Bacon

Today was super humid. It felt like I was swimming in air! Dylan and I beat the heat by going to the Met to see the Francis Bacon exhibit. I like his paintings a lot. They are amazingly creepy. There were several rooms full of them. Here's a taste:

On Sunday I made Italian Enchiladas and tonight I made Tex-Mex Lasagna. I'm mixin' it up around here.

Happy 4th

So, the weather has improved and I've been working on my tan.

Dylan's pal Kevin from high school days came to NYC for a visit.

On the 4th, I called grandma up and got her potato salad recipe. It turned out pretty good!

We went to Sarah and Frank's place in Brooklyn for a cookout on their patio. Dylan works with three of these people.
This is Pickles the puppy. I wish she would have played with me more.
Dylan was psyched to eat all of this food!

I also made the blueberry pie to the left. It was so tasty, as was the pride cake.

Everyone was having a good time.

We couldn't see the real deal NYC fireworks, but some people were shooting them off the roof, so we got a little firework action.

sometimes it stops raining

Last week Dylan and I experienced some art by Ernesto Neto at the Armory.

These droopy things were filled with different things like cloves and cayenne pepper.
The installation was supposed to represent the body or something.

On Tuesday our class took a trip to the Bronx Zoo. It was a beautiful day.

Watching the Sea Lion feeding:
Posing for the camera...


Friday night Dylan and I went to the Intrepid Museum where they were showing TopGun for free on the aircraft carrier!

It was a beautiful night.

Check out the skyline!

Then we stopped for a snack at Market Diner with Mike and Caitlin.

I ate this huge, tasty chunk of bread pudding.

boring blog sans pictures

As of late:

1. Curse of the bedbugs fell upon us. TERRIBLE (but getting better).

2. Raining like crazy.

3. Spent one nice day at Rockaway Beach.

4. Saw the Philanthropist with Matthew Broderick and Steven Weber (from Wings) for free. It was just ok.

5. Went to a David Byrne concert at Prospect Park for frees. Fun.

6. 2 MORE WEEKS OF TEACHING LEFT!

3 day weekend coolness

First off, conGRADuations to Jessica who just graduated with a masters from Teachers College!!!!

Today I went along with the 6th grade girls to Camp Kaufmann for Girl Scouts. It was nice to get out of the city and they girls had a lot of fun. It's funny how they forget to be naughty when they are out in nature having fun.

These are two of my girls Sonia and Niona. Niona ate 3 hotdogs. I told her she should enter in the contest at Coney Island and she said, "I'm gonna!"

This is my little Luz. She is very timid and was scared to go on the trip, but I made her and look how much fun she ended up having!

This Memorial Day weekend was spent with a visit from Steven Kholman and Matt Wulf.

Classic BB shot:

Saturday we checked out Coney Island...it's a weird place.

OCEAN:

They are starting to take some of it down.

Sunday we went to Dylan's co-worker's place for a BBQ. We got rained in for a bit, but Matt didn't mind.

Staten Island Ferry = Free Fun!

Lady Liberty = Thumbs Up!

newish things

Last weekend, I went on a retreat with the staff at my school. It was great, we stayed at the Mariott in Terrytown, just north of the Bronx. I really like my co-workers.

This is the view from our hotel room. Nature...
Here's my friend Natalie resting on our comfortable beds.

Yesterday Dylan used his powers of persuasion and scored us some really nice seats at Yankee Stadium for a really low price. The Yankees were playing the Twins!

The new stadium is super fancy!
Lots of big screens and things to look at...

We were so close! The left fielder could hear you if you wanted to tell him something...

This guy talked to us even though we were Twins fans.

We were having a nice time....but then things started to get a little tense.

People caught on to us and began heckling and harassing.

Here are some things that were yelled at us:

"Is that your cousin or your girlfriend?"

"They must be Twins!"

"All the denim in the world can't save you now!" (We both happened to be wearing jean jackets).

"Take a picture while someone's kicking his ass!"

"Boooooooo!"

It was pretty exciting.

The Twins lost.