It’s been a while since I said this to anyone, but once again I can proudly proclaim “Greetings from the 7:11 express from New York City to the Jersey Shore!” Due to something of a technical snafu with the current project the office has me working on I am more or less being forced to become a commuter again, albeit only for a one week engagement this time around.
Watching the scenery outside of the window on the way up this morning was akin to flipping through the pages of an old familiar picture book — a thousand mental snapshots flashed before my eyes from the three hundred or so similar mornings I had like it. Just the simple act of going through the motions that for so long were my every day routine brought back a touch of nostalgia for me, just a tad bit clearer this time. Memory is good, but nothing beats the real thing.
I’m planning on making the best of this more-or-less forced pilgrimage. Today at lunch I endulged in the best Gyro in all of Manhattan. Wednesday night I’ll be spending the night rockin’ out with RANA and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey over at the Mercury Lounge — a nice way to break things back into the live music scene for the upcoming deluge of summer shows. And later this week the weather is supposed to turn for the better, which means lots of outdoor lunch breaks and after work wandering.
I also just decided that I’m making a conscious to use the extended content feature more in posts. If I’m not gonna post more often, then I’m might as well post more. More or less it’ll be a fact section; lists and stuff. Today it just happens to be the playlist that iTunes selected for my train trip this morning. It seemed to get the mix just right.
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