Posted in Life on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m awake this time because I have a sore throat – the all-too-common ailment that afflicts me when I’m stressed. Tomorrow I am (partially) moving into my new apartment on the glorious upper westside of Manhattan, my favorite neighborhood in the city. Paying too much rent for a too small space but that’s life in [...]
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Posted in Life on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I kept myself awake for half the night last night, worrying. Worrying about things that I have absolutely no justification to worry about. Old issues that I (thought I had) settled long ago. I meditate. I do yoga – I teach yoga! For a long time, I have wanted to be the personification of serenity, [...]
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Posted in Life on July 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I should have known that this was the right business for me long ago. I could be wearing a paper bag during an afternoon of shopping and invariably, a guest will assume that I work in the store and begin a rapid-fire line of questioning. I was recently buying a couch at Jennifer Convertibles, minding [...]
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Posted in Life on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had a black and white television during my formative years. We were not a technological family so as a result I never developed the critical skills of hand-eye coordination necessary to play video games. Little did I know that this skill translates to nearly every team sport imaginable. I played soccer for a year [...]
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Posted in Life on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I treat every evening like it’s New Year’s Eve, or my birthday. I spend a lot of time reflecting on where I was a year ago from today. What was I doing? Where was I working (or hoping to work)? Who was I with? And what’s changed? My friend Katie recently told me about a [...]
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Posted in Life on July 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the past few weeks, I have had multiple people, strangers, friends, family members, ask me what I’m reading. I spend a good deal of time with books, magazines, and newspapers that cover a wide-variety of topics and genres so when I find a particularly good one, you have my word that I will pass [...]
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Posted in Life on July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The circus train, the tracks to nowhere (meaning Main Street, Flushing), New York City’s answer to the dark underbelly of the Las Vegas strip. All of these are metaphors for every New Yorker’s favorite subway line – the #7 train. I traveled it today for the last time. I don’t care if I have to [...]
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Posted in Life on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My mom sent me an email with a photograph that I love so much I framed. It’s of two deer in the midst of a wildfire, peacefully looking up at the camera as if nothing is wrong. It’s beautiful, and haunting. Until today, I could never understand why they were so calm, continuing to eat [...]
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Posted in Life on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My friend, Ron, meets me at the ferry every morning and every evening. He’s the man who takes my ticket and sees to it that I aget across the Hudson safely. Ron is from Newark and worked in hospitals for 17 years, most recently in Springfield, Mass (a place he describes as “too slow”). He [...]
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Posted in Life on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was upset today for about ten minutes. Because I graduated from school in May and just started my job this week, there has been a bit of an income gap in my life as of late. Luckily, I come from a creative industry so I can apply that creativity to my finances. When I [...]
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