this big city has it’s ups and downs. the good the bad. but life is what you make of it and sometimes we don’t make the best decisions every single time. but the city is great. the people may have a bad reputation and come off mean. we’ve all got an agenda. it’s the people that forgive and move forward and are accepting that I want to thank. you make this world go round. if not for you, there would never be an opportunity or a second chance and greatness wouldn’t flourish. happiness wouldn’t be. so thanks for you from me.

busy. dirty. never a dull moment. i must say i have fallen in “i really like you” with new york city.

most of my time there was spent with my lovely veronica going out, eating, dancing, shopping, relaxing, having a good time. i couldn’t have asked for more. it was such a fun and necessary trip. 

although when she was working/in class i was alone in the largest metropolitan area in the US. what’s one Bos to do in such a large city. 

there’s always something to do. and it’s overwhelming. you feel like you need to constantly be on the move, be rushed, doing something, otherwise you might as well be in Boston. I joke. But it’s no joke that New York City is tough to keep up with.

You look around you and it’s always hustling. This city truly never does sleep and it’s easy to fall into that trap, that warped mindset of always having to be on the go. losing sleep. for instance, wednesday evening when I arrived, we spent some time @ veronica’s place, it’d been two months since we last saw each other and quite honestly we needed to get over the surreal-ness of the moment. so around midnight we decided it’d be a good time to go out, grab a bite to eat and a drink. we’d both had long days, hadn’t eaten, and had an appetite. she took me to cafeteria. (i just googled their web site to link it up and it’s quite amazing. don’t let the soothing music take anything away from what i’m about to say). so we walk there and i’m expecting a chill 24 hour diner type place that will have ok food and a quiet tone to it. i mean it is a wednesday night and it’s past midnight.

we walk in, i felt like i had to be on a guest list to be seated. the place is bumping. packed. energy. life. music. very cool. posh. quite nice. the food was delicious. the drinks were great.  not what i expected at all for a place called cafeteria on a wednesday night. instantly it felt like a friday or saturday night and we had been out partying and going crazy. thinking back to this moment. it embodies everything i felt about new york city there after.

you don’t find these places anywhere else. you might. but i haven’t. i won’t. this was a first. but as i sat there gazing at my beautiful companion, eating away at my delicious fried chicken salad and sippin’ on my coco mojito, i found myself rushing to get through this because i felt like i had to quickly do something immediately after. woah! what a feeling. 

new york city doesn’t stop. and you can’t stop either. everything you do, everywhere you go, it’s packed and you need to know the way. people are moving, doing things incredible and terrible. always. always.

it’s overwhelming of course, but i feel like you need to own it. you need to make yourself own it. the city, the lifestyle. you need to grab it and make it your own. and that’s the beauty of it all i think. there’s no set path. they always say you if you make it in new york you can make it anywhere, and i think that’s left open for interpretation. i believe that if you make yourself in new york city, you can take that anywhere. in new york, you can make your own path in life, but you need to abide by their rules of the game. you can’t stop. if you’re up to it, you’ll be sitting high, if you’re not, prepare to be left in the dirty, dark, hard to breath dust and smog they call air.

i’ve been doing a lot of microblogging instead of actually writing in this big white space that has been taken over by videos and photos. but i want you to know that i haven’t forgotten, i just haven’t wanted to write anything as of late. at the same time, i have just become addicted to the twitter machine.

so if you have been paying attention to the tweet updates on the left you’ll know that i was recently in detroit for the chicago bears game at ford field. road tripped it up there with my uncle, cousin and his friend and stayed at the Renaissance center; which is a really nice hotel, apparently the tallest building in all of the detroit metro area as well. and hey, as soon as we got to the lobby we saw a couple bears players walking through. so not bad at all. and across the street or river was windsor which reminded me of days of old when we road tripped it to toronto a few years back. anyhow, detroit is really a blah kind of city with not much going on except for a bears game. 

tomorrow afternoon i’m headed towards new york city. i’ll be there for a week. celebrating a very special birthday. exploring the city. you gotta live life.

school started today. alright it started on monday really. i’ve got a nice balance of classes here with motion graphics, physics, math and effective speaking. i think you can see the two classes i’m most looking forward to. although i’m not sure it’s going to be a cake walk this quarter. first time i’m doing a “full load” with no real interactive design classes. a little different, but i’m willing because it seems like forever since i was last in school even though i took those online courses. it’s just nice to be back in the atmosphere of things and downtown and not in an online cafe in greece. although maybe that wouldn’t be so terrible either. 

i’m a moving machine right now. today was non-stop, this past weekend was non-stop, and i guarantee you that in the city that never sleeps…it will probably be non-stop.

keep an eye out for photos, tweets, stories, etc…