I'm Heeeerrrrreeeee!!!!!!!!!

Hello New York, it's great to be here. First off, my companion can be kind of a dingus sometimes. Last week he told me he had made reservations at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Well, this morning at O'Hare, he was looking at his itinerary and started freaking out about the address, he thought it was much farther north than Times Square (now how he could have known enough to be worried about that is a little baffling, there is no rhyme or reason to the street numbers in New York), and it then came out that the reservation is at the Crowne Plaza, not the Marriott. It is a couple blocks farther north on Broadway, but it's nice not to have to push through quite so many people to get in. It's actually phenomenally nice and could end up becoming my new favorite. So, Lance, Max, Josh, Matthew. And Jonathan, I'm not quite sure where we'll meet Monday ot Tuesday, but I'll get back to you on that. Ok, there's a clip from Xanadu on the Broadway Channel right now, I'll be right back. . .

Ok, I'm back, god I can't wait for tonight! So, the flight went off without a hitch and we actually got in early. We got the luggage, and there was no line for the cabs, so we got one right away, which was actually a problem because the A/C was broken. It was very hot and the stop and start traffic between LaGuardia and the Crowne Plaza combined to make my motion sickness kick in. Fortunately it was a fairly short trip, and the room was ready for us, so I'm lying down right now and feeling much better while my companion is going to lunch (it allows him to get his Indian food which I won't touch, even when my stomach is in tip top shape) and to buy his train tickets to get to Connecticut Monday and Tuesday. He picked up tickets for Frost/Nixon (he decided The Year of Magical Thinking would be too sad) on the way and I'm going to meet him there around 1:40 and then since its short we can do some quick shopping and sightseeing before Xanadu. So except for one little hiccup which is now mostly history, we're off to a good start.