New York Day 125 “The Highlights”

Long time no write and I apologize for that. I’ve been dealing with a lot with the Holidays. First there was Christmas in the big frozen apple. It was exactly what I needed my Christmas to be. Low key, fun, and far removed from any tradition I used to have.

I saw Tron with my friends Dan and Mike (excellent by the way), than we hung out in the village and got a little toasty and had an all around great day.

Then there was the blizzard. I was working when the snow started and enjoying a drink when it was getting really nasty. Finally when I was ready to leave not only was the snow not done falling but not an inch of it had been plowed. As a result of this spectacular failure in city response I had to do some creative navigating to get home.

I found a train still running into Brooklyn…unfortunately it had a crack head who wouldn’t stop staring at me on it. Seriously the guy looked at me like I killed his father or something. When I finally got off I went up to two cops and said two things.

“Hi officer, two questions, one what is the best way to get to Parkside Ave or Flatbush, and two I think this crack head might want to hit me, I motioned to the man who was behind me, who had been following me.

I let them take care of my light weight and found a train that stopped three blocks from my apartment. Now this normally wouldn’t be much of a walk but as I said before, no plows had come and this snow was about up to my thigh. By the by, I’m six foot four inches in case you forgot…the snow came up to MY thigh.

When I had gotten home I felt like Homer returning to my shores. Than I sat in my apartment for two days waiting for the ice age to melt over.

New years came and went. My friend Alex came in town to visit which was awesome and always therapeutic. I went to my first rave and ALMOST got into my first fight with a raving hipster. Nothing big he was just pushing into me so he could dance with my friend who I was guarding against unwanted advances for her boyfriend…pretty boy on the wrong side of town almost got swung at. Lucky for him I’m a gentle giant.

How do I know this was on the wrong side of town? Because the first twenty seconds I was in there I saw the door woman punch some girl in the face and I was frisked. Aside from both of those incidents it was a generally awesome and danger free time.

That should bring us up to speed. Until this morning I was broke as all hell again. Drama at work has been putting a choker hold on my finances. Dad sent me a bit of mom’s life insurance money and now I have enough to give my roommates for a deposit and first and last month’s rent when the third roommate finally moves out.

I have some ideas about my future career that I am keeping on the down low for now. I can tell you that I’m getting new headshots, printing out resumes, paying off some debts and signing up for some auditioning websites again.

Shit is about to get real again, I have at least a couple months where simply feeding myself doesn’t have to be my one and only concern so lets see how this all plays out.

Sorry for the late response, I can’t promise it wont happen again. Winter, no matter where I am, tends to bring out the lazy morose side of me, I’ll do my best to curb that instinct however.

I love you all

KH-