Did the touristy last night and went to Rockefeller Center to see the tree.

Hanging out with the giant Nutcrackers.

Radio City Music Hall

We have these in SF around the holiday time too.

I got these adorable houndstooth earmuffs from a tiny costume jewelry boutique for $5.

Supposedly the tree was supposed to be giant, but apparently I had my expectations raised exorbitantly through hearsay because I honestly didn’t find it as impressive as hearsay had me believe. And it was colorful; enough so that I would dare say it would look better in my home in the Bronx (definitely garish and colorful enough for E. Fordham Road).

Also dropped by Union Square Holiday Bazaar, but it was too cold and the prices too high for poor college students like me.

You can definitely feel the cold winter chill now in New York City.

Matt Damon at the end of a day's shooting.

My school’s been featured in quite a few movie filmings lately, the most recent two being Wall Street 2 (featuring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas) last month and The Adjustment Bureau (Matt Damon) just today. For both, the production agencies offered the opportunity for students to apply as Extras, and mostly because I needed money, I tried my luck at the latter one. Amazingly, I got a reply 2 hours after I sent in my picture.

The extras gathered to cheer on the campaigning senator who Damon plays.

So this morning I haul my ass up after 4 hours of sleep at 5am to meet the call time of 5:45 dressed in more colorful winter finery than I would have chosen for myself naturally. 10 hours later after all parts of me have lost feeling and gone numb, we wrap.

Moral of the day? Dress warmly and understand that Extra-ing is the tedious task of standing around. There’s no glamor to it, even if you are essentially paid as human fodder.

I should really decide what exactly is it that I want to do with this blog. In the meantime, I finally got around to walking the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend after perusing SoHo. Oh, and I finally had Quickly’s since last being in California. I was so excited like you don’t know! (And there was a student discount!) Oh boy do I love Chinatown.

View of Manhatten from the beginnings of the pedestrian walkway. Almost got run over by a bike somewhere around taking these photos, too.

Looking shifty or going "WTF! is that ghost standing there." The mood was quite gorgeously creepy.

Pedestrian path; do make note to stay on it. Of course the little car-things chauffeuring set workers for the moving they were filming pushed you all the way to the side at times.

Manhattan at night.