Park Avenue

          It's happening already.  I told myself I wouldn't be that person who starts up a blog and then slowly neglects it until it no longer has any relevance.  But that is what has happened over the past three weeks.  My excuses are that we had some awesome friends come visit us!  And that school mid terms happened.  It was great to have Russ and Kaitlin here.  Just to have somebody to hang out with was nice.  I'm actually doing work in school besides just reading.  I mean, there is still the same amount of reading, but now I also get to write papers.  Work is also still happening.  As far as jobs go, it's a pretty good one.  And I'm learning stuff, like that all the red wine produced in Beaujolais is always made from Gamay grapes.  But I did have to look up how to spell Beaujolais, so I suppose it's hit and miss.

          I'm trying to think of other things that are new and interesting, so I won't talk about the weather, even though it is getting colder here.  I'm going to see how far into the winter I can go before I have to hang up my bike and buy a subway pass.  One thing I do like about riding my bike is that I get to ride down Park Avenue every day to school.  More millionaires and billionaires live on Park Ave than any other street in the whole country, and it is quite a sight to see.  Doormen wearing hats and white gloves out in the street with their whistles calling cabs for their tenants.  Girls with big sunglasses and little dogs in their purses. Rolls-Royces and Maseratis, the owners of which sit in the back while their driver drives, of course.  Little boys wearing suits that are probably more expensive than all the clothes I own, probably purchased from the Armani for Kids right up the street.  Yes, there is whole Armani store just for kids.  Theres even a J. Crew Baby store over on Madison Ave, which is right next to Park Ave, in case your snot nosed kid needs a $198 cashmere blanket to throw up all over (I just looked them up, $198 dollar cashmere baby blankets actually do exist).  I mean, the amount of wealth is unreal.  I often wonder what these people do.  I suppose most of them probably work in finance, doing whatever it is that people in finance do.  

Anyways, people here are rich.  Its time for me to go to class.