arrived in Jersey and already everything smells
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Do love driving into the city though Nothing like it Just an incredible beautiful accreted mass of everything human Like a diffuse Kowloon Walled City
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And everything is alien New York is a separate nation Nothing looks or behaves quite like it should in American terms
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In practice this means most things work badly and visitors never know whether any given interaction is bad due to incompetence or due to the fact they're being screwed So far my hotel nearly refused me a room because I didn't have a dead tree copy of a voucher, and . . .
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. . . I have no idea when or if I will get the toiletries I just asked for at the front desk. "Housekeeping will bring it up." To charge me more? I can't just . . . have a shitty razor and one of those singe-use toothpaste packets? What is going on?
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Everything exchange is a scaled-down isomorph of contemporary MTA efforts to extend the subway Think I'm going in unshaven with some mint gum Apologies to my interviewers in advance
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Update! A nice man arrived with two toothbrushes, two razors, and no toothpaste "I don't need two" "No problem!" Have a feeling this will be on the bill
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Final update, it was not! What a rollercoaster
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