A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

At a literary agency on Park Avenue called Vigliano Associates, next Friday at 1:30. They do a lot of celebrity tell-alls and commercial fiction; the position is an assistant's job. When it rolls around, wish me luck! Sign in to see full entry.

in which I was talking about how strangers on trains and in restaurants don't like sitting in close proximity to one another, I read a very interesting article in this week's Time Out New York (in local lingo, called TONY, it's a New York magazine dedicated to what's going on in and around New York City) about people who have lived in the same apartment building for years without speaking to one another. TONY got together several sets of neighbors and introduced them to one another. One woman... Sign in to see full entry.

Whenever I go into Starbucks, or a restaurant, or wherever, I'll see all these tables with only one person sitting there. Then, I'll see all these people standing around waiting for a table. It's amazing how people don't like to double up and sit at tables with people they don't know. I'll admit--I'm one of those. Today I had to do the double-up thing, and I whispered, "sorry" to the person who's space I was invading, before sitting down. And I felt really, really guilty about doing it! (evne... Sign in to see full entry.

In the past six months I've lost about 20 pounds and two dress sizes. This would normally be a great thing, except for the fact that whenever I lose a lot of weight like that, the first place I lose it is in my breasts. So in addition to losing the two sizes, I've also lost an entire bra CUP size. I'm not sure I'm thrilled about this. Sign in to see full entry.

I just wanted to drop a line about, shall I say, recent developments. I talked to C about my crush on M; he was surprisingly OK with it. He just says that I need to get up the courage to talk to M, is all. So I IM'd M last night, asking him if we could talk, and gave him my cell phone number and e-mail address. I'd rather talk to M in person, but e-mail and phone are also good--I guess. I still haven't heard back from M, so I don't exactly know what's going on there or what he's thinking. I'm... Sign in to see full entry.