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happy Pi/wedding day

Today I went out to south Jersey to a wedding of a friend of Brendan's. Yes, the wedding was on March 14th (3.14, also known as Pi Day) at 1:59 pm. Most people don't get married at such exact times like this, but if you have a calculator lying around and type in "pi" to find the exact value, you will see it is precisely 3.14159...

Brendan's friend Nate is a software programmer (or something very smart...he started college at 14) at Google and his new wife Karen just graduated from RPI with a masters in Robotics Engineering. It was a very sweet wedding and completely perfect and fitting for the bride and groom! :)

a little perryn?

To anyone who knew me as a little kid, does this pic look vaguely (or spitting-image) familiar??? The messed up hair (except mine was blond), millions of necklaces in every color of the rainbow...yep, that was me!


for all the New York skeptics

New York really isn't as heartless a place as a lot of people (primarily in the south...) tend to believe. This morning as I was coming out of the Union Square subway station, I could hear a very old woman talking and a younger man standing near her. I noticed that she was struggling with something when I immediately saw what was going on. The woman (likely homeless) had some sort of cart with her that was too heavy to carry up the stairs by herself. The young man noticing this, stopped to help her and carried the cart all the way up the stairs for her, then turned around to ask if she needed any help getting up the stairs. He made sure the cart was secure and offered her as much help as she needed before he continued on his morning commute, in which the woman had a very grateful and polite response to his generosity.
 
So if you're one of those cynical New York skeptics, seeing this firsthand would probably change your mind, huh? I hope so!

a McKay story

Tonight I was talking to my mom and she said she had a funny story to tell me about McKay that she wanted me to tell Brendan. She and McKay were talking the other day and discussing all the different "br-" names they knew of: Brent, Brendan, etc. My mom then asked McKay if she knew who Brendan was, and McKay said of course she did... he was Aunt Perryn's friend who had November 6th too! (this is exactly the way she words it; and if you didn't pick up on this, she and Brendan have the same birthday, November 6) Then after a few more minutes of contemplating this, she said:

"Gammaw, Brendan sure is big to be 5."

Happy birthday GGMaw!

(a pic from GG's birthday a few years ago, back in Decatur!)

Today is GGMaw's 83rd birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I'm sad I missed out on dinner with the fam at Cypress Inn tonight, but I trust that the party and celebration went on just the same without me there! (I hope so anyway) I hope you had a great day GG!

"$14 an hour can hardly get me a metro card. So you can either pay me lots of money to design or I'll get coffee and stay an intern...but I can't do both."
- a disgruntled fellow coworker/intern about his new enhanced responsibilites upon the increased amount of layoffs at work

painting schools (my kind of volunteer event!)

A few weekends ago, a group from work volunteered with an organization called Publicolor to help paint a nearby school, Gramercy Arts High School, on a Saturday morning/afternoon. It was a blast - not only because I enjoy painting (a lot) but the organization seems to be a really great thing to help kids get involved in beneficial after-school programs and do something worthwhile with their time. AND, we painted the school some really awesome colors - Marigold, Italian Rose (HOT pink), and Plum Royale (a great, dark purple color). Here are a few pictures a coworker put together and emailed out.

so august of you

Some real estate brokers at the Corcoran Group in New York have lately picked up a phrase that Pam Liebman, their chief executive, has borrowed from a friend, a line she uses whenever people admit they've splurged on something a little luxurious: "That's so August of you."

Interesting article on how spending large amounts of money in today's economy is actually starting to be seen as "unfashionable." I don't know about that, but my new favorite phrase is "That's so August of you." What a good one!

missed connection at 10 Hanover

I'm not going to lie, I think these things are pretty ridiculous. But on the flip side, they do provide enormous amounts of amusement for me and a lot of my friends. This morning, taped beside the elevators in my apartment, this sign was unabashedly displayed. I'm thinking of emailing prty_eyes_10han just for kicks...

the finished product

Well, mostly finished anyways. There are always more ideas popping into my head 24/7 about things I could do to improve and upgrade the design appeal of my room. But for now, here it is!


(as a disclaimer, sorry I am not the best photog in the world. Maybe at some point I'll take better photos and post them again...but for now, this'll have to do!)