So I survived my first blizzard in NYC. It was pretty scary out there, but I made it to work. I was the only intern to show up to work on the day of the crazy storm, and my boss was super thrilled and thankful that I showed up. Here's a picture of the beginning of the storm (The building where I work is on the left in this picture):



This weekend, we had some friends from Boston come to visit us. It was a lot of fun! It was pretty crowded in the apartment, but we made it work :). On Saturday night, we went to see "In The Heights" on Broadway. It was a great show. I already saw it about two years ago, but it was fun to see again, and a lot of the cast was different this time. The show now stars Corbin Bleu from "High School Musical".

We also went to the MOMA (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art). Here are some pictures:











We also did a bunch of NYC exploring this weekend. We went to Times Square, The Village, Central Park, and the Upper East Side (around our apartment).


We found a little diner-style restaurant by our apartment, "Midnight Express", and decided to eat there three times this weekend :). The food is cheap (for NYC that is) and it's open 24 hours!




Us there Day 2:


Day 3:


The weekend was super fun, even though I was exhausted after, and Ben and I had to spend a couple hours cleaning the apartment! Yikes!

Overall, I am loving New York City so far. It is making me even more eager to get out into the "real world", and it will be sad when I have to go back to classes in July...Boo! But I still need to keep living up every moment while I'm here to truly make the most of it. I am starting to get into the swing of things now. I feel really comfortable with my job at ET/The Insider, as well as with the people there. I am loving my apartment and my roommate. I love the general feel of the city and even the neighborhood I live in. I am starting to get better at cooking. I am doing a great job of keeping my apartment neat (Those of you who have seen my room at home on a typical day know how big of a deal that is!) I really love it and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be here!

Love,
Katie

Superbowl Cookies, Empire State Building, and Some New Celeb Friends

Hey everybody! Hope you all are enjoying/enjoyed the Superbowl!
I don't really care that much about football, but I'm sure you all knew that! My favorite parts are watching the national anthem and the halftime show! (Carrie=awesome except for her last note! The Who=old? And not as exciting as a halftime show should be haha.)
Ben & I had people over to watch the game though! A couple friends from Northeastern who are also doing co-op in NYC, as well as some friends of friends that we are getting to know. It was fun! I made some great football cookies :).

Work has been pretty great lately! While most of my daily responsibilities include logging morning shows, running errands, and answering phones, every once in a while a great opportunity comes up! I recently got to attend press junkets (press junkets: events in which members of large media corporations gather to interview cast of new movies for release in television shows, online, print media, etc.) for the new Martin Scorcese movie "Shutter Island" starring Leo Dicaprio, and also for "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief", starring Pierce Brosan, Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, etc. The first one was two Fridays ago, and the second was this past Friday. I got to meet all the stars of these movies, and even had a brief conversation with Scorcese and Logan Lerman, the star of "Percy".

Here's the cameras all set up and ready to go! They had me guard them while the crew ran downstairs real quick.

It was so amazing! The "Percy Jackson" junket was even more amazing because it took place on top of the Empire State building!! SO cool. They gave exclusive access to Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood to use the top of the building :).

Here's the view from the top of the Empire State building!

It was really great to be able to sit in on the interviews and see how the whole process works. I really like the job of the "directors" of the Entertainment Tonight segments--these are the people who write the questions and interview the actors and actresses for the clips that you see on TV! Possible career for me? We'll see :)

Here's David Batista, one of the Ent. Tonight directors who directed this shoot. In this shot he is interviewing Logan Lerman, the star of "Percy". I have a feeling that Logan is going to be "the next big thing". He's in talks to star as Spiderman in the new movies!

Here's Pierce Brosnan =):


In other news, I went home last weekend to visit. It was a great weekend and good to see my whole family and some of my friends. It was also great to get some mom-meals and be able to sleep in my own bed. We also went to see "Seussical" at High School North, which was really great. It was especially fun to see this show because they are doing "Seussical" at Northeastern this semester as well, even though I am obviously not there to be in it. Ben and I are going up to Boston to see the show in April, and we will also be going up to see the Spring Revue.

We are having some friends from Boston come visit us/stay in our apartment this weekend. I can't wait!!! We'll probably do some toursity things, and maybe see a show. I'll be sure to take some good pics!