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Post by adaline kaiya taylor on May 26, 2012 14:03:50 GMT -5
she loved her job. she really did. maybe it wasn't exactly working for national geographic like she could have with her brother, but it was still...enough. she still enjoyed it and didn't mind the fact that she did get to preview and see so many plays and musicals and then got paid for putting out her opinion on them. of course, that had meant going in and actually having to study theater (and then of course listen to noah drone on and on and on about the technicalities of it) but in the end she found that it was entirely worth it. she worked with good people and every weekend she got an all-expense paid trip to new york to go see something new and beautiful on broadway or off-broadway or something soon to be starting its run on broadway. she got to do interviews with people noah always fanboyed about, had even worked side by side once with susan blackwell and found it to be a really interesting experience. overall, ada couldn't complain about her job.
it was rough sometimes, though, being away from home. new york wasn't too far from new haven and honestly if she wanted to waste all the gas to commute to the big apple every now and then, she probably could. but when the company she worked for was willing to pay for her hotel, her travel, and even the shows, she didn't see why she should look a gift horse in the mouth. spending time in new york was some of her favorite time in the world and her only regret was that it pulled her away from icarus on the only days when he would really have days off. or well, had, at least, when school was in session. she had never been happier for summer because even if he still had loose ends to tie up and things to do, he at least didn't have to be teaching his nosy little kids all the time and could make room for her during the week the way she couldn't for him during the weekend.
though she always opened the invitation for him to go and stay with her. she did. she loved her boyfriend, and while she wasn't exactly dying without him in her presence, it was easy to miss him even while she was just an hour or two away especially with the schedules the pair of them held and the fact that her roommate was a psycho-gay from hell who tended to scare him away from new haven at every opportunity (and by this she meant noah, of course, not barbra, who actually had left her pretty well alone since moving in). she wasn't going to object if the man she had fallen in love with so many years ago wanted to tag along to an all-expense paid trip to new york, even if she was sure her bosses weren't going to be too thrilled if they ever found out he came. but that was part of the excitement of it. doing something for once that didn't follow company regulation which, even if it was just a boyfriend in a hotel suite, was rebellion enough to adaline taylor, who was usually so no-nonsense with her business affairs.
but she also took her solo trips and in her free time during those moments when she wasn't waiting for a theater to open, she liked to just walk around the city. new york was beautiful in a way she couldn't describe. it was busy and dirty and filled with somewhat rude people but honestly in comparison to where she grew up, that's how most of america was. new york was just more so. its shops were overpriced and the food way too expensive and window shopping alone made her feel like the poorest woman in the world but adaline held a fascination with new york. people didn't dream and aspire to move there for nothing, after all, and it did have a certain air of celebrity about it. so she took a walk sometimes, occasionally dropping by the same pizza shop to pick up some real new york pizza. and that was where she was then, people watching and keeping a meticulous watch on the time. she had a few hours to spare but she'd been known to get lost in her crowd gazing; she couldn't afford to be late for the theater.
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