I started this blog in 2005 anticipating a handful of visitors, most of whom would come from the same gene pool as me. But over the years, it’s grown to have some faithful readers who can and can’t spell, do and don’t email. On Monday, a reporter from AM New York (hi, David!), NYC’s widely-read free daily newspaper, emailed me. He said he enjoys the blog and wanted to know if I’d talk to him about the recession, specifically, how it’s affecting my life as a young New Yorker.
I did what any attention-seeking blogger would do: I said something along the lines of, “Yes, I’d love to talk about the recession! I know so much about the recession! Let’s talk about the recession! Oh, that damn recession!”
Today, an AM New York photographer (hi, Dennis!) met up with me outside my office and proceeded to make me feel like a rockstar, the low-key kind with shoes from Old Navy. We had a lot of fun traipsing around and trying to rationalize why I was posing at a deli with a styrofoam container and tongs of lukewarm spaghetti for an article about the economy. Answer: In desperate times, lunch at Au Bon Pain is but a fading memory.
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be making some changes to this blog that are long overdue. You’ll see what they are. But thank you to everyone who has read up to this point. It’s so nice to hear from any of you, even from the person who says I’m smug and unoriginal. No one’s called me that before, err in the last month.
I wanted to close this with something cheesy involving the phrase “when you blog upon a star,” but I may just eat some Pringles instead. That’s how us low-key rockstars roll.
