big lights big city

Hello internet, I feel like it has been so long since we had a meaningful exchange. I am way too exhausted/scattered to write to you in a logical, coherent way, so you'll have to make do with the following crude bullet points:

• Job: Office manager/receptionist for a firm in Manhattan. That's all I can say about it since the employee handbook explicitly prevents me from blogging about the company by name, or in a way that could allow it be identifiable. What you need to know is that a) I think I'm going to like it, b) a family friend hooked me up with it, c) I feel extremely professional going into the city and sitting in an office with people who may or may not be the smartest people in the world (even though so far all I do is listen to the woman training me and internally freak out because it is so much to remember).
• Moving: Am in the city for this week to do training and look for a place. Will head back to Nashville on Friday, stay for the following week to pack up (and cry because I'm leaving the south, which we all know pains me to no end), then coming back up the following week (July 13th for those of you who can't add weeks without blackberry calendar). It's sort of exhausting.
  
• Living: I would rather convert to scientology then look for an apartment in New York City. It is absolutely miserable. Brokers fees! Ads that say Williamsburg but mean Bushwick! The G train, which connects to NOTHING. It's all pretty miserable. If any of you currently reside in this metropolis and have advice for me, any and all of it would be appreciated (or, you know, just find me a place to live. My budget is "as cheap as humanly possible," I need easy access to the 4, 5, R, M, or L trains, and I will turn down a place IMMEDIATELY if the landlord shows it to me without cleaning the bathroom. That's disgusting).
  

All for now, will post more when have quick moment to breath into between Au Bon Pain bagels and sprinting for the express train.