Every day it's an adventure. The city is a kaleidoscope with sights of beautiful (or shocking or both) dresses, vignettes of men in a my-career-is-on-the-line hurry to catch a cab, toddlers holding umbrellas taller than themselves as they sob on the rainy sidewalk.
I can walk almost all the way to work in the shade, which I do now that the sun is stronger in the mornings. I miss the sight of the Park, but I don't arrive at work with a sunburn. So far hats have been an unworkable dream.
At any rate, this morning I was moving along, trying to get to work before a truly horrendously late hour (yesterday I met the associate I'm working with strolling in to the elevator bank at the same time I arrived; neither of us had left before midnight the night before). But I noticed as I crossed the street that the shadows were pointing the wrong way. I was definitely heading east, and the shadows were going from west to east, and it was (still) well before noon.
I found this puzzling enough to glance around a bit (movie set? Twilight Zone? it's much much later than I thought?) and then I looked up and saw the explanation. The sun was hitting a window high up in a tower and the reflected light was strong enough, and precisely focused enough, to be casting shadows from entirely the wrong direction.
So yes, I made it to work before noon. To spend all of the day in a windowless room pulling the key documents out of an mass of imperfectly-chron'd boxes of paper for deposition outlines due (gulp!) in less than a week. Egad.
Lahdeedahdee doodledeedah! The life of a carefree Manhattan lawyer!!
Posted by: ckm | May 24, 2009 at 09:56 AM
You haven't posted in almost a month! Harrumph! >:(
Posted by: Boy | June 28, 2009 at 04:16 PM