Vatche Arabian

Friday, June 22, 2007

do you remember when?

Work. Work. Work. New York City. Long Hours. Long Days. Little Sleep.

They call it the city that never sleeps because you work crazy hours, that by the time you need to go to bed, you have to wake up to go to work the next morning. But, I wouldn't have it any other day, I don't think I've worked so much in my entire life, but I gotta admit, I love it.

The place in Astoria is great, the area is much like Watertown in that its a fairly cultural neighborhood (mostly Greek). My local grocery store is 24 hours, and sells Lahmajun, which is pretty much all I need to survive.

Commuting to work takes around 30-40 minutes, the most painful part being the 15 minute walk to the subway, but, that only sucks at the end of the day when you're exhausted (ask me again in the winter).

The apartment itself is coming along now that I've got all my stuff down here. On one of my next trips up I'm going to start bringing down some posters, pictures, etc. Just to decorate the place.

This weekend is gonna be fun, Tony is coming down with his friends band and spending the night Saturday.

A friend of mine, Joe, from work separated from his girlfriend last weekend, and drove home to Alabama. I offered a place at my house for him to crash until he got back up on his feet. I just hope someone would do that for me if I needed it!

anyways, thats whats going on!

Friday, June 01, 2007

Hello Astoria

So I've moved from lovely Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn to Astoria in Queens! I left my older, strange roommate behind for a great studio in the upper Ditmars.

The area is extremely suburban, and, not far from an excellent 24-hour grocery store. Which, I must say I'm a very big fan of. I went late last night to pick up a few things, to my surprise, there was some good ol' syrian bread, definitely missed that.