I went to this restaurant called Spice Market in the meat packing district. It reminded me of some of the stuff that I hate about new york. All these wannabe posh looky-loos casting furtive glances to check everyone else out. Lame. Food was decent, but the clientele made me sick to my stomach.
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There's at least a couple of us kids from NYU in the legal peoples group--who knows, maybe more? Anyway, you'll have to tell me when the Dean's Cup rolls around, so I can root from a distance.
But yeah, I am so happy to be out of school.
Spice market sucks balls, in my opinion. I went for a late lunch, so there wasn't that much people-watching to do, but the service was among the worst I've seen in NYC and the food, which was very expensive, was mediocre at best. And to top it off, right as we were leaving, I saw a line of about 35 applicants for server position waiting by the bar. Each of them--and I'm not kidding about this--was holding a fucking head shot. If I had wanted to live in L.A., I would have moved there. I hate that whole neighborhood, except for Pastis, which does have really good brunch if you're willing to put up with the lines or come at an off hour.
As much as I loved a lot of NYC, I got tired of all that shit (though it was a lot better in the East Village, where Ilived), which is why I'm going to SF next year. You're planning on working for a NY firm, I take it?
Meanwhile, it depends what you'd like to see/do in the UK, and how far you want to travel. Hard to advise someone I don't know, and bear in mind that I'm a failed intellectual with no social life. For the historically minded tourist, Stonehenge, plenty of Roman stuff, some fine castles, all within reasonably easy reach of London. Plenty of Kulchur Stuff in London, museums, galleries, concerts. If you're inclined to go further, Wales is best understood in winter; it's all very well to be there in spring or summer, but a wet January is the key. I haven't been to Scotland for years. If by some chance you are in Cornwall, go to the Tate Modern in St Ives. If it was me, I'd want to go see some Roman stuff and some industrial archaeology; Ironbridge, in Shropshire, is well worth a look.