Roaches and Raccoons

I moved yesterday! Labor Day was indeed a day of labor as I made sure everything was packed up in the morning. I was able to move and then make it to work at 10:45. Who makes their employees work on Labor Day??? Mine, I guess. Oh! I have some other great news: I got a new job!!!!! I haven't started it yet, but I'll start in the middle of September. I'll still have the internship at the literary agency, which is good. I'm excited!!

Anyway, this was me saying goodbye to Fort Tryon park right across the street from me.

I played one last song on the guitar and then locked the door behind me. On to the next! My new place in the Upper West Side. I like it, but it's like a different city. Everybody's speaking English, and I'm not the only white girl around. There is a huge Dominican community where I lived before. But there's a pizzeria on the corner that I can't wait to try out, and there seem to be a lot of good places to eat. My kind of place :)

I've already checked out the library, and I like it a lot. Interestingly enough, it's in the same building as the Mental Health Department. It's probably kind of a pit stop. If you know you're going in there, might as well pick up some books first, right? That's totally what I would do.

As it turns out, NYC is just teeming with wildlife, aside from us humans that is. Some of us are pretty wild too. I have not seen a skunk today, which is good. I think whole skunk families live in Fort Tryon Park. In the past two months I have seen many more skunks than is comfortable. Even one skunk is a little too much. But, now that I've moved, it's roaches! Not in my apartment, thankfully, but I've seen some big ones on the street today. Also, I saw a raccoon in Central Park. I went walking around the north side of the park and ate half of my sandwich. The raccoon came right up next to the fence and almost climbed over, then he just turned around and left. I was within two feet of him though. Maybe he likes mozzarella too.

I wanted to get a cool picture of Central Park in the evening, but it's kind of hard to see. This spot is called "The Pool." You can see the reflection of the lights in the water. Sorry, I didn't manage to catch the raccoon in a picture. He was gone before I could do it.

Oh, on a different note, I wanted to mention that Ingrid Michaelson's mother died this past week. I normally don't keep up on musicians or famous people at all for that matter (don't want to be a creep!) but since I've been mildly obsessed with all of her music for the past six years or so, I thought she and her mother deserved some space in here. Her song, "Far Away" is one of the first that I learned on the guitar, and that summer I think all I played was Ingrid Michaelson. If any of you want to learn more about her mother, here's a link that she posted. http://www.statenislandmuseum.org/about/elizabeth-egbert/

Here's to you, Ingrid, and your mother. This song is one of my favorites.