i spent a lot of time alone this weekend (just me and a bottle of wine that is) and really started to miss all friends and fam (especially my Argentinean lovers, becks & sarbear) and was longing for a familiar face but the amazing thing about being in place you love so deeply, i could honestly just walk around and feel instantly better. i even met a new yorker (SC transplant) once i got myself out.
some of my adventures included putting the famous Hominy Grill to the test. it is a charleston trademark and people obsess over it. it is mobbed on the weekend but one advantage to doing things alone? i only waited 5 minutes for a table! hah i had an absolutely delicious saturday brunch: grilled veggie and goat cheese omelet, red yukon home fries, & sun flower seed toast. plus a constant flow of coffee. heavenly. hominy, you have my heart.
sunday i spent a few hours at the famous (food network veteran) bakery/coffee shop BAKED. I had lost of sketching to do for the upcoming illustration i am doing for the magazine!!! :) thats right, they are having me do an illustration, a PUBLISHED ONE! yay i am really excited about it, i'll even get credited on the page. :) so i sketched, drank coffee, diddled around on the internet, and ate the most scrumptious hazelnut mocha scone. the whole thing. then i went home and worked out for 2 hours. I also got a sweet and salty brownie to go (i mean i HAD TO, it was on food network's best thing i ever ate!!!) i cut it up into about 15 pieces and have been having one a day after my lunch haha. it's more necessary than a vitamin, lets be real.
anyway back to the internship, things are going really well. always a million and a half tasks which i love because there is never a dull moment. I am doing most of my work on the illustration out of the office because i always have other stuff to be working on when i am there. the ONLY thing i struggle with there is being quiet, who would have thought? but the editors offices are all around and they need peace and quiet which is not good for me. sometimes i work upstairs just because there's less people up there and i don't feel so guilty talking haha. today I had a lot of emails waiting for me to get back to about images for upcoming layouts, i also had to prep images for layout, had two meeting to show my sketches (eek nerve wracking!) For a monday, the day actually flew by!
tomorrow evening i'm going to see no strings attached with Liz from work and her friend. The movie theatre we are going to is like a theatre/restaurant all in one! how cool! I'm excited to check it out. :)
OH one more little funny story from my weekend. as an avid book/reading lover, i have been wanting to check out the Charleston Public Library. well silly me. sunday they are only open from 2-5 which i didn't realize when i showed up at 1:45. this shouldn't be too big of a deal, right? only 15 minutes.....well picture me. little innocent white girl (YANKEE white girl that is in my fluffy white coat big sunglasses and leather purse strolling up) and what do i find? about 35 homeless people waiting outside to get in the door at 2. (you'd think it was freezing the way they were waiting, it was like 60 degrees!) call me naive and childish brat but i was honestly terrified. i nearly ran back to my car. I've obviously been reading too much of the post and courier (charleston news) and i have every update in my mind of charleston crime. i am cruel to be so scared of homeless people but boy was i....
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