Weekend wrap-up

It was sunny all weekend! Hallelujah. Friday afternoon had a job interview of sorts at a website called Flavorpill.com. They're expanding into style & design and need somebody to head it up. Cross your fingers for me! They won't be able to hire for maybe a month, but it sounds like a great gig. Also have an interview this coming week at the Post's Page Six magazine and heard back from Fashionista.com - they're not hiring until July but want me to get back in touch then! It's encouraging that people are showing interest - makes me think I'm less nutty for moving here without a job.

After the interview, left SoHo and met up with Caitlin and Gael at the Target in Brooklyn (there's no Target in Manhattan, if you can believe it). Bought a few household-y things, but decided I'd do most of my buying at IKEA.
Which I did... The next day.

But first, Friday night: middle Eastern food near Caitlin's place, followed by drinking at her apartment with friends. Caitlin and I went to a couple of bars later and talked to A) a pair of nice Brooklyn-eccentric guys, B) no one. Honestly, at a the second bar, everyone thought they were too cool for school and one guy even walked away from us after chatting for one minute. I can't do Brooklyn boys - they're too much like Austin boys! (Scruffy and aloof). In fact, I'm not too into Brooklyn at all - at least for living. Too quiet and too much hassle with the subway (it's always being fixed or something). But unlike most Manhattanites, I'm happy to visit.
Spent the night on Caitlin's futon that night as the trek between our places would be near-impossible late at night.

Saturday Caitlin and I caught the free shuttle from Port Authority to IKEA. We were measuring my room and lost track of time (hungover) and suddenly realized it was 2 and the last shuttle was set to depart at 2:30. So we raced down to Columbus Ave., caught a cab, told the driver to step on it, ran from the cab all the way to Gate 5 at Port Authority and made the bus with two minutes to spare. Whew!

Spent quite a bit at IKEA, so I really hope I get a job soon, but my room is going to be amazing! It will have tons of storage. Having most items delivered tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, though we were able to carry our smaller items on the bus. It's pretty convenient, that shuttle, and delivery was only $99 for up to $15 items. They'll carry them inside for you, too.

We got back from IKEA starved and decided to grab dinner in my neighborhood. Tried a spot that's literally around the corner - I'd been curious about it. Voza. Tiny, narrow place, with a distressed wood interior and probably only about seven small tables total, inside and on the sidewalk. It was great! When we arrived the waiter seemed slightly disgruntled, but I announced to him that I was a new neighbor and he ought to be nice to us and soon he was helping me with my sweater and being as sweet and attentive as can be. The menu had a mix of fresh bistro-type fare, with many seafood choices, and then the chef came to our table and recited about 10 more choices, many of them seafood. Just as I was about to order the mussels the last order sold out. But we did have the crab bruschetta special, and it was sublime. Definitely a new favorite spot for when I want to treat myself, in the meantime, I'll just walk by frequently and wave. I'll be a sort of ghost regular.

Well, more stuff happened over the weekend, involving sunshine, reading at Central Park, watching the water at Riverside park, exploring the posh part of the Upper West Side (where I live isn't too posh), a foiled attempt to have brunch in Brooklyn, and brunch and shopping in SoHo with Maria finished off by a trip to Trader Joe's - my first in four years. That was a happy moment.