  i must admit that i felt terribly exposed to the city without my iPod ear buds plugged in this morning. i guess after a year of being back in the US, i am officially a new yorker again. the ny times had a great article about iPods and their significant place in NYC culture - generally how new yorkers isolate themselves with those little white earplugs and publicly identify with the greater iPod community. i am tired. met .r. for dinner last night at the tried and true, coffee shop. that place has never failed us in moments of desperation to speak of our s&f adventures. i had an epiphany on the way about post-casual sex hangups and decided they have no place in the life of a late twenty-something s&f new york woman.
there are still too many double standards trying to break us down. easier to say after a comforting IM chat with .j. earlier in the afternoon. i am who i am and i thank .j. for reminding me of it. hectic day ahead. in nauseous response to a third peers serious ass-kissing at work, a respected peer states, "i am not going to compete with my team members to prove anything. i will rely on the quality of my work. " thank you, .m. good day. 
