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I'm posting from the first balcony at Radio City Music Hall while about 900,000 graduates walk across the stage one by one. Yes, I am exaggerating, but they have been calling names for half an hour now with no end in sight. Niki was among the first 200 to be called because she is graduating with honors and thus got to sit on the stage, and the grads onstage got to walk first. So that was fun, but now all the excitement is over and here we sit. Wiliam has a couple of telephoto lenses and has been alternating between them, taking pictures of Niki texting and looking bored onstage. Ha. He got a cute pic of her looking up at us when we were screaming after her name was called.
We spent about 5 hours hanging out with Niki on Sunday, mostly walking all over lower Manhattan. William and I had already walked from 44th St. to meet her in Union Square, and from there we toured NYU, walked through the West Village and to the waterfront, then to Ground Zero (boarded up, not much to see), then to Chinatown (enjoyable dinner at Joe's Shanghai), then through Little Italy on the way to the subway to see her apartment in Williamsburg. I love walking in New York, and I was happy to expend the calories, but there is a muscle on the outward side of my right calf that would have preferred a bit less walking.
More later. Parade is over.
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