Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2005 - 10:45 p.m.
Start spreading the news
Very little sleep in the last week or so - or, very little sleep in the places it was meant to be, and so I should be a-bed but it's much more fun reliving New York shenanigans and playing with my new ipod (it works! it's brilliant!) and new knitting items and trying to avoid my credit card statement.Round the corner from our hotel was a knitting cafe and after buying self some needles, wool and a bagel and coffee Pollymagoo taught me how to do it all while we reclined in a Tea Lounge where an early Belle & Sebastian album was tinkling in the background and I felt like I may have been on a date with the quiet one from High Fidelity. So it's all a lot about the knitting.
Oh, not that Magoo is at all like the fey one from High Fidelity; her rocktastic karaoke performances (Doll Parts! Cannonball! Hurrah for NY extended karaoke play lists!) when we were out with Karaoke King Zaza were not fey. (My favourite karaoke songs were Life On Mars (one for Lee) and What's Going On ... and Torn ... oh god the list was so much better than the London one.)
And New Yorkers are brilliant. Far be it for me to generalise etc etc but well, they're a little bit like Londoners in that they wouldn't wear scrunchies in their hair, but they also:
a) speak to you in bars
b) are dead generous with their time and fun (and we were even bought brunch!)
c) ask how you're enjoying their great city - well I can't imagine Londoners doing that to same extent
d) interupt your (ok not mine but Magoo's) buying of a drink for a (male) New Yorker by saying a (male) New Yorker should be buying drinks for guests (to the city) rather than other way round
e) think Polly and I are under 21, Insert guffaws esp considering not only are we nearly 28 but also were very tired looking - bags under my eyes grew visibly by the day.
Damn jet lag and the w-word tomorrow.