Tom & Alissa

Tornadoes apparently touched down in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, which is south of us. (Read about it here and here on Gothamist.) I woke up around 5:00 am and saw the rain and lightning, but by the time I got up a few hours later, it wasn’t raining at all. It is unbearably muggy, but I still went running. Everything looked fine in my neighborhood.

Took me an hour and a half on the train to get to work, though, because of the flooding on the tracks (see above). Glad I got in an air-conditioned car. A co-worker apparently ended up on a bus early this morning, wherein he saw a tree uprooted that subsequently hit the bus, and then moved on to hit an apartment complex. Lovely!

In other news, Tom got to come home last night, though he promptly had to go out and exchange cars with another production assistant because - well, let’s just say, Tom runs a tight, efficient, organized ship when he’s an assistant director, but not everyone does.

He finally got to bed around 1am and was back up at the crack of dawn to pick up actors and bring them out to the set in NJ. Last I heard from him, he was looking for directions that didn’t involve the congested BQE, but I had no internet (Verizon DSL is completely useless when the sky is cloudy, so imagine it during a tornado) and couldn’t help him. We’re glad this job isn’t for much longer.

I’ve nearly finished White Teeth, by Zadie Smith. And I’m actually rather enjoying it. I think it would make much more philosophical sense if I were a) British and b) older, but it’s a thoroughly entertaining book. I really like her style of writing.

I’m planning to take a copyediting class (non-credit) at NYU this fall. Work pays for it because it’s directly related to my job. I’m actually really looking forward to it. I’ve been out of college for more than two years now, and the last class I took at NYU was in spring 2006, and, well, I’m a geek and I love classrooms. And I’m trying to stop doing any more web development (much too stressful of a freelance job when you have a full-time job) and perhaps work on short-term copyediting projects instead. So if you have a project, contact me! ;)

Two luscious food blogs I’ve enjoyed for a while: La Tartine Gourmande and Food & Paper.

And lastly, some recent Flickr favorites.

1. orange, 2. pink toes + rosé, 3. Untitled, 4. new love, 5. thirsty for rain, 6. where the purple thistle grows, 7. going crazy, 8. Julie, 9. Attente du Tour de France, 10. #02 stand in a row, 11. #03 until the small hours, 12. cherry blossom / cerisier, 13. Time for fresh juice, 14. Untitled, 15. Untitled, 16. Tomato Salad, 17. Agapanthus africanus, 18. Untitled, 19. gutter, 20. on the street, 21. far, 22. #03 in cycles, 23. lingering, 24. towards the sky, 25. flores