"Brooklyn, We Go Hard"

  

  In my role as an intern, I've become a bit of a "yes-man." And by that I mean that essentially, whatever I'm asked to do, the answer is yes. As a result, Saturday was my only day off this past weekend. But, I decided that I'd try to make it a relaxing, yet fun day. There's this guy that I work with that I knew lived in my neck of the woods in Brooklyn, but I didn't realize how close--according to the map on my phone, 253 ft. away close. And he has rooftop access at his place, soo last week at work I was telling him how the tall buildings around the city are blocking my sun rays and making me Vitamin D deficient, and that I'd need him to clear his schedule to give me access to the roof. So Saturday we made that happen.

Rooftoppin.

     It's really a weird thing to have to consciously think about, because I'm used to have ample sunlight exposure, but I legit don't see the sun enough. So Saturday I was able to lay out for the first time since before finals, and the sun rays felt AMAZING! (The picture doesn't depict this well, but there were time when the clouds cleared and the sun was exposed.) Equally amazing was the view I had from the rooftop! I was able to see the tallest building in Queens and Brooklyn, the Empire State Building was straight ahead, and the whole East side of Manhattan from the Financial District up to about 59th St.

     So I was there for a while and then I'd planned to just go home and chill out before bed since I had to work the next day, but we decided to go to First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. Sancia had told me about this before, but I didn't go. On the first Saturday of the month, the Brooklyn Museum is free from 5-11pm and all of the exhibits are free, and either inside the museum, or, since it's summer, out back in the parking lot, there's a DJ and stuff. So we went there and it was interesting. This was the most I'd seen of Brooklyn. When I'm there all I do is walk from home to the subway and back again, so finally I was getting out more in BK. (Sidenote: Marcy Projects, where Jay-Z hails from, is legit around the corner from my apartment--I'm so hood ;) lol) But first we went out back to where the DJ was and stuff, and ok, this whole First Saturdays thing just sounds like a hokie little way to get people to come to the museum, but soooo many people go! Oh my word. I hadn't seen so many people in one location (yeah, besides Times Square, and blah blah around the city) in a long time. There was like a sea of people all dancing, and still tons of people out front and in and around the museum. It was a cool atmosphere though, there were alot of people of different ages. It was cool.



All these mouths were humming a song.



     So then we went into the museum and walked around to each of the 5 floors to see the different exhibits. You know how museums are--dry, boring, you walk slowly, barely lifting your feet from the ground, and you talk in hughed voices--ugh! So I made sure to make it known what I was and was not interested in--boring old paintings are a no, attempts to make slavery into artwork are a hell no! lol but the Ancient Egypt stuff was cool. I had to take some pictures of a few bizarre things I saw.

 Each of these pieces of art amused the immature child in me, so I had to take some snap shots. I realize it's a sillouette and all, but did it have to have the peni (plural for penis.) lol and the one on the left, oh my gosh, his is waaayyy unpropotional and he's getting his butt played with--this isn't art, it's porn! And dirty porn, because there's like a shackle around his neck! Oh my god, as I sit here describing it, I'm more bothered than I was the first time I saw this. Lol see why I steer clear of museums.