June 22, 2014
I know three weeks is a vacationer’s glimpse of a city, but I am actually surprised by how much I like NYC. Last summer, when I was in Buenos Aires, I lived every day feeling lonely and afraid — emotions I attributed to the sheer size of the city. NYC boasts almost three times as many people living within its city limits (and it’s more than five times bigger in terms of surface area), but my summer experience has been vastly different — in a good way.
June 19, 2014
The past week, in summary:
June 11, 2014
I started at Slow Food USA today! I can already tell that this is an awesome organization, too. How lucky am I to have found simultaneous internships at TWO organizations that make me so happy?! Slow Food USA’s mantra is that food should be good, clean and fair for all. It’s a membership-funded nonprofit that works on campaigns, symposiums, advocacy and other education-focused programs to promote “good” food in every sense of the word. This summer I’ll be helping with their biannual magazine production. Today was a brief drop-in to meet the staff and get acquainted with the office; tomorrow will be more of a real orientation.
June 9, 2014
In spite of all my lofty plans for Sunday, I ended up spending most of the day reading Harry Potter in the grass and sun of Central Park. It was wonderful.
June 8, 2014
I didn’t have work on Friday, so I piddled around a lot, running errands and working from my computer throughout the morning and early afternoon. MoMA was free starting at 4 p.m., so I went there and thoroughly enjoyed the special exhibits (the permanent ones were too crowded for me to even try). Among my favorite displays were a continuous video of a digital clock being painted by an artist in real time (he gradually transformed each digital number of the clock to match the actual time) and something called lightweeds, which were digital plants projected onto the wall in the form of light. They were cool because they responded to the outside natural world through sensors placed on the outside walls of the museum that measured inputs like sunlight, rainfall and wind. I thought both of those were very creative crossovers between the digital and physical worlds.