Here Are Several Things I've Learned While Living In New York:
1) Always be friendly to the host or hostess. They're you're meal ticket, literally.
2) If you carry a purse with you - there better be an umbrella and a costume change in there. "That's why we carry such big bags." - Brian (a gay New Yorker as to why the bags are so huge).
3) The R train will not take me directly home (so stop riding it), but it will take me to 34th Street or Times Square and I can transfer to the N/W.
4) The guys are hotter! And they're everywhere; waiting for the subway, running shirtless at eight pm on Ditmars Boulevard, sitting in Union Square reading The New Yorker, sipping a martini at Therapy on a Wednesday night, bartending at G-bar...ay me...the possibilities are endless...where are my business cards, seriously?
5) I can only buy what I can carry. Which is probably good for my wallet right now.
6) "Thursdays are the new Fridays. Fridays are the new Saturdays and Saturday is still...well...Saturday." - Adam (describing how New Yorkers party).
7) You can't get lost in the city; it's an island you'd fall off when you get to the end.
8) Always carry CASH with you; especially if you're in a Chelsea bar, they don't take ATM.
9) You can meet people really easily here. All you have to do is talk and smile. Who knew?
10) West of Manhattan the avenues go higher. East of Manhattan the avenues go lower.
11) North of Manhattan the streets go higher. South of Manhattan the streets go lower. (That took me about a month to get and a million times asking Adam and Christov, but they were patient).
12) There is always something to do on any single night of the week.
13) Oscar asks Matthew, "How does someone stay looking fresh and cute in this humidity?" Matthew replies, "You don't. We all do that dirty, grungy, sweaty look in the summer." (Oscar nods his head in disapproval).
14) There are NO FREE REFILLS!
15) I noticed that everything is about one to two dollars more expensive than on the West Coast.
16) "Williamsburg boys wear tapered jeans and have complicated haircuts." - Eli (referring to the gay boys in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as we were waiting for the G train).
17) This city is extremely romantic, I can't wait to start dating.
18) It always seems to rain between one and four p.m.
19) I need to keep my student ID; it will get me cheaper tickets to Broadway shows. Which means I will be a student at the age of thirty-five and that's fine with me.
20) "You're never alone in the city." - Carrie Bradshaw (And boy was she right).
(Times Square, June 2008)
2 comments:
No free refills!?! What the eff!?
these are great. You're gonna do so well here. You don't even know.
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