Even if happy = boring, I'll take it.

Tomorrow is the first of July.  Somehow, 2009 is half over.

My "blog daily" challenge of the spring went relatively well; 36 posts in 52 days. The problem -- which isn't actually a problem, the way I look at it -- is that I'm too busy enjoying my life to write about it. And as Tolstoy imparted with Anna Karenina, happy characters make for boring stories.  There are dozens of things I have a vague desire to write about, but as I don't know that I'll ever get to them, here is a list. Friends, family, if you ever want a conversation starter, ask me about something here.

1. Thirtieth Birthday Extravaganza
2. Sweet Melissa
3. The Brooklyn Bridge
4. Bryant Park
5. Subway Station art
6. Subway Stations as art
7. Atlas at 3am (the statue at Rockefeller Center)
8. 24-hour delivery service
9. nights brighter than noon
10. Coney Island -- there's a beach in NYC!
11. The Empire State Building as anchor
12. Subway Series talk on the subways
13. Parks as "backyards" and "front yards" and picnic grounds and playtime
14. The documentary/photography exhibit that *someone* needs to make about the feet of New Yorkers
15. The plazas of midtown
16. Stonewall
17. The first second date I've agreed to in years
18. The unending politeness and flattery of flower sellers and fruit marketeers
19. Classically Trained, Practically Broke
20. Theatrical master classes
21. The Botanical Gardens
22. The sheer wealth of amazingly smart, funny, engaging people who want to be friends
23. The Brooklyn Flea
24. How neighborhood tragedy makes the world both larger and smaller, and how everyone touched grows closer
25. Joining the Finance Committee of the new GHFC
26. Dancing like an idiot in the street at 2 in the morning, to big band blaring from the windows of a church in my neighborhood
27. How everyone with an iPod seems to love blaring Regina Spektor into their eardrums on a Sunday morning

Pretty awesome list, if I do say so!

First published at NYC to the Nines