From Madison Ave. and Madison Square Garden to Madison.<\/p>\n
I made a mistake — the 12th, not the 13th, is\/was my return date … I’m glad I figured that out before I missed my flight.<\/p>\n
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So I stayed up late, packed, went to bed, got up early, and Jyoti and I returned to the West Way Cafe for a near repeat of yesterday’s breakfast. Two eggs, over-medium for me. Rye toast. Coffee, potatoes, OJ.<\/p>\n
Afterward I went up the Empire State Building; Jyoti read and watched my luggage around the corner in a Starbucks. The ESB is tall, though not the tallest building in NY. But from the 86th floor observation level you do get a great view on clear days, and our day was rather clear. I took lots of photos and eventually returned to ground level, found Jyoti, and while I tried to get the “Special” at Papaya Dog I was thwarted by breakfast — they weren’t yet serving hot dogs!<\/p>\n
So we went back to Penn Station and to Dunkin’ Donuts. I decided to get an iced coffee and two donuts. I thought they’d put each of my two donuts in different bags, and when I opened the first bag I found a chocolate donut, even though I’d ordered a coffee donut. But chocolate would be okay — I like chocolate after all. So I ate the ersatz-donut and drank my coffee. Then I opened the other bag to find 2<\/em> pastries.<\/p>\n Oops …<\/p>\n Obviously the chocolate donut was not a mistake except insofar as I f*cked up, for the bag didn’t belong to me. By then, though, it was too late. And they never came after me. But I was the only one in line at the time (there was a lady behind me, but her order hadn’t been filled yet), so I don’t know who the chocolate was for.<\/p>\n So I had three donuts.<\/p>\n Then the NY Transit train to Newark. Computer self-check-in. Security. Find my gate. 114A. And wait. I read some of Kafka on the Shore<\/em>, but I also listened to some of the 3rd Artemis Fowl audio book. And while I’d listened to some before, it now seems to me that I perhaps listened to the whole thing already. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t listen to it again.<\/p>\n The flight was full and the plane tiny. 3 seats across: A–BC. Not enough room for standing up. Or for storing luggage.<\/p>\n When I arrived in Madison I saw Sara Korpi at an airport bookstore, so we chatted for a while before I had to head to the bus (#24 — to the north transfer point, then the #4 to come home). I then went downtown to return a library book. My trip to Fair Trade was delayed because I got side-tracked by a going-out-of-business sale at the 2nd-hand CD and DVD place. I eventually settled on Hellboy and A History of Violence, each $5.99.<\/p>\n At Fair Trade I finished Kafka on the Shore<\/em>. In short: perhaps the best novel I’ve read so far this year. And I’ve read a few good ones.<\/p>\n I resumed my A-Z music project and finished the last couple hours of The Beatles. Now I have those somewhat boring chanting monks that were so popular back in ’93. Just my luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Madison Ave. and Madison Square Garden to Madison. I made a mistake — the 12th, not the 13th, is\/was my return date … I’m glad I figured that out before I missed my flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[158,96,213,58,214],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace","tag-books","tag-coffee","tag-donuts","tag-kafka","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}