Busy bee

Kate Nash
Originally uploaded by rompetaske

I've done a lot of stuff this last week, finally taking advantage of this city more than I have before. I went to Brooklyn a couple of days last weekend, saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and hung out in several parks (the Central one and Prospect Park in Brooklyn). And the whole school went to Ellis Island on Sunday,

and in the evening Mari (a girl from school) and I went to the UCB theater where ASSSSCAT performs each Sunday. It's an improv show with Amy Poehler in the lead. It was hilarious. Jason Sudeikis from SNL was there, and of course Amy too. A guy from 30 Rock was there. And one of the girls from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (the least famous one, haha).

This week I've done some summer shopping, been to a sculpture exhibition opening, had dinner and seen a movie with my philosophy class at the philosophy lecturer's house, had my first mani- and pedicure, been to a Kate Nash concert (picture) and today I'm planning on walking around a bit downtown and then probably end up in the park and read or something.

Tribeca Film Festival started this week, a lot of people from school are volunteers there, but I signed up too late. Anyway, in that occasion, Amy Poehler is speaking at the Apple Store in SoHo tomorrow evening, probably about her new movie Baby Mama which premiered at the film festival. I wanna go.

Spring

Guitar player
Originally uploaded by rompetaske

Spring has arrived, everything is getting greener by the minute and we've had a couple of days with 25 degrees. Celsius, of course. Helle and I had a little picnic in Central Park one day, we ate sushi and sat near this guy with a guitar. It was nice.

I went to Park Slope in Brooklyn yesterday, bought a purse and a wallet and some earrings and met Kristin from my class. We went to Prospect Park where she read and I played on my new Nintendo DS.

Today we sat in Central Park again, a whole bunch of us. Central Park feels like a whole different place than the rest of Manhattan, it's weird and very nice. Yes.

Herlige samtaler en søndag i East Harlem

(fritt fra hukommelsen:)

Helle (løper rundt i leiligheta): MARTHA! MARTHA! MARTHA! MARTHA! MARTHA! MAAARTHAAA! (telefonen ringer) Nå ringer de igjen! (svarer) Hello? ... Yes, I'm coming down now.

Martha (pakker ut kinamaten fra posen): Åh det er til og med etasjer i posen! (pakker videre) Enda en etasje! Helle, se! De har til og med lagt sånn deilig væske mellom hver etasje.

Helle: Har dere noen gang ett ord på hjernen, som dere tenker på om og om igjen?
Gisken: ...nei.
Martha: Hvilket ord er det du har nå?
Helle: Neeei, det kan jeg ikke si. ... Dumt at det ikke var sol i dag, da.
Martha: Vi burde begynne å skrive ned disse samtalene.

I'll always love you though, New York

It's been two months now. I've been in New York City for two friggin' months. The best two months of my life.

That is all.

Pigeons

We got our first pigeon egg on the balcony during the Easter vacation. The nest had been there for a while, and the birds, too. Vomiting in each other's beaks and being generally disgusting. Mom told us to remove it and we did. We didn't see them very much the next days.

The week after we saw that they were beginning on another nest in the other corner of our balcony. We removed it and they started again. Earlier this week we saw an egg there. We didn't do anything, we were kinda interested in what was going to happen. Yesterday we saw another egg. And we added one of our (not so good) chocolate easter eggs.

Apparently pigeon eggs hatch after 17 - 19 days and the babies will stay in their nest for two months before they start flying. We were still a little intrigued. I at least would like to see a bird learning how to fly. But we would also get pigeon bugs or mites or whatever, and we would have to listen to the baby bird screaming all day.

So we removed the nest and the eggs and everything.