Being able to sleep in after having a week of not enough sleep is a wonderful thing. So yes, my saturday didn't really start until 12:30. :) I went down to the farmers market down by union square because I wanted to get some flowers. But then I decided not to get any when I was down there thinking that it was a waste of money because I'd have to throw them out in a week anyway.
So I went back to the apartment and took some loads of laundry down to the laundromat. I'm glad I have one relatively close to my apartment. It's a nice little place and it wasn't even crowded at all today.
When that was done and I was back at the apartment I came to regret my earlier decision of not getting any flowers so I went back down the market and bought two little cute annuals. :) Only $6 for the two! 1 rudbeckia (they look like mini sunflowers) and 1 angelonia (kinda like pink/purple lavender). So glad I went back to get them!
After that I decided to visit a few places that I wanted to see. I started off by walking to that cute little tea and scone shop that I mentioned on thursday - Alices Tea Cup. Cutest little place, I'm going to see if I can get my next visitor to go there with me.
Then I walked all the way down to Bryant Park - behind the NY library. Its a very nice little park. There's tons of trees, lots of outdoor eating, a carousel, and a stage where they have performances. I sat in the park for a bit, and then made my way back home by walking. It was a lot of walking, but I wanted to see areas that I never see. So I walked over to first avenue from bryant park, and then up 20 blocks to my apartment. I made a stop at the food emporium though and bought myself more sushi for dinner. I love being able to eat that all the time now. It's my favorite!
My third visitor is coming bright and early tomorrow morning! I'm excited!
And tomorrow starts my 7th and final week here... :(
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
MY LAST DAY AS AN INTERN!
My last day was today!! How crazy is that? Where did the last 6+ weeks go? It seemed like only like yesterday I was spending all my time and efforts trying to just get an internship, and now it's over. I can't believe it!
So today was a board finishing day. And luckily my fears of not being able to get more fabrics to redo the 'pillows' went away because I was able to get the guest room material spec book from Stella and take out some extra sampes that I needed for the pillows to remake. And it didn't sound like I needed to have it done today - so that's good. I was trying to hurry yesterday because I didn't know when it was due. But now I knew that I could take my time today trying to get everything pefect for this huge presentation board.
I continued to work on it throughout the day. After I remade all of the pillows - I only had to remake two after that. And stella did one of them for me - hooray. She had me order the three drapery fabrics in a yard sample if we could - just for another option - so I did that as well today. Some didn't come in a yard sample, so I just asked for the biggest size they have.
I picked out some alternative wood samples since I didn't get around too it yesterday, And mounted a picture of a pillow that needed to go on the boards as well. I wrapped up the carpet poms into a grouping with ribbon, and cropped the paint samples to the appropriate sizes. FINALLY Stella was happy with my little fabric pillows too - about time. I burned my fingers off. And this nearly took me all day - and again I did not have time for a lunch. BOO. But it was such a busy busy last day! Which I'm glad- it's nice to have a big part in such a big project. I hope the client likes how it turns out and doesn't chew off my coworkers heads after I leave. I never did get one of the samples that we're putting on the board cut because the maintenance people who work in the back never answered the bell when I'd ring. They always cut wood samples for us as a favor when we ask.
So I asked Laura if she could make sure it was cut on Monday along with the white wood sample too.
Jon told me as he was leaving around 4:30 that if I ever needed a referral or anything, don't hesitate to contact him. He thanked me for all my work and said he really appreciated it. Apparently he really wanted to find me before he left so he could thank me, but at that precise moment I was in the bathroom washing glue off my hands. He was asking everyone upstairs and downstairs if they had seen me - and so when I came out of the bathroom he was waiting for the elevator. When he saw me he basically yelled KATHRYN. Scared me to death... But it was nice of him to be so concerned about thanking me before he left for the weekend. He was very nice about it.
And Christine was really sweet too later in the day. When she was leaving she made a point of stopping and thanking me as well - asked me about what I was doing next - and told me after school if i'm ever back in the area or looking for somewhere to work next, contact her. Which I thought was also super sweet of her to say - it made it sound like they wouldn't mind having me back. It's just nice to know.
Before I left I put a sticky note on top of every fabric in the Jakarta spec binder that either Laura or Alvetina needed to order more of come next week. I didn't have time today and Stella would like to have three of each kind of fabric again in the spec book. Since we've used up the previous supplies of fabrics by making the last three presentation boards, we need to restock again.
It seemed really weird leaving for good. I was finally more comfortable with things there and felt more adjusted. And of course now it's time to go. Overall I really did love working at Champalimaud Design a lot. I learned a ton! The staff was really nice and helpful - and it was awesome to get some experience working in a firm and seeing how things are run. It makes the skills I spend so long trying to perfect in school seem more worthwhile now. I'm glad they did a lot of hospitality work (hotels, restaurants, spas, etc.) because that wasn't the side of design I thought I wanted to go into. Now I would want to work in that side of design just as much as the residential side. Hotel jobs are a lot of work, but they're such a neat project to be a part of! I'll miss seeing my other intern buddies everyday and the members of the staff as well! When you don't know one single other person in the city you're living in, your coworkers become great familiar faces.
What a great internship!! So sad to see it end, but at the same time I'm ready for it.
And now I leave home in a week! Crazy!
So today was a board finishing day. And luckily my fears of not being able to get more fabrics to redo the 'pillows' went away because I was able to get the guest room material spec book from Stella and take out some extra sampes that I needed for the pillows to remake. And it didn't sound like I needed to have it done today - so that's good. I was trying to hurry yesterday because I didn't know when it was due. But now I knew that I could take my time today trying to get everything pefect for this huge presentation board.
