So here I am again....

So here I am again at Coco Cubano! 


Had coffee and warmed Banana Bread with butter about two hours ago here. Hope the staff don't mind... cause Im here to stay... at least for the 36% energy rating on my laptop anyway!


The real reason for this posting is really to post more pix so here goes.....     


I couldn't decide which ones to put in so I put most of the ones in that I took. So now partake.......

I downloaded the pix first before to get the technicality out of the way. Unfortunately Im running out of power & its bloody chilly! Didn't bring extra clothing cause I've been over this warmer weather where I end up just 'carrying' extra. But now alas its cold! 



Hope you like the pix!


Its very hustle & bustle here, love the blurring of colour produced by passing traffic, the fading sun & a slow speed(ing) camera. Hustle & bustle... what do you call word parings like this? Don't know why but I don't like "hints, tips & tricks" as a (triad) pairing. My company uses it alot as probably does the rest of the beauty / fashion world etc. What are some other classic (clique') word pairings? (or whatever they're called) .... odds & ends, bits & bobs, spick & span, surely there's more to it than the rhyming feel of these word couplings? 


Please someone help me out here!

And please please get a gmail account so you can leave comments and tell trustworthy friends about it or people you know who will appreciate what I have to say and / or my pix  :   )   ie; not anyone who will just bag it out 

I love the light and shadows in these pictures. Reminds me of my pix of Central Station in NYC   :  )


Before I forget these photo's are made possible cause of Mum, as it was her who gave me a digital camera. I had one before, though cant remember what happened to it. Alot happens forty years down the track......why isn't it up the track?! Yet another mystery! 

Welcome to my Blog : )

First of all thanks youse to Kevin for leaving some comments on my Blog for me  :   )   Secondly and just as importantly thanks to Jon for dedicating pix to me on his Blog, The Bear Essentials! He is in Santorini atm and took pix of dogs and one pushkins (ie; kitten for those not able to translate friend-speak) 

Im currently in Surry Hills Library (again) cause its the most comfortable place to do laptop things in. B4 entering the library I got take away coffee & took some pix of the libraries exterior. 


I LOVE reflections, even my own (I don't mind saying, thats the Virgo in me!) Yes love reflections. Sometimes I think they bring out better definition & colour than the images in our solid reality.

I think people can look better, at times, in their reflection, all glossy & fluid like, negating the finer details of physical flaw & incongruent personalities. You don't get the whole, true picture from a reflection but at least it can be flattering 
 :  )   


Unlike the fable of the dog with a bone who sees its reflection, barks at itself then looses the bone. Sometimes our minds lose focus based on reflection of how we look and who we are based on our reflection. Whether this be from looking at ourselves in the mirror, what people say to us, how they react and respond to us and how we ourselves behave in response to surrounding stimuli. Then there's the thoughts and beliefs this view accumulates which in turn shapes the person we are. 


Back to the story of the dog, I love dogs & I love humour, so Im able to see the funny side of the subjects mishap as well as the meaning. 


What does your reflection say to you?   :   )   

Below is a pic, three doors down, from Hyde Park from a few days ago. It was meant for the last posting but my technology was slow as was power. So here it is today. Gonna look for other pix now and add them. This must be from a week ago actually cause its before the photo's went up for the Art & About exhibit. The ones in the last posting with the red dust storm & the B&W of lady drinking on the rocks at the beach. I loved the heat and sweat felt through that picture via black and white filter. The background looks stormy too. One of those days where its been that incredibly hot the skies have no option but for tumultuous rapture! I love storms and crashing waves! 

If you walk beyond you will come to a fountain. I've focussed on one of the figures. 

It is here that I'll take you back to my place and show what I've done to my desk. The last posting had a pic of my desk as treasure trove, so I've complemented this theme with a something I bought a few years ago in Perth at a market at Freemantle. I believe its a Tibetan prayer for blessing. I have a small collection of papyrus prints,  the main one I want to put under glass on my dining table the others I'd like to frame.

Wasn't sure which one to post here so I put them all in. Makes my desk really interesting. It reminds me where I've been, what matters most to me and where my interests are. 

 Its a reminder that life is filled with mysteries some real and others imagined. Create and use your imagination to take you places. Let your personality shine!

 The library is shutting soon so Im going for coffee at Coco Cubano, anyone want to join me?! 


And please leave comments. You just have to create a gmail account. Its easy, I did it so can you. 

