Everything under the sun

Yesterday, I hung out with a a really wonderful friend from high school, Lisette. She called me during the day but I couldn't take her call then, so I finally caught up with her around 6:15pm. I hoofed it from 3rd and 56th street uptown to 10+ blocks to her appt. and gave her a call so she would buzz me in. We then went out to a Japanese restaurant for dinner, a nice little place about 3 blocks away. We dined and talked for a few hours, she offered up three choices: a) we could head out to a bar and catch a drink, b) we could walk to a neo-bohemian coffe shop that she often frequents, of c) we could head back to her place and catch some tea. I really like Lisette's studio appt., but I coffee sounded really good to me to I elected to go with plan B. Another 10-12 blocks later, and after Lisette doubted herself about which block the place was on (she claimed that this is a frequent occurs, ah how many times does a place "move" on me...only all the time...;), we made it! I order a mocha, she a latte, and we sat down in the back and change for another three hours. We talked about everything from politics, to friends, to work, to the weather, to you name it. At around 11:00pm, we were both starting to turn into pumpkins so we decided to call it a night. I came back up to her place to pick up my back, talk for a bit more, and then grabbed a cab back to the Kimberbly Hotel on 50th where I was staying.

Lisette is a really good thinker and a really good listener which makes for delightful conversations. We're both knowledgable enough about a broad range of topics that we can talk about nearly anything despite the fact that she's been working in performing arts for the past two years since she graduated and I have been working in computer software. On the matter of geography, we're each a little bit right and a little bit wrong.

We had a discussion about the temperature difference between Boston and New York City. I claimed that NYC is mainly west of Boston, with only a little bit of north/south change. She claimed that NYC was far east of the western border of Massachusetts and that most of the trip from Boston to NYC was spend traveling north/south. She said this is why NYC is halfway between Boston and Washington, DC. and also why it is so much warming in NYC than in Boston. Well we were each a little bit right. She was right about the temperature difference and that NYC is far south of Boston. I was right that New York City is aligned with the West Coast of Massachusetts. ;)