Perhaps it is because I have a little cold, but for the past few days I have really been feeling as though everytime I go outside in this city, I am being suffocated by a blanket of pollution. Although everytime I returned to New York, it appeared to me as the Emerald City trapped in a bubble of haze, once inside the city I was normally unfazed by the air quality (unless of course it was 100 degrees out and I was stuck on the corner of 6th Avenue with a line of busses puffing in my face.) But here, the air has been really heavy. Even at the pool today, I felt like the sauna must have been turned into a smoking lounge because there was this putrid smell circulating at one end of the pool. Maybe I just notice is more here because you don't expect a place that is so visually beautiful and dainty to be envelopped in a cloud of poison. But in any case, hopefully a nice wind will come in and blow this heavy air out soon.

That is all I am going to write today, as I have to go and do my HOMEWORK!!! Today is the first day that I have had to work at home. I feel like I am 15 again: working in front of the television, trying to balance Victor Hugo with a stupid French comedy where the 3 Wise Men have suddenly ended up in modern-day Paris. And as I am having high school flashbacks, I will end with a mid-90s expression: I'm outtie!