I miss the parks. I know, there's Central Park just a couple of blocks away, but it's all brown and dry and bare still. And you can't walk around at night. Not that one could walk around University Parks at night. But at least they were always green and pretty, and you could walk right up to the river; here you have to stand near the wall along Riverside Drive -- but not too close or you'll see the highway running right next to the Hudson -- to see the lights glinting off the black waters. I miss the river. I'd say, I miss the sea, and I kinda do, for all that I haven't really seen it for -- what, three, four years now? It's strange how being near moving water makes you feel better, somehow.