Love Your City.

(New t-shirt I got from the Gap. Normally I am not into graphic tees...but I couldn't resist.)

I am a woman that has love affairs with cities. I was born in New York and have since lived in both Vancouver and Boston, leaving pieces of my heart in both places that I will never get back. There is something about getting to know a new city that just drives me batty with desire. While New York is my first love and my home, I fell in love with Vancouver when I lived there for six months during my junior year of high school. I learned that I am a city girl, regardless of whether that city is New York or not. When it became time for me to choose a college, Boston University was perfect for me, and I fell in love with both the school and the city. I already feel heartbroken over having to leave Boston; although I know it was time after four years, and as excited as I am to start my life in New York, I feel like I was in a four-year relationship that suddenly and brutally ended. I can't think about Boston without tearing up a little. I mean just look at the gorgeousness:

(Photo: ocweekly.com)

Sigh. It is just delicious. I can't wait to go visit, even though I know it will make me feel like my heart is being torn out. This is why I just HAD to have that GAP t-shirt...I do not LIKE my city or ENJOY my city...it is pure love all the way. Pining, heartwrenching love, to the point where no matter where I am, I will always be missing at least one city. But that is how love goes.

In my attempts to "get over" Boston and get plugged back in to New York, I've been more actively pursuing what NYC has to offer. Exhibit A: the Brooklyn Bridge part movie, which I attended last week with some of my lovely girlfriends. This ended up being one of my favorite New York moments I've ever had...it was a gorgeous night, a perfect 80 degrees with a breeze, they were playing Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis (if you haven't seen this delightful comedy, you MUST check it out), and beyond the movie screen was the most amazing view of New York I've ever seen. It was incredible. Of course, I was enjoying the experience so much that I forgot to take a picture, but here's one that I found:

(Photo: brooklynbridgepark.org)

This picture really doesn't do it justice...in person, the view is just overwhelmingly beautiful, especially for a city-ophile like me. The Movies With a View season is over now for the year, but you best believe that I am going to be there as often as possible next year. Great movies plus some city eye candy equals a fun time for Tara.