Classes Start. Fuck That.

September 7, 2009
I sit around until 5:00 when I move the rest of my stuff to the apartment. Then, I go to Nougatine, which my mom made reservations for. It’s the more casual restaurant adjacent to the actual Jean Gorges restaurant. It’s a pretty good meal with four courses and an amuse-bouche. I’ll write it on Yelp and all of you should be reading that already. Dweez.yelp.com
After dinner, I unpack for a few hours. I still have to settle down more, but tomorrow is a long day with three classes from 11:00 to 6:30. It’s going to be a long freaking day. It’s good that I find out that there’s an NYU bus a few blocks away from me. It’s for a dorm and I should be able to catch that for a quick ride instead of walking the 30 minutes to class or take the subway. Lets hope the bus action works.

September 8, 2009
I set an alarm for 9:15 because I want to be early today. I walk over a few blocks to catch the bus, which takes almost 20 minutes because of traffic. However, a much better option over walking and the subway. I have lots of extra time because my class is at 11:00. Spanish is the issue. Small class of almost 20 people and it’s going to be loaded with participation, three classes a week, homework, assignments, quizzes, five tests, a midterm, and final. It’s like I’m back in High School, but harder and more work. It’s expected because I’ve taken two semesters of this business.
Afterwards, I go to a little sandwich shop and get a chicken pesto wrap. I bring it to the library and watch two episodes of The Soup, while eating lunch. At 2:00, I have my Democratic Theory seminar. It’s political theory, but based about democracy. It’s supposed to go for two hours and thirty minutes, but he ends early. It goes for that long because it only meets once a week. It’s reading intense, but I hope they’re interesting because that’s when I really enjoy participation and discussion in class. Then again, you have to force yourself to do that anyway for free points. The class is graded heavily on that.
Afterwards, I have Constitution and Communities of Color. It’s less about the Constitution that I expected and seems a bit more about reading about stuff that relates to race. I’ll have to see though, though at least we’ll be reading case. I’ve done so much of that and reading cases is my bread and butter. It doesn’t seem too hard though.
I catch the bus back to the apartment. I want to get dinner and find out that a well-known and reviewed cheeseshop/sandwich shop is a block away. I look at the menu online and I see the best choices seem to be smoked salmon, smoked duck breast, or proscuitto di parma. I walk over and get the duck breast with soup. It’ll go up on Yelp soon.
I get back, eat it, and then go back out to get groceries. It’s diet time. I get Diet Coke and lemon because that’s filling and tastes great. Popcorn is a really good snack because it’s way airy and fills you up despite not being that much. The same goes for the carrots and celery I get. I love sour cream, so I think I going to use that with some spices, salt, and pepper to make a creamy dip. I have pasta, a head of romaine lettuce, some tomatoes, Weight Watchers shredded mozzarella, and balsamic vinaigrette for lunch or whatever light meal. A 100 calorie 7 grain flat bread goes with that too. Apples for breakfast. I’ll have to go back out tomorrow to get chicken and some veggies to make a dish of some sort that I can store for about a week to have with brown rice. Last semester was balls for that. I’ll diet better, hopefully drink less, workout more. This semester is rockin’ it for that.
My room has a TV equipped with satellite, which is a bit overwhelming seeing as how much TV I already watch without an actual TV… Then again, there’s a lot of dead air and I run out of interesting stuff to watch a lot of the time.
Even then, I have to buy books for class, mail out some stuff, waive my NYU health insurance because I’m already covered. I was falling asleep in all three of my classes. It’s been way too long of a day. Really sucks that this was the first day. Fuckin’ exhausted.

September 9, 2009
I wake up at 12:15 because I went to sleep late last night writing the blog and stuff. I get some breakfast. I get a salad, which is romaine, tomato, Weight Watchers mozzarella, and balsamic. I also have some spaghetti and turkey that my tenant made. I cook pasta for my future salads so that it’s more filling. I then figure that it’s time to get things going so I call the three Apple stores to find out if they have a webcam and audio recorder. Katie has a few Apple gift cards that I have because Michigan is annoying with Apple stores. It’s more convenient if I run around here to get it for her.
The one on 5th has them, so I go there. They’re shooting some movie right across the street from the store and there’s a huge crowd. I look at the products and see that its better to just order the stuff online because it’s the same price and there’s free shipping if you order online. That’s a no go, so I walk to the other side of the park to my mom’s office because I left one of the books I need this semester at home. I pick that up and then take the train down because I have class at 6:20.
I end up getting off at 14th Street to drop by the gym to find an NYU hoodie. They don’t really have anything so I walk down to class by 4th. On the way, I stop by Papyrus to get a card for Katie. I don’t know where the building for my class is. While I had a lot of time to get there, I end up scrambling around like an idiot until I finally get to class a few minutes late.
I heard about the class last year. It turns out that he has plants in the class to answer questions so he can get rid of kids. The auditorium is really full of students. It’s a lame introductory day, but I can tell that I’m going to love this class: The Constitution. It’s concepts and cases that I’ve already done.
After class, I run to the bookstore to again look for a hoodie, which I do end up finding and a t-shirt. I then go to the library to print out Spanish conjugation tables because we need to refresh. Even just a summer go me to forget all my stuff.
I catch the bus back to the apartment and stop by Duane Reade. I get a sponge and detergent. I also get some 1% milk and Total, an awesome diet meal. It’s got carbs, protein, low amount of fat, and vitamins. I get back and settle down and grab some dinner. Another salad and with a side of carrots and celery. I make a dipping sauce out of sour cream, salt, pepper, chili powder, and Italian seasoning.
After that, I have to settle down because it’s been a lot of walking today. I get some TV going. I’m glad there’s BBC here so I get F-Word and Kitchen Nightmares. I do loves the Ramsay.