have two half kitchens. The book has around 2,400
pages and is beyond steep at $475 on sale. But it just looks so cool!
Modernistcuisine.com
