Winter Storm Advisory ?

Sooo, it was supposed to blizzard this weeekend. NLG and I were on LI, there was no blizzard...Brooklyn, maybe...still not sure.

It's supposed to really blizzard again tonight. Here's an email I just received. (Note the was she signs it.)

Please see link below:

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Brooklyn+NY+11214?lswe=11214&from=searchbox_localwx

I talked to my aunt...apparently if its really going to snow like this there is a high chance that our tracks will freeze. We're going to need to get ourselves up a little earlier tomorrow to call 311/figure out what is going to happen if we can't get in.

Balls.
xo,
NLG

Another email I just received:

I am not excited. This has the potential to be the FAILEST commute in the HISTORY of commutes. What do you think the likelihood of school being closed is?

AND another:
Mrs. NLG said she was watching our news at home last night and they were talking about snow in terms of like "An inconvience, wear your boots, buy a snow blower" etc. and they said that this is going to be "Crippling". She said the entire northeast is under a giant purple circle on the screen which she is now calling "the circle of terror".

I wish I was kidding lol

Ugh, she is funny. They just keep getting better.

hahah great :) I'm glad I can provide some Tuesday morning humor about the potential TERROR filled snow storm that is coming our way. This better be epic, otherwise I'm going uptown to talk to Sam Champion about getting my hopes up. I bet he gets off on making us all excited/petrified for snow and then stealing it away from us. Jerk.

Happy Halloween

It's 3:15 am (what felt like 4:15am because of daylight savings time). I am by myself (dumb) going home from the most amazing Halloween with the most perfect group ever. (I went to RUSH, if you've never been and are extremely comfortable with your sexuality--whatever it may be--you should go, and dance your ass off.) I am sitting in the Atlantic Avenue station to get on my train. It took a long time for it to come.

Just before it arrived I see these two men. They were about 25. One, who we'll call Shades, was just about functioning and the other, we'll call him Dude, was blacked out, barely walking. Shades drags Dude to the corner of the car, and plops him down in a seat. Dude passes out.



Shades sits halfway across the car from his friend. Shades had on really baggy pants (his fly was wide open, nothing visible, no worries) and a big baggy zip up sweatshirt tied around his waste. He started to dig in his pockets. He wanted to dig into his pants pockets, but he kept digging into his sweatshirt pocket. He was barely standing. He starts screaming profanities, follwed by "I LOST MY SHADES, 200 F*&$ING DOLLARS!!!!!" Play that on repeat in your head, loud, for two hours. That was the majority of my ride.

Intermittently, Shades would walk up and down the subway, empty his pockets (mind you his fly is still open), and take the umbrella (that I believe he just found somewhere) and hit the subway poles with it. Hard. Sometimes he would go over to Dude and whack him on the head too.

I was desperately trying to avoid any sort of eye contact with this man. I did not want to catch his attention at all. All of these observations are out of the corner of my eye. At one point Shades obtained a bag (looked like a woman's purse and I don't think he boarded the train with it) and started taking pills out of it. They were scattering everywhere. He tried to shove some in Dude's mouth, claiming they would make him feel better. Oh dear.

My train ride was extra long that night because the D was running on the N, fail. Nonetheless, I made it home 2 hours later. Alive.

Happy Halloween.


Our trick or treat basket...by the end of the night, it was all gone!

Vom Commute

My morning email from NLG:

Note to self: only share water with stranger when you have another beverage to consume for the duration of the day. Fail. No water for me today because I have to go home to sanitize my brandnew water bottle.

Ugh. Passing out on the train=bad news for everyone involved.

See you tonight,

xo,
NLG

Because!!

Everything was fine until we started crossing the Manhattan Bridge, and then "BOOM! THUD" Cute, thin, hipster girl is on the floor, white as a ghost passed out. She laid there for what seemed like a full minute until the lady next to her helped her up, she finally came to. A passenger yelled "don't pull the emergency break!" but alas, someone already had. I learned today that the emergency break is worthless unless you are in a subway station. (Makes sense, the emergency personnel can get their quicker/easier).

The woman sat the girl down and she took her jacket off. She was still very pale, but had just obviously overheated. The MTA lady came back to fix the break, checked on the girl, all was fine. NLG goes over to girl and lets her sip on her NEVER BEEN USED water bottle. Very nice of her.

Girl gets off a few stops before us, roommate saved the day.

NYC commute, always something to talk about.

Obama's in NYC!??

As I got out of the subway today, this is what I saw! This doesn't even capture half of it. There were at least 20 cops/fireman and 8 fire trucks..all at one subway stop! I'm not sure what happened.

Each corner I passed there was a traffic cop directing traffic.

My supervisor told me he was speaking at Fairleigh Dickonson, but most likely staying in the city.

I don't know, it looked pretty serious..more than just a presidential visit.

Today's Commute

An Email I received from my NLG this morning, on my way to work (she left earlier than me this morning.)

"I love when I get wedged in the middle seat between two sleeping men, and the one to my left is muttering/singing to himself. Note to self: when contemplating sitting in middle seat, perhaps it is just better to stand."

Life thus far

So, my NLG (non lesbian girlfriend) and I just moved in to our first apartment. We are products of Suburbia and Daddy always taking care of us. As you can imagine, we have run into a lot of situations where we were clueless. Here is a quick run-down of some of them:

• ROACHES (We later learned they are water bugs. Equally as gross.)

• Moving/arranging furniture



• Hanging mirrors, picture, decorations (required frantic call to our sometimes "house husband")



• Scary high school girls threatening innocent commuters on subway



• A women's drug overdose, resulting in mouth foaming, subway car evacuation, termination of normal commute



• Frigidness due to the fact that our landlord pays the heating bill



• Going out in the city and being hit on by D and the "best DJ in the world"



• City parking, with the occasional bumper tap



• Parking tickets


• SPIDERS (NLG got quite the bite, we are about to bug bomb our apartment)

There will be more to come...I promise.

Subway sightings

I was looking through some old pictures of my commuting chronicles. I'll keep digging, but here's a few classics:


I squatted at Hofstra this summer while I was waiting to move into my apartment. This group of friends was playing a card game. They had a makeshift table and everything. There were four of them and they took up 6 seats during rush hour commute on the LIRR. Thanks guys!


This lady would go around to unsuspecting girls and tell them about her ghastly subway trek. I took this this summer. My fave is her getup.

Break dancers on the subway! They were impressive!