Workshop: Day 6 Awards. Sushi with Pete. Heading out with Pete.
Got up early again. I seem to be averaging four hours of sleep or so. Went for a half hour run/walk over the same course I took with Pete in Riverside Park. Got back, showered, and made it to Camille's. Actually I was the first one there. I do enjoy hanging out there and chatting with everyone before we head out to teach. I went for the full breakfast and had a stack of pancakes and bacon. Had to do something special on the last day.
We gathered in the Party Space at 9:30. for the Theme Packet presentations. First though we had the famous class evaluation. The theme stuff was pretty weak but some groups made some effort. We didn't do much critiquing as there really wasn't much to say. After the theme packets we had each student tell something he or she learned and that really was helpful. Apparently we did teach them something. We finished at about 11. I went to the book store and then the awards staqrted at 11. Mark and his kids did a slide show but it was no where near as good as Crystal's were.
We were done by pretty close to 12 and then headed back to Carman to check out. Pete and I had lunch at a Sushi place on 58th near Columbus Circle called Blue Ribbon Sushi.
The lunch for the two of us was just about $100 including tip. I learned that nigiri is what you call the pieces of fish placed on the rice and also that you should take the fish off to dip it in the soy sauce. The yellow tail is called hamachi and it was nigiri as well. We then went into the mall and I bought a book on Tokyo and the Woodstock DVD. We decided we wanted cupcakes so we walked up Amsterdam toward a place I remembered seeing on Sunday called Crumbs. But we found an even bore famous placed called the Magnolia Bakery.
Apparently the original one is on Bleeker Street in the Village, but this one was pretty darn good. Of course I had a red velvet and also some other spice thing. Good. Great vibe with Michael Jackson songs playing in the background.
We caught the 1 at 72nd and made it back up to campus where we ate our cupcakes in the shade near the journalism building. We watched some darling little birds peck at and fight for out crumbs on the cupcake papers we through to them. Very cute.
I was getting antsy so we caught a cab at four. Apparently why it's hard to get a cab at this time is that the 12 hour shift change happens around five. So no one wants a long fare when they are trying to get off work. We finally did get one to stop for us; he said he did stop because he lived in Queens and that is where he switches with the other guy. We got caught in that usual Harlem traffic and it wound up taking us ove an hour and a half. The ride cost $60. The JetBlue teminal 5 is new and we quickly checked our bags and got through security. My bag weighed 53 pounds and I had to take a shoe out to make the weight. Although she never eve reweighed it.
We have just about a half an hour left before we board but the thunderstorms appear to be brewing. We shall see.
We wound up not leaving until 10:30 New York time and I got back to Sac at 2 a.m.
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