Comments on: beautiful day for a breakdown https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Shawn https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/#comment-6307 Shawn Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:13:53 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=846#comment-6307 <p>Wow - I thought I was rather alone in the 'bursting in tears on Sunday at the thought of going into work on Monday' thing. I hope it gets better for you.</p> Wow – I thought I was rather alone in the ‘bursting in tears on Sunday at the thought of going into work on Monday’ thing. I hope it gets better for you.

]]> By: eve https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/#comment-6306 eve Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:22:43 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=846#comment-6306 <p>Hi...<br /><br />I just stumbled across your website today and this entry is right there with something I've been feeling lately - that displaced new frightening exciting exhilarating feeling of being somewhere new, of just having moved.</p><br /><br /><p>I moved last winter to NYC - a year behind schedule.</p><br /><br /><p>Two and a half years before that, I had moved to New Orleans. I was flat, I had no job, no job prospects, no apt, no friends in New Orleans- but my life was clearly over in San Francisco - laid off, ridiculous rents, and enduring divorce.</p><br /><br /><p>I thought NYC would be a piece of cake after that. </p><br /><br /><p>It wasn't. It was harder. But I wouldn't trade being here for anything. </p><br /><br /><p>As for Belle, most of the things you pointed out are true of SF, and way more than most are true of New Orleans - I had a cocktail, cup of coffee, and pack of cigarettes once delivered to the bench I was sitting on, overlooking the river.</p><br /><br /><p>I bring this up not to be a bitch, but to say that I'm not sure it's the Things about NYC that you love - it's the place itself, as if she's a person, dearly adored, for better and for worse.</p><br /><br /><p>Ultimately, that's what makes it worth it - the passion for the city herself. And it seems to me that you have that in spades.</p> Hi…

I just stumbled across your website today and this entry is right there with something I’ve been feeling lately – that displaced new frightening exciting exhilarating feeling of being somewhere new, of just having moved.

I moved last winter to NYC – a year behind schedule.

Two and a half years before that, I had moved to New Orleans. I was flat, I had no job, no job prospects, no apt, no friends in New Orleans- but my life was clearly over in San Francisco – laid off, ridiculous rents, and enduring divorce.

I thought NYC would be a piece of cake after that.

It wasn’t. It was harder. But I wouldn’t trade being here for anything.

As for Belle, most of the things you pointed out are true of SF, and way more than most are true of New Orleans – I had a cocktail, cup of coffee, and pack of cigarettes once delivered to the bench I was sitting on, overlooking the river.

I bring this up not to be a bitch, but to say that I’m not sure it’s the Things about NYC that you love – it’s the place itself, as if she’s a person, dearly adored, for better and for worse.

Ultimately, that’s what makes it worth it – the passion for the city herself. And it seems to me that you have that in spades.

]]> By: Belle https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/#comment-6305 Belle Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:29:13 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=846#comment-6305 <p>I took me about six years to get the hang of living in New York. Now I can't imagine living anyplace else. Oh, I THINK about moving someplace else all the time - to someplace greener, quieter, less expensive. But then I come back to my senses with thoughts like, where could I move and still have vodka, pizza, and even McDonald's (yes that's right) delivered to my apartment at all hours of the night? Where could I move that has street buskers, and good ones too, playing on practically every subway station? Where could I move and live in borough that contained over 200 nationalities within its boundaries? Where could I move where, after the bar closes at 3am, we can all mosey on down to the after hours bar until 7? I remember these things and then realize that I'm ruined for living any place else.</p> I took me about six years to get the hang of living in New York. Now I can’t imagine living anyplace else. Oh, I THINK about moving someplace else all the time – to someplace greener, quieter, less expensive. But then I come back to my senses with thoughts like, where could I move and still have vodka, pizza, and even McDonald’s (yes that’s right) delivered to my apartment at all hours of the night? Where could I move that has street buskers, and good ones too, playing on practically every subway station? Where could I move and live in borough that contained over 200 nationalities within its boundaries? Where could I move where, after the bar closes at 3am, we can all mosey on down to the after hours bar until 7? I remember these things and then realize that I’m ruined for living any place else.

]]> By: girlpunch https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/#comment-6304 girlpunch Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:55:38 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=846#comment-6304 <p>Hang in there..moving isnt easy...trust me ive done it 17 times in seven years, but it will get better and if doesnt thats ok too. Dont worry about it, because worrying doesnt resolve anything. F.I.D.O. F-ck It Drive On.</p> Hang in there..moving isnt easy…trust me ive done it 17 times in seven years, but it will get better and if doesnt thats ok too. Dont worry about it, because worrying doesnt resolve anything. F.I.D.O. F-ck It Drive On.

]]> By: Madame Petrovna, I see all. https://thisfish.com/beautiful-day-for-a-breakdown/#comment-6303 Madame Petrovna, I see all. Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:21:38 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=846#comment-6303 <p>You belong in New York.</p> You belong in New York.

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