Ode to NYC

i've been soooo proud that i've made it nearly 5 months, without a single look back.
people would ask, "don't you miss New York"?
I was proud to announce that i didn't...NOT A BIT!
but today it hit me -- like a brick through a plate glass window.
today... i miss NY.
i realize that i miss NY in the springtime...
i miss lunch in bryant park w/ KMH, NJRC, EKK, DEC and RBM
i miss the subway (especially reading on the subway)
i miss being able to pick up my breakfast on the walk from the subway to my office
i miss BREAKFAST being DELIVERED to my office!!! (who knew that was such a luxury?)
i miss meeting my sissy jasmin, (between her job at bloomie's and mine at 40th & park) on the madison avenue busline heading uptown to harlem
i miss watching safiyah roll around in the grass at central park
i miss the bodegas where i could still buy penny candy (ok, 25 cents candy) and feel like a kid
i miss meeting ben at les ambassades for a schwerma
i miss jeff, leon, african food, luis&maria, jj's chicken&pizza, jimbos, 63East and even 2West

perhaps it was the ad i saw for the new sex&the city movie, or the trees in blossom, or the simply the fact that time has passed, a chapter has ended and new one has begun.
but for whatever reason, i miss my old home today.

so for those of you still there, enjoy it a little more today -- for ME!