Friday, June 04, 2004

Perfect NYC Day



Today is the sort of perfect day of which we have far too few this time of year in NYC. The specter of Summer heat & humidity is always close in the Spring, so new yorkers relish these few days all the more. Of course it is a perfect day, yet of course it is also a working day. And tomorrow, Saturday, is supposed to be completely crummy with rain all day long. With that in mind, I decided that since I had to run up to the New York Road Runner's Club, that a walk through the Park wasn't a bad idea. So on my lunch "hour" I took a train up the West Side and walked East through the Park. I meandered along the Reservoir Path,

start rant:
with one grimace to the woman who had a stroller parked in the middle of the path -- no strollers allowed on the path. No dogs, no bikes, no-bloody-strollers! There are plenty of wonderful footpaths through the Park, miles & miles of them, you don't need to be up there with your stroller! There is a reason for the rule (and the rule is posted EVERYWHERE), the path is very narrow and is meant mostly for runners and fitness walkers, it's not just there as a damn suggestion. Do you think just because you have a child, the rules do not apply to you??? ("but it's a baaaaay-beeeeeeee" give me a freaking break!)
end rant.

Anyway, sorry about that, where was I? Oh yes, it was a beautiful day and everywhere there were people out enjoying it. I couldn't help but be envious of the people who had had the foresight to take today off,

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or who don't work in corporate, soul-sucking jobs that require them to waste their lives cramped into a windowless, putty-colored cubicle for hoursweeksmonthsyears...
end rant.

er, anyway, it was nice.

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