liquidjill

I’ve had a lot of questions about how I employ various technologies and sources of information to facilitate my ease and experience here in the city. Of course the iPhone has been a life saver on multiple occasions (though from time to time it does completely drop signal, and one entire afternoon it was basically [...]

This morning I woke up and rode at 5:45 with the team in Prospect Park. This week was a little different – as the team leader, Felix, was back from his cold that kept him home last week. What a difference a team leader makes! From the start he paid close attention to the condition [...]

It was another exciting, action packed weekend, far far to busy to allot any blog writing time. A quick summary for those who may be interested: Thursday night turned into an evening in my own hood, and an opportunity to discover a great little bar only a few blocks from my house that has micro [...]

I have found that there is a never ending selection of things to do and people with whom to do them in NYC. This is great in the fact that I’m always occupied and constantly doing or planning to do something. I also have very little time to be bored, or to worry about various [...]

Many years ago my mom first exposed me to the Yiddish word basheret, or “meant to be”. At the time I thought it was a lovely little word, like many other lovely little Yiddish words (think schmata, schlep, mensch and the like) and I tossed it into the verbal library for future reference. As time [...]

If I ever entertained any question as to why so many filmmakers choose New York as the backdrop to their stories – this weekend answered them all. I’m still kind of reeling from all that I managed to pack into the last three days but let’s just say, for a birthday weekend it was in [...]

It’s a beautiful crisp fall morning in Manhattan. The sun is shining, the skyscrapers are glistening, the smell of fresh brewed coffee and breakfast is is in the air and it’s my birthday! I simply cannot explain how enchanting it is to be living here, finally, at the age of 33. I woke up this [...]

Many people have expressed interest in seeing actual pics of the tiny itsy bitsy apartment and our ongoing efforts to make use of vertical space. I do promise that pics are forthcoming as well as tricks and tips on space utililazation, but at the moment it is all still very much in flux. We do [...]

What an eventful weekend. On Friday I did my final crazy, bank/temp agency hop around the city which consists of 3 trains, 2 banks, an ATM and a trip to the 20th floor of a somehow always difficult to find building near Times Square. Finally, it looks like all my finances, direct deposits and automatic [...]

If this move has done anything at all, it has made me acutely aware of just how much space each and every item I own occupies. I’ve found it necessary to pare down practically everything in my life to accommodate the 7×11 space that now functions as my bedroom. I look back on my apartment [...]