I picked a heck of a week to piece my office together.  With a very limited budget to work with, I needed a work space.  So I’ve spent the last 2 snow-filled days trapsing all over (I mean ALL over) this city getting bits and pieces together to construct my studio/office space.  In the process, I hauled a 3×6 foot door from the lumberyard 5 blocks away (through the 8 inch and accumlating snow).  I went to IKEA in Brooklyn and brough back a 5 foot long shelving unit, a lamp, and a shoe rack… on the subway.

I went to 86th and Amsterdam, 72 blocks north of me, and bought a filing cabinet off of someone on Craigslist.  I then carried it down 5 flights of stairs, down 3 streets, down into the subway on 86th and Broadway, and on the train back home– where I carried it a block to my apartment.  Everyone on the subway looked at me like I was a crazy man.

Yesterday I found a sale on Craigslist that I had to check out.  The illegal purse-selling industry took a hard hit when Mayor Bloomberg condemned a building that was found to be a hotbed for illegal-merch sales.  As a result, many businesses in the building were forced to move.  One recording studio was having a major 1-day-only sale.  So I headed over there with one agenda:  to buy a rolling office chair.  It went to Chinatown and found my way through the massive abandoned building to a large loft that was scattered with amazing furniture, office and household items.  It was like a midwest garage sale in the middle of New York.  Well, I got my chair.  $20 bucks, and 2 subway stops later, I was back with the final piece of my office set.