Cat fight

So I was on the new "M" train, which I still will never understand. I'm not sure how to even get a downtown M from the Essex St. station, because the "M" arrives on the downtown JZ track, not on the F track (as it does in most other stations -- I mean it was F/V before, so it should be F/M now).

Anyway, I get on this train and this overweight pregnant woman is screaming at a black woman from another country wearing one of those white dresses with the cloth covering her head.

It's FU back and forth all the way from Essex to 34th street.

"You shouldn't yell at her! She's pregnant!" says another projects-ish overweight woman who stands up to wave her arm around at her.

The white people pretend to not notice anything is going on.

A guy gives up his seat to try to calm down the black lady, but she keeps saying FU.

Then the pregnant lady and her new project-ish friend are so mean to the black lady, saying things like "Yeah, you don't think I know my baby's daddy? FU!! FU! Look at you all Christian-ish with that thing on your head -- we need to pray for YOU! FU! God help you! May God walk with you."

"FU! Bitch. Biiiitch!! Bitch."

And so on.

And then some mother is telling her child to not listen to the "adult conversation." Like anyone has a choice to listen to this?

Then the black lady finally got off the train. From what I could figure, they probably had bumped into each other and started cussing at each other, and at some point the black Christian woman must have told the projects girl that she didn't even know the father of her baby. And then that ensued. I'm guessing.

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Then I went to the dentist and WOW it was a very elegant reception area. I started to freak out about whether they accepted insurance or not, or if there was some extra charge for the lovely crystal pitcher of iced lemon water with the highest quality clear plastic cups (they were such high quality I felt guilty throwing it away). And very nice club lounge-quality couches.

Then the dentist had a screen with movies or TV screen and the hygenist asked me in a depressed voice which show I wanted to watch, The Office, The Daily Show, 30Rock, etc. So I watched that during the teeth cleaning. The dentist said next time I should bring headphones as unfortunately the sound of the equipment made it difficult to hear the TV. He was right, but I mean, when you're used to staring at linoleum ceiling tiles and focusing on not drooling too much, you really aren't very picky about actually hearing the TV show. You're just happy there is a TV show.

I complimented the water pitcher they had and he said I must work in finance. I thought that was odd and said no, and told him what I did. And he said I must be used to the finer things in life, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Especially when I said "It's much nicer than the jug of water with the little paper cups the last place had."

I guess they don't charge extra for the nice extras, which is good. Especially because I had 2 cavities :( And some hole things from the pressure of grinding my teeth.

He was giving me an in-depth discussion of the teeth xray, which seemed educational and slightly boring until I heard "blah blah blah two cavities."

"What!!? I have 2 cavities?"

Yeah. Great. Oh well.

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Then this guy is giggling in my hallway. for the last few hours he walks by and giggles insanely. I think he must be one of the movers for someone else's apmt. I'm going to post a You Tube video of this so you can all hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JulieMelillo#p/u/6/qKdAMcnArOU

trains...

So I used to take the JMZ downtown -- didn't matter which I took. Got on the M today and realized the M has turned into the V! :( And it went uptown from a downtown JMZ station. So confusing!

So with 30 mins to get downtown, the subway instead takes me uptown one stop.

It was really bizarre to step onto what should have been a downtown train (that I take often) and end up going uptown along the stops the F makes. So weird.

For non NYers, this is like getting on I-10East and finding out that it's making you go to I-10West, except it isn't even the I-10 it's the 101. um, huh? Ya.

So I had to run outside at the first stop and get a cab back downtown to make it to my meeting on time.

Then a butterfly practically attacked me when I was walking out of the subway stairs (it had come into the subway part and then followed me out for a while, hitting itself into me a couple of times). Is it a sign? So odd as I've never seen a butterfly in a non-park-part of NYC, especially not in a subway.

:)

I'm back together w/ my boyfriend also. yay!

The Manhattan Diet

I was watching The Price is Right today, and realized I can no longer play this game. They're guessing prices of familiar grocery store foods. I used to be pretty good at this.

They show a Kraft-singles-type of cheese product, you know those little cheddar square slices you put on hamburgers? I yell out "$4.00!" "$4.50!" It ends up being $2.50.

$2.50?? How??

I then remember I live in this wonderful city of things being crazy expensive.

The only benefit of this, is you're enrolled in the quite effective Manhattan Diet, which is quite effective and easy.

The Manhattan Diet works like this.

You walk into the grocery store. You see food. 1) You can't afford some of it. 2) You have to carry it all the way home with your own arms, and it's really heavy. This is the Manhattan diet.

In other news, the Duane Reade girl is like "Do you have your card?" I don't have it as I changed purses recently. "Ah, guess I don't."

"Oh no. You know you get points for every dollar? So that means you're missing a lot of points. Wow. Wow that really sucks for you."

"Yeah, ok, it's ok."

"Yeah, wow, thats...I just feel bad for you, missing all those points. With your total being like $50 and everything."

Okay, THANKS for the sympathy DR lady. But clearly I have no card on me, so let's just make the best of this, ok??

And then, I see some of those really cheap plastic shoes in the drug store. The tag line is "more than just a shoe!" I look at it. It's clearly not more than a shoe. It is just a shoe. I made sure to check it wasn't a flashlight or a canopener or anything else, and yeah, just a shoe.

And this is a funny spoof of lady gaga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbkzBT5MJL0

Also these are funny (first part of each): http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/15/SPjlJjeZWe0

http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/258/ijgfBwq_vkM

http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/49/bKNsv4R3xtA

Rain

It's sooo rainy outside.

A few guys in pinstripe suits (who might be in the mafia? I couldn't tell) asked me for my umbrella, as the guy held out cash. I couldn't turn down the cash and so happily took $10 and then ran home. This was a good thing, because I wasn't planning on going the gym anyway, and it encouraged me to buy a McFlurry.

Apparently you actually get more wet running through the rain, but it made me feel like I was doing something about it.

I got a couple of new clients yay!

Stuff

So sitting in the coffee shop, a guy was just standing there, when he asked the cashier a question and then grabbed an iphone on the corner of the bar and took off running. I haven't seen someone run that fast before. He must have been a sprinter in high school.

The police are here now taking a report and I moved my purse from the back of my chair to my knee just in case. I also had my blackberry sitting out, so I'm just glad they didn't take it, since without my phone I really can't work. I'm normally really careful to not leave my purse on the back of my chair, but I happened to be lazy today, and that was definitely a good reminder.

The group of kids first went around asking for donations to their basketball team, which I declined as they looked more college-aged than high school. I'm just happy they didn't steal my stuff. The police are now giving the guy a ride, I assume to go driving around looking for the guy. The guy looks amused to be getting into the back seat.

But I'll bet the thief ran down to the jmz/f train and probably left the area.

Not very smart of the guy to risk all that just for one iphone...not even a laptop. And the coffee place has cameras that they are figuring out how to use.

This block is so weird in that it's really nice, but yet has a lot of crime from the projects being not too far away.

I left the city for about a week (was very fun!) and it was interesting to come back and get a fresh perspective. It was great to be away, and I was kind of annoyed by the crowds this time after coming back, which was new. I also noticed just how tiny my shoebox of an apartment actually is. I guess you get more critical of any city the longer you're there. Though I still <3 nyc of course :).

I'm now inspired to get more clients so I can someday get a couch and/or a bigger apmt! I have gotten more interest lately so that's great.

I'm also reading a book, which for some reason I haven't thought to do in about six or seven years...but it's fun.