New York State of Mind

This blog sucks.

Today is January 12. It has been 12 days since the new year and already many changes have occurred in my life. First of all, I was forced to leave my sick Job in the Manhattanville College athletic department after I came back from the break because they had cut my salary by more than half. They had no explanation. They just put a new contract in front of me and told me to sign. It was amusing how nonchalantly they did they as they expected me just to take it and not give them any shit.

However, I am not the type of person who will just stay at a job for the sake of staying at a job. Although this was in the realm of the industry I wish to pursue as a career, the fact of the matter is, I am moving to New York City and I CANNOT survive on $500 a month! So thank you Manhattanville, but there was no way that was going to fly.

In other news, I have gotten another job in security making some decent money. This is just a way to pay my rent and bills. In no way is this what I want to do with my life, but for the time being, I am excited to start. I move in one week. Having this job is better then having no job. And Ive noticed, and I dont mean this in any deep or philisophical way, that doors and opportunities DO open when you least expect it.

Also, I have been entirely smoke free in 2009. Coming from a heavily addicted almost 2 pack a day smoker who sincerely LOVES cigarettes, this is a victory. 12 days and going strong and I can see this being the time where I actually quit.

Like I said before, I move to the city in one week and I have not even begun to pack up. I have so much still to do and really no time to do it. I have to pack, rent a van, get all my stuff to my friends for the movers, train for my new job, prepare for a conference on next Tuesday, and start classes. There is defiantly more I just can’t think of it.

This blog will be updated more when I actually move into New York. It will be filled with all sorts of stories and adventures. From drinking to working, from sex to love, from couching it up to working out.

Everything is about to change, and I hope you are apart of it.

roxied out.

-zMILLz

I have never really wanted to start a blog.  The idea of putting your personal thoughts and ideas on the internet for the world to see seemed, at least to me, as an invitation to mockery and criticism.  But since I know the only people who will be reading this blog are most likely my friends, with the exception of Dan Freeman who I hate with a burning passion, I decided what the fuck.  It seems like the perfect time for me to actually start one.
 
Let me explain.  In two weeks from yesterday, I will be moving to New York City. Having graduated college a year and a half ago, I have been living at home while jumping from one unsuccessful job to another.  With the exception of my admission and current matriculation to grad school, I think it’s easy to say that my life is pretty much the same as it was during my tenure at Ohio University.
 
I still party hard, binge drink, dabble with recreational drug use, all while maintaining the ridiculous notion that it is still okay to live the college lifestyle as a soon to be 24 year old adult.  So instead of wasting away in my mother’s house in New Jersey answering the big question, I have decided to pass the question to the red family take the “physical challenge” of moving to New York City.

Like every generation before me, and after me, the mid-twenty something move to New York City is a right of passage that has been portrayed in every aspect of entertainment.  I am just looking to continue that tradition.
Although I have no money, no job, and no means of supporting myself, this is something that simply has to be done.  My friends who live in New York, with the exception of a certain few, have their parents greatly helping them out.  And although I am sincerely jealous of their advantageous way of life,  my big city experience will have something more to it.   Something abstract, something dangerous and possibly some kind of failure.

But that’s the beauty of living there.  And although New York has become more commercialized, lost its soul and some of the essence of being New York,  it is still very true that if you can make it there, you can make anywhere.

roxied out.

zMILLz