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Spring has sprung…kinda

Ok not really, but dammit the birds have returned to New York so I’m calling it Spring. Even though, you know, it snowed 2 inches the other day and the wind chill was -5 today. In honor of the “arrival” of Spring, I’ve changed the layout of my blog. Well partially in honor of the arrival of Spring and partially because I’ve started using the custom domain option in Blogger. That being said, I’ve lost the most of the “fun” things I had going on my blog but they’ll soon be returning, hopefully. Enough blogging about the blog.

So you know those stereotypes you hear about New York? The ones about the accents, the subways, the rats, etc? Well, they’re mostly true. For example, I heard Fran Drescher in the 14th Street train station this morning as I was getting off the A. Except it wasn’t Fran Drescher but a woman who sounded just like her. I’ve also heard the Staten Island and the Lawn-Guy-Land accents as well. I’m kind of scared the accents are going to rub off on me. While there is nothing wrong with those accents, I am quite happy with my lack of any accent at all speech which makes me “perfect for radio and TV because my speech/accent/voice doesn’t alienate people.” Really, I was told that by some TV people for an interview I did a couple years ago. Also, no I don’t plan on doing any radio or TV, I talk way too fast for radio and TV cameras add an extra 10 pounds that I really don’t need.

Back on topic, so the stereotypes, yes the trains do run 24 hours a day (thank your chosen deity or lack thereof) but that does not mean they run with any speed or regularity whatsoever. I have the pleasure of riding the L train everyday which means, not only do I get to be late 66% of the time, I get to be smashed like a sardine too. Fun!

Meanwhile the rats…well I’m sure you all saw the video of the rats in the KFC/Taco Bell. Really rats who can swing from chair backs are in a class all their own. Thing is, they’re all over New York and especially in places built on top of train stops, what with the rats living in the sewers and subway systems. If the health department closed all the places with rats in them we’d all have to have to cook at home with food flown in from Ohio.

Anywho, I get to go check out our Milan office for work in a couple weeks. I can’t wait! Hopefully I’ll have won the Mega Millions (yes yes, the lottery is the poor tax, 1 in 175 million chance of winning, so on and so forth) and will have some extra change to go shopping! Can’t wait.