waiting


I used this photo
 in a collage
 I posted
 earlier this summer 
when
 I was looking through
 my 
Waiting
folder
 I stopped to enjoy her happy face
 and 
decided you would enjoy it too 


today 
I'm getting my hair
 'keratined' 
or 
whatever its called 

here at the end of summer
 I am spending 2+ hours
 to make sure
 that the humidity
 doesnt turn my hair to frizz

 I've always been a step behind 

no

 truth told
 I just didnt want to spend the money
 when I told that to Susanna
 she offered me a discount 

how could I pass up a discount? 

 So thats where I am today

 yesterday
 struck down 
by a case
 of 
whelm 
I didnt do anything

 well
 okay

we did
 take the long route trek
 up
 to
 96 St
 into the park 
down
 to
 72nd St 
around
 the Eleanor Roosevelt statue/circle
 and
 back

 stopping many times for me to take and share Instragram fotos 


got home 
to learn
 via email from Hilary
 and
 a tweet/comment from Foolery
 that 
there'd
 been 
some crazyness
 near
 the Empire State Building

To say we
 New Yorkers
 are blasé
 is true 
with 
a caveat
 we dont get 
all hand-wringy 
but 
we do worry about those hurt

 I tell you this honestly 
exiting the subway into Times Square
 in the mornings 
you never know
 if you'll see 
just cops
 or
 cops in full body armor with sub machine guns  

 crazy people with the guns
terrorists crashing airliners
loony zealots setting off explosives in cars
its
New York City
 there's always something