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new york and new jersey:    summer 2005

What better place to start wandering than Chinatown? Seaweed with the best instructions ever Live crabs crawling in a bucket. Nifty! Dried fish, petrified with agonized expressions and mouths agape Lots of pretty packages The most price-appropriate attraction in New York: The free Staten Island Ferry
Nadia knows the secret of the Staten Island Ferry. But don't ask her . . . she'll never tell. Requisite photo of the Statue of Liberty from the ferry, with the backs of other tourists' heads cropped Some random tourist asked to take my photo. For some reason, I like the big shadow. Manhattan skyline Wandering the Lower East Side and the East Village. Great signage somewhere on Lower East Side
Mural outside Funky Fresh on Clinton Street Random sign in the East Village Wall art near a cafe in the Lower East Side (as I recall) The New York Public Library's famous lion Oh, the NYPL! Why are you closed on Sundays? Don't you know library nerds like me make their pilgrimages to see you on the holiest day of the week? Caterpillar attempting to nestle its way into my lunch at Bryant Square Park
Gosh, Patrick is cute Sveta, Nadia, and I went to hear the NY Philharmonic perform an all-Dvorak concert at Central Park Kianwin amused himself while waiting for the symphony to start Nadia waiting expectantly for Dvorak's New World Symphony Nadia and Nick and their freakish tongue-curling abilities Nadia and me, after a big dinner of Indian food on Second Avenue
Not that Nick actually bought the flowers . . . they were a prop from the flower shop where we took this pic. Really, who actually looks different ten years after high school? Fruit for sale on Second Avenue Sveta and I went to check out the Matisse exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and wandered up to the roof garden Svetlana on the roof of the Met Statues in the Met Butterfly perched on a bench in Tompkins Square Park
Note the butterfly perched on this man's right shoulder. He seemed to be a monarch magnet; perhaps his neck brace smelled yummy. Random flower in Tompkins Square Park My housemates and I made pesto and spinach salad. L to R: Patrick (UCSD), me (CMU), Jeff (Duke), Kiran (UIUC) The pesto in question. Our house didn't have a food processor even a blender, so I chopped it with a gigantic chef's knife. I think the boys were a little afraid of me after that. Jeff, Kiran, and Patrick striving to look intimidating (well, Kiran's striving to look like a used-car salesman) in our kitchen in New Jersey. Kiran demonstrates the proper way to fold a dish towel for Jacqueline, the amicable landlady
Sveta, Patrick, Kiran (not shown), and I finally made it to a mid-week performance of Rent a few days later than another group of interns, due to the tooth incident. Kiran being his adorable self in a coffee shop on Broadway, not looking the least bit like a used car salesman. Jeff surprised us with a haircut upon his return from North Carolina. Jeff and Maria, far too smiley to ever pass as real New Yorkers (like the scowling ones behind them). Maria learns how to use chopsticks. I am squishing your head.
Patrick and Jeff at Zen Palate. Maria learns to love textured vegetable protein.     

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