Fire-eater

My facebook name is Nick Fire-eater Peterson. I am not actually a fire-eater, I just thought that it was a wicked awesome nick-name. Well, apparently someone took it a little more seriously. Here is a copy of an message I got in my inbox:

were looking for male fire eaters jugglers the more outragoues the better also stilt walkers swoard swallores
for a shoot in nyc around june 6-8th forthe band MADJUANA there on my space and on here and you can contact them and me mentioning my name . . .
I dont know all the details Im just helping track down talent for video for my friends band
I myself am a photographer

Man, it's times like this I wish I really was a fire-eater.

NEW YORK

I went to New York with some friends last weekend. I have officially spent as many weekends in New York as I have in D.C. New York was out of control. That place is huge. First thing I noticed was that the metro in New York is about a million times more complicated than the metro in D.C. No worries, we eventually found our way to where we wanted to go.

First off, the drive was pretty long, and I encountered road tolls for the first time. Man, it's pretty expensive to us some of those roads and bridges. We stayed with friends of a friend in Jersey. Jersey was pretty sweet. I had imagined it as being similar to New York, but it was actually pretty chill. We then drove to New York, stopping off in Staten Island. Yeah, I've been to Staten Island. Then we continued on and parked at a park and took the Light Rail into town. First stop was Ground Zero, which was pretty crazy, but mostly just a big hole in the ground. I don't want to diminish it's importance, but we didn't stay long at that location.

On we went to Times Square. That place was sweet. Super huge, tons of people and buildings, it kind of blew me away. Talk about the complete opposite of Manti, where I grew up. We saw where they tape the Late Show, the Hello Deli, which was, unfortunately closed. Then we decided to get some Broadway tickets to Mary Poppins. Whilst in line, Tracy Morgan drove by in his Lamborghini. Yeah he's a celeb and all, but I'm not really a fan. Anywho, after we got the tics, we went to Chinatown. Man, that place is pretty sketchy. Okay, it's super sketchy. Then we went and hit up Mary Poppins, which was totally worth the wait in line and the crappy seats. After that, we went home.

Sunday we went to church and got invited to dinner:) We drove by my friend's old house in Jersey and ended up getting invited to lunch by her old neighbors. Then it was off to dinner, with a pretty chill family. We were basically adopted by two families in Jersey. Not bad for a weekend trip. Then we headed back to D.C. I drove the last leg of the trip into the District. I was pretty nervous, but I managed to get us to our apartment in one piece. And there you have it, my weekend in New York.

Veterans of Foreign Affairs

I have decided to continue my blogging efforts in order to document my summer as a Washington D.C. intern at the Veterans of Foreign Wars. This place is legit. I was worried that it would be a sketchy building in the middle of the ghetto, but the building is quite nice and it is located right accross from the Hart Senate Building on Capitol Hill. My first few days as an intern were pretty dull. The guy I am going to be working with is on vacation for a week, so they stuck me with the Associate Director, who doesn't know what to do with me because he's got enough on his own plate to worry about. So I am brushed aside and given a book on the history of the VFW to read and left to myself. Well, that was super boring, but luckily a few days later, they got my permanent residence set up. I have my own office, which is awesome, and a computer to mess around on when I don't have anything to do. Today my supervisor had to go to Annapolis for the day and left me a small task to accomplish. Well I finished all I was supposed to do in the morning, so I have been sitting around reading my history book and dinking around on the computer for the past three hours. One more to go! This summer should be interesting. Hopefully I'll be wrinting soon about trips to New York, Boston, and Philly. Peace!