Friday, January 29th

Yesterday morning when I woke up, the snow was falling. It was so beautiful. I relived that Christmas morning feeling even though I've never actually had a white Christmas. I've never really even woken up to snow falling before. At least not like this. I watched it fall for a good five minutes before I made my coffee and then I got to work. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to tell you about my wednesday night. I tried something that I have never done before in my life. Something totally cheesy in theory and can either be a huge success or epic fail. I went speed dating. Oh yeah. You know what speed dating is. It's where a bunch of single guys and gals come together as they date and rotate each other every 3-5 minutes. It's a pretty funny concept I think. The rules of the version I played were a little more up to date. This particular game of speed dating was put together by two guys who consequently were the DJ's for the night. It took place at a small bar/club on the Lower East Side called CV. I went with a girlfriend of mine who is always up for spontaneous and random things such as this.

We arrived a little after 10:30 which was the intended start time. We took a seat on one of the couches that are usually used for Bottle Service but were on reserve for our dating game. My friend and I have the exact same haircut - dark hair with straight across bangs so in the dark setting we walked into I can imagine we probably looked like bobblehead twins. Within ten minutes of being there, the room started to fill up as were everyone's drinks. Alex, one of the hosts that invited us started giving everyone name tags and all the ladies were handed a questionaire. The questionaire was a list of 20 ridiculous questions to ask the guys during each date so we would have something to talk about. There were things like what do you prefer more on a first date - the Central Park Zoo or MoMA? But most of the questions were hilarious things like who would you rather have a threesome with - Leno and Letterman or Conan and Kimmel? It was great. The guy to girl ratio was surprisingly less than expected so each date that I had was shared with my girlfriend that I came with. This actually made everything way more fun and each guy loved being on a date with two girls. The first guy who will remain nameless was pretty cute. Tall, half black/half something else that I couldn't figure out, awesome hair and we actually had matching flannel shirts on. What surprised me right off the bat was how honest and blunt these guys' answers were to our questions. Guy number one prefers the Zoo for a first date, is opposed to a finger in his butt and likes to cuddle after a one night stand. Just as the three of us were forming a bond, the song changed which means it was time for our next date. The second guy we found out had actually come to this event with the first guy. When he realized his friend was our previous dater I think he felt competitive. Guys are so funny like that. Anyway, his style was totally Euro and he had shoulder length hair tyed back in a pony tail. I didn't feel any attraction to him but he was totally hilarious. Currently the song that he hates the most is "I gotta feeling" by Black Eyed Peas, his favorite drink is a gin gimlet and he'd rather be caught masturbating than watching Fox News. I'd have to agree with him about the Black Eyed Peas song. The last guy we went on a date with reminded me so much of Ali G. For those of you who aren't familiar - Ali G is Sasha Cohen aka Borat. He was from London, dark skin, facial hair and was obsessed with the fact that we both had bangs. Somehow by this point we had forgotten all about the questionaire and just started talking about whatever came to mind. He loved that we were both from California and his impression of "West Coast people" was soo funny. He is under the impression that CA folk are the most relaxed and mellow people in the World. I'd say that's half true. Once speed dating was over it was just a time for everyone to sip on their favorite poison, dance and mingle with everyone they had just met. It was a great ice breaker to start any party and overall I'd say speed dating was a huge success.

The snow from yesterday morning was melted and gone by noon. The weather is seriously on crack out here. You never know how good or bad it's going to get and it can never be trusted. At my internship yesterday Corinne had sent Donald and I to SoHo to deliver some posters of her to various stores and then we handed out the rest to local shoppers. It was nice to get out and walk around even though things were pretty cold. People were starting to go nuts over these posters. Everyone wanted one! I swear this girl is going to blow up before my very eyes. It's already happening and I can't wait until her showcase performance next month. Spending time with Donald was nice too because he had been out for about a week due to the loss of his grandmother. We are finally back in the swing of things. On Monday a cameraman is going to be following us around for the majority of the day to get footage for a documentary being done on Corinne Vielle. It should be cool, but I've never really experienced anything like that and it might be kind of awkward for other people around us. Bah, reality tv these days. It's everywhere. After we were done working in SoHo we headed back to Corinne's office to roll up more posters to get out next week. We ended up staying til about 6:30 unlike our usual ending time of 5pm as Corinne told us inside stories about people in the music industry while enjoying a mexican food dinner together. The three of us are such a close knit team and I am so happy with this internship as well as my job working for Carson. On my train ride home I was just reflecting on every opportunity I have been given while living out here and I could not be happier.

This morning I overslept and didn't get to working until about 9am. I usually like to start things by 8. I made a lot of great contacts to beauty companies and followed up with a few people from Luxury and Travel magazines. I'd like to think I am pretty good on the phones. I think people assume I am older than I am because of my speech and confidence level when I speak. Articulation is key. By 10:30 I was in the shower and ready to head out for an interview. Things didn't work out with Kiara unfortunately so Carson decided she wanted me to hire an intern who is able to help me with some things regarding sponsorship as well as someone with a PR background. I met with a girl who is actually from Milan, Italy and has had some pretty incredible life experiences. We met on the second level of Whole Foods where there is a nice seating area next to a Coffee Bar. She arrived five minutes early, about two minutes after I had gotten there. I have actually never interviewed anyone before her so I think I was a little bit nervous. That feeling quickly passed when we shook hands. Within the first minute of speaking with her I felt like I had interviewed countless times and all the right questions started popping into my brain. At the end of the interview I felt that she would really be a great candidate for what I need and I loved her personality and spirit. I still am supposed to meet with one other girl tomorrow however so I wanted to give her a fair chance before I make any final decisions.

Now I'm back home in the BK. I have a few more things I'd like to take care of for Carson before I get started on some Megan time. Tonight I need to get the majority of my stuff ready to be moved for this weekend and then I'm going to head to MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art is free for all after 5pm on Friday nights so I thought I'd go check out the Tim Burton exhibit. I've heard its really incredible so I'm super excited. Then I'll be off to the meat packing district to meet up with my friend Adam who's coming to the city with some friends that all live in Connecticut. Adam and I grew up together and the last two times I've seen him were when he came and visited California. It'll be a nice change to hang out on the East Coast and meet all of his friends. I hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!

Until we meet again,
Meg