I continued to work on it throughout the day. After I remade all of the pillows - I only had to remake two after that. And stella did one of them for me - hooray. She had me order the three drapery fabrics in a yard sample if we could - just for another option - so I did that as well today. Some didn't come in a yard sample, so I just asked for the biggest size they have.
I picked out some alternative wood samples since I didn't get around too it yesterday, And mounted a picture of a pillow that needed to go on the boards as well. I wrapped up the carpet poms into a grouping with ribbon, and cropped the paint samples to the appropriate sizes. FINALLY Stella was happy with my little fabric pillows too - about time. I burned my fingers off. And this nearly took me all day - and again I did not have time for a lunch. BOO. But it was such a busy busy last day! Which I'm glad- it's nice to have a big part in such a big project. I hope the client likes how it turns out and doesn't chew off my coworkers heads after I leave. I never did get one of the samples that we're putting on the board cut because the maintenance people who work in the back never answered the bell when I'd ring. They always cut wood samples for us as a favor when we ask.
So I asked Laura if she could make sure it was cut on Monday along with the white wood sample too.
Jon told me as he was leaving around 4:30 that if I ever needed a referral or anything, don't hesitate to contact him. He thanked me for all my work and said he really appreciated it. Apparently he really wanted to find me before he left so he could thank me, but at that precise moment I was in the bathroom washing glue off my hands. He was asking everyone upstairs and downstairs if they had seen me - and so when I came out of the bathroom he was waiting for the elevator. When he saw me he basically yelled KATHRYN. Scared me to death... But it was nice of him to be so concerned about thanking me before he left for the weekend. He was very nice about it.
And Christine was really sweet too later in the day. When she was leaving she made a point of stopping and thanking me as well - asked me about what I was doing next - and told me after school if i'm ever back in the area or looking for somewhere to work next, contact her. Which I thought was also super sweet of her to say - it made it sound like they wouldn't mind having me back. It's just nice to know.
Before I left I put a sticky note on top of every fabric in the Jakarta spec binder that either Laura or Alvetina needed to order more of come next week. I didn't have time today and Stella would like to have three of each kind of fabric again in the spec book. Since we've used up the previous supplies of fabrics by making the last three presentation boards, we need to restock again.
It seemed really weird leaving for good. I was finally more comfortable with things there and felt more adjusted. And of course now it's time to go. Overall I really did love working at Champalimaud Design a lot. I learned a ton! The staff was really nice and helpful - and it was awesome to get some experience working in a firm and seeing how things are run. It makes the skills I spend so long trying to perfect in school seem more worthwhile now. I'm glad they did a lot of hospitality work (hotels, restaurants, spas, etc.) because that wasn't the side of design I thought I wanted to go into. Now I would want to work in that side of design just as much as the residential side. Hotel jobs are a lot of work, but they're such a neat project to be a part of! I'll miss seeing my other intern buddies everyday and the members of the staff as well! When you don't know one single other person in the city you're living in, your coworkers become great familiar faces.
What a great internship!! So sad to see it end, but at the same time I'm ready for it.
And now I leave home in a week! Crazy!
Second to last day.
Happy Thursday!
What a busy day today was. I was so busy the entire day I never even got a break for lunch or anything.
Jon had a small task for me to do once I got there - ordering a cake for Chatu's baby shower next week. I don't know why he didn't just do this himself because he's always so picky about things. But whatevs. He threw a little fit when I went back to his desk to see what kind of frosting he wanted for it because there were so many options and he came back and said how i'd basically blown the surprise and that he just wanted their basic coconut cream cake - to not pick out anything different then their original. Well how was I supposed to know that was an option? I've never eaten there before... sheeesh.
Ellie asked for some help from one of the interns around 10:30 and since I was the only one not currently busy, I volunteered. She was getting things ready for a meeting she had with the Alexandra at 12. I helped her by cutting out and mounting a some furniture images, pining up elevations, and printing off some images - easy stuff. But it all takes time and I was happy to help out. We don't want to do anything wrong to upset the boss...
We had the reps from Texstyle come in today for a vendor presentation.. but I never got to see it. Soon after I was done with Ellie, Stella asked if I could help her with a presentation board downstairs. I didn't really know what that would entail, but I said i'd love to help. It took the rest of the day...
So we've already mailed out two material boards representing different rooms to Indonesia for the St. Regis Hotel. And now we're getting a third one ready to send out to the clients over there and I'm putting it together. It's stressful because Stella told me that these are super picky clients and they actually chewed us out over the last boards we sent over due to stupid little minor things that a normal person wouldn't even care about. Sounds like they're just difficult to be difficult because they can. And because this is a really high end expensive project.
And I'm now the only one putting it together... great. At least I know i'll be gone if we get bad feedback after we send it out. Won't be my problem anymore. :)
Anyway, it's a huge 36"x36" board and she had a printed out template of how everything was supposed to be arranged on this board. Basically I had to mirror the template. SO MUCH harder said than actually done. All the drapery fabrics had to be cut and arranged a certain way - and of course in all exactly equal sizes with the trims pricisely arranged on top. She made a note of telling me that everything needed to be arranged to a T. Every fabric that represented either a headboard, pillow fabric, or chair, etc had to be made into a little 'pillow'. I was supposed to cut out a square of foam board for each fabric represented on the board, put some batting on top of the foam board, then wrap it in the fabric that each piece of furniture was representing. Which was literally taking me hours. It is so hard to get a perfectly straight rectangle, or square, or whatever when I was wrapping foam board with fabric. I actualy didn't even realize I was supposed to be making fabric 'pillows' the first time I cut out fabric. I thought I was just cutting out a square of each fabric for the baord- so I lost a few hours when I thought I was done only for her to tell me that I wasn't at all... oops. I didn't know - I've never had to make a material board. Who would have thought we take the time to make a little pillow for each represented fabric on a material board?
