Don’t You Just Love New York in the Fall?

(I just had to use that line. Again.)

This is my version of Street View: the 5-minute walk from where I’m staying in Staten Island to the nearby public library, one of my hang out spots here. (You know me, where there’s wifi, that’s where I’ll be.) There’s just so much beauty wherever direction I point the camera to, I had to remind myself to breathe and stop acting like a giddy tourist.

Somewhere in this neighborhood is where I stay.

My current office address, LOL.

People waiting for the library to open. Hello, colleagues.

Waiting by the library steps.

David’s D90 yay! :)

Hello from Staten Island :)

Lovely, isn’t it? :) You wish Google’s Street View stills were taken on a beautiful Autumn day!

OAN, last night I had a date with the boyfie fiance. We took the ferry to the city, had dinner at Oh! Taisho somewhere downtown, took the wrong train and got lost in the subway, and walked around the business district while the rain was pouring out. It’s Day 4 of being surrounded by New Yorkers, seeing dried yellow and orange leaves, keeping a metrocard in my pocket all the time, and having to be under layers of clothing.

Most of all, I still can’t get over the fact that I get to spend real time with my boyfriend during lunch breaks and after work hours in a fabulous city such as this, after months/years of being so far away from each other. <3

Breathe, Riz, you’ll get used to it. I’m giving you another week.