I'd like to see you learn about writing xpath, optimizing for CPCs, and figuring out where the permalink goes in the nano code...then coming "home" to your hotel room to blog. Yeah, that's right. And I may have, ahem, had other priorities. Moving on. So today is going to be a joint post, melding yesterday's topic with additional thoughts I ruminated on today.
Even though the majority of my hours in New York have been spent working, I'm still enjoying learning the little things about life here. When I travel, I generally make an effort to put myself in a local's shoes instead of waltzing around from one tourist destination to the next. If I wasn't living in a hotel, I think that my daily routine here might actually make me feel like a local.
To that end, I've actually been buying several of my dinners from the food bars at Whole Foods (conveniently located two blocks away). The check-out lines are long during the evening commute hours, but space is limited. So here's what I learned as I went along.
And maybe it's the just the US Open coloring my opinions, but I'm kind of loving New York. I never imagined it as a city I would be comfortable living in, but after even three days I'm starting to reconsider. Today I walked home from work, down 5th Avenue, and walked to the north end of Madison Square Park. Because in New York, they do things like set up a jumbo screen in the park with a feed of the US Open. And people actually gather to watch it. You know what else? They're seriously engaged, applauding and cheering after points.
I'm not saying that it's time to head out of Chicago, but I'll be happy to spend more time in New York City - both during the remainder of my training period and in the future.
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