Bushwick< Brooklyn < New York City

So tomorrow I will have been officially here in New York City for a whole entire week! I'm sorry to disappoint but I have no crazy stories to tell yet mainly because I've been settling in, hauling in furniture, getting internet/cable set-up, and buying the living essentials.

I live on 339 Covert Street in Brooklyn, New York in a bottom floor of a super cute house which is 1) cleaner/bigger than any Berkeley apartment I've ever seen or been in and
2) did I mention super cute?
The kitchen space is pretty sizeable and all the kitchen drawers have been newly installed with little strawberry symbols on the knobs. Plus we got a kickass comfy couch for free from Van's uncle and we're getting a foozball table next week!

So please visit!

Craiglist is also really and truly the modern day savior. We got a good quality coffee table, side table, DVD player, floor lamp, desk clock, writing desk, decorative lamp, folding chair, and plates all for $40. That my friends is DIRT CHEAP. Ikea can suck my dick.

Last night Van and I went down to Coyote Ugly in East Village, (yes the original Coyote Ugly bar) and witnessed what can be described as skimpily clad women bartenders line dancing and going the splits on the bar while pouring tequila down skeezy male patrons' throats. The place was decorated with bras (must have been at least 500+) on the ceilings, on the windows.. wherever. My rating: 7 for amusement, 3 for having an actually good atmosphere. Not surprisingly most of the clientele were horndogs. Yuck!

Leaving the place was in a word--insane. There was a downpour like I had never seen before and when it rains, it really does pour. Luckily I was OCD about checking weather.com and had packed my nifty umbrella in my purse but that didn't help the least. Walking back to the subway at 2AM, Van and I were drenched to the bone. Actually to the point where we didn't give a fuck anymore and I almost had a "singing in the rain" moment before I caught myself and saved my dignity. The great thing was that it wasn't cold at all, not like Bay Area rain, just humid and wet.