The Rundown

The past few weeks have been absolute insanity. Highs, lows, and in-betweens, I've run the gamut; if there has been a consistent it's the world-wind factor.

The best news is I've moved to Williamsburg! I am so pleased to be in Brooklyn; it is much more my home than any other place I have been in the City. My apartment is fantastic- a huge industrial loft- and I have already met the neighbors. Everyone (except for “Jim”- another story) is young, creative, and carries a great vibe around in their hipster knapsacks.

Last week I also participated in a health and wellness/holistic medicine documentary with Cameron Alborzian. I spoke to him about my lifestyle, about having fibromyalgia, and in generally just feeling a bit shitty all the time. His prognosis: I am too filled with air and fire and am living in extremes. I need to find balance. I need to find out why I move all the time and have so much trouble staying put. He told me I am to eat simply and regularly, get to bed earlier and get up earlier, participate in quiet activities. I haven’t eaten meat since speaking with him (something I never thought I would do) and am going to start the harder scheduling things when I go home next week. I need a quiet week, free of work and stress, to jump start these major changes and make a plan of how to incorporate that into my lifestyle here in New York. It’s going to be hard, but something that needs to be done.

As of last night I finished the costumes for the fringe show I was working on, “A Mikvah”. I went up to meet with the lovely cast and co yesterday in Connecticut where rehearsals were taking place. Eating a fresh fruit salad with everyone gathered, speaking about the play, enjoying a perfect evening, a thought flashed through my head: I need to send Craig Newmark flowers.

Craig has changed my life considerably. Almost every aspect now has been affected, found, purchased, met, etc because of his lovely site, including all of the above mentioned. Craig’s list has brought me to California, found most all of my homes, helped me meet a considerable amount of people, found me work, found me gigs, gave me all the furniture I own. I have participated in things I would have never discovered without him (a holistic teacher… really??) and opened my networking community in a real way. My world would have been much smaller without him.

So to you Craig Newmark: