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New York, New York

So it seems that so many of us (myself included) get too wrapped up in our daily lives to stop and smell the proverbial roses of New York City. Of course, this being NYC, nothing smells quite like roses. But you know what I mean? There's so much New York out there that we never get around to exploring - we have our five block radius around the apartment and the five block radius around work and never get outside of it...

So I decided to do some fun New York things the past couple of days. Last night, I went to the Metropolitan Opera House where the American Ballet Theatre performed an amazing "Swan Lake." I have never seen such beautiful dancing. I'm by no means a balletomane, I don't know the difference between 3rd and 5th position, but I do know that I was moved. The lady in the row behind me was moved, too. She kept commenting, out loud, on how moved she was. After the first act ended, I turned around and what I meant to say was "Would you please be quiet?" or something like that. Instead, the adrenalin hit my system - or something - and I said, and I quote unto you words which I shall never forget having said - "You need to shut up!" I know I should have been more polite, but that's just what came out!

Tonight after work, I hooked up with a friend from out of town and some other New Yorker friends of hers. We had cocktails in the lounge of a swank hotel, she expensed it to her room; we tooled around in the one guy's SUV. We drove through Union Square, then we went down to 6th Street and ate in one of the Indian restaurants, it was good, although when we went into the restaurant, I really thought it smelled like kitty litter. After dinner, because the out of towner had never been, we took her to Magnolia Bakery and got cupcakes. Hooray! They really have the yummiest cupcakes there. Then they actually drove me home. Well, almost - he stopped a block away from my apartment, but I really couldn't complain. And now I'm home, blogging for you, my loyal readers. So as you can see, it was a rather lovely few days - aside from my unintentional rudeness to the lady at the ballet. Then again, she was ruder. And the people sitting on either side of me approved of the way I handled the situation. (And it worked. She remained practicly silent for the duration of the ballet.)

In other, much more important news, a great guy, a friend of mine, one of my favorite bloggers - indeed, the guy who really got me interested in blogging in the first place - is going through some really rough personal stuff. Please take the time to give Mike a hug. Hey, I never asked you to do anything before, did I?

Posted by Jon at June 19, 2003 11:13 PM | TrackBack