Wednesday, February 22, 2006
No other road, no other way
Welcome to the Crazy House of Gilmore Fun. Yes, we finished season 4 tonight... although it wasn't nearly as impressive of a feat as yesterday--we only had to watch 4 episodes. Still. Now, Jen is fully aware of the reasons behind my Jess-love, and she realizes how sadly mistaken she was before.
Uh, yeah. So other than that (yes, we did something besides just hang out in the house watching TV), we spent the afternoon walking, basically. We started at Union Square, and walked down Broadway, all the way down to Battery Park, stopping at random and fun places along the way. Starting (stupidly) with The Strand. We should have gone the other direction and finished there, because we both came away with stacks of books. I ended up with 4 that I bought for myself, and three that Jen bought as my belated Christmas present... in my never-ending quest for a house of my own, and the perfectly (and quirkily) decorated home (that's all still in my head), I am now armed with three Trading Spaces books, so I've got ideas coming out the yin-yang.
Anyways. We looked in a bunch of stores, and I introduced her to the wonder that is H&M (aren't you all [read: Esther] jealous?); we checked out a little flea-markety-thing; and then we went to Century 21, where we bought matching (in different colors) shirts (hey, we're allowed--it's not like we ever live anywhere near each other) to relive the matching bums of 2001. That sentence had a lot of parentheses.
There was a side trip to Ground Zero which, for as many times as I've walked past there, is always a surreal experience. It's just one of those things that you can never quite get used to, and I don't think you ever should get used to. I mean, it looks like an enormous construction site, but it's hard to walk past without "sensing the ghosts," and I mean that in the least other-worldly way possible. I just mean that it's so strange to look at something as innocuous as a construction site and realize that so many thousands of people lost their lives there, and that--right there--was the site of one of the most horrific terrorist attacks ever.
After all the shopping, there was a look at the Statue of Liberty (off Battery Park), and then a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, to get a closer look at the Statue, without paying to actually go out to Liberty Island.
And it's kind of cool being a tour guide here. This is really the first time I've had someone to show around New York, and it's fun to test myself, and see how well I know the landmarks and the history and where I'm going. I'm obviously not "there" yet, but I like to think that I've got a pretty good handle on it for someone who has only lived here for six months!
Tomorrow, I abandon Jen in midtown while I go to work, but I think she's just going to go to a coffee shop and study, and then we're going to try to get rush seating tickets for a show--we'll hit TKTS and see what we can come up with, since it seems that Wicked is sold out. Boo. Speaking of Wicked, that was one of the books I wanted to get at Strand today, but there were just too many to take all at once. It was only $7.50, though. Oh, yes, I'm going to have fun shipping/packing/sending all these books home when I move, aren't I? That's why I didn't bring too many with me--I knew that I would have absolutely no problem building a library here on my own.
Anyways... I'm going to go to bed with my Gilmore-saturated brain and see what kinds of wacky dreams I have tonight!
3 Comments:
Did anyone else catch your pun? "Wicked is sold out. Boo." I do hope you guys get to see a show though.
I sure hope you bought books that I would like to read, and then I can bring them home for you in April and read them! Sounds like we should go there when we come to visit, esp. since Carl has a coffee cup from the place.
Do you know of any cut-price, good-quality shoe places (not really expensive designer shoes, just ones I like!) that we could get to? Would be a good excuse to go shopping. How about fabric stores??
It's snowing!! (But not 27")
Mom
I have Jess love too!!! Great minds think alike.... J
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