You know what's funny? Sitting on the metro and observing people. I feel like Harriet the Spy all over again, and it really helps make a 30 minute subway ride much faster. You see all kinds of people riding the metro, young and old, from different ethnic backgrounds (if that's politically correct enough for you), different financial and social backgrounds, traveling in pairs, groups, or solo. But instead of echoing cliches I'm sure some starving artiste has already chronicled, I think i'll profile as many different "characters" as I can over a series of blogs. I say characters because they are not actual people...they are fictional beings that I've created in my imagination based on what i observe. You see, there's a difference and I would even venture to say that by studying how something external is perceived, it creates this very powerful "looking glass" into what's going on internally. Which is very handy, because i've been having troubles blogging lately....wanting to write so much, but it's so jumbled inside that i don't know how to make sense of it - in the words of a good friend - language puts too great of a constraint on my sentiment (enter "quote" by some famous literary author).