7 January 2008 · Comment [2]
Less melodramatic version of yesterday's post
In retrospect, I was just whining for the sake of whining yesterday and things are actually pretty good here. I mean, this job is freaking amazing (see Seth MacFarlane spectacularity below) and I really like the people I work with. And I knew from the beginning that it was going to be freaking difficult to move to this city and it’s been as smooth of a transition as I could have hoped for. And Al comes back tomorrow! And we are going to get dinner and buy snarky t-shirts. I was just feeling morose yesterday and kind of wanted to word vomit all over the internet and mission accomplished! Though the word vomit has now been deleted so as to pretend it never happened. Except I saved it so if you’re really curious about what it said for some bizarre reason, I can send it to you but seriously it’s really dumb.
Seth MacFarlane came and gave a talk today! It was awesome. His regular voice is Brian’s voice and he did Peter and Stewie and Quagmire and told us all kinds of awesome tidbits about the show and the history of the characters like:
– Peter was based on any number of guys in New England who are just loud and obnoxious and have no internal screen
– Quagmire was based on radio advertisers from the Fifties who talked really fast and at first that was his whole personality and it was getting really old until the writers came up with this one amazing gag for him that just wouldn’t come across if I tried to write it here but I’ll tell you about it later if you want. And then his whole smarmy personality came into its own!
– The creepy old guy who’s always trying to get Chris to go down to his basement for popsicles and stuff was only allowed past the censors because they gave him a walker and made him barely able to get around, let alone take advantage of Chris.
Also during the Q&A someone asked him to do all the voices so he did whichever ones people yelled out and then someone yelled Brian and he said “well I’m doing Brian right now” and it was really funny HAHAHAHAHA! Fine! Nevermind! I hate you all.
I thought last weekend I was going to make some real progress on this whole setting up a new life in New York thing by not going home for the fifth weekend in a row but then I realized I’d left my passport there and had to go back and find it in the filth hole because I’m going to visit Duncan in less than two weeks. Yaaay. And Jason’s coming this Friday! So I guess my life isn’t just one giant cesspool of depression. Depresspool. And now, here are a couple pictures!
This is the entrance to the Placa Espanya metro station in Barcelona. It’s curvy and squarey. And to answer your question Jovanna, yes it did take like half an hour to get it empty.
Arc de Triomf at night and in the rain and stuff and stuff.
Some amazing pajamas from this store called “Women’s Secret,” hur hur. This is the same place that had the underwear that said “Let’s be flatmates” and the security guard yelled at me for taking a picture of them (yeah I know, what?), so I had to take these into the fitting room to take pictures. They’re so cute and Spangrishey! There are also squares that say “bicing” and “big dog” but I couldn’t get all of the square types in one picture. It’s nice to have a reminder of what to be thankful for when you’re wallowing in loneliness and depression.
The Boqueria market at night! Umm yeah, usually these are open but I like them closed too. Plus it greatly reduces the fishy stench.
Some stairs and cars on the way to Parc Guell. I wish there weren’t all those cars but what are you gonna do.
The forest of the fairies bar! It’s a pretty spectacular place but mostly for gawking and not so much for hanging out because it’s super crowded and loud and to be honest with you, there are many things I’d much rather do than go to crowded and loud bars.
Nooooo, Spfifey the Spork Knife! I dropped my backpack one day and Spfifey was a tragic casualty. But then this weekend I went to REI and got a new one and it’s just like that story that David told me about how he had a pet pig in WoW but then they came out with these black armored pigs so he just got a new pig and gave it the same name as the old pig and pretended it was the same one. Ha ha. So in conclusion, welcome back, Spfifey! I missed you!
A neat little open area in Figueres, which is where Dali was born and they have a big museum for him with a lot of his best stuff and it’s neat.
Some lumpy things from the outside of the Dali museum. I think he actually designed the place himself, which is pretty awesome. When you go into the courtyard it feels like you’re in a giant toilet bowl, which you don’t get to feel like every day.
A tower outside the museum. It’s yellow and blue, yurp.
Toilet bowl!
A gigantic room decorated like Mae West’s face.
It’s neat because you see pictures of the room and you think they’re just weird paintings of Mae West’s face, but it’s actually her face in furniture form.
Some chairs in the museum. Yep.
OMG awesome story about this one! So when my family came to visit, we stumbled upon this amazing crepe place and it was spectacular and when I got to Figueres I was all hungry and saw a sign for a crepe place and it looked okay but I was like maaaaan I wish I’d gone to that crepe place in Barcelona before coming here and then I turned the corner and there was ANOTHER BRANCH OF THE CREPE PLACE RIGHT THERE! It’s things like this and meeting an awesome British, Jewish veterinarian at a random temple in Kyoto that make me think I’m getting some kind of amazing karmic recompense for something.
A building from Poble Espanyol, which is this Spanish village thing built on Montjuic (that’s Jew Mountain in case you’ve forgotten in the six years since I last updated this blog) for the World’s Fair that has examples of architecture and culture from all over Spain and it’s really pretty. Plus apparently it has an amazing bar scene but I left before the bars opened on account of bars not really being my thing.
A weird antennaey thing on Mount Jew.
A cat! On the docks. I always try to feed stray cats with the random vittles that I carry with me where’er I may go but it turns out cats don’t so much like vegetarian food. You’d think stray cats would make an exception but apparently not.
The internet cafe where Jovanna and I wasted many an hour! In my case, seventy over the course of two months, which sounds like a ridiculous amount but I was mostly writing blog entries so there you go. Well, that and watching dumb youtube videos.
Sunset! It’s yellow and blue, nur.
And Duncan! So cute! This is out of order but it’s weird to have all those pictures with nary a person in them. Except for the two strangers at the fairies bar but they are strangers and therefore don’t count as people. Ha ha kidding but only mostly.
Okay! So now it is a completely ridiculous hour to be at work. Maybe I should just spend the night here. Ha ha, syke! Although that would prevent any possible mugging attempts… No! That is the opposite of a good way to not get super burnt out in my first month of work. Okay, later everyone.
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hey! first of all: is there really a mount jew? second, the internet cafe looks really cool. third, i hope you find your place in nyc (apart from work that is) it seems like a really cool (if intimidating) place to live.
— chris g · Jan 7, 09:10 PM · #
I was going to ask about how long you waited for the metro stop to clear. muahaha. I like all the pictures, especially the one of the crepe place. oh how I miss it. le sigh.
— Jovanna · Jan 8, 01:57 PM · #