Things I Really Miss About New York

Okay. I know I said I’d write a review of Lonesome Dove today, but this has really been pestering me for awhile.

I give you this untidy pile of  Things I Miss*:

• Grey days that are not pouring rain
• A non-static-electricity-charged dog
• A non-bad-hair-day dog
• Our concierges (always someone to say hello to!)
• The folks in the park across the street with their dogs
• The sound of school letting out across the other street
• Walking to the grocery store to pick something up
• Jim’s 6-mile commute to work on bike
• Seeing people read on mass transit
• Mass transit itself
• Kathlyn and Payson from down the hall, always good for a stroll and puppytime
• The Hudson River
• Big, world-class arts institutions twenty minutes’ away by train
• Little world-class arts institutions five minutes by car or half an hour by hilly bike ride**
• Great fashion and personal style, RIGHT THERE ON THE STREET!
• The lack of need for sunglasses (c.f. rainy days, above)
• Being only 4 or 5 hours behind my friends in the UK, as opposed to a FULL FREAKING DAY OMG.
• Related: Knowing they’re only a direct flight of 5 hours away, as opposed to FULL FREAKING DAY ETC.

*This list does not include obvious things, like people I went out with all the time and miss horribly.

**This may not be something I need to miss. I need to check out my alma mater’s art offerings, and that’s downhill all the way there by two miles and uphill back.

There. Now that I’ve braindumped, I can move on for awhile. And I can sort of content myself with this. And this, although they both give me pangs to looks at. Eurgh.