Corporate Girl

Corporate Bathroom selfie ( super professional)

When I worked at Nordstrom, people always said that I was so “corporate” and that I was all business, and such a business girl.  I totally agreed with that statement and like it.  When I came here to NYC and got a temp job for Mutual of America for a few weeks, I was working with Vice Presidents and super important people, and I did great.  I would walk around and talk to people and felt like I fit in with my “corporateness” and was like, “ I got this”, look at me being all corporate in NYC, I can totally do this.  Screw working in the Medical Field, Corporate life is the life for me.

Wrong!

I mean, maybe wrong.  I’m not sure yet.  But I am sure that I’m not as “Corporate” as I thought.  I’m sure it’s in me somewhere, but when I’m playing with the big dogs, my “corporateness” definitely shrinks away.

Badges are so official, I love them, but kill me if I lose it

Big Dogs, Who are the Big Dogs?

Last week I walked into a temp agency, and it looked ghetto and I had already written it off and one of the recruiters said a job just came in.  She told me the pay, gave me the address, and told me to show up at it tomorrow morning.  So I did.  I showed up to 250 Greenwich St, otherwise known as 7 World Trade Center, whaaaaaat.  This company is overall the whole reformation of the WTC properties among a million more.  The building is gorgeous and so fancy.  I got my security and ID badge and when I swipe it to enter the building it calls the elevator for me.  The break room has a fancy machine with every kind of drink from cappuccino and espressos to hot cocoa, plus a bunch of other tea’s and ice coffees, I wish I drank coffee and that it didn’t stain my teeth or give me bad breath cause I love me free stuff.  Is also on Crains New York list of the top #100 business to work for in NYC, it ranked #30 last year, so that’s fancy. 

I work for 3 main guys, 2 unoffically, and 1 analyst. (every other Executive Assistant has one, MAYBE 2).  They’re pretty cute too, and then I realized that these young, rich and powerful guys scare me.  “Hotness is intimidating, especially when it’s wearing a suit.” That’s the quote that came to my head after stepping into my new office.  The guys are really nice, but still, they handle millions of dollars a day like its candy and I’m the one supposed to be in charge of scheduling their life, I don’t wanna screw that up, these are real business men.  I thought Mutual of America was corporate, but comparatively it is just baby corporate.

 There are lots of other great things about this temp assignment one being that my view is incredible.  It looks out upon a huge chunk of the city and is right next to One World Trade Center. They also have a cafeteria in the building and the food is pretty cheap so that helps save moola which is always the preferred route, I don’t even need to try and scrounge up a coupon if I eat there.  The location is awesome and pretty easy to get to, it’s only one Asian bus ride away, with no transferring at any other stops.

Office view, never gets old

But back to Big Dogs. Last Friday, I met THE Big Dog.  His name is Larry Silverstein ( google him) , and looks like Larry King, he is worth $3.5 BILLION,( That’s not intimidating) he shook my hand for a really longtime and wished me Happy New Year ( it was the New Year for my Jewish peeps).  

So what am I gonna do about the Big Dog Corporate World?  I dunno.  I have an interview on Friday with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, so maybe I’ll get that job and scoot away from the corporate world, but on the other hand the corporate world pays waaay better than the medical and charitable world.  What to do? What to do?  I dunno, pray for me and we’ll see what happens.

Peace and Love from NYC

Quiet Clubbing

It gets real when things start glowing

What the heck is quiet clubbing you ask?  It’s super cool.  You show up at a venue that has plenty of dancing room, event locations are on the Quiet Events website. Check it out.  You’re issued a pair of headphones that light up different colors and you’re instructed how to use them.  There are 3 different DJ’s spinning from different music genres.  For example, if you like to dance to hip hop you would turn it to DJ #1 and your head phones would light up and stay red.  DJ #2 will bring the oldies back and light up blue, and DJ #3 will play today’s pop tunes and light up green.  So you’ll be dancing and grooving to some hip hop music and then all of a sudden some profane and slutty song comes on and instead of leaving the room, or dancing your way through it with a grudge on your face you can just change the channel on your headphones and switch to DJ #3 so you can groove to some Britney Spears or better yet SPICE GIRLS!  You can see who everyone else is listening to and go dance with strangers that have your same DJ light on OR you can stay with your circle of friends and dance together to different DJ’s at the same time.  Do you have a question you need to ask your friend and you suck at lip-reading?  Then just take your headphones off and ask them, the room is quiet and you don’t have music blasting in your ears as your trying to talk to or hit on someone.  It’s a quite clever idea, that proved to be oddly fun.  There was only one guy in the club who stood in the middle of the crowd who didn’t have headphones.  I don’t know what he was thinking.  As for me and my crew, we tore it up and were soooo sweaty and hot afterwards.  When we emerged from the club and had the rush of cool air hit us, we knew what was next on the nights itinerary.  McDonalds for some SOFT SERVE!

