"The air was still cold and uncirculated. The streets were still filthy and hard. The people were still bitter and ugly. The entire city of New York was sick and in desperate need of a vacation."
- A. Nersesian
"New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly."
- J. Walls
Some people don't like New York City. I'm not one of those people. But even I can admit to some of its follies.
I don't win many awards. Hardly any, in fact. So it was a big surprise when I won the Program Guide Cover Contest for DECA's NY Conference in high school for a second year in a row.
The main speaker was pretty surprised too, apparently. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
"Can I ask you something off-topic? If a family pet dies, how long can you keep it in the freezer?"
I froze. Slowly, I turned my head. A woman with incredibly large and red hair was barking into a pink Motorola Razr.
Weekly random rambles, musings & writings of Mike Lee in San Francisco, CA