It’s been a week.

Ok where to begin.

So, first off I moved to New York City. Yeah, I did it. I am here now. Now I am job hunting. I decided to go back to the restaurant business. Everyday I have been walking through New York, visiting restaurants, talking with managers and dropping off my resume. I have been hitting all the areas.

The other day I totally hit the Chelsea area of town. A lot of the restaurants were pretty gay friendly, those were the ones I had the most success with. I dropped my resume off and as I was leaving I heard the bartender tell the manager.
“Fire Jared and hire that guy!”
I am straight as an arrow but they don’t need to know that until after they hire me.
Today, I was in the Tribeca area looking at restaurants. One I came in and the guy I talked said
“Hold on, let me call my manager.”
dials phone, turns and mumbles something away to the person on the other line.
“Um..Ok let me check.”
Looks me up and down.
“Yeah…uh-uh…yes…(still eying me up and down while I stand there awkwardly) yes..ok”
Hangs up
“We will call you if we need you.”
A couple more places, actually had me sit down and fill out applications, one had a pop quiz on the back. Asking me what different grapes where for a Bordeaux, what “braising” means. Thank god for the G1. I cheated my entire way through it.

I also was walking down the street and saw a pink purse lying in the middle of the sidewalk. I thought that it was weird and kep walking, then I stopped. I went back and picked up the purse and found a cell phone and wallet. I called the most recent number and told her what I had found. I then went and met the woman I talked to, she was a friend of the purse owner, and I delivered it. Later, the purse owner called and thanked me. She said she wanted to thank me in person tomorrow and offered to meet me for coffee. Good deed of the year!

What else..Oh I saw Micheal Showalter on the street and since he’s my favorite member of the State I got a little goosebump.  (Only one goosebump though!) Then he saw me recognize him and basically gave me the “Please please don’t come approach me, I am not in the mood.” I hate doing that anyway so I just kept on walking. I twittered about it and later he replied thanking me.

Despite the fact of not having a job it has been great seeing some old friends who used to live in Houston. Hanging with them has been wonderful reminding me why I missed them so much in the first place.

last but not least. I saw the ASSCAT show on Sunday with Bobby Moynihan. It was great! Also Pat O’Brien was in it and I saw him perform with a troupe called The Reckoning when I visited a Chicago a couple of weeks back. He was one the best improvisers I had seen then and still is. It was a fantastic show. Seeing the Asscat show reminded me why I moved to New York in the first place, to pursue comedy both in writing and performing. I gotta to get in on those classes at UCB and hit the open mic nights (i’ve only been here a week though so give me a break!)

also since I am a comedy writer it probably would not hurt if my blog was funny too and now just a run down of what I did that week. Alright, alright the next one will have at least some jokes in it.