Good bye, New York

Today was my last day of work. It makes me very sad to think that I won't be seeing Nestor or Jonathan for a very, very long time. They took me out to lunch at a relatively expensive restaurant with Amazing food. I had some sort of salmon on some sort of rice with some sorts of vegetables on all of it. It was wonderful and perfect and $20. Well worth it. Can't wait to be rich some day so I can afford food like that more often. I got them both pottery because I only give people I like very much pottery. Nestor gave me his card holder because I kept playing with it and he probably felt he needed to give me something, even though he already bought me lunch. Now if only I had some business cards...
I do wish I managed to make some friends. Being the workaholic that I am, I can't really make friends with people outside of the workplace. The few girls near my age in the office are very very different from me, so I ended up being alone pretty much the whole time. I look at the list of bookmarks the other interns left, and I feel like a bad architect because there's all these sites that list what exhibits are going on where, what shows are good, all sorts of cultural things. I guess I just lack the curiosity to go out...
Still, there were thing that I have learned during my stay in the city:
1) Egg creams are neither eggy nor creamy. Sadly, it is just seltzer with some chocolate or vanilla ice cream and a bit of syrup for extra flavoring.
2) Museums are expensive. O sure, a lot of them call it "donations," but you feel like some horrible cheapskate if you don't pay. I have to work on losing my soul before I go visit one again so they can't guilt me into paying a penny.
3) This world is filled with dirty old men. I pretend to not notice their cat-calls and they pretend that they're their sons' ages.
4) That sugary smell in the streets comes from the peanut stands. The peanuts, sadly, don't taste nearly as good as they smell. But then, I've never liked peanuts.
7) Contemporary furniture is awesome. Looking around ABC Co. is awesome, and shopping there in stilettos is quite all right because you can sit on the furniture.
9) Visit parents are great until you realize mom's walked off with your floss.
10) Knocking is a skill foreign to many New Yorkers. Fortunately, the lock on the bathroom door is very sturdy.
11) The view out my window is the Empire State Building. The one on 42nd Street with the sunburst pattern is the Chrysler Tower. For some reason I always thought it was the other way around. Shows you how great an architect I'm going to be...
Well, tomorrow I'll be going home. I have to start packing. My sister is at an Anime convention with friends, but when she comes back, we're all going to Todai. Japanese buffet...yummmm.