Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:15:38 -0600
From: Alex (alexh@wayne.edu)
Subject: fyi:nyc
To: (recipient list undisclosed)

Hi all-

Impersonal group email due to brain malfunction. Sorry.

Chicago is beat, done, and just totally old news. The buildings are too damn short; the streets, too wide. There are no vegetarian restaurants in the hipster neighborhood, only Asian-Fusion noodle shops. The wind has actually blown me into alleys, knocking not only my person to the ground but also my coffee. The trains suck and don't go everywhere, the buses don't run on time, and every car I've ever owned has ended up a smoking, charred, useless heap on the side of the road, so the logical thing for me to do is move back to the city which has destroyed me mentally and physically already, not just once, but twice.

So, again, Brooklyn is going to be home base, for the time being at least. This time I am trying to postpone another breakdown by spending most of my time working outside the city, in various locations around our beautiful country, and only using NYC as a retreat, to lick my wounds, eat some tasty mock chicken, and then fling myself back at the world, and fight the bosses, or something. We will see how this works. My hopes are not high.

My email is always alexh@wayne.edu, at least until Wayne State University figures out that I haven't worked there since 1998.

My phone number is now (917)***-****. I am in the 21st century now, with a cell phone of my own and everything. Please discard any phone numbers that begin with a (312), because those phones belong now to former co-workers who are already very confused at calls they get from screaming drunk people looking for me. Or, I guess, call them when you get drunk. Whatever.

Going for the trifecta
and
Yours for the revolution,
Alex.

segue