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August, 2008

The August Roundup: Part Two

Here are the rest of the pictures I took in August of 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.

Friday, August 22nd

nina, siege
On Friday night Mer and I went out to party at Siege and KT's! Here's Josh, Nina and Siege (who is the tannest I've ever seen him in this photo).
nina ˆ siege
me, meredith
Me and Mer.
us ˆ me ˆ meredith
astra
Astra and a friend! Ta-da!
astra
meredith, nina
Meredith getting real butch on Nina. Haha. I love this photo so much.
girl on girl action ˆ tough ˆ meredith ˆ nina
Siege's low rider bike on display in the studio. We left Siege and Katie's a little after three. Mer headed home to go to bed at a reasonable hour, but me, I had ants in my pants...
bike
leigh, me
...so I went and met up with Leigh and we headed across the street from her apartment to Bowery Electric...
leigh ˆ me
jenne, sarah
...to meet up with Sarah who was there was Jenne!
pretty ˆ jenne ˆ sarah
Closed.
afterhours
gina bonjersey, oliver
Gina was DJing downstairs and we all got to meet her short-lived boyfriend Oliver (who was a whole lot more personable than he looks in this photo that makes me LOL every time I look at it).
gina bonjersey ˆ oliver
leigh, me, sarah
Me, Leigh and Sarah. I love these two so much!
leigh ˆ me ˆ sarah
me
I think this girl was one of Jenne's friends.
strangers ˆ me
jenne
When Jenne has a couple drinks in her it's FANTASTIC because if you even pretend to point a camera at her she'll start striking awesomely dramatic poses. The best part was there was a guy standing behind her...
jenne
jenne
...who re-situated himself to better appreciate her deadly-serious out-of-nowhere voguing. Sign her up, boys! She's ready!
best ˆ jenne
jenne, leigh, me
Buddies.
strangers ˆ tongue ˆ jenne ˆ leigh ˆ me
jenne, leigh, sarah
Around 5am, we decided to all head over to our apartment for an after-after-party!
stuytown apt ˆ jenne ˆ leigh ˆ sarah
leigh, me, sarah
Awwww, me and my favorite NJ-ladies! In order to show some home-state pride, we decided that we were going to try to spell out N.J. with our bodies. After that not working at all...
stuytown apt ˆ leigh ˆ me ˆ sarah
leigh, me, sarah
...we asked ourselves what we could spell out with three letters to represent NJ. How about EWR? (Newark's airport code!). Hahaha. We reviewed this photo and decided that while Sarah nailed her "E," Leigh and I definitely needed to tighten up our sloppy WR situation.
best ˆ spelling with your body ˆ leigh ˆ me ˆ sarah
leigh, me, sarah
Take two: NAILED IT! (Apparently nailing it also required some pretty serious Blue Steel action from me and Leigh).
best ˆ spelling with your body ˆ leigh ˆ me ˆ sarah
jenne, leigh, sarah
The ladies sat down and I was like "Ok, everyone show off your tits!" Sarah and Leigh didn't fall for it! (I love how Leigh is laughing and Sarah is predicting that both Jenne and Leigh would fall for it).
best ˆ boobs ˆ couch ˆ get a load of this guy ˆ jenne ˆ leigh ˆ sarah
jenne, leigh, sarah
Take two! Right after I took this photo, I showed Jenne and she was like "WHAT? That's terrible!" At first I thought she was talking about being the only one falling for the ol' "show off yer tits" trick, but she told me "I don't care about that - I care about the fact that the shadow from my shirt where my thighs come together make it look like I have a HIGH WIDE THIGH-VAGINE!" Which we decided can also be called "a low-pussy."
best ˆ boobs ˆ couch ˆ jenne ˆ leigh ˆ sarah
me
I laughed so hard I was crying.
cry ˆ laugh ˆ me
jenne, leigh
Then we decided to play Guitar Hero and suddenly it was like a Robert Palmer video all up in my apartment.
guitar hero ˆ videogames ˆ jenne ˆ leigh
jenne
Deadly serious.
guitar hero ˆ videogames ˆ jenne
sarah
Sarah's a seasoned pro.
guitar hero ˆ videogames ˆ sarah
We played until the sun came up. Leigh manned my cam and took some pics.
clouds ˆ stuytown apt ˆ sunrise ˆ window
Moon Cloud.
clouds ˆ stuytown apt ˆ sunrise ˆ window
leigh
I walked into the kitchen and Leigh was turned sideways trying to hide the veggie chicken nuggets she'd just heated up. When I asked her, "Well, well, what do we have here?"
kitchen ˆ nuggets ˆ leigh
leigh
"NUGGZ AND JUGGZ!" was the reply.
boobs ˆ food ˆ kitchen ˆ nuggets ˆ leigh
leigh
Nugget buddy!
food ˆ nuggets ˆ leigh
me, sarah
Nugget Buddies!
me ˆ sarah

