You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

It has been brought to my attention that I have been lax in my updates about life in NY. In truth, I have answered so many individual questions on the subject that it never occurred to me there are people who are interested and don't know most of it already. So, in the interest of disclosure, and to have it on record...

* I am fairly close to being registered with a couple of temp agencies that specialize in legal proofreading. These are different from regular temping agencies in that they are much more in need of people to work. So, while the regular temp agencies are watching paint dry because the job market for office workers is so lousy, the legal proofing agencies are in the rare position of having more work than they have people to do it.

This field really appeals to me at the moment, despite the lack of benefits, because I can make a pretty handsome paycheck even just working four days a week. Plus, it's exactly the kind of dry work that I can leave behind at the end of a shift so that I can focus on writing.


* I'll have a post soon with pictures of the new place, but I've still got some things to put away before that can happen. I'm still loving it, but I do have to leave the house with some semblance of a plan, and I can't really afford to take more than one trip Downtown and back a day, because even on the A, the subway trip is a huge time-suck.


* Saw Tropic Thunder, and I may post more thoughts on it later, but for now I'll just say that it's all kinds of awesome. I think I have a bit more affection for Pineapple Express, but TT still rocked like a boulder(c). Tom Cruise needs to not take himself seriously WAY more often. And Danny McBride should be in every film ever.


* There have been no celeb sightings so far, though I know I've ignored at least a couple of opportunities for such. I'm sorry, but when there's a mob in Times Square, screaming and flashing their cameras, my main interest is in avoiding it, rather than hanging around for whoever I'm supposed to be noticing. :P I will be seeing Dan Radcliffe next Tuesday, though, so that will be cool.

OH! I don't know if it counts (it does to me), but I did see Janet Dacal (who plays Carla in the cast of In the Heights, and who played Vanessa on the night I saw the show - and was AWESOME) outside the Richard Rodgers Theater signing autographs and greeting fans of the show. She's even taller and skinnier in person, which makes me sick. :D


And that's basically it, aside from the more humdrum stuff of getting a NY driver's license and a library card (first check-out: Georgette Heyer's The Black Moth). I've also loved watching the Olympics - how awesome is Michael Phelps, breaking another world record last night, even with chlorine water in his goggles?!