This Sunday I'm heading down to Newark to look at a house with my
old roommate, Mary, her boyfriend Matt, and my Matt. If all things work out, it'll be the four of us and her brother in a house. Matt and I would get 2 rooms upstairs As would her brother, and Matt and Mary would get the downstairs "master" bedroom that has a half bath attached. The only thing that bothers me about the place is thatthere is only 1 full bath in it. 5 people, 1 shower. Ew.
If the house isn't quite right then there's the option of getting a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment, which would most likely have a lower person to shower ratio. I've been pretty spoiled. Last year I had a bathroom all to myself, even now I only have to share the bathroom in my house when my sister comes home or if Matt is up, and sharing a bathroom with them isn't a problem at all.
Either way, I plan on taking pictures and trying to figure out what we're going to do. Oh yeah, and find a job. Sweet.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Pet Peeves
Okay, it's really only one pet peeve right now. Grammar, or the complete and total lack of it on the internet.
Basic rules (things that should have been taught in elementary school but have somehow been forgotten)
1. There are differences between "there" "they're" and "their," "too" "to" and "two," "right" and "write" and all the other ones that get mixed up.
2. If you are describing how an action makes you feel, the verb 9 times out of 10 should have an s at the end.
ex: Writing this makes me happy. Reading improper grammar annoys me. Having these pet peeves drives me crazy. The only exception is if the second half of the phrase is expressing something in the future (Writing incorrectly will drive me mad).
3. Abbreviations drive me nuts. You has 3 letters. Express yourself with intelligence. Please.
4. While I'm fairly certain that both examples are "grammatically acceptable," one does make you sound like more of an ass than the other.
I haven't eaten today vs. I've not eaten today. To me, the second one sounds pompous, and I cannot explain why.
5. A lot is two words. Check it out on spell check.
6. Lastly, if you don't know how to spell it, and you're writing it on the internet, please just go and check it on dictionary.com. It takes 3 seconds, and it spares you from having to phonetically spell out whatever it is you are trying to say. This does not apply to text messages, since that relies mostly on your prior knowledge of how to spell a word.
Rant over.
Basic rules (things that should have been taught in elementary school but have somehow been forgotten)
1. There are differences between "there" "they're" and "their," "too" "to" and "two," "right" and "write" and all the other ones that get mixed up.
2. If you are describing how an action makes you feel, the verb 9 times out of 10 should have an s at the end.
ex: Writing this makes me happy. Reading improper grammar annoys me. Having these pet peeves drives me crazy. The only exception is if the second half of the phrase is expressing something in the future (Writing incorrectly will drive me mad).
3. Abbreviations drive me nuts. You has 3 letters. Express yourself with intelligence. Please.
4. While I'm fairly certain that both examples are "grammatically acceptable," one does make you sound like more of an ass than the other.
I haven't eaten today vs. I've not eaten today. To me, the second one sounds pompous, and I cannot explain why.
5. A lot is two words. Check it out on spell check.
6. Lastly, if you don't know how to spell it, and you're writing it on the internet, please just go and check it on dictionary.com. It takes 3 seconds, and it spares you from having to phonetically spell out whatever it is you are trying to say. This does not apply to text messages, since that relies mostly on your prior knowledge of how to spell a word.
Rant over.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
What I'd like to Do....
What I'd really like to do is go on a rant. I'm not going to. You'll all just have to be rant-less.
What I will do is talk about my adventure into New York City today.
To start with, it isn't every day that I get to be in 3 states in as many hours (I'm pretty sure I did that when I went down to Baltimore last Friday, and I do that whenever I go down to Matt's... so okay it does happen but not normally on a Tuesday). I woke up early this morning, hopped in the car and headed out to Trenton Transit Station in Trenton, New Jersey. It's not a terribly exciting place, but it is the most convenient for me when traveling to New York. It requires minimal parking thought (there's a giant parking garage behind the station) and minimal travel thought. You buy the round trip ticket from Trenton to New York Penn Station, get on the train, and whoosh. It's the End of the Line for both stations, so whenever the train stops for good, you do too!
