Month: January 2010

I don’t get it. Most of my friends said the story wasn’t much, but the special effects were amazing, so why didn’t the 3D blow me away? And I saw it in the best IMAX theatre in the city. We also got there WAY early to get the best seats. (In the back in the middle.) Well I took pictures. Here is when there was only a few of us.

Now the theatre is filling up!

And this is looking inside the new Apple store, on our way back down to the street.

I saw these Christmas bulbs hanging on a tree on the upper west side the other day. It’s the little things. Little things like a shower, which I’m going to be able to take in a few minutes because there was no hot water here yesterday, YET AGAIN.

Other little things I have planned for my day: a movie with a friend, cat petting, a new Bones episode (and Fringe, and Grey’s Anatomy), good food will be had at some point, I’m just not sure what yet, I might take a walk after the movie, and I’ll have my camera of course so some picture taking, when I feed the birds I will have the pleasure of seeing that the food I left out for them yesterday was eaten, I’ll be making a list of the things I want to look for at the Municipal Archives and that will make me happy, knowing I’ll be going on a treasure hunt soon and oh god I just remembered!!

Did you all see that Times article about sitting and watching tv or reading, or working?? Apparently if you sit for a few hours every day, even if you exercise every day all that sitting greatly increases your chances of dying from anything. It cancels the exercise out. I am so screwed.

God, did I not accomplish a lot today. There’s not a lot I can do about it now. The day is gone. I will chalk it up to a loss and try to do better tomorrow. Thank God for choir rehearsal tonight.

Here is my sweet Buddy resting. Poor little guy. I pill him all day long, it feels like. He is resting on my Brahms score, which is about resting in peace.

Looking West on Christopher Street, from the East side of Christopher and 7th, then.

And now. I should have taken this picture when the sun was higher in the sky.

I’m very excited to have made some progress in my search for Ream Constance Hoxie. She had a ten year old brother named Ralph, and I found and spoke to his son. Those of you who read the comments sections know that two granddaughters of Ralph’s are here now.

Unfortunately, Ralph refused to talk about his parents and never told anyone he even once had a sister. So until my call, Ralph’s son had never even heard of his late Aunt Ream. It could be that Ralph’s parents were not the best parents in the world (with all due respect). According to one of the New York Time’s articles about Ream’s murder, the Children’s Society had gotten a number of complaints and they took Ralph away in June the year before, but not Ream. (Perhaps because she was older? Except she was only 16 at the time.)

Right now I’m trying to find two people: a cousin of Ream’s named Jessie Ward who lived in Ansonia, CT in 1917, and an Army guy named Redvers Bowen. Ream and Jessie met Redvers at the Ansonia Public Library and Ream and Redvers wrote letters to each other the year before she died. Redvers Bowen died here in New York in 1968.

I have only two letters from Ream to Redvers (who gave them to the police at the time). In both she tries to sound older and sophisticated, and it’s very endearing. She says she is 18, but she was really 17. In the snippet below she’s talking about when they met at the library.

I’ll address why I believe the case went cold in my next post.

UPDATE: Ream Constance Hoxie update here.