Photoshoot!

Today I had a my first "on location" photoshoot wtih photographer John Pringle.  We shot in Central Park.  John was pretty chill, but he was a little too friendly, we had just met and he already thought of me as his "little sister" and gave me hugs and stuff - too soon.

I got some good shots, and some not so good shots - lol.  Overall it was pretty fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPO!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPO!!!!!!!!

RIP <3

1st Article Post on Examiner.com!!!

Here's my first article on Examiner.com!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/business-events-in-new-york/fashion-s-night-out-boosting-the-economy

I'm an Examiner!!!

I just got an offer to be the "NY Business Events Examiner" for Examiner.com!

YAY!!!

Last Day at the SEC

Today was my last day at the SEC :(

Leave it to me to end the day crying.  I was fine up til I went to say bye to Mark :(

Thanks for an amazing summer everyone, I had great time interning with you all and hope you will all keep in touch!

X Games - Travis Pastrana's Double Backflip...Round 2

The Drums @ Webster Hall

Tonight J-Dawg and I went to see The Drums perform at a MTV show at the studio at Webster Hall!

NASDAQ

Today the interns and I went to the NASDAQ.  It was pretty cool and high tech!  We got to see the opening bell and received a presentation.  I had asked a question regarding supplements to the specialist aka real people that they have at the NYSE but clearly do not at the NASDAQ.  I got the best response ever...  "We have real humans working upstairs" LOL

Ringing the Opening Bell

1st Day at the SEC

Today was my first day working at the SEC.  We were in Orientation for most of the day - filling out paper work, being oriented and waiting to be sworn in.  Apparently I was different from the other interns in the sense that I was assigned with headquarters versus the NY Regional Office (NYRO).  I was oriented with 3 other interns - Katherine, Pat and Damian, all of which seem pretty cool.  I felt really old as I was the only college graduate there...

After waiting for a while I was finally sworn in by Bruce, my supervisor.   I am sitting on the 17th floor outside another supervisor, Ken's office. 

I also met Tristan, another intern in the Asset Management Unit.  He seems pretty cool so far, hes in a similar boat to me, in that he graduated this spring and will be starting law school in the fall.  Apparently he started 2 weeks ago and went to Brown.

Kate Voegele & Jason Derulo

Today I saw Kate Voegele and Jason Derulo!!!

Kate Voegele
Fanny and I went to the Oakley store in the Meat Packing District to see Kate.  There were maybe 20 people there that weren't employees.  It was a nice, small, intimate acoustic set.  She sang about 5-6 songs, it was pretty awesome!  Afterwards she hung around and talked to everyone, shes such a sweetheart!

          

Jason Derulo
Jacqueline and I went to see Jason Derulo at the Filmore tonight, it was a pretty awesome show!!!  ON our way in I saw Keith and Craig and Amanda after the show, what are the chances of that - lol.  Afterward, we went to wait for Jason and failed :(  However, we did meet his opening act TINO.

Congrats to Fordham University's Class of 2010!!!

We finally made it!

City Adventure w/ Mary

Last night Mary and I had a crazy city adventure.  We started off the night at a casting call for a private Fashion Week show.  It was kind of weird.  They called us all into a room (in the order we arrived in), once we were there, we had to walk in of everyone from one corner to the next.  Mary and I were freaking out as we had not practiced and had to walk in front of everyone, luckily we were 3rd and 2nd to last respectively, and were able to observe before we went.  Mary was AMAZING!  Mary got picked for the show on Friday!!! :)  Unfortunately I did not as I did not fit the profile.  However as we were leaving one of the casting people told me to walk w/ her, and told me that the designer "liked my look" and wanted to use me for future shows and photo shoots! :)

I got a call back from that lady, Stacy, today, and it turns out that they want me to be a "signature model" for  Allen Mark.  I"m still a bit skeptical because A. I don't know much of anything about the company, and B. Why would they want me of all people?  But if this is for real, I'm super excited! :)

After the casting call Mary and I went to Sephora and did crazy eye make up followed by a trip to Crumbs! :)  Sadly it was closed. :(  We then headed to the theater to see Valentine's Day, which was AWESOME and exceeded my expectations! :)  All in all it was an awesome night! :)

Channing Tatum & Amanda Seyfriend @ the Apple Store Soho

Today I got see and somewhat interview Channing and Amanda!

Channing and Amanda were at the Apple Store in Soho today.  It was a somewhat small turnout, especially compared to when Maroon 5 was there.

I was lucky enough to get a seat in the audience area.  It was really cool.  When they were taking questions fro the audience I got to ask them both a question!  I asked them something like "This question is for both of you.  You both have been in a variety of movies, ranging from GI Joe, Step Up, Mean Girls and now Dear John.  What is your favorite genre of movie to shoot and which was your favorite movie to shoot."  Amanda said Dear John right off the bat, and Channing gave some BS answer about how he doesnt have a favorite, but that Dear John was their favorite.  They're supposed to have the podcast of that night up soon! :)

NYU

This weekend was NYU.

It was interesting...  I was debating with Tim this weekend.  Being somewhat fed up with the team decided that we would have tons of fun and why not drink.  So after round 1 we had some drinks, perhaps a shot.. or 3.. this lead to me being drunk for round 2.  I was drunk but fine up to my PMR, which went something like

Me: Madam Speaker, I'm not feeling too well, I think I need to sit down....

Needless to say, by the end of the speech, my head was in my hand, and it was bad.  However I was fine for round 3 after sitting for a bit, Tim on the other hand... got worse.

I had managed to corrupt some of the novii, yes I was the bad influence for once! lol

After rounds on Friday night, Jayme, BoMa, and I headed to McFadden's for Ashley's 22nd birthday celebration.  It was a lot of fun, people were really surprised I had come - lol. We ended up staying really late and not getting back until 4 AM, when I found out that Gareth had gotten food poisoning and had to go to the hospital :(

2.5 hours later, I was off to the Metro North to catch the train on our way to NYU for day 2, which was less fun/eventful.

All in all, it was a really fun weekend! :)

Northams

 This past weekend the team (Meg, Caitlin, Gareth, Robert, Laura) and I went to Northams - the North American Championships at York University in Toronto, CA.

It was a longgg drive up there.  We left after the meeting on Thursday night, stayed over some weird place in upstate NY near the Canadian border, and then finally arrived to the Holiday Inn around 2 PM on Friday.  Needless to say, it was a long drive...  We finally got to the tournament, and EVERYONE was there, well a lot of my old friends who I havent seen in a long time.  :)

I judged a few good rounds, I judged 1/2 Canadian Teams and 1/2 American Teams, however all the panels I was consisted of me being the only American, which was cool.  I made a ton of new Canadian friends!  I got to judge a few teams who broke and a bubble round.  I even helped set up 2 guys ;)

Friday night was lots of fun, I partied w/ a bunch of people from APDA.  Apparently the tournament party sucked.  My team was being lame and most of them went to bed, Kyle and Liam were very disappointed at this sate of my team.  However after much nagging we finally got Gareth and Robert to join us :)

Saturday night after the banquet, which kind of sucked, I chilled w/ the team, who gave me a super hard time about wearing shorts... it's not like I was going to leave the hotel...  After that I ended up hanging out with some kids from UBC, and Matt Scarola and a whole crew after that.  I met a few new people, and made good decisions (although I wish I had made some bad ones w/ my crush... aww well).

By the end of the tournament we couldn't wait to get home to good ole USA.  On the way home we stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch :)

USA USA USA!!!