Daily Ramblings: August 2006

So for those of you who haven't heard already, I'll be starting a new job on September 5th at Avenue A | Razorfish. I'll be working in the User Experience department as an Information Architect. Wooo! I'm moving up in the world!

I am quite excited about this opportunity and can't wait to learn, learn, learn.

I really hate it when someone with a bad case of B.O. sits next to me on the train. Yuck.

Something funny happened last night while SC and I were at City Bar. We were hanging out at the bar, enjoying our watermelon mojitos and casually discussing the topic of marriage when we were interrupted by a smiling man.

The smiling man asked "Can we buy you two drinks?"

I found this quite shocking as I don't think anyone, man or woman, has ever offered to buy me a drink at the bar (for SC on the other hand, that is a whole other story). Anyhow, I think I responded well under pressure and politely gestured at our full drink glasses and said, "No, thanks. I think we're all set."

The man took it well and left us alone. I'm glad he wasn't very persistent. After he left, SC and I giggled to each other. The cute bartender, who overheard the interaction, was laughing as well.

The weekend was good. It was my niece's 7th birthday on Saturday and she hosted a backyard tie-dye party. SC and I each made a tie-dye tank top and stuffed our faces with cheese pizza and ice cream cake.

Later that night we tried out the new Legal Test Kitchen (LTK) with JL, DD, SS and JS. The company was good, but the restaurant itself was kind of a disappointment. The food wasn't anything to write home about. Also, I didn't really see the cool technology that they are supposedly using. Sadness.

Sunday was awesome. We checked out the Body Worlds exhibit at the MOS with MM. MM has a family membership so we got a huge discount on the tickets. Body Worlds was fantastic, educational, fascinating, bizarre, icky and tacky, all at the same time. The plastinates, in all their different poses, were both disturbing and intriguing. After seeing the exhibit, there is no way in hell I would ever donate my body to science. That Gunther von Hagens' guy seems like one sick f*ck. Ha!

There's a special exhibit at the Museum of Science that SC and I must, must, must check out. It's called Gunther von Hagens' BODY Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. It looks totally cool and gross all at the same time.

Apparently this dude Gunther invented this preservation process called "Plastination". So the exhibit features human bodies, with organs, muscles and tissues exposed, in various positions and poses. There have on display bodies of a smoker, a coal miner and an alcoholic. And, supposedly there is even a a pregnant woman's body with fetuses and all. Wooo! I love controversial exhibits.

If anyone wants to join SC and I for some educational fun, we are planning on checking out the exhibit on Sunday. Let us know!