Life Lessons: From Me to You.

THE TOP 13 THINGS I'VE LEARNED SINCE I RETURNED TO NEW YORK...YESTERDAY.

1. The door to the offices of the Wooster Group is VERY hard to find.

2. Apparently when I live alone, sometimes I become a 30-year-old bachelor. Tonight I needed a midnight snack and I decided to make some Chef Boyardee Ravioli. I don't know when/by whom this can was purchased. But I made it. And I ate it all. No regrets.

3. I wish I could, and think I might possibly be the love-child of Audra McDonald and Julie White...without any trace of blackness (much to my chagrin).

4. I'm getting very good at using my Ipod to provide the soundtrack to my own life (tonight was Bon Iver on the downtown E).

5. No matter how little I am and how large my suitcase is, I will simply never be the kind of girl who is helped by kind strangers on the train.

6. I would be willing to pay someone with size 5 1/2-6 feet (probably a female tween or large elementary schooler) to wear my new shoes. She will get blisters, but she will also get hefty compensation.

7. To the vanity plate on the mini-van I saw driving today that read "FOSHZLE": I saw you. I judged you.

8. Nothing brings me more joy than watching great actors do great work.

9. It's a good thing I've been lifting those 5-lbs weights because milk is heavy.

10. I will ALWAYS get a kick out of those people who dance on the subway to their Ipods and just totally GO FOR IT.

11. I miss acting. It's been far too long.

12. The morbidly obese black woman next to me on the subway tonight: "MMMMgrrl, I can't wait to get home and have me a Toffuti Cutie!" The experience didn't really teach me anything, but JESUS was it funny.

13. I like the false sense of independence that living along brings me, but it can also be really lonely.