These streets will make you feel brand new, The lights will inspire you, Let's hear it for New York

Posted by S. , Friday, February 4, 2011 12:35 PM

We all know my love of Gossip Girl, chick lit, and chick flicks. (I'm reading Shakespeare and the new Lauren Weisberger book concurently... so there, literary snobs!)

Basically, there is one basic rule to chick lit: in your 20s (eek! I'm in my late 20s now), you live in a crappy dwelling (check! my walls might actually separate from one another), you have more cash outflow than inflow (triple check), and are a fashionable NYC resident.

And it is, of course, on that 3rd point that my life is quite opposite of the image portrayed of this period of life.
I'm going to confess that I miss wearing heels. I particularly miss my flowered BCBG sandals and my "whore boots." I miss sipping drinks out of cocktail glasses. I miss wearing skirts and makeup to work every day.

Not, by any means, to give the illusion of me being that type of girl. Let's face it... I may or may not for the 2 summers I worked on the boat have forgotten entirely on many days to take any form of footwear to work with me, and felt more comfortable wearing Hawaiian Tropic than perfume. And the ski tendencies are far from the urban NYC girl cliche.

But, I find myself, after so many months done and ahead of me of isolate, tiny Northern town life.... craving some form of big city adventure. I'd be lying if I said anything other than: I'm checking out private school job ads near the Big Apple. While I often, what with being gregarious and social, sometimes feel like a square peg living in a round peg in Wask, I recognize that it would be no different there. But I'm craving the opposite of this. NYC is closer to home, less than half the distance Wask is, and triple the accessibility at one third the cost of transport. I haven't been back to NYC since Easter in... 2003. Maybe Goose Break....

Possibly just an idea. Maybe Europe is an option, Korea, or MTL.

On verra.