And some of the fabrics were representing chairs with a nailhead trim. So I'd even have to create this trim by putting brads into the trim and them attaching that to the fabric pillow. It was a stressful day because my pillows weren't turning out right. And I kept burning my fingers on hot glue!! I swear I'll have no tips left by tomorrow.
I wish I would have been able to take a picture of this board.. it'd all make a lot more sense. But this took the rest of the day, and I'm not even done at all, and I need to remake a lot of the pillows because I found out right at the end of the day that the second way I made them was still wrong. All four corners had to be turned under and glued. I hope I will be able to somehow get more fabric since I can't really reuse the ones I already hot glued around pieces of board... It's really stressful that I'm preparing this board basically by myself. And that it will be shipped across the world to a super picky client for our super high end luxury/expensive hotel. No biggie.
But that'll be my problem for tomorrow - I still need to cut some gold trim, find an alternate flooring wood sample, and order some extra wood trim. I think tomorrow will be just as busy, busy day. And a very last day at that!
I was starving by the time I got home. STARVING. The only other thing I had had to eat today since 7:30 in the morning was half a scone at work. Our lovely little rep from TRI-KIS, Lauren, almost always brings treats when she brings by requested samples. They are the best days ever! Last week she brought doughnuts! And today she brought scones from this cute little place:
http://alicesteacup.com/
I want to go there before I go home. Their menu looks divine. And so cute! So besides the scone, I had eaten nothing all day and I was so hungry. So it became a sushi night. :)
One more day of work!
What a busy day today was. I was so busy the entire day I never even got a break for lunch or anything.
Jon had a small task for me to do once I got there - ordering a cake for Chatu's baby shower next week. I don't know why he didn't just do this himself because he's always so picky about things. But whatevs. He threw a little fit when I went back to his desk to see what kind of frosting he wanted for it because there were so many options and he came back and said how i'd basically blown the surprise and that he just wanted their basic coconut cream cake - to not pick out anything different then their original. Well how was I supposed to know that was an option? I've never eaten there before... sheeesh.
Ellie asked for some help from one of the interns around 10:30 and since I was the only one not currently busy, I volunteered. She was getting things ready for a meeting she had with the Alexandra at 12. I helped her by cutting out and mounting a some furniture images, pining up elevations, and printing off some images - easy stuff. But it all takes time and I was happy to help out. We don't want to do anything wrong to upset the boss...
We had the reps from Texstyle come in today for a vendor presentation.. but I never got to see it. Soon after I was done with Ellie, Stella asked if I could help her with a presentation board downstairs. I didn't really know what that would entail, but I said i'd love to help. It took the rest of the day...
So we've already mailed out two material boards representing different rooms to Indonesia for the St. Regis Hotel. And now we're getting a third one ready to send out to the clients over there and I'm putting it together. It's stressful because Stella told me that these are super picky clients and they actually chewed us out over the last boards we sent over due to stupid little minor things that a normal person wouldn't even care about. Sounds like they're just difficult to be difficult because they can. And because this is a really high end expensive project.
And I'm now the only one putting it together... great. At least I know i'll be gone if we get bad feedback after we send it out. Won't be my problem anymore. :)
Anyway, it's a huge 36"x36" board and she had a printed out template of how everything was supposed to be arranged on this board. Basically I had to mirror the template. SO MUCH harder said than actually done. All the drapery fabrics had to be cut and arranged a certain way - and of course in all exactly equal sizes with the trims pricisely arranged on top. She made a note of telling me that everything needed to be arranged to a T. Every fabric that represented either a headboard, pillow fabric, or chair, etc had to be made into a little 'pillow'. I was supposed to cut out a square of foam board for each fabric represented on the board, put some batting on top of the foam board, then wrap it in the fabric that each piece of furniture was representing. Which was literally taking me hours. It is so hard to get a perfectly straight rectangle, or square, or whatever when I was wrapping foam board with fabric. I actualy didn't even realize I was supposed to be making fabric 'pillows' the first time I cut out fabric. I thought I was just cutting out a square of each fabric for the baord- so I lost a few hours when I thought I was done only for her to tell me that I wasn't at all... oops. I didn't know - I've never had to make a material board. Who would have thought we take the time to make a little pillow for each represented fabric on a material board?
And some of the fabrics were representing chairs with a nailhead trim. So I'd even have to create this trim by putting brads into the trim and them attaching that to the fabric pillow. It was a stressful day because my pillows weren't turning out right. And I kept burning my fingers on hot glue!! I swear I'll have no tips left by tomorrow.
I wish I would have been able to take a picture of this board.. it'd all make a lot more sense. But this took the rest of the day, and I'm not even done at all, and I need to remake a lot of the pillows because I found out right at the end of the day that the second way I made them was still wrong. All four corners had to be turned under and glued. I hope I will be able to somehow get more fabric since I can't really reuse the ones I already hot glued around pieces of board... It's really stressful that I'm preparing this board basically by myself. And that it will be shipped across the world to a super picky client for our super high end luxury/expensive hotel. No biggie.
