New York's Finest...and Worstest

Yesterday morning I started my day as usual...a couple cups of coffee and a train ride. I got to work early to set up a training program we were running here. A woman, a trainee, arrived complaining of chest pains. I called 911 and ran (literally) to the drug store for aspirin, (Beyer of course...I was remembering those 90's commercials where the guy has a heart attack while playing basketball and is saved by Beyer). In 4 minutes flat, 5 suited up firemen and 2 EMT's show up ready for action. I was so amazed 1) at their arrival time, 2) how many came and 3) how nice and helpful they were. It turns out the woman was fine. Beaming all day, I boasted on the NYFD and EMT's. I was in love with the kindness of others. Amazed. BUT then...in NY for every good action there is an unequal terrible reaction.

Steve and I were getting on the subway after dinner with his mom. We go through the turnstile and five or six cops come up the platform and one pulls his gun on a Chinese man and another starts roughing up a teenager. Steve and I were notably freaked...but the cops giggled a little and just walked away, not even really saying anything. "Sorry, we were looking for someone in a black jacket" Umm...ok. We thought it was a joke, that they knew the men they were harassing, like some undercover cop joke... we asked, but no, they were just some guys. I was pissed. What kind of cop pulls his gun and laughs about it? Especially when I counted 34 people in black jackets on the ONE subway car I was on. Assholes.

Gritz - You are a Good Boy!

Grtiz - A Hurricane Katrina Rescue (who we dogsat this weekend) and possibly the one dog who is the closest to being human that I have ever met, made for some beautiful images. Isn't it amazing how animals can be the most like we want to be?

To the 80's and BEYOND

The 80's as in streets, not decades. I'd like to know why I obtained a cat sitter, packed 4 changes of clothes, 4 pairs of shoes, my laptop, camera, makeup, hair products, books and two jackets of varying weights just to spend the weekend dog sitting uptown?? New York I love you, but you're freakin me out.

New York I love you

But you make me feel less fashionable.

Black Ice = Black Eyes

It was a poorly matched fight. Ice 1, Matt 0

Hospitals at 3am are not awesome...hospitals at 4am are even less awesome...hospitals at 5am really suck. But, alas, a three hour wait on St. Patty's for stitches, is not bad by most standards. Bonus: The bed next to us housed a man who had been attacked and stabbed by his girlfriend. In the head, no less. The cops asked the MOST leading/highly illegal questions....i.e. "when she attacked you, did she say, "I'm going to kill you", I bet she did, they usually do!" or "was is a big knife? It was a big knife wasn't it? I bet it was!" As the sun rose over the great city...I must say, it was another beautiful New York moment.

Sunday at the laundromat

"Al Gore's the # 1 Stupid"

It's a quote from some crazy guy in my building today claiming, "This is not global warming, this is global cooling." Alas, it IS too cold in NY for humans. Let's all go to Florida and retire.