Sometimes still a tourist...

I got to enjoy one of those rare weekends where I'm NOT completely preoccupied with SNL, so I decided to really take advantage of all this free time. While waiting in various SNL/Assscat lines, I've managed to meet a couple of "regulars" who are actually pretty normal, like me (in comparison to SOME of the people who wait in line). Heather is from Viriginia and is a freshman at Manhattan College and Natalie is from New Zealand and here as a nanny through a host program. We have a lot of fun. On like Wednesday, Heather sort of put it out there that she really wanted to go to the Statue of Liberty. I got really excited. I wanted to go, too. So, yesterday, Heather and I met up at Battery Park and got tickets for the ferry to the Statue and went. I had SO much fun. We were constantly laughing, mostly making fun of the people who dress up like the Statue to get people to take pictures with them. And how we were practically some of the only people speaking English there. It was a really pretty day, too; sort of cold and windy but the sky was so blue and it was just a really nice fall day. We got on the last ferry to Liberty Island, 3:40, and by the time we got off the ferry at the island and walked around, the sun was setting, and it was gorgeous. Then the moon came out, and it was just very picturesque.
After we got back to Manhattan, we gave Natalie a call to see if she wanted to hang out. We ended up going to see a show at Upright Citizens Brigade (of course). It was really funny, though, it was a one-woman show starring Stephnie Weir of Madtv. We then went over to Natalie's apartment on the Upper East Side (well, the room she gets in the apartment of her host family) and watched some random video clips she had on her computer. I had such a fun day, and I'm excited that I've found some friends outside of NYU. It's a bonus that they do all the SNL/Assscat/30 Rock stuff, too.
No Assscat tonight, I've got an improv show at the old Upright Citizens Brigade theater, actually. Hopefully people will come. It's hard to get an audience once we get off campus. Plus it's $1. Once you post any kind of admission price, most students won't go. It's too bad, too, because it's a really adorable theater/cafe and we should be doing some quality improv. It will be awkward if no one's there.
I'm sad that my weekend is over. I have a paper to do tonight and a midterm first thing tomorrow. Booooo!! Oh well, it will get done.
Enjoy these beautiful pictures.