The cleaning out process

This is the first time ever that I've had to "move out" of a cubicle. After taking down all of the framed things on the walls and the pictures, etc., off of my bulletin board, it's feeling very strange and empty here. I have a little ways to go in taking everything of mine back home, but I can probably fit it all into two bags at this point. It's at times like this that I realize how an office is really like a second home, with many roommates.

Thoughts on NYC, part 2

Although it's been a little while since my half-day jaunt in NYC, I'm going to try and recollect. Here goes.

The United Nations! Kind of a fun thing to say you've seen, but overall not a great group of buildings. Across the way from the UN there's a stairway leading up to Tudor City Place, with some poetic inscriptions in the stone wall (called the Isiah Wall):

Casting the shadow is "Peace Form One," a cool looking obelisk structure of which I have no photo (also, this photo is not mine, as my camera crapped out on me).

And from there it was onward to some bar, at which I had a Hawaiian pint. It was really good, sort of fiery like a volcano. And then for the second time since arriving in NYC I had to reveal myself as a Bostonian, as the Sox-Yanks game was on and the bar tender of course started making conversation about the game. We wished each other luck in the season and I was on my merry way to the Brooklyn Bridge.

On the way, I saw this really cool Armenian church, St. Vartans. This photo doesn't really do it justice, but it's what I've got.

After passing this place by, my next stop was the Brooklyn Bridge itself, which was just phenomenal and amazing. If you haven't walked across it yet, I highly recommend that you do!

And then there's Maude

Finally!