A bullet point list of what my brain encountered in NYC.

While in New York, I wrote, like 10 blog posts in my head but didn’t have time to actually write any. Now there are too many in my head and I’m too overwhelmed to write them. Plus, there are the ideas that came to mind catching up on news when I got back (I sat on the couch reading the internet for an entire day to make up for a week of living in “reality” instead of existing glued to a computer.)

I had to hide in my house for a week after returning to cope with sister separation anxiety and now I just have a lot to catch up on.

So there’s just going to be this one post, with a bullet point dedicated to each thing I wanted to write a whole post on.

1. Whatever your assumption is about the average OWS protester, you’re totally wrong. So many different types hang out there — from an old lady knitting away her rage to bums who are totally just there for the food — that attempting to find an “average” would possibly result in a unicorn on food stamps riding an electricity-generating bicycle.
2. 

   Those gosh darn lazy OWS protesters. This one is screen printing a shirt.

   

   This one is knitting a rage sweater.

   

   This one is running a library.

   

   This one is generating electricity.

3.  Just as I had suspected,  life and commerce do not stutter to a halt where cars aren’t practical. Instead, people just get drunk without wondering who will drive home and all have fantastic legs.

4. 

   The A train. Also the first time I could recite Ani DiFranco and not be a poser.

5. While walking through an excellent park in a ritzy neighborhood, my sister says, “In exchange for raping the rest of the country, we get awesome parks. But the parks are for everyone!” Take that, worldviews.
6.  The only thing occupying Wall Street right now is the NYPD on horses and cell phones.
   
7. It may be depressing that people still drink Starbucks here, but it’s more depressing that New Yorkers prefer Dunkin’ Donuts coffee in a styrofoam cup.
8. Beer is, like, $10 a pint in New York. Thankfully, most places have PBR on tap so I didn’t actually have to freak out completely.
9. It is totally reasonable to wait 2.5 hours to be seated for dinner at a meatball restaurant on a Thursday night in New York. The proximity of starvation by the time you eat, not necessarily the quality of the food, is why people think New York has great food.
   

   Me, my sister and the meat/veggieballs we waited 2.5 hours to eat.

10. When you Google something in New York, you don’t have to type “NYC” at the end to find the right place. Google already knows. IT ALREADY KNOWS.
11.  This is a typical New York bike lane. Two lanes for bikes, one for cars. Maybe.