The Comfy Corner

So I just got back from the most incredible trip to NYC. The trip was incredibly inspirational on many levels. I learned that I belong nowhere else in my life but in that city. So let's hit the highlights.

1) THE ROADTRIP- It was very telling that it took me seven and a half hours to get to NYC and three hours to get back. What does this tell me, you ask? It tells me that everyone is trying to get out of Boston and no one wants to leave NYC. Literally, it took me two and a half hours just to get out of this city...thank God I had my good friends Miley, Whitney, Mariah, and Beyonce to keep me sane and bouncing around in my car like a crazy person. I get the weirdest looks from people when I'm driving because I shamelessly sing and dance (dangerous? perhaps, but not as bad as TEXTING!). And on the trip back I had my amazing classmates singing horribly in my ear: bliss.

2)BEDS (ON FIRE)- I'm going to use the theme of "beds on fire" to describe my time in NYC. I witnessed the best performance I've ever seen on a Broadway stage: Bernadatte Peters singing "Send in the Clowns" in A Little Night Music (She was sitting on a bed and she was "on fire"...there's your theme). I cried - not because of the plot, but simply because I loved it so much and I felt an incredible energy and a fire (there's more theme) in my heart to come to New York and do this forever and ever. I also saw the worst Broadway performance of my life in the same weekend: Five Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. I can't be too harsh because it was only their third run through, but let's be real: strug city. They lit a bed on fire, though, (theme) which was cool. And I got to see Patti Lupone, Sherie Renee Scott, Laura Benanti, and Brian Stokes Mitchell on stage at the same time, which was also cool.

In general, the weekend was all about bowls, booze, beds, and Broadway. I was with friends, I was seeing theatre, I was drinking a lot, had some recreational anesthesia and I was having a blast. Can there be anything that is telling me not to flee to New York as soon as I can? I think not.