This day still feels so strange. If anything, it feels stranger every year that I'm away from the city (wow, it's 5 now). There's a huge memorial service going on right outside my office building. In New Lenox, IL. I know this is something that happened to everyone, not something that New Yorkers (and Washingtonians) own, but it still sticks in my ( Read more... )

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There are only 5 guys in my cohort at school. There are about 20 girls. Therefore, the guys end up with an overinflated sense of their own specialness and value. Sometimes I just want to shake one of them and say "Just because you're A MAN doesn't mean you're THE MAN. Act right ( Read more... )

That's my apartment building in the background. Yikes.
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I really want to do a proper post today, but it's difficult. I would ordinarily take the easy way out and do a video post, but I'm packing up my apartment in my underwear (it's too dang hot), and neither my apartment nor I are in any way camera-ready. I did a test post on FB and on LJ today, and I'm able to text posts to both, which will be fun ( Read more... )

You won't believe this, but I'm typing this entry from a bus. Another one. I know my irregular entries have been all about my love for NYC and my dwindling time in it, but the other night a stronger force won out. The Mother's Guilt-trip. Of course it's called a guilt-trip- every time I'm on the receiving end of one, I end up spending 11 hours on ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned that Carey's brother's girlfriend was staying with me for the week. I was a little worried about my hostess duties because I have a studio apartment, and Katherine's a vegan, and I no longer have money to throw around (she's a full-time artist, so she's never drowning in it either). My concerns were entirely unfounded. Katherine ( Read more... )

These last couple of months in New York aren't just about museums and cupcakes. They're about the family I have here. I've been really trying to be present in my friendships. It makes me wish I could get more of my MP days back, days when I was so depleted from work that I'd turn down social opportunities and spend the evening tucked away in my ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a banner day for Operation I <3 NY. I really went for it, and my feet are still killing me. I started the day at the Guggenheim Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/ . I took the subway down to 86th street and walked across Central Park. It was threatening to rain all day, but didn ( Read more... )