salience
February 12, 2006
1. Imogen Heap and Zoe Keating. What else do you need when snowed in on a Sunday? A keyboard, I agree. If anyone has any suggestions for an electronic model I can buy within the week, I'd be grateful. I'm looking for weighted hammer action as well, which I know, raises the price considerably, but it's what I've had my heart set on for awhile now, so deal. A full 88 keys, not 61 or 72 thank you.
2. It's not that I hate New York, I really do love my life here. All of the stress and my hours and the number of miles I travel everyday. The people I've surrounded myself with are exceptional. But I do miss my girls, and I'm looking forward to some kind of sunny warm get a tan and be outside trip soon. Vegas, Flora?! :) I wasn't born in a cold place, so it will never fully feel like home. I need the sun and to be able to walk around barefoot outside. No question.
3. ::Long Edit of what I had written which ended up as a Delete:: It's just not a happy ending. Maybe they don't exist in real life, I'm thinking. No such thing as a truly happy ending?? Ya'll keep asking, will my "relationship status" change in the near future? Most likely not. :) Gotta focus on what I'm here to do ya'll, and spending my hard earned dollars on "getting to know" just anyone is not on that list. Am I missing out? That's up for debate. I have learned that New York is nothing like what every girl seems to adore on that show "Sex and the City." Fact is, if you actually tried to live like that here, you would probably end up dead in your own home without anyone finding your corpse for days. Unless of course, you were rich, in which case, they'd find your body within hours of your gruesome death. No one looks out for you here, so putting that amount of trust in humanity is a long shot. From what I've experienced, Bret Easton Ellis' "Glamorama" comes pretty close to what you can find here if you look. The smell of desperation and poverty is not something an actress can explain to you through your tv screen, no matter what fashion she's endorsing.
4. Long Island is flipping out, as Emily Hughes is taking Michelle Kwan's place in the Olympics. We'll see how long it takes her to get to Turin with this blizzardness going on. They're saying we have four more hours of snow to go, breaking records from 1947. We're currently at 22.8 inches.
5. I realized last week that my ears pop at least four times every day. Once in the morning as the LIRR rail heads three stories underground to Penn Station. Once going up to the 29th floor of my building. Again when I go back up to my floor after my afternoon walk down Park. And then finally when our rail gets back above ground as we make our way back home through Queens. It's a small detail, but it makes me smile.
6. I made Shell promise me that she will keep me to my three year limit here in New York. Anymore than that, and you get sucked in, it's inevitable. Yes, I will be indispensable to the New York office, at least that's my hope, to gain that depth of experience. But there are other things I want to do. Next on the list? Get my MBA at UTAustin through their exchange program with Mexico City ya'll. By that timeline I have what? A year before I'll be sending my application in? Yeah. That's about right.
2. It's not that I hate New York, I really do love my life here. All of the stress and my hours and the number of miles I travel everyday. The people I've surrounded myself with are exceptional. But I do miss my girls, and I'm looking forward to some kind of sunny warm get a tan and be outside trip soon. Vegas, Flora?! :) I wasn't born in a cold place, so it will never fully feel like home. I need the sun and to be able to walk around barefoot outside. No question.
3. ::Long Edit of what I had written which ended up as a Delete:: It's just not a happy ending. Maybe they don't exist in real life, I'm thinking. No such thing as a truly happy ending?? Ya'll keep asking, will my "relationship status" change in the near future? Most likely not. :) Gotta focus on what I'm here to do ya'll, and spending my hard earned dollars on "getting to know" just anyone is not on that list. Am I missing out? That's up for debate. I have learned that New York is nothing like what every girl seems to adore on that show "Sex and the City." Fact is, if you actually tried to live like that here, you would probably end up dead in your own home without anyone finding your corpse for days. Unless of course, you were rich, in which case, they'd find your body within hours of your gruesome death. No one looks out for you here, so putting that amount of trust in humanity is a long shot. From what I've experienced, Bret Easton Ellis' "Glamorama" comes pretty close to what you can find here if you look. The smell of desperation and poverty is not something an actress can explain to you through your tv screen, no matter what fashion she's endorsing.
4. Long Island is flipping out, as Emily Hughes is taking Michelle Kwan's place in the Olympics. We'll see how long it takes her to get to Turin with this blizzardness going on. They're saying we have four more hours of snow to go, breaking records from 1947. We're currently at 22.8 inches.
5. I realized last week that my ears pop at least four times every day. Once in the morning as the LIRR rail heads three stories underground to Penn Station. Once going up to the 29th floor of my building. Again when I go back up to my floor after my afternoon walk down Park. And then finally when our rail gets back above ground as we make our way back home through Queens. It's a small detail, but it makes me smile.
6. I made Shell promise me that she will keep me to my three year limit here in New York. Anymore than that, and you get sucked in, it's inevitable. Yes, I will be indispensable to the New York office, at least that's my hope, to gain that depth of experience. But there are other things I want to do. Next on the list? Get my MBA at UTAustin through their exchange program with Mexico City ya'll. By that timeline I have what? A year before I'll be sending my application in? Yeah. That's about right.
lasaliente, 10:29
