there aren't too many people who would believe that i could be lost for words, but in my effort to communicate my experience of my first visit to new york city, words like "sublime" and "ineffable" keep coming to mind. i wrote a summary of each of the five days that i spent there in a journal, with the expectation that i would transcribe them to my blog, and thereby, communicate my feelings about this city to the interweb. but i've found that those musings and sentiments ring hollow without the context of that great city to inform them. i think that the best that i can do is to tell you to go and see it for yourself.

i've gone on and on in my blog about how i'm a "simple boy from the prairies" and how i wonder at the many achievements of mankind, but nothing in my life prepared me for the humbling experience of emerging from penn station in the middle of manhattan and seeing new york city for the first time. i took over 500 photos, and that was a far lot fewer than i would have because i would have loved to photograph every single building, street corner, and person i saw. i had to consciously refrain from taking a photo of every step from the moment i arrived to keep myself from having 500,000 photos and i would have had no time to see anything with my own eyes. ooo... i've never been so enthralled with anything in my life.

it's been over two weeks since i've returned from new york, to very relieved cats and the biggest city in canada that suddenly felt a lot like the wide open spaces of mill woods in south edmonton where i used to go to feel alone and like i was the only person in the world. i don't know why i so suddenly fell in love with a city that is so incredibly busy and impossible as new york - but love at first sight (well, with a city anyway) never seemed more plausible. all i can say is that if i could choose to live anywhere in the world, be anything i wanted, do whatever was possible - i would live in new york. i wonder if there's some way that i can make that happen?

- g

song of the day for loving new york city: "a new york city night", paul van dyck (featuring ashley tomberlin)

wow - i've been busy. i had all these great intentions of telling you all about my trip to new york day by day, but my new project in calgary has taken way more out of me than i had expected.  the work is very exciting and new and challenging and it's forcing me to look at programming and development for the internet in an entirely new and more abstract fashion than my experience has preapred me for and all of that has taken a lot of getting used to.  on top of it, i worry about leaving my cats alone for extended periods of time, and so in my off time, i've been doing more with them, playing more, doing more for them, and making the time that i have with them count more by being with them.  after all, they've given me so much and helped me so much through some hard times, the least that i can do take great care of them when i'm in town and around.

anyway - i'll get around to that as soon as i can. in the meantime, here's my latest timelapse video, demonstrating the challenges of blogging with two needy cats.

- g

song of the day for blogging with two furry interruptions: "wouldn't change a thing", jose amnesia with jennifer rene