One of the reasons I love living in New York City is cause you can hail cabs here. I'm used to being able to go out in the street, stick out my arm and have a yellow one stop right in front of me. When I moved from Istanbul to Pittsburgh, that was one of the things I missed most. In Pittsburgh, you call a cab and start praying for it to show. Anyhow, back to New York. The thing that baffles me is how few people know the simple taxi system. All cabs in New York use the same strategy to symbolize whether they are free or not. If the sign on top of the cab is not lit, it's Occupied. If it's totally lit, it's Off Duty and if the mid section is lit, it's Available. When hailing for a cab, all you need to do is look for the cabs whose middle light is on. How complicated is that? (And if my explanation sounds complicated, it's only cause I suck at explaining not cause it's actually confusing.) It took me all of a day or two to figure this out. For some reason, New York is full of people who have not. It really baffles me.

Thank God it's Friday. This week has been long and draining so I am really glad it's over. I'm tired of coming home with a whole set of ideas on what I need to do and how I'm going to get it all done and ending up on the couch, unable to move. I'm planning to use this weekend to recharge. And accomplish the millions of things on my list.

Before?