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So nice they named it twice! The other name is Manhattan.

At the end of April, I will spend a weekend visiting one of our study abroad providers in Stamford, Connecticut. Yes, that Stamford, would-be home of Dunder-Mifflin Northeast and the next major town to Stoneybrook.

Wow. I am so awesome. Why don't I have any friends around here, again?

In addition to visiting super-dibble Stamford, there will also be a "social outing" to New York City. It will be so special I might even call it... Super Special! Then I will glue glitter and feathers on my Kid-Kit and-- wait, what was I talking about?

New York intimidates me more than any other city I can think of. I always feel like I am going to be picked out as some sort of Midwestern rube and everyone in the city is going to laugh at me for being rural and backwards and not sophisticated enough. Not sophisticated enough? Just look at the glitter on this pony sweatshirt! And this perm I have at the age of thirteen! And this totally funky pair of sneakers that I glued random funky crap onto to demonstrate how funky and artistic I am!

(Jesus, I need to stop channeling the Baby-sitters' Club. For the record, I haven't read any of those books in at least two years.)

Anyway, I have no information yet about what our "social outing" in New York will be, but I hope it involves going to a real New York pizza joint for a real New York slice.

srah - Thursday, 29 March 2007 - 7:15 PM
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Comments (12)

gravatar alfie - March 29, 2007 - 6:51 PM - ℓ

Yes, but you remember everything from the books which is chilly. Or dibble. What was their stupid word for bad?

gravatar srah - March 29, 2007 - 7:09 PM - ℓ

Stale, which was an actual slang word. Ann M. Martin is not quite as good at making up slang as Lynn Johnston.

gravatar alfie - March 29, 2007 - 7:52 PM - ℓ

But that's real slang! It's just Canadian....


I hate FBOFW and its stupid "Canadian" slang.

gravatar jamelah - March 30, 2007 - 7:03 AM - ℓ

I never got into Baby-sitters Club as much as, say, Sweet Valley High, yet this post just made me think of Claudia Kishi.

gravatar Cheryl - March 30, 2007 - 7:15 AM - ℓ

I love love love that you linked to the BSC on Wikipedia. Oh, man. That's all I have to say.

gravatar Aunt Pam - March 31, 2007 - 7:07 AM - ℓ

Love NYC! And Connecticut too! Have a wonderful, wonderful time . . .

Now Shanghai . . . that intimidates me! 18 Million people and a city the size of Grand Blanc to Detroit, and Grand Blanc to Lansing large! Oh my. Makes NYC a walk in the park. Who da thunk it?

gravatar srah - March 31, 2007 - 8:50 AM - ℓ

I think cities in other countries don't scare me as much because I feel like you're supposed to find them overwhelming and intimidating and foreign. New York is all of those things to me, but it's in my own country!

gravatar Meg - April 3, 2007 - 1:31 PM - ℓ

Don't worry. I'm a midwestern rube too, and I've lived in NY for 3+ years. Sure, people may start a little when I say "Thank you, ma'am" to a cashier but then some crazy person will run in inevitably screaming about how they just ate a garbage truck and they need to use the phone and- poof!- I'm not so exciting any more.

gravatar Gleemonex - April 4, 2007 - 1:30 PM - ℓ

New York rules! Walk fast, don't stare, ditch the fanny pack, act like you see prices like that on menus ALLLLL the fuckin time ...

gravatar Allisonw - April 5, 2007 - 12:19 PM - ℓ

When I was in NYC on ASB, someone asked me for directions. Maybe I looked like a real New Yorker. Then again, when I was eating authentic NY pizza, my mushroom toppings kept falling off.

gravatar Allison - April 5, 2007 - 12:21 PM - ℓ

Nice "Comment Preview" btw! Tech Suave!

gravatar srah - April 5, 2007 - 12:38 PM - ℓ

Thank you. It was a cheap solution to another tech problem I was having. And I kind of like watching myself type. WHEEEEE!

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