Tayari's Blog: Skyscrapers and Everything...
Posted by TayariJones on July 20, 2006 10:13 AM
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Greetings from Gotham City.
A) I can't believe that I will be living here this time next year.
B) I *didn't* go to the Heavies concert afterall. (See, Ladylee, I am not a groupie.) Long story. Had a lovely night anyway.
C) Today, I am meeting with Linda, my publisista. We shall have a NY lunch. (Joke about NY lunches: women in NY don't eat lunch. They just lick thier cell phones.)
D) Gossip overheard: Noire has a new book coming out called "Thugalicious". I was thinking I should write one based on my own scandalous love life; I'm going to call it "Nerdalicious."
E) Exciting news: Guess who will be "featured headline reader" at the AWP conference in Atlanta next year.
F) Life is good.
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Comment #1, by Rocka Candy ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.tayarijones.com/blog/nav-commenters.gif)
Hotness... It's funny to read someone get excited about the prospect of livingin NYC, you forget that when your here all the time.
July 20, 2006 11:53 AM
Comment #2, by Jackie
Does housing come with that job or do you have to find your own New York apartment? Finding your own place would entertain us mightily on this blog! We've heard about what you get for what you pay. My son's girlfriend lives in what looks like a closet and pays $1100 a month. However, it IS New York and when you are young and fabulous, what better place can you live!
P.S. If you need to buy furniture, I will give you her name and place of business to help a sistah out with a sale.
July 20, 2006 12:25 PM
Comment #3, by Ladylee
Okay, I will humor you and make up for my missed commenting time...
A. Yeah, I can't believe you will be there in NY either. You need to come on home and teach at Spelman, somewhere around the AU center, something.
Come HOME, Celie! Come on home, chile!!
And at least you've been hanging out in D.C. before moving to New York. No telling what would have happened if you'd moved from them damn cornfields STRAIGHT to New York... GOOD-NESS...
B. You still a groupie... anybody who will get on a greyhound bus and smoke Newports (we KNOW that busdriver was talking to you) to go to a concert, chasing a band, is a
G-R-O-U-P-I-E !!
Better for you to be the Heavies groupie than some rapper's groupie... we'd be calling you something other than a groupie then. (Look everybody- she's a VIXEN! LOL)
C. I know you won't find any soul food up there, therefore, this means you should be having your lunches in GEORGIA (hint,hint).
D. I think you should still jump into the urban fiction game (I quipped slightly about my distaste for it in my blog post today)... Time to take that ish to a nother level. Go head on and do it, Tayari! Put on your pink fur coat and just do it!
E. Humph... she's coming back to Atlanta... for a conference. I guess this will have to do... (And congratulations:))
F. "Life is good"-- I guess that's the title for your short story collection of your "adventures" on the Greyhound bus... hunh... Just remember to keep it clean, honey.
Hmmm... Sounds like you are having the time of your life. Your blog posts should get a bit more
July 20, 2006 02:48 PM
Comment #4, by Ladylee
Oooh, you cut me off...
like I was saying...
your blog posts will get a bit more... death-defying...
"The blog of a Greyhound Queen on the New York scene"... I can't wait! LOL!!!
Take care while up there!
July 20, 2006 02:53 PM
Comment #5, by Michael Fischer
E) I can't wait for 2007 AWP-ATL! I was hoping you'd be the featured reader.
Related note: I see that Marty is the executive super duper patron of next year's conference, too.
July 20, 2006 11:03 PM