Coffee, books, and couches - Back to NY

And I'm back to New York, as if I hadn't left the city and the city hadn't left me.

In full busy-mode, I've spent the past week reading my eyes out, uploading pictures, deleting pictures, and keeping tabs on all the folks I've managed to brainwash into joining facebook. Still playing catch-up with my lovely friends (and there are still a bunch I've yet to see) and family has been a lot of fun, though it is quite curious how everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) has been greeting me with the following:
"Oh my god Kyle! You're back! When did you get back?"
And without missing a beat:
"So when are you leaving?"

People! Please allow me to breathe in a little bit of this New York City air before shoving me out the door again. I get that I always seem to be on the move and out of the zipcode, but for goodness' sakes, I just got here! Even my parents are asking me if I'm back for good, and all I could say was "eh?". I'm hatching a plan to live abroad (maybe in Spain) for a few months, but with the economy the way it is and the research I have to do at the museum, it seems just a little out of reach for now (even if I really want to be there now). I mean seriously, ICELAND IS BANKRUPT for goodness' sakes. It seems like a bad sign for the times to come. Damn globalization!!!


And to all the complaints about me not keeping everyone up to date as I'd promised with this blog (especially regarding the two pairs of Ex Officio underpants that swore for 17 Countries within 6 Weeks, One Pair of Underwear was all that I would need), I deeply apologize. Being in the middle of the field, waking up at 7am and working until 8pm...and all that fiesta in between left me little time for my minimally-scientific experiment. Sorry. But I do have every entry in draft version at the moment so it's here to be uploaded, I just need to find time to do it.

At the moment, I am busy trying to get my life and schedule back on track. Between the GREs, grant-writing, gradschool applications, trying to scheme my way into spending the Spring in another country, and catching up with my favorite people in New York, I have my plate pretty full. Fat-man-in-a-chinese-buffet full. The 3-month catch up will just have to be spent with me retelling my adventures over food, coffee, and an elaborate facebook-enabled powerpoint.

These first few weeks, at least until November has passed, I will most likely be found hiding in:

a) the pits of the bone collection at the American Museum of Natural History
b) the pits of NYU's Bobst Library (thanks to my mother working at nyu)
c) chugging good Caffeine (or finding a way to inject it directly into my veins) in one of my favorite coffee and tea shoppes in Astoria or Greenwich Village
-OR-
d) stuffing my face with the people I love in my favorite NYC haunts.



So this is my "I'm back in New York so call me and let's hang out" entry. If you're in the city, there is no excuse. And if you're away (i.e. Christina and Saskia), then keep me updated on when you'll be back here so I can make an appointment and we can make important face time together.



And now this procrastinating-diversion must end. Gotta get back to reading. Like I said... FACE TIME. You know where to find me: facebook, gchat, my cell phone. Book face time because I miss you. All of you. And I've got boat loads of stories to tell.