Hey, Hurdlers, Emily Abadi bringing you five-minute Friday from Hurtle. It's been a week, huh? I feel like this week I was not really

productive at all. I mean, I feel like I'm in this holding pattern where I'm getting everything

done that I need to get done, but I'm not exceeding the status quo.

And I know that it's okay. And I have to have some grace with myself.

But it just, it feels a little bit, you know what I mean, that arg feeling.

That's how I feel.

Anyway, for five minute Friday this week, I'm talking about my great love,

New York City. You know, yesterday, a friend of mine, she reached out to me and she told me in a text

message that she was going to hopefully sublet her apartment at the end of July and move back to where she's from

in Portland. And I didn't really know how to respond. I mean, it's a conversation that I've heard

a lot lately, especially. I mean, since the beginning of the pandemic, so many of my friends,

you know, have been either

leaving the city temporarily or making the move out of the city possibly for good.

And it's been really interesting because their decisions have me asking myself what it is that I want.

And time and time again, when I come back to this question,

where do I want to be? I just, I think about New York in all of its glory. I think about the

magic that it has. I think about that here you can literally be whoever you want to be whenever you want to be

them. Even in a pandemic, I mean, let's reflect first on my pre-pandemic life, right? Like I could

literally go to a hot yoga class at Linesden and I could be there next to celebrities. I could take a

quick shower and then be at a rooftop bar in minutes

overlooking the Empire State Building like it was no thing. Just casual, right? I could go

bouldering in Central Park and run over one of three different bridges, I think, to Brooklyn,

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