Life in Moo Town
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Israeli Consulate Interview
The weekend was pretty dull. Watched TV, got a haircut, set up a phone interview with Genentech for Thursday, emailed back Microsoft about visiting WA, sent my expense report to BD for a reimbursement, worked a bit on my memo, picked up my dry cleaning and did my laundry. Nothing monumental. Today I had an interview with the Israeli Consulate, the embassy to the UN. They needed a speech writer and I seemed to have all the credentials. Although one of the women interviewing me did ask how old I was...apparently I look overly young when I shave or something. It sounded like an amazing job. Writing letters to Kofi Annan, speeches to the general assembly...then halfway through the interview we realized there was a problem. There was a miscommunication in the job posting. It wasn't a summer position, they were looking for a full time employee for the next year. Bummer. Waste of everyone's time. I put in a good word for a friend who is interviewing there next week and went home. Too bad. Was fiddling around and puttering in my room and finally I just couln't stand it anymore. Nobody wanted to go out so I headed to the Jewish Museum on 92st and 2nd Ave. Took a train then a bus to get there. It was closed. Turns out they changed their schedule 2 years ago. I'd come too far to go back so I just started walking. Went down the museum mile, poked my head into the Goethe Library, and window shopped down Madison Ave. I walked all the way to midtown. Just couldn't stand being cooped up in an apartment box any longer. Stopped in at the Whitney Museum to see a huge set of pipes made of inflated platic balloons. Didn't get to hear them play unfortunately, I would have had to wait 40 minutes. Instead I went next door into Tump Tower and poked around a bit. Pretty glitzy building. Lots of mirrors. And pictures of Trump everywhere. Total ego edifice. Walked from the East side to Times Square and hung out there for quite a while. Grabbed a burrito from some Chipotle place on the way 'cause I was starving. As expected, they don't hold a candle to Mexican food from CA. Indulged in some honey roasted peanuts from a street vendor in the square. I love the smell. And they keep your hand warm when it's 33 out as it was this evening. Finally took the subway down to 14th to hang out with a friend and watch Garden State. Was not a fan. It just didn't do anything for me.
The weekend was pretty dull. Watched TV, got a haircut, set up a phone interview with Genentech for Thursday, emailed back Microsoft about visiting WA, sent my expense report to BD for a reimbursement, worked a bit on my memo, picked up my dry cleaning and did my laundry. Nothing monumental. Today I had an interview with the Israeli Consulate, the embassy to the UN. They needed a speech writer and I seemed to have all the credentials. Although one of the women interviewing me did ask how old I was...apparently I look overly young when I shave or something. It sounded like an amazing job. Writing letters to Kofi Annan, speeches to the general assembly...then halfway through the interview we realized there was a problem. There was a miscommunication in the job posting. It wasn't a summer position, they were looking for a full time employee for the next year. Bummer. Waste of everyone's time. I put in a good word for a friend who is interviewing there next week and went home. Too bad. Was fiddling around and puttering in my room and finally I just couln't stand it anymore. Nobody wanted to go out so I headed to the Jewish Museum on 92st and 2nd Ave. Took a train then a bus to get there. It was closed. Turns out they changed their schedule 2 years ago. I'd come too far to go back so I just started walking. Went down the museum mile, poked my head into the Goethe Library, and window shopped down Madison Ave. I walked all the way to midtown. Just couldn't stand being cooped up in an apartment box any longer. Stopped in at the Whitney Museum to see a huge set of pipes made of inflated platic balloons. Didn't get to hear them play unfortunately, I would have had to wait 40 minutes. Instead I went next door into Tump Tower and poked around a bit. Pretty glitzy building. Lots of mirrors. And pictures of Trump everywhere. Total ego edifice. Walked from the East side to Times Square and hung out there for quite a while. Grabbed a burrito from some Chipotle place on the way 'cause I was starving. As expected, they don't hold a candle to Mexican food from CA. Indulged in some honey roasted peanuts from a street vendor in the square. I love the smell. And they keep your hand warm when it's 33 out as it was this evening. Finally took the subway down to 14th to hang out with a friend and watch Garden State. Was not a fan. It just didn't do anything for me.
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Hey man, maybe you missed my earlier post, but how did you get on a journal as a 1L? You're a 1L, right? Thanks, looking forward to see how you did that.
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