today marked the first full day i was all by my lonesome in the big apple. took mom (who accompanied me out to the east coast to sightsee/help find an apartment) to the airport yesterday afternoon (and by “took” i mean “went to the airport via subway with her”. do not get the impression that i have any outside means of transportation). that was followed by a lovely account opening process at commerce bank, and an evening by myself.
today, i took a shot at simulating a normal katie routine. which worked, kind of. this morning i woke up nice and early to get a run in, which would have been nice, had i not attempted to run in the only park-like place around this part of brooklyn. see, apparently the brooklyn police don’t take kindly to runners. i jogged in, listening to beck and minding my own business, and all of the sudden i was being honked at and flagged down by a uniformed gentleman. naturally, i assumed he was waving hello. so i waved back and continued on my way.
well, he wasn’t. he was yelling that i was not allowed to run in the park.
ah, yes, people here are so friendly.
work was a large improvement over the running incident, as i have finally gotten my bearings with everything. and, i got to gallery hop for over 2 hours around soho. amazing. it was wonderful, and i felt very chic.
i’ve got a few empty days ahead of me now (i don’t work again until tuesday) but there are plenty of things to occupy my time–not the least of which is all the reading that i want to do (harper’s lets the employees take all the books that are submitted after our guy reviews them) and i must find a part time job.
anyway. give me a call or whatever if you all have a spare second and keep me in the mini apple loop.
and maggie, though i don’t know you outside of shambot, i am so happy you share my new york dream! and seriously, you have half of a teeny tiny soon to be mine apartment anytime you can get out here in the next 5 months.
the end.