Taking a break. It's been a long day, and it's only three thirty in the afternoon. I was up at a quarter to seven, after sleeping restlessly all night. Meetings until ten, and then a visit to the big licensing show in town...which turned out to be a bust. Not much for me to see there, though I have to go back tomorrow morning. I'm on my way downtown, to the Village, where I lived from '90 to '93, before I moved to the Upper East Side. It'll be weird to visit old haunts - slightly nostalgic and a bit melancholy, considering everything that's happened to be between then and now, personally and professionally. I have to wait for a phone call, and then I'm off to the subway. Ah, the subway. How I missed the heat and the scents...seriously.

As for the city, it feels exactly the same as it did the last time I was here, except there are no Twin Towers and there are more people with cellphones.  ¶ 21:38