 

So this is whats been happening......

So here I am in downtown Kings Cross (KX) Im at Coco Cabana's, not the nice one with the great open location on Taylor Square but the one with drunks, druggies and working girls, oh and the occasional closing of the street due to gun fire   (  :  


I've got some really nice pix to share today from the last week or so I think. Only have half battery power & sore shoulders from the height of the tables here. Oh Im safe, the police are here waiting for a coffee as a messed up washed out young lady passes by me, her loose strapped mid- heels scuffing along the wooden floorboards. 

Work has been a challenge. I think I need a change! Its an empty, shallow job. Again the holiday has helped me to see things differently. 

As I do I've been spending a few lunch times in Hyde Park where there is a Photo Exhibition on, actually all around the city. The pix that accompany this posting are my highlights. Two photographs stood out for me. They've also dressed up the statues around the area. Im not sure though whether this could offend some people especially royalists or anyone with a family connection to the statues subjects. Thats what I think. The lovely Rakhi at work thinks that too   (  :   

So a few days ago I went out for dinner with the lovely David & Paul to that Vietnamese restaurant on Bourke Street behind Taylor Square. It was lovely of course cause they are lovely. They've been together for quite some time now (years?) & every time I see them together its like they've recently met. Its Beautiful with a capital B  :   )   Great company too. Thanks guys!    


Last weekend I caught up with my brother Alex and his girlfriend Penny, a nice paring there too! So much love in the air! We spent an hour or so looking for a car park in the city for a BIG ute! Finally we found one & eventually went to the Vietnamese place I mentioned above. Im a creature of habit and a good inexpensive dinner. Betty's is my other fave for those of you who don't know. I DO need some NEW places though! Any suggestions?  

A week has past by........ Philosophy with Metal Dog

A week has past by since I arrived back in Sydney. 

At first I was hesitant to return & humoured by the size of Sydney and the world I'd left behind. Though not completely settled Im getting there.

As I wrote there is a big world outside the context of our own immediate worlds. (Or words to that effect) Its easy to  lose sight of reality, more so for others like myself at times, when we only see what's directly in front of us, what has past and what we perceive in the future. Are we perceiving everything that's happening right now based on what happened in the past. Sometimes this is a good thing though the life ahead is not always a reflection of the past, only if we perceive it as our reality. However most of what we know and how we interpret, respond & react to it is based on past experience. Our minds get fixed, sometimes with blinkers or blindfolded, on what our focus is, not seeing other experiences, points of view, angles, expressions and possibilities.  




This is the way I've seen life so far from experience and from what I've read. Going away for a month has enabled me to confirm this clearer than I would had I not gone away. I have Dad to thank for the opportunity to go away and to a lesser extent a five year relationship breakup. Thanks Dad. Thanks Sam & I. The other influence was of course my turning forty though I've already been through this before. 

Thats all. And thanks to some prompts from my good friend Jon I can now rearrange pix to make my Blog increasingly beautiful & palatable.  

BACK TO REALITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here I am in the environmentally friendly Surry Hills Library. Its three days now since I returned to Sydney. I hated arriving back. Getting out of the airport was swift. Using my ePassport I sauntered past the throngs of weary jet lagged travelers to a queue where there was none. I was first in line as there was no line. Swiped my passport, had my face scanned by computer for identification & then made my way to baggage claim. As I approached the conveyer belt my bag was there in less than a minute! I proceeded to the larger than life queue for customs & luggage scan / checks. Was there for about a minute, a customs lady approached me mentioned that I was carrying papyrus, the tube containing it was open, asked me a few questions such as "are you carrying beef jerky?" ....yes this is true! We bantered for a few seconds, she stamped my papers & directed me to an exit door where there was NO queue, yet again! The whole exit process took four or five minutes tops!

Outside I was greeted, not personally, by hundreds of people waiting for loved ones & taxi pick ups. It was suffocating actually.  Part of me, jet lagged, was imagining family & friends there to greet me enthusiastically.... then I woke up, no not really but I did imagine it for a nano second, thinking 'no, I would cry & I don't want that'. Then I felt alone, then I wished I had a happy bouncing puppy waiting for me at home. Alas that was also not realistic nor meant to be. The way it happened though was the way it happened however and I think that gave me time to convey the reality forming around me. 

