I really failed at being brief. Bless you if you wanna read it all. It's just a recap of how I spent my day yesterday. I'm not even going to write about how I spent my day today, because it'll be longer, and I'm in the hotel bar nursing a beer while writing this all out.
TL;DR - Great day. Read for some details, but I pulled a lot out for brevity, so don't feel bad if you skim or skip.
I started carrying my little notebook around with me and jotted down some thoughts and timelines of things I did throughout the day as much as possible. It seemed like a good way to capture hints of feelings. Just enough to maybe come back to and be able to rekindle the thoughts and feelings and impressions and perspectives I had at that moment. Enough to do something beyond simply keeping a journal of events.
Let's see how that works out in practice.
So briefly recapping, and the idea of working towards writing something valuable from it can come in the future…
Toasties Bagel something on 7th Ave. We went there for breakfast and grabbed a breakfast sandwich. The coffee didn't look like anything exceptional, not that we're really the least bit picky when it comes to that, but we opted instead to find somewhere else to get the morning cup. Aside from lacking any seasoning, the bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich was really fucking good. Can recommend. Just get a sauce if you do.
Kona Coffee Roasters on 7th, a block or two down from Toasties is where we landed for coffee. Basically as expected. Without making any effort to do so, the staff made me feel inferior and like I didn't belong. This, of course, is on me, not them. The person at the counter was pleasant and served me a latte with some really great art on it. I feel even worse having had to destroy it because I wanted sugar. I should really only ever have drip coffee from a place like that. A lesson I fail to learn repeatedly -- and was first made aware of last year while in New York City at a cafe in Brooklyn. Go figure.
What sounded like a good idea with no real investigation, was heading to Chelsea Markets expecting something akin to a street market (craft market? Farmers market? Something with tents of various colours). Turns out it's more of a mall. While still neat, not what I expected. As we wandered through I went to a bookstore that I can't remember the name of -- a large failure of my new process, only 4 updates in -- I got a greeting card of a rabbit in a donut. It's everything I want to be in life.
Fucking hell, this is going to be a long one. Maybe I'll blast through the remainder and break out individuals worth mentioning.
Went to the Pier 57 rooftop park and looked around. Walked over to Hudson River Park and just walked to the top to look around at a view that was less impressive and in the same direction as the Pier 57 rooftop. We grabbed a cab back to the hotel at this point since we had to get ready for our afternoon matinee showing of The Book of Mormon. After the Book of Mormon we walked to Central Park. Approaching hangry and exhausted, I quickly became overwhelmed and we dipped out. It's a big fucking park! On our way to find food we found Sesame Street. That was neat.
We landed in Hell's Kitchen at a place called Cheeseboat. It's a boat made of bread, with cheese and an egg as the passengers. It was pretty tasty. It just tasted like cheese. Hard to fuck it up imo. We also got some bonkers large soup dumplings. All Georgian (the country) styled. Craft and Carry a couple of doors down for a pint on a front patio was next.
Ok this is getting away from me again. Blasting through more.
Subway to 23rd. Cumbl Cookies (I got a Dirt something weekly cookie). Hotel bar for beers, an IPA and a Ginger beer. Later we discovered it was our Facebook anniversary. Which means very little to us. We discussed whether it should and came up with a pretty certain “nah”.
It was a good day. Awkward moments were outweighed substantially by the good. Went to bed well worn out and slept like a log.
<3 flurp
If you made it through bless your heart. You've got a special place in mine. More so if you tell me you did.