Almost one year ago, exactly - New Years in Capetown, South Africa.
I’ve started going through 2007 to make what was supposed to be a sort of video-xmas card, and I have to say, I’m blown away - I never, ever would have believed this could all happen in ONE calendar year.
I travelled to:
- Capetown for new years
- Miami for the superbowl
- St. Barth’s for a billionaire’s birthday party
- LA to see an actor I was dating
- DC for the White House Correspondent’s Dinner
- St. Lucia for a resort vacation/press trip
- Milan & Lake Como with a British guy I was seeing
- San Francisco & LA with Meghan
- Chicago (multiple times) to see my family
- Colorado for a wedding
- Santa Barbara for a wedding
- Dominican Republic for the DR international film festival
I also managed to catch:
Musicals: Mamma Mia (with Cristina), Xanadu (with Mary), Les Mis (with Krystal), Hairspray (with Rachel), the Grinch (with Jakob), The Met’s opera Romeo & Juliet (with Dr. Bobby), Shakesphere in the Park’s Romeo & Juliet (with my mom), my first Yankees game (with my college roommate), my first Knicks game (on a date), The Rockettes (with my college roommate), the Alvin Ailey dance company (with Meghan), Time 100 Most Influential People dinner (with Rachel), Cosmo’s 50 Hottest Bachelor’s Party (with Mary), the Tribeca Film Festival (with Via), September’s New York Fashion Week (with everyone!). It’s difficult to count exactly, but I went out with at least ten guys, although five made more of an impression than the others: DZ, MV, JM, LB, JL. I moved to a brand new apartment for the first time in two years, and I got my puppy Lilly/Marshmallow back from my mom’s - finally!
I also did over 230 television appearances, including FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, Headline News, E!, Fox, CBS, NBC, Fox Business, G4 network, Fuse and some random network that only airs in Japan. I posted more than 100 homemade videos to Vimeo, including half a dozen original lip dubs (The Little Mermaid and Annie being my favorites). I managed to worm my way into stories in the New York Times, NY magazine, NY Observer, NY Post, NY Press, CNET, a Jersey pub called Hometown Quarterly, a British pub called Quintessentially, a few dozen posts on some blog named “Gawker,” a post here and there on Valleywag, Jossip, and an infamous video on Techcrunch (thanks Sarah Myers!) - all while writing a weekly column first for AM New York (until March) and then for Time Out New York (starting in May), publishing my columns on the front page of Yahoo (starting in Oct) AND working for Star since late June.
That’s just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head.
Not so bad for 12 months, eh?
