Welcome to NYC

i went out to dinner tonight with my friend susan and her friend mia from college. we went to this vietnamese restaurant near union square and i had my tofu dish before trotting off to re-visit the man we caught briefly before, on our way to the restaurant. susan and i went back to see if “the one man show” was still doing the one man show, which involved flips and talk and break dance spins on his head across a checkered sheet he’d laid out for his…one man show. he had a drummer buddy beating on down-turned buckets set up behind him, hitting rim shots along the edge like a salty margarita. an ever growing circle took over union square, if only for that little bit, for him. skaters all around. a djembe circle nearby. a crack/heroine addict swaying in and out of his performance, as if nothing could possibly be wrong with her interrupting him for a hug, yes, while he’s in the process of holding himself up sideways by the palm of his hands. maybe she needed that instant to carry her…like whatever she was on…

we continued walking up to 6th ave in search of a sports store, cause i’d decided within those minutes of that display, with skateboarders flipping all around, making their scrape-against-the-pavement noise they make best in union square, that the next thing i needed to do was get a skateboard myself. that, with black converse shoes and i’m just about sure i’ll balance out the corporate nature of my day job. some bleach? it’s almost too bad i got rid of my tongue ring before the interview…

…so while i continue to work on becoming some new version of me, as a recent transplant of new york city, my plan is to bring the hindsight to you here. i do this hesitantly because i’ve been against the idea of writing a blog, for the very reason that i think it’s a prematurely published piece that maybe shouldn’t be free, or even read at all. i think blogs are impulsive and overly available, which takes the quality out of the whole thing for me. it’s like we can all be seen, now go ahead and sift…

that said, i’m a hypocrit because here i am. if anything, i hope this will give me even more fervor to peck on my brain in search of words i like.

more soon. peace,

rach