First Day in New York

I’ve decided to try to blog as much as possible while in New York and Little Lights and bought a camera to enable me to make it more colorful. I’ve always taken snapshots of my life using words and music. I’ve never really used pictures so this will be a nice change.

The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in New York was that I am afraid to be alone. I guess I sort of felt like that first time my parents dropped me off at Emory. I clearly remember the exact place that they dropped me off. As I entered my room in tears and sat down I was like what do I do now? It reminds me of Jerry McGuire and how there was a video during Jerry's bachelor party where everyone he knew echoed the fact that, "Jerry can't be alone." I realize how utterly insecure it is for me to be unable to function alone and that we must always find the places where we are relying too much on other people and too little on God.

The noise in New York can sometimes act as a distraction. Cars and buses honk their horns in a patterned motion with the emphasis of a subway that runs directly underneath my friend's apartment. Every couple of minutes I feel a tiny rumble, like a small earthquake. It happens so often that when I asked about it, my friend said that she did not even notice it anymore. It reminds me of the victims of a larger earthquake in China that has taken more than 15,000 lives. I hope that noise does not make me indifferent to the outside world stifled by a constantly cluttered lifestyle.

As I walked the streets of New York today I tried to figure out north from south, and east from west. I learned that if you are on an even avenue cars are going north, and if you are on an odd avenue cars are going south (ENOS). I learned that avenue's go south to north and streets go east to west (for the most part). What I found most of all though is that a house does not become a home until you know where you are. I guess that is why Atlanta is not my home. I don't ever know where I am and I never cared enough to figure it out; I couldn't tell you the difference between peachtree street, peachtree avenue, peachtree hill, peachtree road NW, peachtree road NE, and peachtree drive. GPS systems are home killers.

My pre-employment appointment is tomorrow morning at 8am and the real fun starts Monday. I'll leave the rest up to the pictures and captions.

See here for pictures too lazy to post twice