Greetings!

Welcome to the second part of my misadventures series – this time in New York City! I know I kind of fell off the face of the earth when I stopped updating my Tokyo blog – but I had good reason - I couldn't remember my login and password and must have emailed technical support a million fifty nine times but they never responded. Well the past is the past and here I am, in a new city and unfamiliar territory – even more intimidating and exciting than Tokyo. Please check back once or twice a week as I promise I will be updating this blog as regularly as I can. And I will also weave in some more stories from Tokyo that I never got to write (which I will title "Tokyo Flashback"), as well as fill you in on what I’ve been doing the past few months of my sabbatical. Enjoy it with your morning coffee, pass it on to your friends, and let the misadventures begin!

I know you must be thinking how in the world did a ditz like me get to move from Tokyo to NYC? I'm wondering the same thing myself...Well, to catch you up - after my project ended in Tokyo at the end of November, I quit my job and spent the next few months traveling all over creation (which I will fill you in later on.) Then as I was preparing for a weekend trip to New York at the end of March, my friend Cindy (former work buddy at IBM) casually asked, “How would you like to stay for more than just the weekend?” Turns out the city department where she works - which shall remain nameless in case I write anything embarrassing about myself and get my ass fired - needed to fill a contractor position that fits my skills to a tee. And they needed someone fast. So I replied, “Sure, why not?” Since I was still waiting on the Tokyo project to start back up in the next couple of months, working in NYC would be the perfect “in-between” job. I interviewed over the phone, got an offer a couple days later, and turned my weekend trip to a 3-month long stay!

Picture: Freddy, Cindy, Andrea, and me at Cube 63 (Lower East side)