I spontaneously decided to come home for the weekend. I haven’t been back since mid-May, which is a long time considering I’m an only child and home is so close. NYC was getting to be too stressful – as it usually does after a while – and I needed a short break (no threat of withdrawal) to detox in New Jersey.
+Update:
Since I’m in NJ, there is little else to do but watch TV. Or, rather, I have plenty of other productive things I should be doing, but since I have no TV to watch in NYC, this is my only opportunity to do so. Ironically, Jersey Girl is on right now (yes, as in the movie starring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler that came out circa Bennifer, v. 1). And yes, I’m still watching the movie despite the fact that I’ve seen it before and that the acting isn’t all too great. Plotline = Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a Jersey-born media publicist who used to work in NYC, raises his daughter after his wife (J.Lo!) dies at childbirth. They live with the grandfather in Jersey (good old “Pop” is actually played by the late George Carlin), though Ollie struggles between pursuing his old life in NYC and staying in NJ. Not that I’m in the same situation at all, but it’s interesting to see different perspectives on the NJ-NYC relationship.
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