The Gals

The Belarusians

I  hate Time Square.  I hate trying to walk through it and being packed in like sardines and shuffling your way street to street.  But that’s where the 24 hour McDonalds was so we made our way over there.  To my pleasant surprise, Time Square was DELIGHTFUL.  At one o’clock in the morning, TS has a normal amount of people and you can actually see and enjoy the coolness that is TS around you.  So now I like time square….if its late a night, its AWESOME. 

Anywho, we make it to the happenin McDonalds to get our post dancing treat and there are throngs of people.  So were just chillin in line and this guy with an accent ( which is always hot) turns around and starts tryin to guess my name and where I’m from.  I can’t do this crazy guy justice.  Him and his friend were from Belarus and met in driving school when they came to NYC.  He was completely inappropriate and was cracking me up so I said, “ lets take a picture”, and he goes, “ of us kissing?”  Now the dryspell in me wanted to be like “ heck ya of us kissing”, I mean, this Belarusian was pretty cute.  So I told him he could kiss my cheek.  And boy did he do that.  I could feel his tongue moving around all over my cheek as he made out with it.  Then he said he was disgusting and wiped my cheek off. I was dying.  Later he was straddling me and one of my girlfriends yelled at him “ Hey, get off my friend”, but of course that only encourages him.  Now, she’s involved with this mess and he talking to all of us now.  I believe at one point he referred to having a 5 some.  My girl Chelsea was hilarious, everytime he would ask her her name she would just laugh and say “ you don’t need to know that information”, which just made him want it more. 

I was eating my ice cream and he kept telling me how sexy I eat it and that maybe I need to try out other things ( innuendo implied).    It was a funny, flattering, and interesting adventure in McD’s that night but we decided not to take those boys home with us.  So we left and went out into the chilly weather, which was only chilly because our sweat from da club had now turned into wet coldness on our bodies and wasn’t drying quickly.  Always a good adventure when your with Chelsea Kasen and Danielle Dobson.  More craziness and adventures with those chicas to come.

P.S. On a spiritual note, I love that I can have friends who have the same values as I do, that can talk about religion and live The Gospel, and that still know how to have a good time.  So grateful for all the good peeps in my life.  Ya’ll ROCK.

Quiet Clubbing Round Deux

Broadway Buddies

Since I’m here in NYC, I have to take advantage of one of the things it most famous for…It’s Broadway shows.  I hate doing touristy things, but this is one thing that I like to do, and of course its expensive.  So, first things first  ( I’m the realist, hehe) you gotta be looking for deals.  So I download numerous apps to keep me connected to deals, and of course the TKTS booth ( look it up), ticket lotteries, waiting list, etc.  I’ve found some good deals and so did my friend Thomas so we’ve been on a Musical kick.  I saw Jersey Boys, Book of Mormon the Musical by myself.  I got good tickets because one was a “ obstructed view”, which really didn’t affect anything, and the other was “limited leg room”, which since I’m short also didn’t affect  anything. 

Then together me and Thomas saw, Newsies, Bullets Over Broadway, Kinky Boots, and Caberet, and many more to come, well probably only a couple because there are not a lot left I want to see.

Thomas cracks me up  Whenever there are celebrities near, or if there is a limo around, he always shouts out a celebrity name.  He’ll get close to a limo and yell, “ Sarah, Sarah Jessica Parker, is that you?”, or randomly yell “Neil Patrick Harris”.  It always interesting to see peoples reaction.  We got a great one as we were standing outside the back of the show Alladin, the guy who plays the genie, thought it was hilarious, and then when we realized he heard we started laughing too.