So today I am still adjusting to life back home. Work tomorrow.... next thought please! I did think 'how small Sydney is' after all the places I've been to. And how multicultural it isn't compared with the U.S. I miss the U.S and I miss the television there! Especially the channel TNT with all the police / investigator shows, and The View with Whoopi Goldberg & Barbra Walters & two others I cant think of now. (one of them, a comedian, has her own talk show & had Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Ethridge, Pat Benetar & etc all on the one show! Another day she interviewed Belinda Carlyle (spel?) And America's got Talent! ACTUAL TALENT! Well not all some was painful! Anyway everyone please U Tube (or better) Prince Poppycock!!! You read correctly, he is AMAZING! Sharon Ozborne was saying on the show he is the male Lady Gaga. He does Opera, but the way he does it is astounding! He is High Camp and an AMAZING talent! Puts Mardi Gras to shame! Please go look him up! 


Im gonna go now. Have actually taken some last pix of San Fran yet to down load & pix of my trip home from the airport. These will be more for my friends who haven't seen my neighborhood & for Leandro. 


By for now! Please people leave comments for me!    

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Its just gone five thirty, Im sitting in the Hotel Lobby. Just added pix to my Blog to accompany my writing. 


Think I'll go to the shops one last time before heading to the airport. Having been umming & arring about a coat I really like. Im shivering here cause I decided not to carry my hooded top with me. Have a few last purchases to make. I'll be sad to leave San Francisco. I've loved everywhere I've been, though San Francisco does it for me. I would've loved NYC more if it was cold. Way too hot for me there. At least Egypt had air conditioned buses etc along the way transferring us from destination to destination. Im not so nervous at the moment, Im sure that will return soon! 


Im fretting cause I'll be further away from Mr Sanchez (sorry Pio I like the sound of it) Even though he's on the other side of the U.S. Has anyone got any constructive advice for long distance relationships? Sorry for those of you who really don't want to hear this. To be honest its more for my benefit cause its therapeutic to write things down & I want Pio (Mr Leandro Sanchez) to know that he is in my thoughts & that Im fretting with him. 

Last Day In San Francisco : ( IS ANYONE READING MY BLOG BESIDES LEANDRO & JON????!!!!

I've got less than fifteen minutes till I need to be out of my apartment. I've loved every minute of it! I feel like I've been away forever and Im not looking forward to going back (and Im looking forward to going back at the same time) I know when Im back on Australian soil it will (probably) be like I never left! I really need my return to be different though cause that is part of why I went in the first place. 

I needed a holiday after the five & a bit year relationship with my partner last year. I needed the holiday cause my Dad past away last April. I needed the holiday to break free from my stale life & go on an adventure. I needed the holiday to be exposed to the fact that there is life out there. DON'T GET FIXATED BY THE IDEA THAT THE LIFE YOU LEAD IS THE ONLY LIFE YOU HAVE! Things can be different you can see life from a different perspective. Perhaps you need to find a way to break free of your present surroundings, see life the way other people experience it. 

I've had such a rewarding experience, I've been to lots of amazing places, taken masses of photos, got lost tons of times, stressed & panic attacked, spent unnecessary money, walked more than you can imagine & made some great purchases.  The list could go on. I also found love. (this maybe corny to hear for some) Im not sure where it will take us, though beyond the grief & heartache, Leandro & I will see where it takes us. (Try to think logically & practical) 

I better finish up now. Haven't even downloaded my pix from yesterday yet. Went to the Palace of Fine Arts yesterday. Somewhere I've wanted to go since seeing it on Tales of the  City. I still didn't get to Barbary Lane :   (   !  Unfortunately there was construction work going on all around it! Managed to take some great pix regardless. Also managed to, a week later, work out the bus system here,  easy for some! I then went to The Castro, this time by bus after the Palcae, again to do some shopping, take more pix & then got the train back to the city. The train system was SO easy! Caltrain is cheap too like the buses! $2 for the ride. Did more shopping in town, chatted to Leandro on a broken communication Yahoo chat line (mayB its just my techno-phobia?) 

Today I woke up stressing, stomach tightening. I've packed about to go down stairs, Its 11:33 a.m, leave my bags & Papyrus, and look around locally & finish off with more shopping! Might do the pix and some more entries later today! 

OMG Got more than I expected in San Francisco!

I've been quite occupied these past few days in San Francisco! I hardly know where to start!


