travel plans March 31, 2008
If I had a corner office and more time on my hands at work to mess around on the computer, I’d Photoshop a picture of my head onto the side of a small airplane to illustrate that I’m leaving one place to visit another like they do with the contestants on America’s Next Top Model. OH THAT’S HOW THEY GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B? AHA! I know, this blog really needs some more visual explanation.
I booked my flights for New York City for April 12-April 14. I’ve been playing phone tag with the Sarah Lawrence graduate office so that we can set up an appointment for my campus tour. I’m sure the staff up there is standing around their answering machine right now over coffee and bagels, chuckling over my messages on speaker phone. My Southern accent always kicks into high gear whenever I’m nervous, sweet-talkin’, and leaving messages for people I don’t know. Hiii, this ii^iis Eee^eeemmillyyyy cawwwling from Chaawwwrlawwttte, North Caaeeaarroliiinaaa….
Anyway, I’ll be in the city if you care/dare to meet and/or guide this boondoggler around. Fortunately, I’ll be staying with international news reporter and friend Gillian who will give me a primer on navigation - that is, if I can make it to her Manhattan apartment from JFK. But if I can do Paris, London, and Chicago, I sure as hell better make it through New York.
But before all this, Scott and I are going to drive up to Richmond late on Saturday (April 5), spend the night in a hotel, and drive back late Sunday. We’ve got a few pals up there with Plan 9, but the rest will be up to our curiosity. I won’t be able to tour the VCU campus or meet the director; I’ll just be getting a feel for the place. And I’ve started hearing back from students I’ve emailed so we may bump into one or two of them along the way. But we’re really just excited about having an impromptu mini-vacation, and using the hotel room to catch up on all the crime TV we missed since the cable cord was gnawed through about a month ago. (to be cont.)
Oh man, you’re lucky you just sound super Southern when you get nervous. I sound like a Northern stuttering toddler with a mouth full of pennies.
That could have been a dangerous typo.
Yo! Congrats on your options! As a Chicagoan who recently visited NYC, I’ve gotta say the most important thing about navigation in the city is knowing downtown vs. uptown. And also that the colors of the train lines don’t matter. That befuddled my Second City ass. But New York is a relative breeze to get around. And safer than Chattavegas!
I had an interview today. And another one scheduled for next Monday! Thanks muchly for your bitchin’ cover letter tips!
April, can you imagine how funny we would sound if we moved abroad? I mean overseas, not…you know..
Maureen, congrats! I’ll probably call you for help before I leave.
I hope you like SLC! I visited last Spring, before I decided to defer, and spoke with a woman named Anne in the CRW office that was super nice, helpful, and honest about the program. Anne Wenzel. (just looked back in my email.)
You do know that SLC is not in NYC, right? It’s about a 30 minute train ride from the city. When I visited, I took the M-60 bus from the airport to a train station Park Ave, (Metro-North) where I got on a train and rode about 30 minutes to the Bronxville Station.
Hope that helps!
Good luck!
Megan,
that’s really funny. Anne is the person I keep playing phone tag with.
and yeah, I know SLC is outside the city. I’ll probably be looking to live in Upper East or West Manhattan if I go there, and commuting to the school. Or maybe finding something on the tip of Bronxville/Harlem, although that may not be as appealing to my boyfriend who I’ll be living with if I move. But either way, for this trip, I really want to drop my bags off at my friend’s place before going to the school to visit…all depends on if I can nail down a tour date with Anne!
Hey EmBen!
CONGRATS TO YOU!!!! Oh my! I just got back into town on Friday, and then have been MOVING, so I’m behind in the news, but HOORAY for YOU! How nice to have options, and have a great time on your visits! I was actually just in NYC - that’s where I was until Friday - doing a finalist interview at Columbia’s playwriting MFA program, and the city really is so easy to get around these days. If you have time, have tea and snack at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on the upper west side, on Amsterdam, about 110th or so.
WOOHOO!!
hey Grammy - thanks and congrats to you for the Columbia interview! WOO!
Besides touring SLC, I’m on a mission to eat as much food as possible while in NYC so I will most definitely add pastry shop to that list!