It's Official: Two Weeks In!

I better start looking for another place now -- I only have 50 weeks to go on this lease!!

Such is life in NYC. I swear it's impossible to know where time goes. I'm officially arguing that there is now NO SUCH THING as a "New York Minute" -- what does this mean anyway? Especially in light of there being no concept of time in this city!! I'm officially two weeks in to this adventure and it honestly feels like it's been months -- if not like this for all time.

You may be wondering what the past few days of my life here have been like -- and I'm not sure I could even tell you. Having gotten into a daily routine, it's like living anywhere else. I need to break that knowing that this is in fact New York City and there's so much to see and experience. The flip side, of course, is that there's so much to experience in any city in which we live... we just have to choose to experience it. So, I'll get out there and have adventures if you promise to as well!!

So, that routine. Here's how exciting it's become...

• 7:00AM -- the blackberry alarm sounds and I snooze too much
• 8:00AM -- depart home; trying to get friend Gary to subway-pool with me; friend Jim may start. It's like pulling teeth to get folks out of the door by 8AM around here, I swear!
• 8:30AM -- the work day commences
• 3:00PM -- having forgotten to eat, I make it outside for the first time to grab something around the corner. No teriyaki in sight. Return foiled, but at least with some sustenance
• 6:30PM -- venture to find the least full subway car for the trek home
• 6:45PM -- exit subway at 77th street station
• 7:00PM -- usually home after a brisk walk around the UES taking in my neighborhood

See? Not so exciting. Save an awesome night with friends Dave Wish and Christopher Harris on Monday, laundry Tuesday and treating the former tenant of this place (Alexandre Campos) to dinner on Wednesday, things are pretty low-key.

A couple of things that stand out from my week though...

• I MISS OWNING A WASHER/DRYER. Do we ever put a value on a load of laundry? The last time I did I was living in Paris and it seemed like laundry was uncheap -- no wonder it was a smelly place! Now that I'm here, laundry is freakishly expensive. $1.75 to wash; $1.75 for 30 minutes in the dryer. If you're asking, the answer is yes, I'm making my way right away to H&M for t-shirts and underwear.
  
• THE ROUTINE. You should see the masses walking to and from the subway stations every morning. It's actually something to see as hundreds of folks stream out of highrises and head underground. It's an odd, but assuring ritual. Given that it has become my own, it normalizes and makes me feel New York, too.

I'm also finding I need MUCH more sleep here than I ever did in Seattle. Not sure why that is. I would be happy to be in bed by midnight at home; up at 6:30 like clock-work. I'm struggling with a 7AM alarm here... and exhausted by 10:30PM. Perhaps it's still some kind of adjustment phase, but I'm currently just thinking I'm either just a wussy or old. A combo of the two would certainly explain a lot of things too!

Work has been oddly draining, I have to admit. I've been so incredibly productive relative to building out my Prospect List -- totall encouraged by it. But a crazy conference call (poor Angy, too!) and I'm totally derailed. A brick wall and I can no longer focus. More breaks throughout the day and food during might help!

OK. Enough for now. I'd been feeling guilty about not putting anything up here for a while, but now you know why. No star sightings. No skin touches. Nothing too crazy happening in New York. Maybe something soon though!

Until then, peathe out homies!