But that'll be my problem for tomorrow - I still need to cut some gold trim, find an alternate flooring wood sample, and order some extra wood trim. I think tomorrow will be just as busy, busy day. And a very last day at that!
I was starving by the time I got home. STARVING. The only other thing I had had to eat today since 7:30 in the morning was half a scone at work. Our lovely little rep from TRI-KIS, Lauren, almost always brings treats when she brings by requested samples. They are the best days ever! Last week she brought doughnuts! And today she brought scones from this cute little place:
http://alicesteacup.com/
I want to go there before I go home. Their menu looks divine. And so cute! So besides the scone, I had eaten nothing all day and I was so hungry. So it became a sushi night. :)
One more day of work!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
LAST WEDNESDAY.
This morning I woke up with a plan - get to work earlier than usual so I can make sure I get a place to sit. It worked. Therefore I had things to do and work on today! It was better.
I worked on this CAD drawing of some elevations for a penthouse on the westside of central park - the residence where the custom bookcases are going. Anyway, I worked on drawing up detailed drafting elevations, and furniture drawings off and on the whole day. They take a while. But I love working in CAD. It's easy for me and I'm good at it.
I also helped Rose create invitations for everyone for a baby shower we're holding for Chatu next week in the office. So sad I won't be able to go! Well, I guess I would.. but i'd feel weird considering I won't work there anymore...
And later on in the afternoon, a HUGE thunderstorm came in suddenly. It was high 90's at one moment and then the next it was literally the hardest rainstorm I had seen in years. So cool to see it 7 floors up too. There was a massive amount of rain in a very short time.
I had no umbrella today. Poop.
Thank goodness by the time I went home the rain had kind of subsided. It was much lighter by the time I was walking home from the subway. I was glad to not get absolutely drenched.
Today was also the day I had super gross/weird/awkward experiences on my lunch break. Not sure who all reads this - but ask me about it and i'll tell you. :)
Lauren and Rachel left early this morning so my night after work was just spent tidying back up the place and resting. Oh and skyping with the family. I'm still tired from all the sleep i've lost this last week. Good thing it's almost the weekend!
2 more work days!
I worked on this CAD drawing of some elevations for a penthouse on the westside of central park - the residence where the custom bookcases are going. Anyway, I worked on drawing up detailed drafting elevations, and furniture drawings off and on the whole day. They take a while. But I love working in CAD. It's easy for me and I'm good at it.
I also helped Rose create invitations for everyone for a baby shower we're holding for Chatu next week in the office. So sad I won't be able to go! Well, I guess I would.. but i'd feel weird considering I won't work there anymore...
And later on in the afternoon, a HUGE thunderstorm came in suddenly. It was high 90's at one moment and then the next it was literally the hardest rainstorm I had seen in years. So cool to see it 7 floors up too. There was a massive amount of rain in a very short time.
I had no umbrella today. Poop.
Thank goodness by the time I went home the rain had kind of subsided. It was much lighter by the time I was walking home from the subway. I was glad to not get absolutely drenched.
Today was also the day I had super gross/weird/awkward experiences on my lunch break. Not sure who all reads this - but ask me about it and i'll tell you. :)
Lauren and Rachel left early this morning so my night after work was just spent tidying back up the place and resting. Oh and skyping with the family. I'm still tired from all the sleep i've lost this last week. Good thing it's almost the weekend!
2 more work days!
LAST TUESDAY.
I love doing all these dramatic capital letter posts for my last week.
And on a seperate note, today was an overall dumb work day.
First - because I had basically no place to sit. I got there last today and there weren't any empty or extra computers anywhere else in the office that weren't being used or that I was able to use.
Soooo.. that was stupid.
There were really only three things I did today: delivered that glass sample AGAIN to the same company in exchange for a box samples to bring back to our office, worked on compiling and reorganizing and architectural standards book from the Jakarta project, and helping Rose order a few fabrics. Luckily creating this Architectural Standards book took a couple hours.
Longest. Day. Of. My. Life. And the whole time Laura and Alya were completely busy and swamped doing photoshop again but I couldn't really help out because I had no where to do it. SO LAME. I hate feeling useless and unfortunately today there were times when I did.
Tonight we went out to see two museums. It took a while to find the New Museum of Contemporary Art because it's in lower manhattan and we kept going the wrong direction after looking at the map. It was a really neat museum - but it wasn't lit up like it was supposed to be and since it was dark out we couldn't really see it. Lamers. I was so excited to see this building stacked up...
Here's a pictue of what I was hoping to see..but it was too dark and they didn't have it lit up at all.
At least I know my way around that side of town a bit more now! And I hadn't ever wandered around that side of town before - so check that area off my list! Ha. :)
And then we took the subway all the way up to 86th street to see the Guggenheim. I was hoping it'd be lit up as well at night, but it wasn't. What was with all these unlit buildings tonight? Oh well, the guggenheim is still a super neat building to see anyway.
When we got back to the apartment - lauren and rachel worked on packing up since they're leaving tomorrow morning bright and early.
3 more days of work!
And on a seperate note, today was an overall dumb work day.
First - because I had basically no place to sit. I got there last today and there weren't any empty or extra computers anywhere else in the office that weren't being used or that I was able to use.
Soooo.. that was stupid.
There were really only three things I did today: delivered that glass sample AGAIN to the same company in exchange for a box samples to bring back to our office, worked on compiling and reorganizing and architectural standards book from the Jakarta project, and helping Rose order a few fabrics. Luckily creating this Architectural Standards book took a couple hours.
