Chrissy's Blog

I got a job! Again! I was offered a receptionist position at an animal hospital. Not my dream job, but I’m just looking for something to pay the bills while I chase down my dreams. I celebrated by taking it easy on Friday. I wandered around my neighborhood and found this taqueria. They had a lunch special with two tacos and a side salad. I got the chorizo tacos which were pretty legit. But that salad in the forefront of my picture. OH MY LORD! I’m not even a salad person, but I gobbled it up. I will definitely be returning there.

Not the best picture in the history of the world. But I never claimed to be Ansel Adams. It was so cold outside, and I took this while running across the street towards my subway station. I had gone to a writing group thing. It was not very successful at all for many reasons I am unwilling to get into right now. Mainly I just couldn’t focus. I thought it might be a nice way to release some stress, but I was just too tense.

For the first time in a long time, it was relatively warm and sunny in New York City. We decided to enjoy the weather by taking the FREE Staten Island Ferry. It goes right past the statue of liberty and has an excellent view of the city. Once on Staten Island, we tried to find something to do, but we failed and figured there was plenty to do back in New York City and headed back.

After a productive day, Travis and I went out for dinner. We went to a Mexican place called La Palapa in the East Village. The food was delicious, but it just didn’t match up to the likes of Bertha Miranda’s  in Reno. East coasters just don’t know how to do the Mexican food right. Our dishes cost twice what they would have in Reno, and we didn’t get the unlimited chips and salsa we had become so accustomed to. Not to mention no side of beans or rice! We left the restaurant still hungry. We headed over to a bakery called Veneiro’s. We ordered a cannoli, cheesecake, and the fruit supreme cake. Travis also wrote a new theme song for the two of us. It consisted of him singing in a falsetto “Two fat kids, three desserts.” They were fantastic! We weren’t even able to finish them all. The cannoli is still waiting in our fridge.

This sign was outside of the Woolworth Building. I walked by it on another bank errand. I thought it was rather amusing.

About an hour after I returned from the bank errand, my boss called me into his office where he told me that I am very smart, and he should never of hired someone who had such a high GPA in college. He handed me a check for three weeks worth of pay, untaxed and asked me to leave. I told him that I wasn’t unhappy at the job, that I didn’t feel overqualified, that I wanted to stay. He said that I had done nothing wrong, but I was just too smart for the job.

Dumbfounded, I headed home. Sure, the job was boring, but I need a job, and I don’t care that it’s boring. It was my 18th job in my seven years in the work world, but it was the first time that I have ever been fired. It felt horrible, and I still don’t understand why I was let go. There has to be another reason. Why on Earth would you fire somebody for being smart? The three weeks compensation was pretty generous though, and I figure that it gives me a couple of weeks to find something else. Travis brought home a six-pack of beer and a bag of Hershey’s kisses. I went out with some friends from the doctor’s office and they comforted me as well. Life isn’t so bad. I’ll find another job. I just hope this one is semi-normal.

Part of the new job was to run over to banks and make deposits. My boss was always emphatically apologetic, but I didn’t mind on cloudless days like this. The subway would take me the one stop to the bank, but I chose to walk, since it took about the same amount of time. This is a Frank Gehry building that I originally noticed when I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. It has this wave pattern that catches the light perfectly. I then read about it in New York Magazine. Gehry originally wanted the building to look like a corkscrew, but there were plumbing issues. This was the compromise.

It was a gloomy, rainy day in New York. The annoying mist-like precipitation I encountered on my lunch break made some of the taller buildings harder to see, but more interesting to photograph.