Brief (for me at least) Update

Isn't it funny how updates on this blog seem to come in droves? No one will post for a day and then all of the sudden, the whole community is spilling their electronic souls for us. It's great.

I'm headed out of NY this afternoon and will be going to Spain. The plan is to see Madrid, Toledo, and Barcelona, with most of time spent in the latter city. Once I actually head out I think I'll get into it.

As for leaving NY, it has been nice to catch up with people. At 10pm last night an old friend of mine whom I had a crush on in 7th grade came by and we went for a walk. This is a girl I spent all my time with from like 7th through 10th grade maybe doing all this acting, improv, "odyssey of the mind" stuff. Pretty dorky, but it consumed us. We went our separate ways later in school, me not really appreciating her friendship, and hadn't caught up at all during college.

We basically walked out of the house, turned down the street, and then walked on a nature trail along the Croton River lit up by nothing but the moon (so it was really pitch black out), and shared what we had been up to. It was really rewarding, and I feel like I got to open up a bit. Towards the end of the trail we stopped and looked over to our right at this huge wall of trees that were about 100 ft away (with empty space in between us and the trees). The entire woods, from top to bottom, were twinkling with fireflies. It was unbelievable. It looked like a dark drapery of trees that had thousands of stars scattered across it that were just going off at random. I've never seen anything like it, not covering so much area (all the way up to the top of these trees), and not from such a vantage point. We felt like we were just looking at this twinkling drapery hung from sky, with an electric green color shooting off in thousands of spots every second. Not to wax poetic or anything, but it was pretty darn cool.

So I'm off. Might have some lugares del interneto in Spain where I'll read the blog, and mention any cool happenings.

All the best.