Longest. Day. Of. My. Life. And the whole time Laura and Alya were completely busy and swamped doing photoshop again but I couldn't really help out because I had no where to do it. SO LAME. I hate feeling useless and unfortunately today there were times when I did.
Tonight we went out to see two museums. It took a while to find the New Museum of Contemporary Art because it's in lower manhattan and we kept going the wrong direction after looking at the map. It was a really neat museum - but it wasn't lit up like it was supposed to be and since it was dark out we couldn't really see it. Lamers. I was so excited to see this building stacked up...
Here's a pictue of what I was hoping to see..but it was too dark and they didn't have it lit up at all.
At least I know my way around that side of town a bit more now! And I hadn't ever wandered around that side of town before - so check that area off my list! Ha. :)
And then we took the subway all the way up to 86th street to see the Guggenheim. I was hoping it'd be lit up as well at night, but it wasn't. What was with all these unlit buildings tonight? Oh well, the guggenheim is still a super neat building to see anyway.
When we got back to the apartment - lauren and rachel worked on packing up since they're leaving tomorrow morning bright and early.
3 more days of work!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
LAST MONDAY.
It's my last Monday of the internship! Crazy!
And today was basically an errand day unfortunately. Or fortunately - depending on how you look at it.
When I got to the front of the building, they were pouring a new cement front so I couldn't even get in the building. The foreman asked if I would go around the side to get in. So I said sure! But I had no idea where I was going. Luckily I found a door where some guys let me and I took a freight elevator up to the second floor and then the regular elevator in the building up to the 7th. Weird start to a day...
A few minutes after I arrived there Christine came up with one of the silk cover cards I ordered from Wolf Gordon, and I guess she must have liked that particular line that I ordered because she asked me to order 8"x10" samples of every color that the line comes in. (She had assigned me a task to find an alternate silk line that had at least 20 color ways.)
So I emailed our rep about it, and then moved to the desk in the library because Laura and Alvetina were doing photoshopping things for Kelly today and luckily Esther was gone so I could sit at her desk. The rep got back to me and the samples would be arriving later that day. Lovely!
At about 12:45 HeeSeung emailed all three of us interns asking if someone was free to deliver that same glass sample I took last week back to the place again. Since the other two interns were busy photoshopping for a deadline that day, I volunteered to go. So there I was back out on the hot streets carrying this box of glass around again. Fun. At least I could get up the elevator today because it wasn't after hours.
When I returned, I started working on some CAD plans for Aijun, and went through the gainsborough material spec book to make sure we had all the materials ordered that were supposed to go into the book. And that's when Liz emailed the interns about picking up a lacquered sample of wood at this art space place down the street. Since I was planning on going to lunch soon - Laura suggested I go pick it up on my way back.. greeeaaat. Another errand - seriously, one of them could have done it.
But whatever. I did this errand too. This one was weird because it was in a small building that contained many different businesses and I had to get buzzed in. I've never had to do that before. I felt so silly saying what I was there for to some strange voice coming out of the speaker box on the side of the building.
Anyway so I came back and continued to work on the plans and the materials when Laura called me and asked if I'd have time to return this camera equipment that we had rented for something. Apparently Courtney had asked her and Alvetina at the front desk, but they were still working on photoshop drawings so what could I say? No? So back out in the heat I went with two huge black bags full of camera equipment. So hard to get on the subway with them. Luckily the store they went back to was on 23rd street - so I only had to ride it up one stop.
I hated doing all these errands because it was back in the 90's today with humidity. So i'd leave and get sweaty walking around and then come back and cool off - just to go back out again and get all sweaty. Not fun...
When I got back it was almost 6 which was perfect. I did a few things on the computer for about 40 minutes and then it was time to go home. Perfect!
Back at the apartment, I did the dishes and cleaned up a bit before Lauren and Rachel got home. And I tried buzzing them in from my room and it worked this time! Yay!
The only thing we did tonight was go to grand central and eat pizza on the way home. We were in Grand Central for a while just taking pictures of ourselves on a timer. It was very entertaining. And then on the way home we stopped at the pizza place on the corner on the street my apartment is one and each got a slice to bring up to my room. I love pizza. It's cheap compared to other things here and it's always good.
4 more days of work! I'm excited to be done with work now I think. Just because I'm so close now and I've been so tired this week.
And today was basically an errand day unfortunately. Or fortunately - depending on how you look at it.
When I got to the front of the building, they were pouring a new cement front so I couldn't even get in the building. The foreman asked if I would go around the side to get in. So I said sure! But I had no idea where I was going. Luckily I found a door where some guys let me and I took a freight elevator up to the second floor and then the regular elevator in the building up to the 7th. Weird start to a day...
A few minutes after I arrived there Christine came up with one of the silk cover cards I ordered from Wolf Gordon, and I guess she must have liked that particular line that I ordered because she asked me to order 8"x10" samples of every color that the line comes in. (She had assigned me a task to find an alternate silk line that had at least 20 color ways.)
So I emailed our rep about it, and then moved to the desk in the library because Laura and Alvetina were doing photoshopping things for Kelly today and luckily Esther was gone so I could sit at her desk. The rep got back to me and the samples would be arriving later that day. Lovely!
At about 12:45 HeeSeung emailed all three of us interns asking if someone was free to deliver that same glass sample I took last week back to the place again. Since the other two interns were busy photoshopping for a deadline that day, I volunteered to go. So there I was back out on the hot streets carrying this box of glass around again. Fun. At least I could get up the elevator today because it wasn't after hours.
