Dear lovely new neighbors,

I, along with the majority of Julliard tenants in this complex, appreciate the fact that you enjoy music. However — I, along with the majority of tenants living in close proximity to your window and entryway, don’t care to hear Lady Gaga blasted into my apartment.

Love,
Your neighbor

How do you spend your days? According to the American Time Use Survey in the New York Times, there are striking differences between time spent by the employed versus the unemployed.

On an average weekday, the unemployed sleep an hour more than their employed peers. They tidy the house, do laundry and yard work for more than two hours, twice as much as the employed. The unemployed also spend an extra hour in the classroom and an additional 70 minutes in front of the television.

With just under 10% of the U.S. population unemployed, that’s a lot of extra sleep and housework.

Good also has another great infographic on this subject.

In my first Project 365 post, I chronicled my wi-fi-less adventures at Peacefood Cafe. Since swearing off coffee three years ago, I now choose from the tea menu when I go to cafes (at Starbucks, it’s a Grande No-Water Soy Chai Latte). Today, I ordered a $4.50 brazilian nut chai at Peacefood Cafe — one of the worst food purchases made in recent memory. Apparently, I’m not meant to go vegan.

Here’s Dan Kennedy hosting the NYC Moth GrandSLAM. The theme was Risky Business, and the stories ranged from being a hustler to scamming JP Morgan to backpacking across Australia to pulling in union favors for a drug-addicted brother. It was my second time attending a Moth event, and by far the better of the two nights. If you’re not in NY or LA to attend an event live, you should definitely check out the podcast.

There’s a cafeteria located on the fourteenth floor of 375 Hudson. Many of my former coworkers at the building eat there only when the weather is bad; I deviated from eating its food at most once a month. Since I no longer have access to $3.95 sandwich and soup specials, my lunch experience has changed drastically. Greg and I were working in Soho today to meet up with Living Breathing, so we grabbed burritos to eat from the Calexico cart. I’ve always bemoaned the fact that the Mexican food in NYC will never measure up to the deliciousness found everywhere in Texas, but I have to admit that these were mighty good. (Look at the guy on the left who seems jealous that we’re taking away his burritos!)

In the two weeks since I left Saatchi and began working full-time on launching the Longitude, nomadic cafe-wandering has become a way of life. Today’s destination was Peacefood Cafe, a delightful new vegan bakery on the Upper West Side. I bought a blueberry scone (with a tofu spread!), poured myself a cup of water, laid my laptop on a sun-lit table, and received an error message informing me that my Macbook could not connect to Wi-Fi. Fail.