Tuesday, June 30, 2009

hoping I would see the world with both my eyes

{I notoriously overuse favorite quotes, lyrics, songs...I'm guilty of it, and I admit it. So here again, in this blog title,  I am stealing the words of John Mayer's 3X5. When other people say what you're thinking, why not say it again?}

Not to contradict myself (and the previous post) but rather to shine some new found joy to my life here in New York City: I have had a great past two WEEKdays (and today it even rained!) God answered my prayers to help me see His purpose for me throughout the week. Work has picked up and I feel like I'm doing substantial things that help the magazine. And that feels GREAT. 

Now to be perfectly honest, maybe my good mood has a little something to do with the fact that... Friday I get to see Jonathan. After 6+ weeks apart (longest time yet) we're spending the 4th of July weekend together in Boulder where he's interning. Yeah, ok, so that has a huge impact on my cheeriness. But the first reason does as well!

Tonight after work I was literally craving a good read. But I have yet to finish the book I started at the beginning of the summer (David Sedaris' Naked---which is not a testament to the book's quality, I just have rare instances of being in the reading mood). So I bought New York Magazine at Borders and can't wait to curl up with it after dinner. I need to learn more about this summer home of mine if I'm going to label myself a temporary non-tourist. 

(But speaking of tourist: Sunday night I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge with my two roommates and a friend. It was absolutely perfect weather for it and a very memorable "touristy" thing to do while here.)

1 comment:

abby! said...

Should we add this to our list of things to see? Sarah and I were talking about so far our things to do list consists of: ride a ferry, see Times Squares... and that's it.