When I returned, I started working on some CAD plans for Aijun, and went through the gainsborough material spec book to make sure we had all the materials ordered that were supposed to go into the book. And that's when Liz emailed the interns about picking up a lacquered sample of wood at this art space place down the street. Since I was planning on going to lunch soon - Laura suggested I go pick it up on my way back.. greeeaaat. Another errand - seriously, one of them could have done it.
But whatever. I did this errand too. This one was weird because it was in a small building that contained many different businesses and I had to get buzzed in. I've never had to do that before. I felt so silly saying what I was there for to some strange voice coming out of the speaker box on the side of the building.
Anyway so I came back and continued to work on the plans and the materials when Laura called me and asked if I'd have time to return this camera equipment that we had rented for something. Apparently Courtney had asked her and Alvetina at the front desk, but they were still working on photoshop drawings so what could I say? No? So back out in the heat I went with two huge black bags full of camera equipment. So hard to get on the subway with them. Luckily the store they went back to was on 23rd street - so I only had to ride it up one stop.
I hated doing all these errands because it was back in the 90's today with humidity. So i'd leave and get sweaty walking around and then come back and cool off - just to go back out again and get all sweaty. Not fun...
When I got back it was almost 6 which was perfect. I did a few things on the computer for about 40 minutes and then it was time to go home. Perfect!
Back at the apartment, I did the dishes and cleaned up a bit before Lauren and Rachel got home. And I tried buzzing them in from my room and it worked this time! Yay!
The only thing we did tonight was go to grand central and eat pizza on the way home. We were in Grand Central for a while just taking pictures of ourselves on a timer. It was very entertaining. And then on the way home we stopped at the pizza place on the corner on the street my apartment is one and each got a slice to bring up to my room. I love pizza. It's cheap compared to other things here and it's always good.
4 more days of work! I'm excited to be done with work now I think. Just because I'm so close now and I've been so tired this week.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday!
Got up just before 9 to get ready for church at 11. It was a nice day at church - the husband of the girl that spoke last week from Logan talked today. And then a cute couple that was from Switzerland. It's neat having people from other nationalities in your ward.
When we got back - rachel wanted to shower since they didn't get up early enough to make time for both of them to shower and lauren took a nap. When rachel got out she said she had a migraine so laid down as well. So then I spent the next almost two hours waiting for them to get up. Good thing I have netflix...
Me and Lauren went out while Rachel continued to try to get rid of her migraine. We first took the train across the east river, then walked towards central park. But on the way to subway we saw that here was a Bastille Day street fair going on so we walked down the street on our way to the park. There were lots of little food tents, and places for you to sign up to join different organizations. And then we came across a stand that was selling cute poster art and cards. I got a few of them - love them all.
Then we meandered into central park and walked past the zoo. We came across a puppeteer just outside the zoo boundary that was putting on a show for kids. He was adorable with them and pretty darn good at puppetry too. It was entertaining to watch.
By the time we got back to the apartment rachel was still asleep, so we woke her up and went up to see the Seinfeld restaurant on 112th street. So great! And then we went down to Lincoln Center to see the Temple. We went inside and was told there was a singles ward activitiy going on upstairs. I didn't really want to go up... but we went anyway. Lauren took refreshments, but me and rachel didn't. I felt weird doing it.
We took some pictures outside the Lincoln Center and then went down to Washington Sq. It was raining when we got there - and lightning. We didn't linger long in the square. Just found the NQR subway and took it back home. Was pretty wet though.
Now to start my last week or work! Exciting!
When we got back - rachel wanted to shower since they didn't get up early enough to make time for both of them to shower and lauren took a nap. When rachel got out she said she had a migraine so laid down as well. So then I spent the next almost two hours waiting for them to get up. Good thing I have netflix...
Me and Lauren went out while Rachel continued to try to get rid of her migraine. We first took the train across the east river, then walked towards central park. But on the way to subway we saw that here was a Bastille Day street fair going on so we walked down the street on our way to the park. There were lots of little food tents, and places for you to sign up to join different organizations. And then we came across a stand that was selling cute poster art and cards. I got a few of them - love them all.
Then we meandered into central park and walked past the zoo. We came across a puppeteer just outside the zoo boundary that was putting on a show for kids. He was adorable with them and pretty darn good at puppetry too. It was entertaining to watch.
By the time we got back to the apartment rachel was still asleep, so we woke her up and went up to see the Seinfeld restaurant on 112th street. So great! And then we went down to Lincoln Center to see the Temple. We went inside and was told there was a singles ward activitiy going on upstairs. I didn't really want to go up... but we went anyway. Lauren took refreshments, but me and rachel didn't. I felt weird doing it.
We took some pictures outside the Lincoln Center and then went down to Washington Sq. It was raining when we got there - and lightning. We didn't linger long in the square. Just found the NQR subway and took it back home. Was pretty wet though.
Now to start my last week or work! Exciting!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday!
I got up a little before 10 and started getting ready for today while lauren and rachel slept. When they finally got up me and lauren went to the store to get some groceries and then lauren left to go to a yankee game with someone she knew who was also visiting here. BORING.
Me and Rachel didn't go. Baseball = boring and stupid. So Rachel and I went and put our name down on the waiting list at Serendipity's and then shopped at Bloomingdale's and H&M while we waited for an hour and half for a table to be ready. She tried the mind frozen hot chocolate and I got the regular. Always soooo yummy.
