Add another crazy night to my belt

So I hadn't hung out with my friends Bryce and Tracey for awhile. They invited me out Friday night to a place in Greenwich Village called Fat Cat. This place is interesting. It has pool tables, shuffleboard, ping pong tables, chess, $3 PBRs and a live band. Fortunately (or unfortunately) nights out with these two ladies always ends in complete and utter craziness and Friday was no different. All of us started out warning each other that we were in crappy moods and didn't want to have a crazy night. But as the PBRs kept flowing and we vented, we all felt better. I ended up meeting a french guy who I am pretty sure was appropriately named Jacque. I also met a german girl called Alena who I spoke german with and she told me that my pronunciation was pretty good. :) Let's just say I left with Jacque and we will leave it at that.

I also joined a book club and we had our first meeting last week. It went really well. Everyone seems really nice. We are now reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Everyone seems cool and it was nice for a bunch of 20 something people to sit around a bar and have intelligent conversations. Not stuffy or pretentious but still very cool. I also met a german girl there named Irma who offered to meet up with me to practice my german. She offered before I could even ask her!! How awesome is that??? We are meeting this Tuesday at the german restaurant in my 'hood that I have been wanting to go to forever. Things like that would never have happened in KC. Another cool thing about the book club is the point of it is to read classic books while eating good food at great NY restaurants. :)

I am also meeting up with a friend from college tomorrow night for dinner. I found out through facebook that he lives in the Lower East Side with his boyfriend. Super excited to see him and catch up. Haven't spoke to him since junior year of college at least. Plus he recommended a really great sounding asian fusion place.

I have been hanging out with my new friend, Olisa, a lot. She is awesome. She lives in my neighborhood. Randomly, she went to Park University back in KC and she had classes with my sister, Anna. Her and Amiran are friends too. She is from Greece and really easy and fun to hang out with. She also promised to take me to the bars that the foreign dignitaries hang out in. :) Meeting up with Amiran in a couple of minutes to purchase ballet tickets. Can't wait to actually go to the ballet! I get to dress up and everything.

Lisa will be here in exactly a month!! Can't wait. OH yeah for her bday which is this Saturday, my family is all getting together like normal. This will be the first family function that any of us have really missed which makes me a bit sad but i will be fixing tacos with peas (don't ask) on my end as well. I will also be enjoying a cupcake. And they will put me on skype so I can "be there." I am excited about that. Just wish they could pass me a piece of cake through the computer.

OH yeah. Also, on Mav and my's walk this morning, we met these two cute older ladies named Francesca and Cecilia. They loved Mav. They were happy to know we had just moved to the neighborhood and said they hoped to see me around again soon. See New Yorkers aren't that bad.

Love to everyone back home but if this post is any indication, I highly doubt I will live in the midwest again.

-S