Cooped

That either rhymes with pooped, meaning worn out, or is a play on "co-op," which is where we would have liked to live had the original arrangemet on the UWS worked out. Either way, it doesn't make a lot of sense. But I HAVE been sitting inside at this computer for almost the entire day, looking for apartments and making phone calls to various people (friends, job contacts, landlords and brokers). I think I'm making some headway.

Staying inside all day in this soundproof little cell, it's easy to forget that there's a huge city surging in all directions below me, honking, screaming, swearing, smiling and laughing. I could be anywhere in the world right now: in a hotel room in Fresno, in an air-conditioned office, in an IMAX movie theater playing intensely real footage of me in a New York high rise apartment sitting at a desk and playing with a laptop computer.

Photo credit: Christina