After we were done with all that, it was about time for Lauren to get back so we went back to the apartment and waited for only a bit for her to arrive. Then all three of us went out. We first stopped in the meatpacking district and looked around. It was a neat little area with a lot of good looking restaurants. And I found Highline Park here! I visited it last year but wasn't sure at the time where in the world I was, but we came across it today! So now I know where it is. :) And there was a very guy in a high hotel window above one of the highline park walkways standing in his hotel window in his underwear. Haha. He was getting quite a lot of attention from everyone around - he was beyond drunk... Oh the joys of alcohol. It's such a nice place though! The park was an above ground subway system I think - either that or a train. And they turned the track into a wide walkway filled with trees, flowers, benches, little food stands. It's such a cute area.
We walked down the highline park for a while and then took the subway over to Little Italy and China town. We ended up just browsing through Little Italy and then ate in China Town. Chicken curry for me! So good!
When we got back to the apartment we took a quick break and then went off to the Empire State Building. The lines take forever there. You continually keep snaking around from room to room, hallway to hallway until finally you get to the first elevator... it takes you to the 80th floor. And then you do more snaking around until you get to the second elevator that takes you to the 86th floor observatory level. It's always so worth the wait though - the view is incredible! I'm so glad the observatory is outside. It makes the experience so much better. If course we stuck our heads through the railings to look over the edge. You can see four different states from atop the empire state building on a clear day. Impressive.
After getting back it was almost 2 in the morning. We left for the ESB around 10:30 - so it took a while. The lines took longer than we thought. At least we can kind of sleep in. Except not really - church is at 11 and I need to get up at 9...
Pictures to come!
Me and Rachel didn't go. Baseball = boring and stupid. So Rachel and I went and put our name down on the waiting list at Serendipity's and then shopped at Bloomingdale's and H&M while we waited for an hour and half for a table to be ready. She tried the mind frozen hot chocolate and I got the regular. Always soooo yummy.
After we were done with all that, it was about time for Lauren to get back so we went back to the apartment and waited for only a bit for her to arrive. Then all three of us went out. We first stopped in the meatpacking district and looked around. It was a neat little area with a lot of good looking restaurants. And I found Highline Park here! I visited it last year but wasn't sure at the time where in the world I was, but we came across it today! So now I know where it is. :) And there was a very guy in a high hotel window above one of the highline park walkways standing in his hotel window in his underwear. Haha. He was getting quite a lot of attention from everyone around - he was beyond drunk... Oh the joys of alcohol. It's such a nice place though! The park was an above ground subway system I think - either that or a train. And they turned the track into a wide walkway filled with trees, flowers, benches, little food stands. It's such a cute area.
We walked down the highline park for a while and then took the subway over to Little Italy and China town. We ended up just browsing through Little Italy and then ate in China Town. Chicken curry for me! So good!
When we got back to the apartment we took a quick break and then went off to the Empire State Building. The lines take forever there. You continually keep snaking around from room to room, hallway to hallway until finally you get to the first elevator... it takes you to the 80th floor. And then you do more snaking around until you get to the second elevator that takes you to the 86th floor observatory level. It's always so worth the wait though - the view is incredible! I'm so glad the observatory is outside. It makes the experience so much better. If course we stuck our heads through the railings to look over the edge. You can see four different states from atop the empire state building on a clear day. Impressive.
After getting back it was almost 2 in the morning. We left for the ESB around 10:30 - so it took a while. The lines took longer than we thought. At least we can kind of sleep in. Except not really - church is at 11 and I need to get up at 9...
Pictures to come!
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Second to last friday!
Friday!
I started off the day by contacting three of the companies that I ordered fabric samples from yesterday because the messengers that were supposed to pick up those samples and bring them to me never did - so I was wondering if the samples were still at the showroom or if I needed to contact the messenger company. Apparently all three of these companies never had a messenger pick up the fabric. Poop. So I had to recall the breakaway courier company and give them all the addresses again of where I need things picked up at. Stupid mercury...
Little things filled up the morning and before I knew it, it was almost 2 in the afternoon. I met Rachel and Lauren in the square outside work and we went to lunch at Whole Foods and then ate it in the park.
I finished up the day by doing little odd jobs here and there - making labels for packages, photoshopping some things, working in CAD a bit. It was a bit slower in the afternoon and I just wanted to leave.
I met Rachel and Lauren at my apartment after work. Actually we ran into eachother in the subway which was crazy. We decided to go to FAO Schwartz first but it ended up closing soon after we walked in which was dumb. And then we started walking down 5th avenue. We ended up going over to Rockefeller center and then over to Times Square. We went to the Disney store and Forever 21 where I bought a skirt that I shouldn't have but couldn't resist. :) And then we took the subway down to Rector st. and walked over to see the statue of liberty at night. It was pretty! But I didn't like being down there late at night and suggested we go after a bit. It would not be a good place to run into someone you wouldn't want to meet.
On the street down to our apartment two guys yelled at us from that they'd give us $100 dollars for a night. Flattering.
Soooooo grosssssssss.
It was a long day of walking and I'm tired! Bedtime!
I started off the day by contacting three of the companies that I ordered fabric samples from yesterday because the messengers that were supposed to pick up those samples and bring them to me never did - so I was wondering if the samples were still at the showroom or if I needed to contact the messenger company. Apparently all three of these companies never had a messenger pick up the fabric. Poop. So I had to recall the breakaway courier company and give them all the addresses again of where I need things picked up at. Stupid mercury...
Little things filled up the morning and before I knew it, it was almost 2 in the afternoon. I met Rachel and Lauren in the square outside work and we went to lunch at Whole Foods and then ate it in the park.
