Exactly one week and one hour ago, I moved to the 'A'.
It's right here at this very particular moment that I can say that I've officially settled in. Today was the first of many grown man days here in Atlanta. It was one of those days when I wokeup and it was truly the first day of the rest of my life. These next two years are gonna either make me or break me.
My first day at the new job was today... Urban Collage, Inc. It's this really small and exclusive urban design firm in Downtown Atlanta. Their portfolio is sick... as in sick like impressive. It's a firm of about 8 - me, the intern, makes 9. Bout 5 or 6 of em including the firm principals are all graduates of the same GT City Planning program that I'm in now. It's in ATL's FlatIron Building, looking just like Manhattan's FlatIron Building (google it)... you'll know what building I'm talkin bout - architect or not. For all its worth, it'll prolly be a really gooooooooood experience. I'd really love it if it pulled off in the long run.
My mornings have never been easier. If I shower and iron the night before, I wake up at about 7:25, 7:30. Eat a lil something before I go. Out the apartment by 7:55, walk 2 blocks over the the Midtown MARTA Station (MARTA is ATL's subway system). Hop on a train by 8:10. By 8:20... I'm downtown. Walk 3 blocks up, kill some time and buy a bagel (from a Deli that has a shelf that says New York Bagels) and by 8:30 I'm at work.
15 to 20 minutes for a morning commute to work... that shit dont get no mo better.
I only worked the morning because I had class at noon. Even gettin to class is madd convenient. Georgia Tech kinda reminds me of Rutgers at home... so big that it needs shuttles and trolleys to get everybody around. It's not split up across 2 towns like RU, but its massive. GT is a really picturesque campus... think of how colleges look in like 'Van Wilder' or 'Old School' - and then imagine a massive skyline behind it. That's Georgia Tech... make you feel like youre away from the city, only to look up between oak trees and see some Gold Top building soaring 70 floors into the air. OK... I'll stop with the Planner/Architect P.O.V.
These country white frat boys are HILARIOUS. Just imagine one of them Abercrombie White boys sayin Dude... but with the Billy Bob Thornton dialect behind it. I have to walk past all the frat houses to get to my class from my place. My apartment is a 15 minute walk off campus from class... I live in an apartment building exclusively for college students, so since I moved it with no kinda arrangement or roomates in mind (not like i had any)... I've been randomly placed on the 1st floor in the biggest bedroom that's in a 4 bedroom units. Meanwhile, my other 3 roomates are a real 'luck of the' -fuckin- 'draw' combination.
The dumbass that lives in the room next to me is some chunky Asian kid, majors in Electrical Engineering at GT... a real fuckin slob. All he does is stay his room (the cheapest room that u can get in this building, which has no windows) and keeps the door closed playing computer games all the day long. He's a dumbass, just a straight up idiot.Dumb, just dumb. So damn dumb, that if he went went out and stopped bein a hermit - he'd realize that the clothes that he has in the washing machine right now have NO fuckin WATER because there's a memo on each door of the building that says "WATER OFF UNTIL 3 for REPAIRS". I AINT TELLIN HIM SHIT neither. He acts like he scared to throw shit in the garbage... when I got here he had NO garbage can. Just lil grocery bags of trash laid out everywhere that he was too lazy to take to the trash room and throw away. He pisses me off, and I had to tell his ass cuz he fuckin around and tryna act like he dont 'speaka the god damn english'. Tryna bullshit me sayin he aint know what I was saying when I told him 'I bought a garbage can, USE it'.
Me:'I bought a garbage can, USE it!'
HIM:(blank face)'I sorry?'
Me:'Put trash here'
...I point to my foot, and then point to his ass.
...he understood it then.'Oh Oh Oh!' he says. So Glad we understand each other mufucka... selectively speaks English, but can say, spell, and annunciate Electrical Engineering without a problem. Fuck outta here...
The other roomate... I was told he teaches English as a Second Language at GT. No... it turns out he's LEARNING english as a second language. He cool though... got that racy Asian Swagger to him wit the spikey straight hair and black frames. I understand more out that nigga than the other idiot. This dude [Korean] is like 27, and he's on that Essence of Emeril shit. This nigga be havin this place smellin and looking like Benihana's n shit. I be lookin at him like what is that? Tryna pay attention on the sneak.
Then the last roomate, who I havent seen much of since he moved in this weekend... I'm not sure if he's at Georgia State or Tech or maybe one the black AUC schools. But he's aight... not really someone who you'd expect me to keep company wit though. He'd look like a preacher if u threw a robe and kente cloth stole on him. He country as hell, prolly can cook his ass off because he filled up these cabinets and refrigerator even more than I did. Other than that... I aint really got very much to say bout him - yet.
My location is good though... literally in the city. Literally in the middle of everything. ATL is a place of million dollar views, so as soon as I step out my building I see an eyefull.
It's not Jersey, but it's home for a while - maybe even permanently.
What I miss:
Chinese Food
Pollution (its too damn clean here)
Bowling
Empire State Building
My mom and my neice
'Good Day New York' (Good Day Atlanta sucks ass, looks like someobody building a studio in their basement)
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW its only been a week, but fuck u - I'm gone, you not.
So, there's my grown mannin ATL blog. A blog minus the controversy typical of my blogs.
(Notice I didn't talk about the fine ass women... God the almighty knows)
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