Hello there!

New York City is the most happening place on earth.

Can't say I'd want to be one of  them.
But I wouldn't mind stealing
some of their shoes.

Don't believe me?  Turn on a television: doesn't it seem like everyone lives here?  Friends, Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, the cast of How I Met Your Mother and even the detectives (and criminals) of Law & Order (yikes).

Ok, so those are all fictional people, but isn't NYC also an international hub of finance, news and art & culture? Check, check and check.  Somewhere in there is a reason so many people my age seem to be dying to live here.  Not me though!

New York City is kind of low on the list of places I'd like to call home for a lot of reasons: it's dirty, noisy, expensive, taxi drivers are trying to kill you left and right and perhaps most importantly there's not much of what I think of as "nature"....

Rawr!

So if I'm such a Debbie Downer, how is it that I've found myself parked for the foreseeable future on 119th and Amsterdam?  Two powerful words: Columbia University.  Translation: five years here and then with any luck I'll get an amazing job and move to Colorado, Vermont or somewhere else high up on the list of places I'd love to call home.

In the meanwhile I've got a lot of time to spend in NYC (despite the fact that I'm going to have a pretty hefty workload)!  This blog will be dedicated to my adventures as I explore the city and make myself at home.  Hopefully, those of you who know me will enjoy reading about what I've been up to and those of you who don't know me but are also trying to enjoy NYC (without breaking the bank or becoming Carrie) will be interested in what I've found to keep myself busy.  Who knows, maybe you'll even catch me enjoying life in NYC!

Cheers,

Allison

P.S. Nifty header eh?  I finally managed to get photoshop and illustrator working on my new Mac!  I am thinking about making it into a t-shirt but I am not entirely sure I thought it up on my own. Seems a bit too clever to have come from my brain.

P.P.S. Speaking of Macs, today I overheard someone on the subway say that currently Apple has more cash on hand than the US government.  Appears to be a true statement.