I finished up the day by doing little odd jobs here and there - making labels for packages, photoshopping some things, working in CAD a bit. It was a bit slower in the afternoon and I just wanted to leave.
I met Rachel and Lauren at my apartment after work. Actually we ran into eachother in the subway which was crazy. We decided to go to FAO Schwartz first but it ended up closing soon after we walked in which was dumb. And then we started walking down 5th avenue. We ended up going over to Rockefeller center and then over to Times Square. We went to the Disney store and Forever 21 where I bought a skirt that I shouldn't have but couldn't resist. :) And then we took the subway down to Rector st. and walked over to see the statue of liberty at night. It was pretty! But I didn't like being down there late at night and suggested we go after a bit. It would not be a good place to run into someone you wouldn't want to meet.
On the street down to our apartment two guys yelled at us from that they'd give us $100 dollars for a night. Flattering.
Soooooo grosssssssss.
It was a long day of walking and I'm tired! Bedtime!
THURSDAY.
Thursday was a busy busy day. The Omni Shoreman Hotel group has a presentation they're doing to our client I believe next Tuesday, and today was the day they wanted to get all the presentation boards basically layed out and every fabric approved and put out. I think they wanted to do this by today because the senior designer in charge of the project was going to be gone either Friday or monday... and she needed to approve everything.
Anyway, that left me and Laura with some scrambling trying to help them out. I started out by trying to track down an alternate fabric for a fabric we were going to use but found out it was discontinued. I contacted Angela from Angela Brown leathers because she always is super helpful and never lets us down with things we need help with. And sure enough, she pulled through. I sent her a sample today and told her to send back anything that was as close to the same texture and color as possible. And boy did she. It was basically an identical match. Go me.
So I asked her to send over two more of that kind of fabric so we could use them on our presentation boards. And then Rose came up and needed help and had about 6 different kinds of fabric and wanted me to order samples in every color way that those 6 kinds of fabrics came in. Once that was done and the messengers were called and sent for, Kelly came over with a request. We had two samples of Holland & Sherry fabric, and she wanted to see if we could get 12" x 12" samples of them instead. So I called them - and no. So instead she had me order 4 of each.
In between all this, me and Laura were helping out with little photoshopping assignments. Fixing elevations, a few plans, etc. It made the day go by super fast. And then of course a vendor came in at noon again. Linda from F. Schumacher wallcoverings. She loved my black and white striped pants. Yay. Other than that, she was weird..
Later in the day HeeSeung gave me a spec book from St. Regis Jakarta with some things that needed to be filed into and the binder itself needed to be reorganized completely because the order was really screwed up in accordance with the tabs. So that took me a while - and then Anna emailed us and asked if someone was free to help her with something so I volunteered. She needed all these things printed off and filed into the Geneva spec book, but of course thats when the printer decided to be really dumb and totally back up. Laura was doing some photoshopping for Stella, and neither of us could print what we needed out of the color printer. I kept trying for a long time, but eventually it was almost 6:30 and I just gave up and went home. Laura and Alvetina were helping the omin shoreman team in the library but I wanted to go because I needed to get some things done before Lauren and Rachel arrived.
Anyway, the day just went by super fast. I love those kind of days. 6 days more of work! Crazy. Lauren and Rachel didn't end up arrving to my place till about a quarter to 1. I didn't get much sleep that night that's for sure. I'm tirreedd. Good thing it's the weekend!
Anyway, that left me and Laura with some scrambling trying to help them out. I started out by trying to track down an alternate fabric for a fabric we were going to use but found out it was discontinued. I contacted Angela from Angela Brown leathers because she always is super helpful and never lets us down with things we need help with. And sure enough, she pulled through. I sent her a sample today and told her to send back anything that was as close to the same texture and color as possible. And boy did she. It was basically an identical match. Go me.
So I asked her to send over two more of that kind of fabric so we could use them on our presentation boards. And then Rose came up and needed help and had about 6 different kinds of fabric and wanted me to order samples in every color way that those 6 kinds of fabrics came in. Once that was done and the messengers were called and sent for, Kelly came over with a request. We had two samples of Holland & Sherry fabric, and she wanted to see if we could get 12" x 12" samples of them instead. So I called them - and no. So instead she had me order 4 of each.
In between all this, me and Laura were helping out with little photoshopping assignments. Fixing elevations, a few plans, etc. It made the day go by super fast. And then of course a vendor came in at noon again. Linda from F. Schumacher wallcoverings. She loved my black and white striped pants. Yay. Other than that, she was weird..
Later in the day HeeSeung gave me a spec book from St. Regis Jakarta with some things that needed to be filed into and the binder itself needed to be reorganized completely because the order was really screwed up in accordance with the tabs. So that took me a while - and then Anna emailed us and asked if someone was free to help her with something so I volunteered. She needed all these things printed off and filed into the Geneva spec book, but of course thats when the printer decided to be really dumb and totally back up. Laura was doing some photoshopping for Stella, and neither of us could print what we needed out of the color printer. I kept trying for a long time, but eventually it was almost 6:30 and I just gave up and went home. Laura and Alvetina were helping the omin shoreman team in the library but I wanted to go because I needed to get some things done before Lauren and Rachel arrived.
Anyway, the day just went by super fast. I love those kind of days. 6 days more of work! Crazy. Lauren and Rachel didn't end up arrving to my place till about a quarter to 1. I didn't get much sleep that night that's for sure. I'm tirreedd. Good thing it's the weekend!
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