Thomas also asked me if my purse was big enough to fit some treats  so we could sneak them into the theater for Bullets over Broadway.  I told him I’d bring a bigger bag, thinking that he would have like a candy bar or something small for me to shove in.  Oh no, I meet Thomas and he has a Duane Reade bag full of treats.  He has 2 fiji water bottles, a bag of Swedish fish, chocolate reisens, and CHEX MIX.  I was like, “ This isn’t a movie theater, we’re on the 11^th row, you can’t be smacking away!”.  He just laughs at me as he rearranges my purse taking out my wallet to make everything fit….it doesn’t but we make it work anyway.  Half way through he leans over and just says “ Chex Mix”.  I was nervous but he’s a pretty quiet cruncher and you couldn’t hear him as long as people were singing.  I’m pretty sure at one point people got annoyed with us, because both couples on either side had to switch places with their other half, we were dying, oh well, we’re having fun

After the show, we stood out side for a second to see the actors come by.  I wasn’t expecting much and then all of a sudden I found myself pushed up to the front when Zach Braff came out, I gave him my phone and said, “Sorry, my hands are shakey, will you take the picture”, He was nice enough too, even though it turned out blurry, I guess I made him nervous too.  Thomas also got his photo with Zach which I found on some girls Instagram looking up the hashtag “zachbraff”.  It was a pleasant surprise and then we went on our way.  But not before we saw a really attractive cop and I had to take my picture with him tooJ

Reviews of the Shows ( Out of 5 stars)

Jersey Boys: 4 stars, it was cute.  Said the “F” word more than I was expecting, but they were “Jersey Boys”.  I think I would have liked it more if I grew up with their songs, but I was kind of familiar with them.  It definitely made me more interested in their story.

Book of Mormon the Musical: 4 stars.  It said the “F” word a lot too.  It wasn’t as south park ( they have the same writers) like as I thought it was going to be which is good cause I hate south park. I could relate being Mormon and being a missionary and all the inside jokes.  I have my ringtone set as one of their songs called “ I believe” because it gives a great intro into what Mormons believe, and cuts off at just the right time before the song turns blasphemous.  The lead actor, Elder Cunningham, was played by Ben Platt, who was the nerdy magic kid in Pitch Perfect,  he was AMAZING in both parts.  I still don’t get why people who aren’t Mormon like it though.

Newsies:  3 stars

I was disappointed.  The dancing was good, and I was expecting lots of  dancing but the guys were just too gay.  I mean, I know that all of them are probably gay anyways, because their dancing and singing on Broadway, but I just wanted them to butch it up a little bit, not point their toes so much.  I had such a crush on Jack Kelly and his voice was just too high ( he’s actually not gay in real life).  So basically the cast didn’t turn me on like the movie did.  They changed the words to the songs, and added their own of course.  The actor who played the little 9 year old kid was good, it would be hard to be young and on Broadway.  But, yeah, Newsies wasn’t my faveL

Bullets Over Broadway: 4.5 Stars

The songs were fun, there was the right about of raunchiness, it was unexpectaedly comedic, the set and costumes were great and elaborate ( love the 1940’s), and ZACH BRAFF was in it.  SOLD.

Cabaret: 2.5 Stars

So I think I was confused by what would actually be happening in this show, so the poor rating is partially my fault for lack of understanding.  In my mind I was thinking Cabaret was more like burlesque, sexy and upbeat, with songs and dancing.  When in reality it was a tragic story with drama and death.  It had some pretty heavy themes, there was an abortion and then a bunch of people died in a concentration camp at the end.  Not upbeat.  Michelle Williams was the leading lady.  She's a cute girl, but the way she talked sounded like a trembling old lady so it wasn't that great.  Emma Stone is replacing her, so that should be interesting.  Alan Cumming was the leading man and did a great job.  I probably won't see it again unless I get free tickets or awesome seats.  The theater was super cool though, it was STUDIO 54!

Kinky Boots: 3 Stars

Again, I was expecting super upbeat, drag show or something.  This also had some heavy themes and long scenes talking about them.  But, the times when there was singing and dancing, it was great.  The costumes were fun, and the leading man who played Lola, was a great actor.  It was a cute show.

Hot Cop outside one of the Shows

That's all I have for now on the Broadway front.  Hopefully, more to come.

Peace and Love Ya'll

Lolo