Things I have seen recently

1. Ethan Hawke at 12th Street Ale House. He was wearing a trucker hat and when he left J sat down in his seat.

2. An Olsen quickly exiting a black SUV on Clinton Street.

3. Inception. My mind was successfully blown.

4. Mad Men premiere. God that show is amazing.

5. The Cash Cab! Right outside C+C's apartment! Unfortunately Ben (the driver) was nowhere in sight, and there were already people in the cab signing waivers for that particular filming... so, no dice. But now we know what it looks like!

6. This morning as I turned the corner right outside my apartment, they were filming Law and Order SVU in the parking lot I always pass on the way to and from work. I sort of recognized the guy (Stabler) but had to confirm with a security dude that it was indeed L&O.

Also I've been tending to run in to all sorts of random acquaintances in my new neighborhood. That's just how life in the city is, you know? Feel free to place bets on my next awesome sighting. I've got my fingers crossed for Gossip Girl or the movie Friends with Benefits (starring JT hahaha). Oh wait! According to http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2010/07/27/filming-locations-in-nyc-for-wednesday-july-28-2010-including-%E2%80%98gossip-girl%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98blue-bloods%E2%80%99/ Joseph Gordon-Levitt (my new fave person) is filming today in very west Chelsea somewhere. Ahhh, JGL, so close and yet so far!

Melting

So I went from a weekend of the above idyllic landscape back to the disgustingly hot cement jungle yesterday, and it's only gotten worse from there. I think we had a record breaking high of 100 something degrees today.

I finished reading THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE over the weekend holiday and came back to find two awesome things: 1) an article sent by Padre about the upswing in international crime fiction publication (hurray literature in translation!) and 2) more Sookie Stackhouse books for me from my coworker.

I don't really have much else to say except that I already miss all the wonderful food that was always sitting around this weekend. Why oh why didn't I think to smuggle any leftovers back on the plane? Speaking of the plane, I saw some very awesome fireworks as I was landing. And part of the Macy's show as I was taxi-ing over the bridge to Manhattan... gotta make it a priority to see that whole thing next year. Maybe even from my very own rooftop!

Ok well this weather makes me too exhausted to even type more, so that's all for now. Will perhaps have a better and more thorough update once this heat wave is over (and please God make that happen sooner rather than later).