I just toured an affordable apartment in GREENWICH VILLAGE. This is like...this is like...CATCHING MEWTWO WITH A GREAT BALL.
I mean of course it is a shoebox but still...If I could live RIGHT THERE, I could walk to work. Cats allowed.
I don't work today but I'm here anyway because I have to write up an article for this health magazine. Then I hope to get some GRE study in. I've got an everything bagel with lox and cream cheese and a big beautiful vanilla latte in front of me so hopefully I can get some work done.
I have other apartments to look at this week but they are pretty much all in Washington Heights. That's alright too but damn, after seeing that one today I don't even know. My co-workers think it's some kinda catch but he said utilities included. They just need someone to move in right away that's why they lowered the price.
Next topic.
Sigh. Cigarettes. I have been smoking since age 14. Not regularly, but off and on. At 14 I probably smoked like one cigarette per month because I was so scared of my parents finding out. I was smoking my dad's Marlboro Reds. Now my father is from Southern Italy, where it is more common for men to smoke like it's no big deal. My mom (who is American) smokes lights but I was always so worried that if she even saw one missing she'd know it was me and flip a tit. My dad couldn't care less other than the fact he doesn't think it's very feminine.
Then in high school my friends all smoked and so I started doing it more, but really still not very often. I would say now maybe two cigarettes a month. Nothing.
Then I went to college and for some reason I decided I wanted to start smoking more. So I started buying cigarettes, so this is when I really started doing it regularly. What didn't help is that at the time I was taking Adderall to help me in school and because, well I'll just be honest, I wanted to lose a bunch of weight. The thing with Adderall is that it makes you chain smoke. I was half a pack a day for a while there, like the first two years of college.
Then I studied abroad for a year and it was like I forgot all about it. (stopped taking addy too) I rarely smoked because in Japan the male/female smoking ratio is even worse than in Italy and if you are a girl who smokes you get baddass reputation right away...which sort of has a different meaning in Japan, not to mention I was already judged for being American. HA HA. I would sneak cigarettes once in a while I'd say I was back to like two per month.
Then I moved back to NY and got my own apartment where I was paying 500 in rent per month while going to school and working a menial job at a coffee shop so there was no way I could drop 12.75 or whatever it is on cigarettes very often. So at first I was like one cig per week unless I was partying, which I also did rarely because of the money.
But then I GRADUATED and started working like 50 hours per week, on top of that, we've had lots of extra "flatmates" helping us out with rent so I have had more money to blow and so now I am probably around 6 cigarettes per day or somewhere between 6 and 4.
Holy shit I am boring. Oh well, no one will read this far anyway at this point I am just using this thing as procrastination aid.
THE POINT IS. There was a point to all of this. MY THROAT HURTS. I normally smoke Camel Menthol Lights but they don't sell those in my neighbourhood because the types of cigarettes go by the demographics of the area, so I sort of have to go to a white neighbourhood to buy mine HAHA.
But I was too lazy so I got Newports and holy shit. Dying. Last night I had to drink tea to soothe my throat. Why do I do this to myself? The weird part is I want to smoke one now and am about to. LOL. I do have e-cigs but I prefer to light one. I guess i like fire.
Man oh man now I remember why I quit Open DIary. Shit makes me forget everything I have to do and I just sit here and type nonsense. Finished my bagel and latte is almost gone. What should I order next..
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