i am gritting my teeth.

Ok, so not everything is sunshine lollipops and rainbows in New York City.

I'm trying to knuckle down and research more design studios and agencies in NYC (the ones I've found though have made me do that whole "I'm shaking my head because I'm so amazed at what I'm seeing thing"), but it's hard to really focus when the library is bombarded by chubby little kids screaming at one end of the library to the next.

I wish they were yelling about kids stuff, like so-and-so smells, or laughing at lame jokes and TV, but these kiddies are talking about who's dating who, this girl has pashed everyone, and did you check out this girls short skirt? Come on. You're 10!
Being bumped and kicked and not apologized to has made me think of the other things that have annoyed me in NYC.

Lack of manners.

I say please, thank you, sorry and excuse me when necessary, and people look at you like your crazy. It's just being polite, why the shit is it so foreign?!

The rubbish, everywhere.

Oh it's not just packets, it's food scraps, it's broken glass, it's furniture and toys and clothes that are perfectly fine! And lack of caring. 

I guess coming from clean green NZ, I'm being ignorant and self-righteous, but it really irritates me when I see people just chuck their rubbish on the ground, 1/2 a metre from a bin. 

I almost threw a wobbly when some drunk fruitloop almost burned me with his cigarette butt he chucked on the footpath. Thank god I was listening to good music, I would have gone all kung-fu on his ass.

And that's it.
I totally love you New York.

Roosevelt Island is a sweet little solitude from the pulsating city

I may live in the hood, but I still see the same sun as everyone else

I am no longer a virgin to the Pastrami Sammich, where have you been when I was eating my average ham and cheese sandwiches?!