Quality of Life

June 22nd, 2007Blog4 comments

I was on stopover in Detroit when my flight to LGA got cancelled. Every flight going into NYC and Newark was cancelled that night, so I had to stay over in Detroit.

The Detroit airport is all right — the Northwest Terminal is brand new and so large that it has a light rail system running through it overhead. They have not just one but two Borders bookstores. The area surrounding the airport was… Bleak. Flatland. The hotel window had a nice, Dickensian view of the situation.

So then the next day I finally got into JFK without my bags. Being without your toiletries and haberdashery turns you into a hobo. I was also without chargers for my computer and cell phone. I went to Duane Reade and bought brand-new stuff — the airline said they would credit me for the inconvenience.

I worked all day yesterday; on the way back to Brooklyn I got caught in a cloudburst and got soaked. I was definitely being tested by the J-Man.

My bags finally showed up today. Nothing is better than using your own stuff and changing into your own clothes — you finally smell like yourself. Otherwise you feel like a roving ghost, in a different place and in the body of a different person. It’s very important to feel like you are yourself at all times.

The thing about New York is that there are so many beautiful women that you fall in love every thirty seconds. This is very distracting.

I will be doing Q&As at the opening weekend of Cowboy in San Francisco, so please stop on by if you like. The exact dates will be announced on the AATC website.