Anticipating it all...

Here we are on a Friday morning - with days of wonder and delight ahead.  While it's cold outside, baby, it's warm with anticipation.  Ken has gone on to Queens, and I'll meet him later in the City.  I'll walk to work, then will come home for lunch (the new austerity) and bring the car back to campus.  I'll catch the 4:33 or the 5:01 Metro North and we'll stay down by the Brooklyn Bridge at a Hampton.  On Saturday morning, we'll catch the 6 to 125th St., then the M60 bus to meet Barbara at LaGuardia at 9:42!  Oh, how lovely!  We'll see Speed the Plow at a matinee, then have dinner at Chola.  Depending on the weather, we'll either roam the rest of the night or catch a movie.  Sunday is delightfully free and we'll pick things from this week's New Yorker or Friday's New York Times, or, if we need an infusion of spring (hey, it's even cold in Tampa), we'll catch the Harlem Metro North line to the Botanical Garden.  And we'll eat and walk, of course, although a movie is not without possibility.  Barbara takes off early evening, back to her Tom and her strawberries.  We go to Lincoln Center to see Stephen Sondheim being interviewed by Frank Rich.  How much more wonder can you get?  We will spend the night at the Metropolitan on Lex and 50th, and Ken will head back to Queens on Monday.  I have the day in the City - buying gifts for Ken's big 0 birthday and visiting some of my favorite spots.  The Strand for, at the very least, a book by Francine Prose to check out for One Book/One New Paltz purposes.  I'll take the train home Monday night, and then, almost the best of all, I have Tuesday off to celebrate the inauguration!  Reality is way too much with us - war, waterboarding (yes, it is torture), the economy - but I want one more day of amazement and delight over the election of Barack Obama.  One more day is not too much to ask.  Then we get to watch him either realize his potential or not.  

2009 so far has been filled with winter, work, birthdays (both Ray and Veda have birthdays the first two weeks of the new year) and no-chocolate.  The news about the US Airways jet landing on the Hudson yesterday is beyond description.  As Governor Patterson said it, "the miracle on the Hudson."  The pictures are just amazing.  

I am wondering where global warming went, but as I read recently, I guess it's the snow's turn.  

Peace.