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2001-03-05

On Friday morning Kymm sent out a message saying that this play she's been talking about, in which she gets to reprise the role of a lifetime, was opening that night and running through Wednesday. Her talk about this role had gotten me thinking about making the trip to New York, so when I discovered that she'd given me essentially one day's notice, I felt very taunted and cross. I wrote her a message to this effect, kind of along the lines of "I was going to come but considering that I'd have to get on a plane tomorrow I guess I won't." She wrote back accusing me of being a big baby.

Well, several phone calls and emails and frequent flyer miles later, I'd finalized my plans. I flew up Saturday afternoon and returned Sunday. Spontaneous is a word so infrequently associated with me that I can only attribute this wildly out of character decision to Kymm's ridicule. As she said, "The power of my jeers is legendary!"

First I met Tracing at Coliseum Books and we headed over to a restaurant called Vinyl where Kymm would be meeting us. We walked and gabbed then ate and gabbed, mostly about the eternal Where To Live quandry. (We did not mention online journals once!) Then Kymm arrived and we gabbed some more, up until five minutes before I needed to meet Amy some twelve blocks away.

I have wanted to meet Amy for a long time. In fact, last summer when I was in New York we'd arranged to meet for coffee but she'd been upstate with a friend whose car had broken down; she'd very considerately phoned the Starbucks where we were to meet to let me know she wasn't able to make it. Saturday night our plan was to eat Thai food then head over to Kymm's show. We had a little time to kill between these two activies and decided to get some tea somewhere. We walked until we found somewhere to do so, ending up at the very Starbucks of our ill-fated summer meeting.

Kymm's play, the third of four one-acts, was dynamite. (If you can get yourself to mid-town Manhattan Tuesday or Wednesday evening, you really should.) After the show, Amy took off and Kymm and I and Cynthia, Kymm's best friend, went out for a drink. I've heard so much about Cynthia that it really was like meeting a character in a book. In the best possible way.

We left the bar and boarded the famous van to New Jersey. Back at the house I met Cynthia's husband Fran, another prominent character in the book that is Kymm's journal. The four of us stood around the kitchen gabbing and then adjourned to the living room where I got to see Kymm's movie! Which was just terrific.

Cynthia's daughter Katie was sleeping at her father's that night so I was able to use her room. In the morning I went downstairs and sat on the couch reading a People magazine and was soon joined by Katie, returning from her father's, and Molly and Bonnie, the younger girls (more book characters). I got to witness some pre-church hair de-snarling--complete with tears and howls of pain--that instantly transported me back to the hair de-snarling traumas of my own childhood.

Once Cynthia and Fran and the girls had left for church, I went down the basement to discover that Kymm was in fact awake and got to check out the sparkling kitchen sink and bathtub that she'd cleaned in my honor. Then we went to MacDonalds for breakfast and I raised eyebrows by ordering a muffinless Egg MacMuffin (though Kymm thought my ordering my coffee black/no sugar raised more eyebrows as the usual number of sugars requested at that particular MacDonalds is around six). The muffinless Egg MacMuffin was so tasty I ordered another one.

After breakfast we returned to the house and watched the weather channel because a big storm was heading toward the NYC area. Then we took a bus to Port Authority where Kymm escorted me to the departure point for another bus to Laguardia. I had about a three-hour wait before getting off the ground (two hours at the gate, another on the plane) but got home safe and sound.

Yes, I am part of the Jet Set. (And B, as I've pointed out here before, is part of the Stay Home with the Pets Set.)

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