The most wonderful time of the yearrrrr.
The moment it hit December 1st (well, actually, the moment Thanksgiving ended), the trees and lights went up.
You can't walk down the street without running into a "Christmas tree farm" (aka: a whole bunch of trees propped up on the sidewalk).
Our lobby at EHS is festive.
And I even found Santa wandering around Times Square like a little, lost puppy.
It was impossible for me to not get into the Christmas spirit, what with all of the decorations and the fact that the temperature has mostly been below 35 degrees every single day...
Therefore, this past week, I've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping!
They moved the location of the Brooklyn Flea from the water in Williamsburg to this awesome, old bank:
I wandered around this building for probably 2 hours straight. And bought one thing. (For myself. Oops).
Don't worry! I did end up finding things for others, after wandering around all over various areas of New York City.
And I heard some of the most amazing subway musicians this past weekend. I don't know what was going on, but they were all incredible.
Like these guys:
And while in the subway, I also ran across this disturbing scene:
That right there is an entire outfit. I mean, that is a pair of shoes, a pair of slacks, and a black dress shirt. And I believe a wallet somewhere in there, too. An entire outfit. I don't even want to know.
On Saturday, I went to this awesome thing called the Brooklyn Bazaar with a whole slew of Belmont Easters.
I walked around and looked at neat, artsy things created by Brooklynites.
And I sucked down the most delicious raspberry lemonade from Lizzmonade.
(Caught her in the act of makin' my drank).
And we all were serenaded by some fantastic up-and-coming Brooklyn rappers, who taught us that they were "wit it" (with it), and that "drugs are like that". (No idea. Don't ask me).
The rest of the week has been filled with interning, working on Christmas music for a show I have coming up, going to a chili dinner thing put on for all of us here with Belmont East, and a whole lot of this:
SO fun.
I also got a little sickly on Sunday night (thanks to my lovely roommate, Allison, who contracted a little bitty cold). Luckily, I destroyed the cold within twenty four hours thanks to an insane amount of Vitamin C.
I'm sorry that this was such a whackadoodle post. I didn't even attempt to organize it into anything, so I'll probably look back at this later and realize how confusing it is. Oh well. YOLO.
I'm off to my internship! Then, I believe I will be heading to Mona's tonight to listen to some sweet jazz tunes.
In exactly one week from tomorrow, I will be packing up and leaving my little room here in Brooklyn forever. I can't even believe it. I really do feel like we all just arrived yesterday. But all is well! I am going to soak up this last week as much as I possibly can. Ah. I just love New York.
<3
Nat
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