I arrived in New York around 10:30, met up with a friend from college and grabbed a really delicious breakfast at the Skylight Diner nearby. It's particularly tasty, I highly recommend you try it if you get a chance. I wish I could tell you how to get there, but I just don't know. I got scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and home fries, all of which were wonderful. Plus, they laid the bacon on top of everything like a little bacon blanket. I should have taken a picture, but you'll just have to use your imaginations. After we walked around toward the High Line, which is an old above ground elevated train track that has been converted into a garden of sorts. We walked around there (also no pictures, eesh) and it was beautiful. We also looked at some of the local street art (semi rogue artists who do the graffiti painting but not tagging. I do have pictures of this, which will be put onto facebook) which was incredible, then headed up to Union Square. I got an ice cream sandwich called a cartwheel, which is essentially a thin round chocolate cookie with a mound of soft serve ice cream poured in topped with another chocolate cookie. I also have a picture of that :) It brought me back to being 5 years old again, it was amazing. After that we met up with another one of my college friends, went to Whole Foods and got sodas. They were excellent, especially since it was ridiculously hot. After we headed up to Bryant Park, went into the Public Library, but not all the way because it was one flight of stairs too many, out to Grand Central Station, which I've never seen before but is simply beautiful and awe-inspiring, then crashed at a local pub called McGee's. Friend #2 met us there for dinner, which was pretty good pub fare, we watched a soccer match, and then I headed home.
All in all it was a pretty excellent adventure, I had a really good time. I'm not too sure when I will get to be back up there, but there certainly is more that I want to see. And maybe next time I will remember to charge my camera battery before I go!
What I will do is talk about my adventure into New York City today.
To start with, it isn't every day that I get to be in 3 states in as many hours (I'm pretty sure I did that when I went down to Baltimore last Friday, and I do that whenever I go down to Matt's... so okay it does happen but not normally on a Tuesday). I woke up early this morning, hopped in the car and headed out to Trenton Transit Station in Trenton, New Jersey. It's not a terribly exciting place, but it is the most convenient for me when traveling to New York. It requires minimal parking thought (there's a giant parking garage behind the station) and minimal travel thought. You buy the round trip ticket from Trenton to New York Penn Station, get on the train, and whoosh. It's the End of the Line for both stations, so whenever the train stops for good, you do too!
I arrived in New York around 10:30, met up with a friend from college and grabbed a really delicious breakfast at the Skylight Diner nearby. It's particularly tasty, I highly recommend you try it if you get a chance. I wish I could tell you how to get there, but I just don't know. I got scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and home fries, all of which were wonderful. Plus, they laid the bacon on top of everything like a little bacon blanket. I should have taken a picture, but you'll just have to use your imaginations. After we walked around toward the High Line, which is an old above ground elevated train track that has been converted into a garden of sorts. We walked around there (also no pictures, eesh) and it was beautiful. We also looked at some of the local street art (semi rogue artists who do the graffiti painting but not tagging. I do have pictures of this, which will be put onto facebook) which was incredible, then headed up to Union Square. I got an ice cream sandwich called a cartwheel, which is essentially a thin round chocolate cookie with a mound of soft serve ice cream poured in topped with another chocolate cookie. I also have a picture of that :) It brought me back to being 5 years old again, it was amazing. After that we met up with another one of my college friends, went to Whole Foods and got sodas. They were excellent, especially since it was ridiculously hot. After we headed up to Bryant Park, went into the Public Library, but not all the way because it was one flight of stairs too many, out to Grand Central Station, which I've never seen before but is simply beautiful and awe-inspiring, then crashed at a local pub called McGee's. Friend #2 met us there for dinner, which was pretty good pub fare, we watched a soccer match, and then I headed home.
All in all it was a pretty excellent adventure, I had a really good time. I'm not too sure when I will get to be back up there, but there certainly is more that I want to see. And maybe next time I will remember to charge my camera battery before I go!
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