San Francisco is a beautiful city, love the city centre, the architecture, Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, the Financial District, The Castro, The Cocktails & places I never made it to. I also met a wonderful guy whilst here. (sorry Mum it did happen) 


There were SO many subjects worth taking pix of I didn't always know where to start, residential buildings everywhere having there own charm. Pictures taken of The Golden Gate Bridge were a real joy, especially with the cities iconic fog enveloping the upper reaches of this magnificent structure. I actually walked from the city to get here. Again I have no idea about distance, reading maps & sense of direction. I walked for several hours, it was painful, don't ask me why I didn't get some mode of transport there. Anyway it was worth the walk in the end. The walk along the bridge was gusty, my fingers close to freezing, losing there ability to clasp smoothly. The Golden Gate is Majestic!

After this experience I did something I have not done for a few months. I met a guy I'd chatted to online. I was hesitant & uncertain as I don't do it often. I felt confident though with his smile so I agreed to meet him. He said he wanted to "hang out" with me which I thought was a really cool way of saying it yet thinking Im not really cool. His name is Leandro, his close friends call him Pio. His smile is as endearing as his personality, a kind, gentle, generous person. We had great times together, the dinners & cocktails were amazing! Especially loved the gigantic steak we shared at that swish restaurant! (Not the one shown in the Blog though) Pio's a real sweet guy with a heart that goes out to others. We had some awesome romantic times together. Haven't had romance in my life for such a long time. He was only here for a few days until the inevitable departure made its entrance. There were tears on that evening. I kind of felt glad I was SO tired that evening, it numbed the feeling of loss. Unfortunately I did crash somewhat the next day finding it hard to concentrate. So thats the Lovely Mr Sanchez. 

Though Fisherman's Wharf is touristy it still managed to uphold its charm, a beautiful walk with the Bay Bridge as its backdrop. All the bridge pictures you see other than the Golden Gate Bridge are of the Bay Bridge. (incl. Room 1718 @Le Meridian) There was a real cool indoor market of fine foods such as cheese, chocolate, vegetables, breads etc. There was even a smorgasboard of every variety of mushroom! For those of you who don't know I HATE mushrooms :  )  


I took the local bus to the Golden Gate Park, yes I took the bus! It only costs $2 an adult for any journey lasting up to Ninety minutes! So you can get off one bus & hop on another within that time frame, what great value! (Though the journey is a long one) I specifically wanted to go to the Californian Academy of Sciences, and predominantly for their Planetarium. It was the same one I'd seen in NYC with a bit of San Franciscan extra thrown in. Showing the life-cycle of a star, showcasing our own star, the sun. If you haven't been to one of these dimensional shows you MUST! Its totally AMAZING! The closest we may ever get to exploring the Universe. If there was a Planetarium close to home I think I'd go there weekly, perhaps even work there! Its strange cause last time I was in the U.S in 2007 there were other astrological presentations to be seen & now there is only the one. Does anyone have an answer for this? 


It was my intention to walk the surrounds of the Golden Gate Park but my mind was utterly clouded by Leandro's departure. I didn't feel we'd established enough in the time that we had, so I couldn't bring myself to walk the rest of the park. Sad but true. 

I will finish off by saying that I was surprised by the distance of the Golden Gate Bridge & its corresponding park from the central cityscape. In my mind they were closer together like Sydney's bridge is slap bang in the city & on that beautiful harbour. 


Its interesting how we perceive things based on our immediate knowledge, based on the media perhaps & assumption. 


Time perception has had its own momentum too. Each & every experience I've had has seemed longer than it actually was. Thats the magic of time & new experiences! I have a great non-fiction book that discusses how this is possible if you're interested?   

Oh I got a Limo to JFK

Think I forgot to mention I got a stretched Limo from NYC to JFK. Didn't realize the Limo was mine. Told the man waiting at reception that Id put my bag in the car cause I didn't have tip money only to find that he was my driver! I realized too late as I was quite tired having not slept enough. I didn't get around to taking external pix only a few insider ones. It was cool but I couldn't hear my driver really well cause he was SO far away! The best part was I arrived on time with heaps of time to spare, which made a pleasant change. The end.

The Castro, Lost in Figure of Eight & cool Graffiti Pix

Things didn't go as planned today. Though I did get to Castro, SF's gay district, then I got lost BIG TIME for hours, then really sunburnt, I ate a late lunch, back to the Hotel & then back out to the shops. Was gonna make a second attempt at the Golden Gate Bridge to find that the fog had descended on the fair city. 