Saturday, August 23rd

On Saturday's in August they close a bunch of Manhattan streets to cars so that everyone can ride bikes everywhere! It's called Summer Streets and it's awesome!
bike ˆ crosswalk ˆ nyc ˆ street
joann, meredith
I rode my bike, Meredith rode her skateboard (so Bart Simpson!)...
skateboard ˆ street ˆ joann ˆ meredith
joann
...and we met up with Meredith's parents in Union Square to bike down to Chinatown for some veggie dim sum! Here's Jo Ann!
bike ˆ nyc ˆ street ˆ joann
Check out Lafayette Street! Closed off to traffic and turned into a two-way mega bike lane!
bike ˆ nyc ˆ street
At Houston we had to stop and wait for the light.
bike ˆ nyc ˆ street
meredith
Meredith on Pell Street pink-faced from all the skateboard leg-pushing required to keep up with cyclists!
chinatown ˆ meredith
FOOT RUB + BACK RUB = FOOT HEAVEN! (Hahah. The last part is kind of hidden in the shadows. But it's there. Oh, yes it is.)
chinatown
chuck, joann
Jo Ann and Chuck!
chinatown ˆ dim sum ˆ food ˆ chuck ˆ joann
chuck, me, meredith
Check out the insane dim sum feast! Man, do I love this place.
chinatown ˆ dim sum ˆ food ˆ chuck ˆ me ˆ meredith
lisa, meredith
On the way home we visited Lisa in Nolita who was working on opening a new clothing store called Court. All of us were in the tiny back office that had an electric fan on the floor pointed upwards - which everyone know instantly forces girls to pretend they are in a Whitesnake video. Awesome!
best ˆ dance ˆ fan ˆ windy ˆ lisa ˆ meredith
sarah
Later that night Sarah came over to our apartment to do arts & crafts night with Meredith. Meredith had showed Sarah how she'd been making resin-cast pendants with cool things inside them...
finger ˆ sarah
sarah
...and so Sarah came over because she wanted to prick her finger and seal some of her blood into a resin-cast pendant! SO EMO! Here she is getting ready to prick her finger with one of those finger-prickers that diabetics use to draw blood to check their insulin!
blood ˆ crafts ˆ finger ˆ sarah
sarah
BLOOD PENDANT
blood ˆ crafts ˆ finger ˆ sarah

Sunday, August 24th

casey squyres, mandy, meredith, sarah
On Sunday Casey, Sarah, Meredith, Mandy and me all met up on the A train
subway ˆ casey squyres ˆ mandy ˆ meredith ˆ sarah
casey squyres, mandy, meredith, sarah
Beach Jump!
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ jump ˆ casey squyres ˆ mandy ˆ meredith ˆ sarah
casey squyres, mandy, meredith, sarah
Take three! If you squint, it looks like they're spelling out S-H-I-T!
beach ˆ best ˆ far rockaway ˆ jump ˆ casey squyres ˆ mandy ˆ meredith ˆ sarah
We headed back home around 4:30.
beach ˆ boardwalk ˆ far rockaway ˆ stairs
Awesome, blacked-out A-Team style van that's always parked right by the boardwalk.
far rockaway ˆ van
me, meredith
I have sweepy beach hair and Meredith has monkey bangs!
beach hair ˆ me ˆ meredith
me
I also has a sunburn. Ow.
poke ˆ sunburn ˆ me

Tuesday, August 26th

ratso
I spent most of the day comforting Ratso, our first (and favorite!) pet rat who was sick with cancer. She died peacefully a couple days later. She loved to be held and pet so much that she would quickly rub her teeth together - which made it feel like she was purring. It's called bruxism and it's one of the ways rats show their pleasure. Miss you, good one!
sick ˆ ratso
me, rachael
Later that night I met up with Rachael for a late dinner at Curly's Lunch! Yum!
me ˆ rachael
Check out all the crayon-on-menu art work taped to the wall at Curly's.
crayon ˆ drawing
Radness.
drawing
rachael
After dinner we went back to Rachael's and had some drinks.
champagne ˆ rachael
me, rachael, simon
Ray, me and Simon.
me ˆ rachael ˆ simon

Friday, August 29th

Friday night = Hanger Bar.
hanger bar
Bro-fest.
hanger bar
lisa, pauly
Lisa and Pauly were there!
hanger bar ˆ pinky ˆ lisa ˆ pauly
meredith
I was taking a photo of Meredith and she leaned in extra close right before I took the picture and it distorted her face in a weird way.
close up ˆ meredith
pauly
Which of course meant I had to take a picture of everyone else's face super close-up. Hahaha.
close up ˆ pauly
me
Oh man, I look like a nightmare a clown would have.
close up ˆ me
lisa, meredith, pauly
Friday night tall boys!
lisa ˆ meredith ˆ pauly

