Who knows when I'll be back again? (actually, Sunday)

All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
My nails are done
So I'll look good at the show...

yeah yeah, a poet I ain't. But for the next 3 1/2 days I will be seeing 3 Broadway plays (ON BROADWAY!!!!!) and going to the Met and the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) and staying in a hotel that's right at the Rockefeller Center! I'm such a fangirl of that crazy ass ear-hating artistic genius, Van Gogh, I will squee loud enough to you to hear it (wherever you live) when I see an ACTUAL painting that the ACTUAL lunatic painted HIMSELF! (I like Van Gogh. He's proof that we creative types don't have to live inside the lines.)

Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray. Look out on a summer's day with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.... [Yes, I will get to see the original Starry Night!!!] *dances*

Megan already left Oregon, and she'll be flying all night! I leave early in the morning, drive to Atlanta, and then it's just a straight 2-hour shot to JFK. Can you imagine -- just two hours to find myself in a whole new world! I haven't been to NYC since I was 15...wonder what's changed. I've NEVER been to a Broadway show (on Broadway, I mean), and now I'll get to see Rent and Wicked and Spring Awakening! And shop til I drop. There will be no sleeping on this trip. I can sleep in the car on the way home. *nods*

cynthia_arrow, I was thinking about you and your trip today. If you get a chance, let me know how the flights went. I'm sure you handled it like an expert!

My flying phobia is alive and well, so I wheedled a few Valium out of my doctor. Hope it'll be enough and I won't go stark raving bonkers in midair. I'm taking a whole album full of beautiful Sawyer and Jack piccies to focus on whenever I start to feel tense. I'll just remember how Jack talked to Shannon when she was having her panic attack, and pretend he's there talking to me. *happy sigh*

Next time you hear from me I'll be in the Big Apple! :D