Couldn't be a better/worse day

This all started when I, confronted at work with having to practice "customer service" skills when faced with awkward interactions, suggested to a man he should try all the egg cream flavors we have at The Candy Shop and make a blog about it. This was meant to be a wry joke that would end all further conversation since there's about 15 flavors you can choose from, and egg creams are weird anyway. Unfortunately, instead this led to a conversation about "do you have a blog? why don't you have a blog? what do you mean you have nothing to say?" etc.

So, feeling a sense of fateful urgency, I'm making this blog to prove to this egg cream man I may never see again that I do have something/nothing to say. Of course the problem is, is that I have an awful lot to say but everything I have an opinion about has all sorts of positive and negative aspects, few of which are enlightening or memorable. Not that I think it's unusual to have varying opinons. Nor is it unusual to approach life with the "pros & cons" list immediately tallied in one's brain...but sometimes even I am amazed/disgusted by just how quickly I can see-saw from gloomy to oozing-love-at-everything.

To keep the first blog short and interesting I will briefly describe today's mixed-review feelings:

About my future: Stay in New York or move back home?

Plus side of staying in New York:

1)Falafel

2) All bands will inevitably play here

3) Interesting shit happens. After work I stopped at an Italian restaurant/bar in St.Marks just so as to delay the routine homeward bound subway ride. Here, I got an extremely strong whiskey drink, met a nice couple who chatted with me about the cost of living in new york (the girl had tiny hands!), and a waiter with sketchy intentions brought me a free plate of decadent chocolate-dipped strawberries with whipped cream. My love-at-everything feeling sky rocketed.

(pic taken at the 23rd street station (C train))

Down-side

1) The inescapable smelliness of people on public transit

2) Trendy people making you feel fat and unfashionable

3) When you're poor, you can't do all the fun things available to you

4) The lack of real nature

Going home (The south- where everything's gentle)

Pros:

1) False friendliness that lulls you into false sense of security...mmm

2) Driving long distances with music and enjoying spooky forests and fireflies and such

3) Family

Cons:

1) Family

2) Confederate Flags

3) Too many fat Christians

That's all for now.

Let's see what I feel like tomorrow...will it be a mostly pro day or a mostly con day? Or balanced (gasp!)?