[article] [nyc #2] Which is it today - cookies or Cossack squats?
A long-pending update on what I've been up to. It’s one thing to be excited about a new venture, such as moving to a new city, but it's altogether a different experience when the ingredients of the city become a way of life. I am not the starry-eyed new girl in the city anymore. However, that seems to have not done much in terms of calming my perpetual drive to do something. Anything. Everything. This kind of energy seems to bode well with the vibe of the city, and it’s been a couple of years of me leveraging the unending fabric of the city, sequined with things to do, to feed the ever-hungry tailor in me. It’s spring here. People are expressing themselves by dressing in colors that I thought (and maybe even hoped) I would only ever see on one of those red-green-blue color pickers on my monitor. Only to discover later in the day that the temperature has briskly fallen by many degrees and the colors need to be scooped up under a neutral-hued jacket. As for me, as much as pickin...