Short Verses That Don’t Rhyme.
on October 12th, 2009Traveling about and lost my password somewhere over the last 500 miles, hence the delay in postings, approvals, etc.
Many exciting things going on.
Have you ever walked across Manhattan the long way? I have now. I bet it’s a lot more fun with the right shoes.
Our home girl Kacey Camp is appearing on Conan O’Brien in a new skit tonight (October 12), so my peepers will be glued to the TV at 11:30 PM.
The last couple of weeks have been whirlwinds of meetings, flights, deadlines, talks with extremely nifty people, and Starbucks Grande Pumpkin Spice Latte. The depths of my shallow truth are revealed thus: the thing I miss most about city life is Starbucks.
The adventuring is all good in every way except for the minor car accident. My fault. I knew I was too tired to drive, but I really knew I was too tired to drive when I rolled over (the rock, not the car) and got stuck on that big rock, my front wheel drive spinning helplessly. No damage done, not even to my wallet, since AAA is all paid up. The tow truck was timely and lifted me off my perch, but boy, was I embarrassed.
Did get a chance to see the Tolkien papers up close at Fordham University. Very revealing look into the master’s process. The most extraordinary, delicate, perfect handwriting, careful construction of timeline, obsessive attention to detail. A real treat to see.
I can’t wait to blog about many exciting and wonderful things. I can’t blog about some other exciting and wonderful things, but life is just about perfect right now, except for the state of my tootsies after the trek across Manhattan. Which is a pretty cool thing to do on a Sunday afternoon, even if it did make my feet hurt fierce.
New York is a wonderful place and is full of magnificent people.
That is all.
c
I am glad to hear that you are unscathed from your accident and I am guessing you did not really ‘roll -over’?
My most embarrassing car mishap was going into an entrance ramp too fast and getting into a spinning skid that resulted in two of my tires rolling off the rim.
I lived in the Bronx many moons ago and I have walked across Manhattan as well as from Washington Square to Times Square.
When I first read her announcement of “roll over” — I thought she meant she’d rolled the car over itself, not rolled the car over a rock! Whew!
I once walked from the MoMA to Times Square (where I saw a movie)… but from there I think I took the subway down to Madison Square Gardens. I wasn’t exactly in shape for the walk from the Museum to Times Square — ended up with a sore knee and one of my heels chewed up (was wearing new shoes, not really broken in yet).
Even so… I like Mahattan – Mid-Town especially.
Manhattan! I do too know how to spell that!
LOL! I rolled right over a rock barrier! But the car didn’t. I was adjusting my rear view mirror and very quietly and without any damage at all just rolled right up this rock thing and got stuck on it. I didn’t even realize what I had done until the car quit going forward! LOL!
A walk across NYC is a thing I may want to turn into an event to try to repeat every time I have a long stay in the city. I just loved it.
Dang! I’m sorry I didn’t know you were coming to my fair city! I would love to have taken you out to lunch (despite being the only breadwinner in the family this year)…