Friday, August 29th

On Saturday morning Meredith and I woke up super early so that we could carpool up to Maine to spend the three-day Memorial weekend at our friends' James & Gretchen's wedding!
nypd ˆ police ˆ street
meredith
We made a Hot & Crusty treat-stop before leaving town.
meredith
I got an egg and cheese biscuit sandwich from McDonald's. Stomach brick!
food ˆ mcdonalds
hatti
About two hour into the drive, right on the border of Connecticut and Mass...
driving ˆ hatti
...Hatti accidentally drove all the way into the left-hand shoulder and hit a HUGE pot hole doing 80+ MPH. Bump, indeed.
bump ˆ rental car
She totally destroyed both tires on the driver's side of the rental car!
rental car ˆ tire
Two destroyed tires (and the tire rims!) not only means that you can't just put on a spare tire, it also means that you can't be towed by most "hook and tow" tow trucks - instead you need a flatbed tow truck.
highway
meredith
Which is apparently really hard to locate on the stateline of a highway on Saturday afternoon during Labor Day weekend. Doh. Meredith and I chilled out and read while Hatti worked the phones.
book ˆ meredith
After spending more than FOUR HOURS waiting by the side of the road, we finally managed to get a flatbed to come tow our rental. Unfortunately, the rental car company couldn't get us another car because all their locations for something like 40 miles were out of cars.
rental car ˆ tow truck
Sooooo, we ended up hiring a gypsy cab to drive us 45 minutes further east to the Worcester bus station where we bought tickets to GO BACK to NYC.
tickets
The wedding was early the next morning, and there wasn't really a way to get all the way up to the tip of Maine via bus in time.
bus
me, meredith
Here's the not-so-happy us. As a bonus, I also accidentally left my Kindle on the bus. :(
bus ˆ grumpy ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
me
After getting back into Manhattan we stopped at our favorite Japanese restaurant to try to improve our mood with a tasty meal. I also tried to entertain Meredith with my "orange glasses."
orange ˆ me
I also took pictures of the completed puzzle of kittens the restaurant had hanging on the wall in the bathroom.
kitten ˆ puzzle
Aww.
kitten ˆ puzzle
meredith
Exhausted from 10 hours of travel in order to go NOWHERE, Meredith fell asleep reading on the couch! Sleep tight, bookhead!
asleep ˆ book ˆ meredith

Sunday, August 31st

meredith
On Sunday morning the dishwasher overflowed with suds because someone put the wrong kind of detergent in there! I love Meredith's expression in this photo.
best ˆ dishwasher ˆ flood ˆ point ˆ meredith
The fact that I don't remember who's fault this was probably means that the culprit WAS ME!
dishwasher ˆ flood
me
Yep, if I'm cleaning it up and Meredith's taking photos of me cleaning it up it was definitely my fault. Hahah.
dishwasher ˆ flood ˆ mop ˆ me
Who's a sud-scooping moron? Me!
dishwasher ˆ flood
fatty, marina
We were bummed to have missed Jaymes and Gretchen's wedding, but the upside to being in town was that we got to go to Fatty and Marina's barbeque!
fatty ˆ marina
ellen s, katie, liz, meredith
Ellen, KT (gettin two handfulls!), Mer and Liz.
bbq ˆ best ˆ tit squeeze ˆ ellen s ˆ katie ˆ liz ˆ meredith
amanda, scott ward
Scott and Amanda.
amanda ˆ scott ward
amanda, fatty, katie, scott ward
Check out everyone enjoying Fatty's huge deck!
bbq ˆ amanda ˆ fatty ˆ katie ˆ scott ward
liz, lydia, marina
Party people inside partying!
amy white ˆ liz ˆ lydia ˆ marina
frank, lydia
Frank and Lydia!
frank ˆ lydia
frank, lydia
Hahaha. Adorable.
best ˆ cupcakes ˆ frank ˆ lydia
fatty
Fatty showing off the awesome Oreo-in-the-middle sunflower cupcakes!
cupcakes ˆ fatty
me, quinn
After the BBQ, I went over to 3A to play some Guitar Hero and hang out!
apt 3a ˆ couch ˆ guitar hero ˆ videogames ˆ me ˆ quinn
jeet, quinn
Quinn and Gurj. Happy August 2008!
apt 3a ˆ couch ˆ guitar hero ˆ videogames ˆ jeet ˆ quinn