Scenes From a Wall Street Bench

Wanted to check in to see how my friends here are doing..It has been so long. I hope everyone is having a great summer.

Pretty much have taken a much needed mental break from everything this summer. Well, thankfully I'm still employed but it's nice and slow and so the mental break continues through the workday.

I don't get out for lunch usually. Choose to avoid the hectic streets, but lately it has been so slow and my officemate is driving me so nuts with his constant complaining, that I now force myself out each day.

Sure don't go far.. Just across from my office to the bench on Wall Street. Seriously funny people watching on the bench sometimes. Usually I just prefer to eavesdrop, but amazingly I haven't sat on the bench for an hour with my book without someone talking to me. Mostly middle age men, as bored with their workdays as I am. The usual small talk -- the weather...the loudness of construction noise....the lunch I'm eating looks good. Who said New Yorkers aren't friendly?

Really if you think you're having a lame summer, just be glad it's not like mine.
Sitting on a bench.

My mind must be so incredibly bored that I came up with an idea for a book...a movie called Scenes from a Wall Street Bench. All the different characters you meet there. Their stories. Really it could get interesting.
A cute office guy seems to be a lunch loner too and sits every day at the cluster of benches devouring his Chipotle burrito. Surely the old TCG would be hoping to meet him. But amazingly (and thankfully) N still hasn't bolted for the hills yet. So I'm thinking that I could meet him for my single friend who has been endlessly looking for someone.
Which brings me to my next career idea. Something quite a few people told me I should get into... Matchmaking. Yes, there would be more of a purpose to that career than my do-no-good Finance office job.

TCG Matchmaking. Has a ring to it, huh?

But then again, this is probably also just a product of an overly bored mind of these dog days of summer, where really I'm not doing much of anything...but dreaming up a better way on a Wall Street bench..