May 9, 2006 | Filed under: NYC, city mouse
you can click here to watch the video, too, if you are so inclined!
I’ve been out of sorts, lately, and haven’t been able to post anything these last several days. After finishing up a long run of night shifts I took the train to DC Friday first thing in the morning to attend my honey’s art opening at the Arts Club of Washington (there’ll be video on that experience later), then he drove us back to New York that very same night. Saturday was spent preparing for his zillion mile non-stop drive to New Orleans in his 10 mi/gal pick-up with both the pets, and Sunday marked the start of the drive–a rage-inducing, hellishly frustrating experience due to a near-complete inability to escape from New York because of the 2006 Five Boro Bike Tour. To add to the fun, Maisie always throws up all over the car when they reach a certain part of Central Jersey. Poor man arrived pretty much just in time to pick me up from the airport. The house is in a state I can’t begin to describe** and we’re both freaked out, exhausted, cash poor and on the verge of twin nervous breakdowns. (there’ll be video on that experience, as well.) And it’s HOT! Like Africa Hot. And it’s only May 9th. This worries me greatly.
Excuses, excuses. Enough, already. This is the footage I took on my last shift at work. The view is lovely (although the windows could sure use a washing) and it’s a nice place to take in a New York sunrise. I think I’ll be watching this video on auto-repeat during my stay here in New Orleans. This place has already shoved me over the edge and I’ve only been here 10 hours.
**Not like an “As seen on CNN-hole cut through the roof for an escape hatch-eight feet of water-destroyed by flood-Category 5″ kind of state, but still, really, really f*#&ing difficult state. When complaining about the house in New Orleans I try and maintain some perspective. At least the house is still here.
You know when your haircut grows out and it’s in that in-between stage? This house is in an in-between stage. It’s like “house puberty” in here. This house is as disheveled, dirty, broken and confused as a twelve-year-old boy. But there is DSL. Thanks God for small miracles.
May 10, 2006
@ 4:06 am
I love everything about this video. I will surely show it to my students and probably transcribe your narrative. You have given us New York, the view is great. When I was growing up in North Carolina we often went to New York, it was like a foreign country to me at the time. I don’t think I could live there now, however when I was in uni a couple of my friends and I had plans to move to NYC after we graduated, however our lives took different paths…
May 10, 2006
@ 5:49 am
Absolutely beautiful! You make me want to travel! I have never been to NYC, but I hope to get there sometime in the near future!
Thank you so much for the encouraging words to me in your comment! I’m glad to see you have gotten a vlog up now too, and I look forward to the next one! Hope things start looking up for you!
May 10, 2006
@ 6:17 am
it’s incredible how the city could be so warm and cool in certain moments of the day
very nice and makes me want to travel too
May 10, 2006
@ 8:56 am
lovely video. once again, you’ve made me miss ny, damnit!
May 10, 2006
@ 10:29 am
When I first arrived in NYC back in 1984, I headed up to what I thought was the Empire State Building observatory. I was turned away by security because it was the Chrysler Building. What a tourist! I used to take this bridge from Williamsburg on my bicycle when the ‘burg Bridge was closed some 10 years ago.
May 10, 2006
@ 5:23 pm
Hey girlfriend good to see a post again
liked the video, I can’t wait to get to NY, never been and have always waned to go….someday….
May 10, 2006
@ 9:26 pm
Hey Miss B,
Don’t let NO get you down. Embrace calling people “hon” and smiling a lot. I was there in March, and it blew my mind. Stay strong down there.
And thanks for the solidarity on a tough day. Your comment was just right
May 11, 2006
@ 11:36 am
Lovely video. Nice seeing you post again. I’ve missed your videos.
May 12, 2006
@ 11:43 am
Awesome view & great video!
May 12, 2006
@ 1:34 pm
That’s a cool sunrise! I like te view. Not the typical sunrise at the beach people think about…
May 13, 2006
@ 4:33 am
The scenery along the way from NYC to DC is pretty nice, too. I loved that train trip - one big non-stop city all the way down the coast.
May 19, 2006
@ 10:49 pm
Sunsets are such a gift. As are sunrises.
There’s something about the greeting or farewell of light that always leaves me spellbound.
J
November 12, 2008
@ 5:23 pm
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