Blog RSS FeedNew York, New York, what a wonderful town.
I love this city! There’s something magical about it. Just being here feels like you’re doing something.
We’ve been all over town, to MOMA (where you’re walking along and look to your left and, oops, there’s Van Gogh’s Starry Night and oh, hey, here’s Dali’s Persistence of Memory (which is a very tiny painting! Much smaller than dorm room posters would have you believe).
We’re staying in SoHo, which means we’re surrounded by shopping, which is very dangerous for me. The hotel is really nice with a staff who are somehow both supermodelesque AND effective (unlike The Standard, where we stayed last year, when a doorman literally wouldn’t come out into the rain to open the door for us).
Every time we come to NYC, we try to stay in a different neighborhood. We try to stake out hotels in advance so we aren’t surprised when we get there!
Yesterday morning, I had “breakfast” with the Delightful Editor (the quotes are due to the fact that neither of us ate anything during the encounter). BGDD2 is coming right along, and I am so excited! We’re on the very last wave of revisions and then it’s into copyedits! Which means that relatively soon we’ll have a title. Yay!
There is so much to see and do here. A lot of our friends from high school and college ended up moving here when we moved to LA, and I even have some family! Not to mention the neverending possibilities for sightseeing and museums and all that stuff (and maybe even a little shopping–though I shouldn’t, I know I shouldn’t).
The one dark spot on the trip is the fact that I did a very bad job of packing! And somehow managed to bring all the wrong clothes. So I’ve just been wearing the same pair of jeans every day. You know, if I packed the way I actually dressed, I swear I could just bring all of my stuff in a plastic grocery sack. Instead, I have a suitcase full of clothes I’m not wearing, for one reason or another, and I always feel like I’m wearing slightly the wrong thing. And the shoe situation… don’t even get me started on that.
Oh, well! I’m here in New York and I am loving it as always. You really do feel like you’re in the middle of everything. You can see how this city attracts people from all over the world.
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June 12th, 2010 Katie Alender
Where is the normal admonition advising the recreants to stay away from the guarded house? :0)
I LOVE New York, though I must admit to never having visited the place. Someday I must stop by and spend a few days absorbing the culture and the pace. HGTV has a show called Selling New York, and some of the real estate in that Manhattan is simply unbelievable.
Just so you know, Toby, Winston, and myself are taking advantage of your absence and getting together tomorrow, after dark, for a boys-night-out. There will be liquor and girls. Winston is completely defiant to any rules and restrictions you have implemented. He was even bold enough to quote the old adage “the mice will play when the cats away” (or in this case the pup) and DARED me to tell you of our plans.
Take care and have a good time. Be careful with that man that always looks at you funny when you’re in New York!
So great to hear that things are progressing right along! Good for you! And don’t stop. Send some of that American je ne sais quoi up north, k? I could use some help. I recently got into a fist fight with one of my chapters – it took my one whole month to trudge through it… I’m down, but not out. ;D
NYC, editors, book deals! Aren’t you hot stuff! Or at least you would be if you wore something besides that same pair of jeans every day!
If it makes you feel any better, I won’t wear one tenth of the space sucking clothes I brought aboard the boat!