Well, it's been a pretty crazy past few weeks.

In the past few weeks, I have traveled to New York for an interview, gotten a job offer, accepted the job offer, traveled back to New York to find a sublet, found a sublet, graduated, moved to New York with the help of my wonderful dad, flown back to Canada, gotten a visa (which was a terrifying experience), explored a bit of the city, and started my first ever full time job.

So far, I have been living in New York for a full week.

During this week, I have:

• learned about how expensive groceries are here - seriously, I got so good at grocery shopping in Boston that I could live on about 15 dollars a week, and that is not the case here at all. I spent 30 dollars on Sunday getting groceries for pasta salad. What even.
• eaten pizza twice, including at Grimaldi's. It was very tasty. I've decided that I am not actually allowed to eat pizza every day because my body probably couldn't handle it.
• twisted my ankle for the first time in my life (I think) because I fell down in the subway station because I am totally an adult that is calm and collected and not a klutz.
• visited Neue Galerie with one of my friends and saw the Scream up close and personal. It was very exciting - I didn't know it was done in pastel and I didn't know there was a poem associated with it, and I loved it!
• gone to a speakeasy and found that it is very expensive and not worth it for someone like me, who doesn't really like alcohol. I went because my friends went, and I learned that expensive alcohol is still alcohol and still tastes rather awful. Plus, it was 20 bucks for a single drink. No one should ever have to pay 20 bucks for a single drink.
• gotten a ticket to Hamilton, thanks to Julie who is totally on her game when it comes to grabbing those Hamilton presales, apparently. The tickets are for February, which is almost forever away, but we're so hyped anyway. Plus, we only spent 200 bucks each on them, which is quite a bargain considering the average Hamilton ticket right now is around 850.
• bought more big-girl clothes - blouses and trousers and shoes and a work bag - and balked at the price, even though I was shopping sales. Everything is pricier in New York City.
• made a list of museums I want to visit while I'm here. I'm working on the other lists - I need to find a New York donut shop that rivals Union Square Donuts and a boba shop that rivals TeaDo (apparently there's one of these here too, so maybe not a rival!) and a ramen shop that rivals Yume Wo Katare.
•  started my job, yesterday, and I'm pretty excited. The project I'm getting to work on is mad cool.

As I mentioned before, I am working on a list of things to do in New York. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know in the comments! I didn't explore Boston as much as I would've liked to while I was there, and I'd like to avoid leaving New York in the future with the same regrets.