Groundhog Day

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I apologize for my absence yesterday but I was stuck in groundhog's day. 

Before I left for work yesterday those two nice guys were being adorable and hugging each other.  I took a couple pictures and went on my way.  I downloaded an app on my phone that uses google maps to chart your walking and tells you how far you've gone, what speed you walked, and all this other cool stuff.  I was all excited to use it so I ended up walking to work again yesterday.  It was a completely different day, rainy and gray, which made the leaves seem even more vibrant.  Even though i wanted to keep up my naomi campbell walk for the sake of my workout app I still stopped and took picures here and there. 

When I finally got to work I realized that the things I had to post were pictures of kitty followed by pictures of leaves in central park...exactly what I had posted the day before. 

I decided I couldn't do it.  If the point of this blog is to make my life interesting I can't post the same things over and over again.  And I foolishly thought that something interesting would happen to me after work anyways. 

Instead I just cleaned the kitchen all night and then looked at pictures of kitties online until like 1 in the morning.  Not exciting at all. 

But it's halloween weekend so hopefully I will have interesting pictures to post and things to say for the next couple days. 

Wish me luck.

two dead birds

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**This was the #1 image that came up when I searched google for "two dead birds".  i have no idea. **

Walking to work this morning was especially funny.  Midtown west is always a ghost town on the weekends anyways, but it seemed particularly so this morning, I guess because it's the middle of the holiday weekend.  While everyone else was cuddled under the covers with their special some one from the night before, I was hauling my ass through an empty and cold grand central station. 

With the lack of people, however, came a lot of interesting findings.  I guess I usually commute to work with my eyes on the prize, doing the Naomi Campbell walk like my life depends on it.  But today I was able to take a more casual stroll since the streets were empty.

While walking the final leg of my journey from Grand Central to my office I noticed 2 dead birds on the sidewalk.  Not together, but one first and then another several blocks later.  I thought this was odd.  Is this a common thing, are there dead birds all over manhattan and I've just never noticed?  Is it like that cheesy playing card thing from Sex and the City?  Like a typical new yorker I'm too self absorbed to realize that i'm walking through a sea of bird carcasses.  I wouldn't be surprised.

Has anybody else noticed a lot of dead birds lying around?