Castro is a wonderful strip, novelty shops, quaint architecture, colour, variety. Looks like some nice places to eat. I had a ridiculously good chocolate chip cookie with %#&*off! chocolate chips that melted on impact. ("%#&*off!" relates to awesome size of chocolate chips) There were a few pleasant encounters with friendly shop assistants, with chatting included. Anyone who knows me knows I don't usually chat with people in this context. It seems very welcoming here. I'll be interested to see how this translates in the evening. 

Speaking of evening, the weather here totally changes, in the morning as well. The classic San Franciscan fog still envelopes the cityscape from evening to morning. The day was relatively hot, blue skies & winds in parts of the area. The morning & evening goes chilly. "As I have told you" (in joke whilst in Egypt) I LOVE the chill! The sun was too harsh for me today, the surrounding suburbs welcoming in the sunshine. Geographically its a very hilly & open city. 


I got lost after Castro. Went in the totally wrong direction then went, almost, full circle before giving up on the Golden Gate bridge to finish with yet another loop. So basically I did a figure of eight. A figure of eight to NOWHERE!!! 


Late lunch was ok went to the same place as yesterday. The service was slow. Had beer battered Cod. The Cod was fried to death before arriving. Breakfast out this a.m was average, the OJ was awesome so I ordered a second one. I'd been fantasizing about.... bacon for ages during my trip, so when I finally had it it was also fried to death, sapped of any nutritional value. 


Tomorrow I intend to go to the Golden Gate Bridge, better planned this time! 

I love U.S tv!!!! Im watching a crime drama-like tv station. 


Gotta go have pix to download to accompany these words. Oh & there was a highlight of getting lost. I took some wonderful pix of graffiti! This would not have happened otherwise. I still used up several hours getting lost, big chunks of desolate city space. And tonight I took some great pix of lighting alongside Union Square where Im staying. Hotel in the pix is not my residence. 

See ya's!    

    

I've arrived in San Francisco !!! : ) Home of Bodice-Rippers & Mrs Madrigal

So here I am in the civic heart of San Francisco. Minutes from the Macy's, a huge Westfields, other department stores, etc & Union Square. 



An unusual system with United. Unlike every other airline I've EVER been on seats are "assigned" later after check in & minutes before boarding!


Did something very different for me, don't get excited now! Went to Restaurant right next to my Hotel! For anyone who knows me I'd usually walk about undecidedly for quite some time B4 eating somewhere. Had the New York cut steak. 


(Think I forgot to recount, ordered the New York Steak yesterday in NYC, they didn't have it! So I ordered another steak. The steak was swimming in a shallow watery brown broth. It smelt off but I gathered it was just the way it was cooked. None-the-less it wasn't very nice even masked in steak sauce & even though it smelt & tasted vaguely off) Anyway this NY Steak in San Fran was divine! 


Walked up the road, literally. Powell road actually from where Im staying. Just thought Id see what was around. From here I turned left. In the distance I could see a church that looked familiar. It was Grace Cathedral where scenes from 'Further Tales of the City', by Armistead Maupin,  were set. ("Its organic") Twas wonderful to see a monument from one of my favourite series! I kept thinking, Im in love! As I walked the fog started to settle. Mrs Madrigal even gets noted in the DK Top Ten Series for San Francisco! I LOVE Mrs Madrigal, I wish she was real! (In my mind she is!) 


Other literary figures Amy Tan, 'The Joy Luck Club' & the incomparable Danielle Steele charmed Bodice-ripper novelist, both locals of the area. 


So here I am in my room. 2moro I will encompass major sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park & the Castro (Gay area) 


I love San Fran I don't want to leave & I've only just arrived! 

I've arrived in San Francisco!!! : )

So here I am in the civic heart of San Francisco. Minutes from the Macy's & etc.


An unusual system with United. Unlike every other airline I've EVER been on seats are "assigned" later after check in & minutes before boarding! Im sure there's some logical reason though it seems backward. Personally once I've checked in I like to know where my seat is, so I can relax, as much as is possible for me anyway.


The plane journey was ok, paid for lunch, slightly stale roll, guess it is domestic. TV screens along the aisle playing havoc with my neck posture. Got the BART train line in from the airport, was real easy to use, though no aircon. The weather here is bearable so far yet still hot. Though I was carting my luggage in the sun up a gentle slope. (Only metre's ahead the gentle slope goes steep)  


Im going to shower now, like you wanted to know, then head out for something to eat & exploring.

