.and I feel the innocence.

I was looking through my
moleskin
on the train back from Baltimore
and found
in my obviously subway influenced
handwriting
(aka: wiggly)
random thoughts from the last
6 or so months
and (where they were written):

• Quote from the oddest man on Houston directed to a 13 year old tourist: "I have a castle in Europe...do you know what a castle is?" (Soho)
  

• "According to the New Yorker, 40 percent of Americas living today have never lived without a Bush or Clinton in the White House. Approximately the population 19 and younger". Just a thought point. (F train)
  

• "You have to love a city where someone runs the marathon in a snowman costume".

• "The leaves have changed colors for the season - finally" (Upper East Side).

• "I was reading a blog today by an East Village/Alphabet City man who talked about the good old days of the area (approx. mid-7os to mid-90s) when crime was rampant. He wrote about how someone today left their bike unlocked and how he wished someone had stolen it - reminiscing about the crime of the past. That's fine and dandy for him but a return to crime for me or any other woman is not the same Aside from murder, men usually only have to worry about being mugged and maybe punched in the face - a woman, however, has to worry about much different circumstances that I don't have to write down" (East Village - near one of those amazing garden areas that are filled with tress, weeds and hub caps - always hub caps. I love those places!).

• "I think the rats on the subway tracks are cute. That's so wrong, I know" (East Broadway subway platform).

• "Hey cool kid, you know what's easier than reading a book? reading a book without your sunglasses on in the subway". (repeated in the subway rules post)(F-train)

• Written at 10:30am on a Monday (my job starts at 9:30): "Of all the things in the world I wish I wasn't stuck on the C train under the East River" (self explanatory)
  

• "Make magnets" (whatever that may mean).

• "I'm living this odd morbid American dream. In my biography there will be least a year dedicated to my living in New York. Because that's how long my lease is for Here I am. Dressing Nicely. Seeing Art. Going to galleries and becoming weary of life before it even began" (East River Park).

• A long rant about how Manhattanites are clueless to the rest of the world and essentially insane. I didn't feel like typing it (East River Park).