Happy New Year to all

Well, I am back in New York after a long vacation in California for the holidays.
I travelled back with my dearest friend Andrea who is now on a train going north to her new home in Montreal. We pulled her two giant suitcases through the streets of Manhatten during the first minutes of sunrise this morning and discussed the lovely phonetic quality of the sound "Monreal" just as we had of the sound "Hallelujah" a few hours before as we lay in my bed, both of us unable to sleep. So she is off and I am here at an internet station at Kinko's on 7th ave, waiting for the hours to pass before I have to go to work just a few blocks over. Presently there is a homeless man washing himself in the drinking fountain in the corner. He wished me good health and advised me of a drug store down the block because of my coughing. New York has been nothing but courteous and accomodating on all fronts in the two days I have been back. Despite my rather horrendous cough, the disaster in my room I left for myself to come home to, the fact that my two dear china-town turtles died, and the fact that I have so far only been able to sleep every other night, I have been surprisingly productive and in good spirits because of it. Even the wheather has been delightful. Hopefully the impending 8 hour work shift standing around trying to get charitable donations out of strangers in on the street (yes, that is what im doing now
) wont crush my momentum.
So its 2008 and the theme of this year so far has been "Kidnapping."
More on that soon, as I am hungry and feel like taking a walk before work, and as writing more on my blog is a goal of mine for the new year.

Hope you all are doing well.
all my best, Maggie