Victory Day!

Today was a day of personal victory - Nick and I went grocery shopping! All by ourselves! And we did it with no help from any parents and/or locals. Hooray!

It was a difficult process, however, because the grocery store proved elusive. There's a store on the corner, but it's really more of a convenience store. It sells the same sort of things as a gas station store and isn't really equipped to sell ACTUAL groceries, like bread or milk or anything. And then we were told repeatedly that if we left the building, the grocery store would be a block over, on twenty-ninth and seventh. This proved to be a lie - it's on twenty-eighth and ninth. LIES. But it's REAL and that's what's important. I found milk and bread and hummus and fruit and now I'm happy.

Especially because Nick and I have just not really been eating, haha. We ate on Friday before 9 to 5 and we ate Subway yesterday, but haven't really eaten regular meals, haha.

I'm well aware I just went on for three paragraphs about grocery shopping, but seriously, you should all be proud. I'm learning how to be a real adult here. A round of applause would not be uncalled for.

Other than that, not much has been going on as of late. I've been checking people into their rooms (this essentially entails sitting on a couch and watching hours and hours of Law and Order: SVU or The Sound of Music and waiting for people to arrive - not difficult). This is kinda lame, though, because it means that I have to stick around our building. But just wait - once I don't have to do this anymore I will be kickin' up my heels, paintin' the town red and livin' large. And updating my slang, apparently.

I shall be reunited with Michael Lapinsky this eve, which is tres exciting, and after that I have one more day of checking people in (I only have to work from 9:00 to 1:00 though, so that's good) and then on Tuesday we have our New York Arts Program Orientation, complete with presentation by an NYPD officer (hopefully Olivia Benson makes an appearance).

Still missing you all, and VERY grateful to the amazing family members that actually read, haha.
Love, Kelly