this week has been interesting. good, busy, tiring, overwhelming, and...not over...
it's only thursday, and i'm already reflecting, which shows you how crazy a week it's been (being).
i'm back in the big apple, and winter seems to have arrived all of a sudden. i went from being warm last week to having to pull out all of the layers this week and start to try to remind myself of how to pull a warm-weather outfit together. my preliminary attempts are always unvariably preppy-- today i'm wearing a gray wool sweater over an oxford. i look like i'm back in high school, fulfilling dress code. :/ the boy that i met on monday didn't help-- a bit of a stuffy lawyer type, i almost felt self-conscious for being so "casual." then, last night, did a meetup with other young black professional women from the five boroughs, and out of 6, 4 were singers/songwriters/actors/filmmakers, and one was a moneyed accountant at morgan stanley. joy-- poor, non-profit-working, trying-to-make-the-world-a-better-place young black woman that she is-- stuck out a little like a sore thumb at first. things got better, but it has definitely been a week of remembering the breadth of this big, wide world.
it's amazing, in a place like new york, how many different "yous" you can be. i can be grungy me, i can be southern/caribbean me, i can be intellectual me, i can be sexy me, i can be political me, i can be apolitical me, i can be recovering baptist me-- not all in the same place or at the same time, necessarily, but there are places for all of those parts.
the rest of this week brings more mind-expansion: a play tonight at the public (apparently my favorite theater), seeing an old coworker tomorrow, and then cooking and baking and sangria-ing up a storm for a little housewarming on saturday. then maybe kara walker @ the whitney on sunday, if i can swing it.
ha. you wouldn't know i was at work right now, would ya?
2 comments:
excuse miss "i can't hang like you." who's out being a social butterfly now? we are really moving in opposite directions right now - as i suddenly have no time, you're all over the place...
also, you're wearing an oxford. is that a stand-alone word now? as opposed to, say, an oxford shirt? i'm gonna have to ask you to step away from the jcrew catalog joy...
oh my god, jcrew is having a sale!
oh, and you and terry are evil. you had me laughing at my own date! who is even skinnier naked, btw...
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