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It would be a lie to say that I wasn’t thrilled to meet so many of the peo­ple I admire in New York over the week­end. I would recount the whole thing blow by blow but my good friend Shane Lavalette has already beaten me to the punch. He has been far more thor­ough is his recount­ing of Fri­day night than I ever could be. I will say though that among the folks I got a chance to hang out with were Jen Bek­man, Eric William Car­rol,  Joerg Col­berg, Amy Elkins, Shane Lavalette, Chris­t­ian Pat­ter­son, Richard Renaldi (guy’s got seri­ous mus­cles, by the way), Amy Stein, Alec Soth, Brian Ulrich, Zoe Strauss and Shen Wei. All the pho­tog­ra­phers and blog­gers from all over the coun­try in New York for the same bunch of events made this one of the most excit­ing week­ends I’ve had in a long time.

It’s hard to have any regrets about a week­end like this one, but I do wish I had been able to talk more with Chris­t­ian Pat­ter­son, Richard Renaldi and Joerg Col­berg. I also didn’t even get a chance to say hello to Edward Win­kle­man, Les­ley Mar­tin, Paddy John­son and Mar­tin Parr. Even so though, I can’t say that I have any real com­plaints. I was amazed that every­one I met was so incred­i­bly nice — it was prac­ti­cally like being with fam­ily. I also want to say that Amy Stein is just about the sweet­est per­son on earth.

I also got to spend a good chunk of my week­end apart­ment hunt­ing in var­i­ous Brook­lyn neigh­bor­hoods. It’s still just a lit­tle too early to really get seri­ous since I’m not mov­ing until mid-​​August, but it was really help­ful to get a feel for how much you get for your money in the var­i­ous places. And since I have no money (check­ing account: $133.60, sav­ings account: $43.60) it looks like Bush­wick is my best bet. Luck­ily, it seems like it’s a ter­rific neigh­bor­hood. It’s a quick shot to Williams­burg and into Man­hat­tan an I par­tic­u­larly like the Puerto Rican flags that fly over many of the blocks I wan­dered down — it will be like liv­ing inside a Wino­grand pho­to­graph. My friend Emily and her boyfriend Ian were kind enough to let me crash with them for a night at their place in Bush­wick and I had a great time.

Now I’m back in D.C., and it’s time to run to the gro­cery store to get stuff for din­ner. Then, I’m going to hit the books. Tomor­row is my last day of Biology.

Posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

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