{"id":1171,"date":"2003-01-20T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/glug-glug.html"},"modified":"2003-01-20T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-20T16:56:00","slug":"glug-glug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/glug-glug.html","title":{"rendered":"Glug Glug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/highlife.jpg\" alt=\"Hi Life\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>The rest of the evening was spent hitting the Hi Life bar, then dinner at Max Soho, a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000JZKW\/jennyspage-20\">Apples to Apples<\/a> (and if you&#8217;ve never played this, which I hadn&#8217;t, it is a really fun game if you&#8217;ve got a warped enough group, which obviously enough we did), and finally back to another bar, the Ding Dong. Adam and I called it an early night (what else?) and headed back for some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing, walking into the Ding Dong, I was reminded that New York places all have this incredibly identifying smell.  The bars have this vaguely smokey, woody smell to them. The apartment buildings have the odor of a melange of foods being cooked at once.  The clothing stores often have a slightly moldy scent.  My nose alone brings back so many New York memories.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/nyself.jpg\" alt=\"Self-portrait in NY apt. building\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/>I wonder sometimes if I could live in New York again.  Picturing myself there takes a bit of work.  I love how much there is to do. I love how convenient everything is.  The subway makes getting from point A to point B a snap, as it&#8217;s a much more extensive system than it is here in Boston. Of course, the flip side of that is that sometimes it&#8217;s nice to just get in a car and go, and not have to deal with waiting for a train or walking to a subway stop in the bitter cold (and I just heard that they&#8217;re raising the subway fares from $1.50 to $2, which is pretty criminal, if you ask me). The dirt and the noise I can live with. The biggest stumbling block, I think, is where to live.  When I was 24, living in a tiny box with a loft bed and no closets and only the occasional mouse (although the cockroaches were regulars) was fun and cool and made me feel independent and oh-so grown-up. At 34, it&#8217;s not so fun and cool, and really, I&#8217;m a little sick of the independent and grown-up bit. Seriously, though, having a lot of space is a priority for me. Having my own office makes me incredibly happy. A kitchen that can fit two people cooking together is not something I like to think of as a luxury.  But in New York it is.  You can have that if you live outside of the city, but then, you wouldn&#8217;t be living in New York.  All things to contemplate as Adam evaluates what kind of job he wants to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of the evening was spent hitting the Hi Life bar, then dinner at Max Soho, a game of Apples to Apples (and if you&#8217;ve never played this, which I hadn&#8217;t, it is a really fun game if you&#8217;ve got a warped enough group, which obviously enough we did), and finally back to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}