Sande in NYC

I know what you’re thinking…what took so long? Well, I got busy with work and death and putting up pictures kind of took a backseat. It’s interesting how this city has an energy that seems like it can recharge you and yet run you down at the same time.

The internship is still going well. I’m more than halfway done which, of course, is cool and not-so-cool. I got to see Secretary Clinton last Monday and Ambassador Barton (ECOSEC - it’s like peace/nation building stuff) on Thursday. Also, I got to try my first taste of Lebanese food (pretty tasty) this past week. It was at their reception for taking over the presidency of the Security Council. If you weren’t aware, the presidency of the SC rotates every month. The Lebanese are, understandably, somewhat concerned about the issue of sanctions on Iran coming up during their presidency…guess we’ll have to wait and see.

I met someone from Human Rights First to talk about due diligence efforts in Sudan. I met a member of the Panel of Experts for the DPRK. Umm…at work I mainly did DPRK and 1267 (Al Qaeda/Taliban) stuff with just a small sprinkling of Iran stuff. Actually a large portion of the first half of the week was taken up with finishing the scheduling of visit by a GAO panel currently investigating the issue of conflict minerals in the DRC (who isn’t these days, right?). I was finalizing it on Thursday when the panel’s coordinator called me to let me know they wouldn’t be coming next week. Nice. heh…guess I’ll be rescheduling all of this. But, whatever…you don’t care about this. You want to see pictures. I’m so far behind that these are from February when I was still living in Brooklyn. They’re from Teresa’s visit out here…

It was windy that day…

This is in the supermarket that is in Grand Central Station…

Yes, that does look like a 70’s pimp, you’re absolutely right. Thank you, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Bridge

Someone’s pretty excited…

That’s all the pictures for up here. But, go here: http://gallery.me.com/erik.sande#100586 to see the rest of them that are up so far. You can even see the other 15 attempts it took us to get that stupid 30 Rock statue between us. It’s pretty comical…The day after this we went to the Statue of Liberty so that’ll be up next.