More pics on the way! Please write some comments if your reading my Blog  :  )

Happy 40th to me, train mishaps, trapped in Museums & bloody hot weather...

A momentous day for turning forty, getting lost in Museums & venturing off to faraway city destinations! (I took the 'ad' out of adventure here, having been taken to places I really wasn't aware of) 


Think next time I come here it will be in the cooler months. This heat is really getting to me, which is odd cause it was in the 40's in Egypt, though discomforting, the heat here is somehow worse for me. 


Oh I bought a host of new (I hope so) underwear, they're SO cool! Why wash your clothes when you can just buy them?  :  )  

The highlights of NYC were Central Station, Brooklyn Bridge, NYC Library, Central Park, Metropolitan Art Museum, Natural History Museum & the choices for shopping. The first three were a joy to photograph, the main pix featured in my blog. Even after my saturation in Egyptology I managed to find more that impressed & awed me. Yes I was awed! The architecture is wonderful! I was particularly impressed by the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given its own generous sized enclosure, flooded with natural light to complement the Temples grandeur. This monument was reconstructed as it appeared on the Nile, circa 15 B.C

Had a few "moments" with other tourists in this room where they were oblivious to others taking photos. Strangely there were a few apologies to other photo-takers for getting in the way or stepping ahead oblivious that I was there. Another stepped in front of my video camera when there were bare centimetres between I & the bloody sacred lake!!! But that was ok, that person was just stupid     :  )   Quite unexpectedly I was taken by the Metro's Armory collection. I almost shrugged it off but decided on a closer perusal. They are SO well presented & the detail wonderful! This collection was a highlight for me & I DO love a man in uniform! (And of course I love metal)   :  )            

Another surprise for me was an exhibition on the great race for Antarctica. I discovered some interesting facts, recounted things I'd forgotten & loved the red domed dwelling! Thats all I have to say.   

How freakish is that Dunkleosteus! (dun-kel-os-te-us) one of the largest placoderms, that lived 360 Million years ago. Its actual size 16 foot!) BTW thats that shark-esque thing.   

My main agenda for the Natural History Museum was to go to their Planetarium. I saw two IMAX shows. One on your typical IMAX size screen & the other on the domed dimensional screen. Leonardo Decaprio (spel?) narrated the first on the history of the Hubble telescope & Whopi Goldberg (spel?) did the one on the Universe. Both presentations were a marvel in production & content! Have you been to a Planetarium? I think there all in America. I've been to a few, all fantastic. They're one of the highlights of my life! There I feel as close to the Universe as Im going to get. (I love space exploration & sci-fi)   

Oh & Decaprio is another one of those actors that grates me even though I think he's a great actor! (How strange am I?)..... In writing this one of my qualities is that I contradict. I don't see this as a negative I just see things from different angles, can appreciate & not appreciate something at the same time. Im so diplomatic  :   )   ........ if anyone can articulate this better for me please offer your suggestions.     :  )    Sometimes I don't feel I can articulate as well as my mind is imagining. 




Oh yes and there was getting lost in the Museums! The sign posting was awful! Im sure regular museum-goers navigate it with ease! Perhaps I just needed to eat? It took me ages to escape the past, figuratively speaking, of the Museums, at the end of my visit this was unbearable!




Then there was public transport. Once again I thought Id worked out the NYC subway puzzle. I like to walk & often too much even for myself. Its like Im on autopilot & cant stop! I thought Id be brave & brave the subway network with my trusty Unlimited Metrocard! I thought I won't fear this beast. get on board & ride it! So I did. I worked out whether I was going uptown or downtown, east or west, was it a local or express line, my intended destination etc & so forth. Then I boarded the train. Easy. Yes so far all the stops matched my map. Yes. Good. Oh, Im crossing the bridge?! Oh its the Manhattan Bridge! Thats ok I'll just get off at the station on the other side & simply walk back over the Brooklyn. Think again. The train did not %*@&@#* stop! The Beast would NOT stop! Next thing I knew I ended up in somewhere in the furthest reaches of Brooklyn. Trained it back, decided to give Battery Park a miss & head back to the apartment. Bought some shorts at American apparel from a personality-devoid girl once escaping the station @Madison Square Garden. IM ALIVE!!!!!




BTW its Eleven a.m here. Decided I would catch up on my Blog. Don't know where I'll go today. Don't know if I can be bothered. Its evilly hot out there & that Beast has a mind I don't yet understand.