The following is a list of observations muttered to no one in particular by the part of my consciousness that wasn’t occupied reading a very large book this morning. This part isn’t connected to my eyeballs, isn’t following the plot, and spends most of its time attending to stuff like page turning or coffee sipping [...]
I was still stationed in front of the computer at noon, dressed in the same t-shirt and underwear that I’d worn to bed the night before. My tongue kept running absentmindedly over the clothy covering of bacteria on my teeth. I hadn’t made it to the bathroom yet. When you’re self employed and mobile, it’s [...]
The first week of living somewhere new is roughly the same just about anywhere you (I) go. Day one begins with the jarring realization that you have stopped somewhere long enough to put your bag down, and won’t be leaving for quite some time. Which is scary. This leads to the panicky feeling upon waking [...]
As always, Anna managed to wrangle a beautiful welcome out of New York. Within three hours of landing at JFK, I was elbowing my way towards five figures bathed in bright blue light on a cramped little stage in downtown Brooklyn. Four of them were standing around a fifth, who was sitting in the middle, [...]