Readjustment to life, parenthetically (life).

I’ve been back in my apartment long enough to face some readjustment to life in NY after my summer away. I just realized, I now have a list of things I love and a list of things that are not exactly cutting it…so, I wanted to share. [I was going to call this love it/hate it…but, upon rereading, that seemed overly dramatic.]

• Random, yet extensive, conversation with people in stores about how great something is—love it. [This one was about an 80 year old man who works in Stop in Shop and was giving what can only be called shout outs in some language I could not identify to everyone as he ducked behind the deli counter.]
• Random, yet extensive, anger that is ever present—not so much.
• Being around friends I have not seen all summer—love it.
• Finding parking at their house or waiting a very long time for the subway to come (for a subway ride that you would walk if it wasn’t so late, by the way)—not so much.
• Walking from here to there and feeling like you’ve interacted with half the cultures of the world—love it.
• Walking from here to there and knowing you have not worn the proper layering combination and that your bag is too small to fit the 3 changes of outfits you will probably need to make on the walk—not so much.
• The fact that I have what seems like millions of good restaurants and grocery stores right around the corner from my apartment—love it.
• The fact that the rain has kept me from wanting to walk me and my dirty laundry the few blocks to my prefered laundromat—not so much.

[I bet this little list is influenced by the fact that I’m going back to work tomorrow.

Summer, I will miss you.]