Hearts And Flowers

I usually write something about Valentine's Day, so it didn't feel right to let it slip by without at least noting it here.
Y'know. It's not so bad.
Among other lovely things, today even brought a bouquet of Twizzlers from Katie. Lovely, really, just lovely.
And y'know, I'm not even going to leave you with a cynical quote about ice weasels or anything like that. Why fake it when it's not coming naturally, right?

Guess You Had To Be There

I haven't wanted to write a post about New York because what can you really say? The weather was fine! Wish you were there! When you go on a trip like that, time seems to slow down for the duration of it, and then afterwards it's like it was an instant. I've been back for more than a week now. Whenever somebody asks me how the trip was, what can I say? I tell them it was good, or great, or really fun. It's not a lie. It was good and great and really fun. It just seems like such a superficial description.

What We Did:
Saturday
Flew into LaGuardia, took charter buses to the hotel (the Hotel Edison on 47th by Times Square), checked in, etc.
Thrift-store-shopped in Brooklyn (including getting lost on the way to Brooklyn-- they really don't want you there, do they?)
Dinner at a little Italian restaurant on 44th
Met a friend's friend at a bar on Bleecker where we were neither carded nor made to pay for drinks
Somehow made it back to the hotel alive

Sunday
Braved the rain briefly to go to the Museum of Natural History
Discovered that there's a difference between Express and Local
Dinner at a really good sushi place in the East Village-- Athens prices, even!
Serendipity! Frrrozen hot chocolate! (And a really cute host)

Monday
Field & Stream/Saltwater Sportsman
Lunch at a creepy Greek diner place
Family Circle
Gourmet
Sat in an audience of about fifteen for a taping of Daily Download, some show on Fuse that the aforementioned friend's friend works for
Alumni mixer at the Turtle Bay Bar & Grille

Tuesday
NBC Studio tour
Glamour
Time
ESPN The Magazine
The Strand! Where I want my ashes to be scattered!

Wednesday
People
Wandered around 5th, looking at things I'll never be able to afford
Met at the hotel to go back to the airport for our flight home

The end, of course. It was fun, if a little discouraging (the magazines made it sound next to impossible to actually get a job in magazines, and when you do, it barely pays anything so you have to live in Jersey at best). It made me less scared of New York, which is a plus, since the magazines also basically said that if you want to work in the magazine industry, it's New York or nothing. By the end of the trip I barely ever had to look at a map, even! I was proud. I was also pleased when I got my first cab by myself. And the whole time I was at the Strand. Dude. That place. Man.
So yeah, good trip. Pictures are on Facebook if you are interested-- although to be honest, we barely took any. Cameras just get in the way, y'know?