The move to NYC

New York is the comedy hub, the capital of stand up comedy. For many years, as far as I can remember, I widely eyed watched comedians on comedy central and on late night talk shows make jokes and talk about their life living in New York. I watched Jerry Seinfeld live out that life from a Hollywood set during many seasons of Seinfeld. I worked as a busboy at a comedy club in college, listening to comics reminisce about NY club gigs together while I placed chicken fingers in front of them with such nervous admiration that only royalty could command.

-Me-"Did you see that guy I just gave extra ranch to!?, he was a neighbor on two seasons of that one show!"
-Ex-Con Chef-"wow...who cares"

I knew nobody in New York, no friends or family--I visited once when I was 12. But by the time I got accepted to a New York City lawschool, already I felt like I had lived there and knew the city for years. I accepted immediately.

My friends and family were dumbfounded that I would move from a quiet suburb in the South, to a strange, unfamilar, and extremely huge metropolis in the North. But I knew, I knew the many smells of the subway, many ways to deny a homelessman change, the traffic, the different people and different attitudes--I already knew it all....in joke form.