A Few Interesting Moments of the Last Week

Movie Filming. One the mornings, as I walked out the door of our apartment building, I was greeted with movie set trailers. They took up the whole block and probably the next in either direction. There were also many RV trailer buses pulling up and parking along the streets as I headed towards the subway. I was bummed that I couldn't go crawl the neighborhood looking for the set and trying to figure out what was even being filmed... I guess I'll just have to keep my eye out for Park Slope in any movies or TV shows.

Posters galore. The crafty person in me loves making posters and was more than thrilled to buy a new pack of smelly markers... I'm just wondering how we could be more environmental and not waste so much paper on these posters we are required to do for school. Large pads of paper are coming out our ears, and each part of our wall will soon be plastered with various posters baring all sorts of information.

Crazy on the D Train. My scariest (yet) experience on the subway happened the other morning on the D. I was completely zoned into the newspaper reading that I didn't even see it coming, but I soon realized what was going down as an MTA conductor guy moved through the car closing the windows. No big deal, he's closing the windows to keep the car cool (it is truly miserable getting on a car that has had the windows left open - grr to whoever opened them and left). Just past where I was sitting, he's about to close the window when a guy jumps up in his face and starts yelling obscenities and threats! As the guy is yelling at the MTA worker, another passenger decides to step in and help the closed-window cause. Just as soon as Crazy hears the window click closed, he's in the passenger's face yelling more obscenities and threats. I'm a bit scared and praying that we can at least make it to the next stop, while MTA worker is calling out codes on his walkie and letting Crazy go on about how the windows will stay open. The subway pulls up to the 59th street station, and I'm out of that car in about 2 seconds and jumping in another down the line... praying that Crazy doesn't somehow make his way into my new car of closed windows.

Banjos and Washboards. On our way home from a well-deserved Happy Hour on Friday evening, our wait for the subway was made more enjoyable by a pair of musicians - a banjo player and a washboard-playing singer. The girl let her free spirit flow through her as she sang and tapped on her washboard. (We even donated towards their collection.) It was great to get a smile from their music and to see them spreading smiles to the faces of others. I'd love to see them again!

Blogged About. I was linked to and quoted on another blog! This was a pretty exciting step in my short blogging life. Check it out at Gothamschools.org.