Hot Child in the City

Day Ten

Yesterday was so much fun. True to form we didn't get out of the house until after 4.00, but that didn't prevent us from having a great day anyway.

Starting next week, Elke will be taking comedy classes at Second City during the day, and she wanted to be sure she knew how to get there, so we did a test run. We looked up the locations of a few cool-looking stores and spent most of the evening shopping. First we went to American Apparel, because Elke wanted to return something. They had this amazingly beautiful halter dress that had just come in, but they only had it left in extra large. I plan on returning to see if they have new ones until I leave if I have to.

We went to a few other cool-looking stores. I had mapped it out so that our final destination would be the best place in the world: The Strand. The Strand's motto is, "18 Miles of Books." Yes, you read that correctly, that said MILES. I saw it on someone's bag when I was getting on the plane, and I immediately wrote the website address on my hand. It's this gigantic multi-level USED right in Union Square. They have some new books, but most of their books are used. We spent HOURS there. Neither of us bought anything. I looked through the entire craft section and couldn't find a single book to buy. One book had an awesome knitting section, but the rest of the book was useless to me and it was a HUGE book, so I don't really have room for it.

After our growling stomachs pried us away from The Strand, we sought out something delicious to eat. It turned out we were only a couple blocks away from Zen Palate, one of Elke's favorite restaurants, in the entire city, so we went there. It's a completely-vegetarian Chinese restaurant. I got spinach noodles with a peanut sauce and some peanut basil rolls and then Elke and I split some vegetable dumplings. It was surprisingly really good. But I still have no clue was the hell wheat gluton is.

We wanted to go to a bar while we were down there, as it was already 10.00 p.m., but neither of us was dressed appropriately. I hadn't even showered in 3 days (I know, I know). So we headed home. On the subway we met this really funny girl named Ellen who just moved here from small-town Georgia a year ago. She went to college in Athens, Georgia. She was just really excited about everything. Elke and I wanted to make friends, but I guess we didn't have enough time.

When we got home we CLEANED the apartment. I rounded up all the spare hangers in the entire apartment so we could hang up our clothes. I couldn't find more than 30, and she took enough clothes with her for the entire summer. I did the dishes and changed the litter box and Elke vacuumed the entire place. We cleaned the kitchen (but not yet the fridge) and the bathroom. The cleaning lady was supposed to come last week, so we didn't bother until now. I also organized all my clothes to make living out of a suitcase more bearable, which is something that NEEDED to happen, as I have NO room in my bedroom.

We were supposed to get up early today in order to be less lazy, so Elke went to bed early. I, however, got wrangled into staying up until like 5 a.m. to keep one of my friends company. Then I proceeded to have the WORST dream I have ever had, but that's a story for another day....

posted by Megan @ 11:41 PM