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• I am in NYC! Gods, I miss this place. (This happens to me a lot: I go to a place that I love, and when I get there, I wonder why I would ever want to be any place else. When that place happens to be NYC, it doesn't worry me too much. But when it happens when I visit my grandparents in California (Los Angeles area) it worries me a little. I always forget why I want to be in NYC when I'm in Cali.)
• Today was mostly hanging out with my mom. We had brunch, then I went home while she had a meeting, then we went out for manicures and pedicures--where the girl doing my nails filed them square without asking (I prefer them a bit more rounded) and filed some of them lopsided (though it's an easy fix)--and then went out to dinner. There was shopping for a blanket for the new bed in the apartment I'm staying in somewhere in there too. (The bed is all nice looking now. I'm sort of excited to sleep in it.)
• Tomorrow, Mom and I are seeing "An Iliad", which is a reading/adaptation of, obviously, The Iliad. I am stupidly excited for this. My Classics nerd is showing. Since The Iliad was originally a poem that would have been declaimed, I think it will be really interesting to see something like how it would have been all those thousands of years ago.
• I'm also seeing War Horse with her and my cousin (on Tuesday, I think). Cousin just turned 19 and is in the middle of her first year in college, so I am excited to hear all about her experience from her. Since, you know, my experience with college has been nothing even remotely close to normal and I'll bet her's has been. Also I am excited to see War Horse and I am now glad that I never managed to see the movie of it. This way I can see the movie after the play and have the "proper" experience.
• There will also be shopping.
• Other than that, I don't have a whole lot planned. A day at the Met Museum is a must, particularly with the Steins Collection exhibit. And the new American Wing. Oh goodness, I'm getting a little excited just thinking about it!
• I will likely send out some emails (and maybe make some calls if I can find my Big Girl Panties to wear while I do it) to some literary agencies and see if I get any bites while I'm here. If not, I'll be doing phone interviews, if I get any interviews at all. (Notice the low expectations. This way, I can be pleasantly surprised.)
• Today was mostly hanging out with my mom. We had brunch, then I went home while she had a meeting, then we went out for manicures and pedicures--where the girl doing my nails filed them square without asking (I prefer them a bit more rounded) and filed some of them lopsided (though it's an easy fix)--and then went out to dinner. There was shopping for a blanket for the new bed in the apartment I'm staying in somewhere in there too. (The bed is all nice looking now. I'm sort of excited to sleep in it.)
• Tomorrow, Mom and I are seeing "An Iliad", which is a reading/adaptation of, obviously, The Iliad. I am stupidly excited for this. My Classics nerd is showing. Since The Iliad was originally a poem that would have been declaimed, I think it will be really interesting to see something like how it would have been all those thousands of years ago.
• I'm also seeing War Horse with her and my cousin (on Tuesday, I think). Cousin just turned 19 and is in the middle of her first year in college, so I am excited to hear all about her experience from her. Since, you know, my experience with college has been nothing even remotely close to normal and I'll bet her's has been. Also I am excited to see War Horse and I am now glad that I never managed to see the movie of it. This way I can see the movie after the play and have the "proper" experience.
• There will also be shopping.
• Other than that, I don't have a whole lot planned. A day at the Met Museum is a must, particularly with the Steins Collection exhibit. And the new American Wing. Oh goodness, I'm getting a little excited just thinking about it!
• I will likely send out some emails (and maybe make some calls if I can find my Big Girl Panties to wear while I do it) to some literary agencies and see if I get any bites while I'm here. If not, I'll be doing phone interviews, if I get any interviews at all. (Notice the low expectations. This way, I can be pleasantly surprised.)