Life After Connecticut College

Hello folks! What an exciting week it has been! Political debates, Prince Harry in Afghanistan (and now not), oil at $103 dollars, and the approved execution of the notorious “Chemical Ali,” a cousin of Saddam Hussein were some top stories. And then we have my life, filled with irritable clients, Judd’s and Lichtenstein’s, and brisk weather to top it all off. We are finally getting into the swing of things with the opening of two viewings today and many more clients coming demanding free catalogues and our Christie's top notch client service. Basically uneventful, but it getz that monaay monaay (or enough to barely survive in the city). It has left some free time during the evenings to continue my side research into electromagnets and time-travel theories…

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The past several weeks have been a continuous extravaganza of family, friends, dogs, and of course, work. In between the hectic days at Christie's, where our sales season is just getting started, I have been graced with the presence of my parents, who were in the city for the Westminster Dog show, which also happens to be the second oldest sporting event in the United States after the Kentucky Derby. This being their 10th year in attending, they had the privilege of an additional 2 tickets, which my girlfriend and I gladly accepted…

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After spending a weekend (and as he said, not enough time) with my still-pseudo roomie and fellow business entrepreneur Christopher T-Money Reilly, I did the whole work thing and was greatly anticipating the opening of the movie Cloverfield. I joined my fellow monster/zombie/vampire movie fanatic Jennie (an old friend of fellow Camel Sophie Fitzgerald ’07) for opening night at the busy and environmentally unfriendly Time’s Square cinemas for a night of popcorn, shaky-cam, and insane destruction. The movie was basically a conglomeration of my favorite things, and I walked out with a giant grin on my face, unlike some who had to run to the bathroom due to the Blair Witch style filmmaking (except, unlike the Blair Witch Project, this movie was, well, good.) To our surprise after the film (yes, film) ended, this idiot stood up and asked the audience “So, did you like our movie?” After several moments, the audience realized that this was one of the actors (T.J. Miller, who played Hud, and was the cameraman throughout the movie as well) and further realization that the rest of the cast was in fact present in the theatre as well. It was a wonderful surprise to meet with them (although Jennie failed in understanding the intricacies of my iPhone camera and produced a wonderful blurry image of our feet, which I believe is just as good as this T.J. definitely would have taken Chris’s attention off of me when I would be showing him the photo) and capped off a wonderful night of fun-filled adventure.
Several weeks later (which would be last night) I continued my J.J. Abrams extravaganza with the season 4 premiere of Lost (aka the best show ever.) After spending the preceding weeks with my girlfriend catching up on the previous 3 seasons with up to 5 hours of Lost a night after grueling days of work, I was more than ready to be amazed at the genius that is the show. Given that I have basically two shows that I watch (Lost and BSG [if you don’t know what that is an acronym for than don’t bother, I’m just too much of a nerd]) I was pumped to finally, after 9 months, watch a new episode. Beware; SPOILERS will follow along with incredibly genius theories on the happenings of those stranded by flight 815...

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Well, long time no blog. Getting used to this whole thing is really demanding, especially when I tend to fill my free time with ice-cream and perfecting my juggling (I just moved onto flaming daggers). The past weeks have been filled with uneventful days at work due to the slow season (which will be starting up again this Saturday with our Americana week) and relaxing days back home in Vegas and up in Massachusetts with the parents. After having an incredibly strong year, Christie's was generous enough to grant a ten day vacation over the holidays, during which I visited my brother and parents in Nevada, caught up with old friends, and had endless debaucherous dinner parties. Among the topics discussed were the fact that when I was born we used to live next to the amazing Robert Goulet, and would occasionally join him at parties across the street at Gladys Knight’s (the memories a 23 year old wishes one at 2 years old could remember!) as well as where everyone was during the O.J. Simpson car chase (my brother and I happened to be at the house of the mayor of Las Vegas). I returned to New York in time for New Years to join several coworkers at the bar Whiskey Town which is owned by one of my friend’s cousins. During the night I was also graced by the presence of the infamous Christopher Reilly and the equally (or would it be oppositely?) famous Sophie Fitzgerald (both ’07). After a short week at work I had a long weekend up in Norwell, MA, with the parents and a friend from New York. It was great to get into the country and watch alpacas grazing under the searing Massachusetts sun. Oh, and go to Wal-Mart.
Now I am back at work and getting ready for the kick-off into the new year of overbearing clients and priceless property. It is very interesting, and slightly depressing, to know that I am at work while those still enjoying the college life have a slightly longer vacation than me. Additionally, I can say goodbye to that trip I planned to the Bahamas in the spring. At least I can look forward to the Chargers winning the Superbowl as my dear Eagles were swiftly eliminated.

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After close to six months of working at Christie’s, I have successfully survived my first high season after the two-week bonanza that is the Impressionist & Modern art and Post-War/Contemporary art sales. The past several weeks have been a whirlwind of late nights at work followed by parties and the eventual needing to wake up and return to work in the morning to start the process all over again. Multitudes of records were broken in a span of two weeks with the combined results of both sales at $937,463,050, an industry record for the two series of sales and rebutting any rumors that the art market is crashing. These sales were also in the midst of my birthday, which was celebrated grandly after the Post-War sale. The ending of the sales couldn’t get any better than with the appearance of Welcome to Florida, the 2nd most superior band in the world next to Toto, on November 17th at the Knitting Factory in downtown. I’m looking forward to a long weekend off for Thanksgiving, in which I will see my family and attending not only a Bruins game but the Eagles vs Patriots game… in which we all know the Eagles will dominate! Hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving and Fly Eagles Fly!

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I moved to New York after graduation and landed a job with Christie's Auction House. In addition to my normal responsibilities in the Client Services department, I recently got to help out with the production of the upcoming Sex and the City movie, whose cast and crew spent a day filming at our Rockefeller Center office. I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and frequently hang out with other Conn alums.

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