It’s Holly

Glad to see we’ve all made it to November 1st. I have the privelege of celebrating a Happy November in New York City. Our coporate office is located on 14th and Union at Union Square. Here’s a small degree of our 345 degree view of the city:

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My first day in NYC started on a red-eye from San Diego to JFK. We left SD at 9PM, to arrive in NYC at 5:15AM, EST. Which meant it actually felt like 3:15AM, PST. JetBlue = extra uncomfortable. Yeah, the seats are leather and you get to watch DirectTV, but they’re just plain, uncomfortable seats! Being able to watch Six Feet Under on Bravo and Chappelle on Comedy Central were my saving graces. We land, gather our baggage, and head toward the taxi line. A man comes up to us and says “need a taxi?” And we’re like “heck yes, we do”. So we follow him outside and get into his mini-van. Then we realize he’s not a real taxi driver. Gypsy! He starts taking strange side streets, and the three of us are convinced it was a not-so-good idea. My only worry was “He doesn’t give receipts, how am I gonna expense this?” We finally cross over some random bridge and see the sun rise over the New York skyline. I tapped Emma and said “Holy shit, we’re in New York!”

He gets us to our home for the next 7 days - the Double Tree Suites in Times Square, right across the street from where they film TRL. We drop off our bags and ask the doorman where we could have breakfast. He points us to Evergreen arounnd the corner.

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Good cheap breakfast. Nice pictures of C-List 80’s actors on the wall. An all-around good place. We’ll definitely go again. So now we have nothing left to do but wander the streets of New York.

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We even saw the live taping of the Today Show.

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We finally met up with Jenn (a native of our NYC office) and she takes us to the office. We bought our one week MetroCards, and took my first NYC subway.

We saw the new office, met co-workers we had only previously exchanged emails with, had a couple of meetings and then it was time for lunch. Even though they had already been there the day before, our NYC office took one for the team and took us to Patsy’s so I could have my first authentic NY slice.

It’s no Sbarros… but it was good. (I kid, I kid)

We finally got back to the hotel around 3PM and SLEPT like nobody’s business….

more updates to come.