A Little About Me...

The first bio I wrote when i was hired for my new job wasn't exciting enough so I decided to spice it up a little bit. For anyone who is out to learn a little more about me in this dark time where I have no laptop and a backlog of about 15 restaurants to write about it upon said broken laptop's return, see below:

Ever since the age of 5, Jess has been a nerd. Writing memoranda on the reasons she did not deserve to be in time-out prompted her parents to believe she was destined for nerdery at a young age. Her early love of science was demonstrated while she conducted scientific experiments in the bathroom sink after being asked to leave the dinner table for arguing with her siblings. With the goal of creating a turkey dinner out of nothing more than toothpaste, soap and mouthwash, she nearly succeeded had her mother not interrupted the delicate process by turning the faucet on full-blast and screaming at Jessica to go to her room. Apparently, screaming and flushing with hot water makes budding turkey-crystals fall out of solution.

All was not lost, though, because at the age of 11, it became clear that Jessica was not only a nerd but a fast nerd: qualifying for the US Nationals in swimming. While attending THE most prestigious high school in the country (I mean, JFK went there….), she continued to train at both geekery and jockery. Her efforts were rewarded and she was able to attend the 6^th-or-so most prestigious college in the country where she earned her dual degree: a B.A. in Intellectual Misfitisms and a B.S. in Leisure Studies (it is TOO a science!). And, although she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials and despite being ranked in the Top 50 in the world in her events, she isn’t from a “slow country like Bulgaria and failed to make the U.S. Olympic team. She then decided to default to the next most prestigious thing: medical school.

After a boring and uneventful first year, it became clear that she could no longer tolerate the ennui of an incessant barrage of patients’ problems and went on a leave of absence. At that time, she began to work for Kaplan at 1440 where she works as a manager/model (have you SEEN the Park Avenue videos?) in her spare time, she is applying to PhD programs in Rocket Science and taking care of her 35 cats, all of which are former-strays that she nursed back to health from the brink of death on various Brooklyn streets.

So now you're all in the know about what's going on in my life.
The short list of restaurants I've eaten at recently and are in the line-up for a review (in no particular order)

1) Wasabi NYC
2) Cafe Duke in midtown
3) Jane (village)
4) Enid's (again)
5) Graziella's
6) Lamb and Jaffe (are you guys closed?!)

and next up for sure....PAPACITO'S (g-point)