"Around the corner"

Let me clear one thing up before I fill you all in about my past few days:

If I go to the park, "it's just around the corner." If I go to the grocery, "it's around the corner." If I have tea or go to Pinkberry or Lincoln Center or a restaurant or the flea market, etc, "it's just around the corner." (Hopefully you see where this is going). I live in about a 5 block, 3 avenue distance from almost EVERYTHING I need or want. I'm steps from Central Park, a hop away from Columbus Circle, a block from the flea market, minutes from everything.

But over the past week I have apparently said, "Oh, I did this or I did that..." and my mom consistently replies, "Well, where it or is it near you?" and the answer to everything has been, "Oh! It's just around the corner!"

I don't notice that I say it as often as I have, but in reality I am "just around the corner," from a lot of things. It is so much easier to say "around the corner" than to say "it's about two avenues west and six blocks uptown." --- My equivalent analogy to this is: "My parents home in Arkansas is around the corner from our church."

Back to reality, today I had an interview with a business company for an editorial job. Not design, not writing, but copy-editing. And if you know me, the difference between two, to, and too causes so much confusion that I would rather rewrite an entire sentence than use "too." This meaning, copy-editing is not my strong point, and if you happen to be an english person or a grammar freak, then you already know that editing is not my forte, which is made obvious throughout my blog.

Nonetheless I did not take the position, but I got a couple of names to call and look to for freelancing design, as well as people in the design industry. This is good and this is a plus! Next week I am meeting with someone I spoke with today about design. This man has done incredible work, so I am looking forward to meeting him.

(I seem to be going backwards here, but just hang tight, I'm going to cover everything)

Last week, my friend Morgan (pledge sister from Mizzou who is from PA but lives near me in the city now) went to Cilantro for margaritas and guacamole! Hands-down it might be my favorite place to eat up here, I mean, I have already blogged about it twice. I am taking mom and dad when they come up here on Thursday.

Morgan and I had a great dinner and made plans to have brunch and go to the Met to see the Muse to Model exhibition one more time before it closed on Sunday, August 9. The exhibition was put on by Marc Jacobs and Conde Nast. Even Mickey, who will admit museums are not really her thing, would have enjoyed this exhibit completely.

Morgan and I met on the Upper East Side for brunch at Good Health. I had an open-faced omelette with grilled vegetables (go figure) that were marinated in this teriyaki sauce. And I am not a big fan of teriyaki but after I finished I had to ask.

Afterwards we walked to the Met and spent over two hours in the exhibit and read everything on display, and studied the gorgeous couture. Then we went up to the roof, and snapped a few pictures (with both of our little apartments in the background..... meaning we could see the tall buildings that overshadow our boxes.

Morgan has the photo of me and my apartment, but here is Morgan with hers