On Writing About Nothing
My life is full of things that no one cares about. I mean, some people care about them, obviously, because they pay me to take care of all of them, but on a day-to-day, I-might-write-a-blog-post-about-this basis, the pickings are pretty slim. Oh! We need to build this piece of software for that reason or yada-yada lamma-lemma-ding-dong-day, and go figure that so-and-so did such-and-such so now we need to figure out the antigravity flux capacitor california disestablishmentation parameter. By Tuesday. Shit.
So here I am, riding the train home, trying to think of something, anything, that might be entertaining to someone about my week, and folks...I just ain't got it. I have a headache and am really tired, and have managed to eke out more work for myself in the last 12 hours than I had to start for the week, and so...uh...yeah. What I really wish I could do is to teleport home, crawl into bed, and sleep for 12-14 hours. Instead, though, I think I'll end up picking up some Chinese food, putting the baby to bed, and then farting around for a while. And THEN I'll go to bed. Maybe.
And then tomorrow, my kids will wake up around 5am or so, ready to go, and I'll be a zombie.
Oh, and there's this young couple in front of me who are trying to hide the fact that they are snogging. I like the word 'snogging'.
Some day, I'm going to have a point. Some day I'll be on top of all this, and bare my soul for the interwebs to see.
But not today. Today, this is all I have left.
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New York, New York
The last time I went to NYC, it was for a conference. I brought along
Becky and Ben, and they went off to visit friends while I went to listen
to people talk about some Compliance thing or another. I don’t remember
much of the conference, to be honest, but I DO remember ditching it one
afternoon to walk around Central Park, Ben happily chasing his “Pumball”
(a wadded up piece of paper — yeah, he’s always been this way). It feels like a lifetime ago. Now, we have too many kids to bring them along, so it’s just me. I’m
going to work, and it’s cold outside. Probably will be so busy that I
won’t even make it over to Central Park, much less to wander around it.
Will be wearing dress clothes, and sitting in meetings, and maybe
getting some of the locals to show me something interesting after work. I’m thrilled to be going again, though. There’s something about NYC that
feels really good to me; maybe it’s that it is unabashedly City, that
it’s such a hodgepodge of buildings and nooks and crannies and people.
Or maybe it’s the streets and bridges whose names are famous nationwide, thanks to
Sex and the City and countless other movies and shows: FDR Drive, Park
Avenue, the Jersey Turnpike, Brooklyn Bridge — as a visitor, there’s
great novelty in seeing that you’re riding on these streets that have
been mentioned a million times. I imagine it’s the same feeling Chicago
visitors get about Michigan Ave or Lake Shore Drive. So, this time I intend to breathe in as much as I can while rushing from
airport to office to hotel and back to office again, embedding another
fond memory into my cortex to tide me over until the next time I get to
visit, because while Chicago is my home, I will always love New York.Posted via email from dwink | Comment »
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January 22nd, 2010 - 20:42
You don’t have to, Daver. You don’t have to.
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January 22nd, 2010 - 22:01
I like the word snogging too. Something about it being British. Sounds more proper.
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d.w. Reply:
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
Right-O! Far more proper than ‘making out’. ‘Making out’ sounds like the opposite of ‘Making in’, which, uh, doesn’t sound like anything.
Nevermind, forget I said anything.
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