It’s a good thing

Since I’ve been back in New York, people have asked what I’m up to as an unemployed person. My first week back after traveling, I was bored out of my mind (and not enjoying all the unpacking/reorganizing of my room and closet after being gone five weeks). But then things like this happen, when I go see Martha Stewart just because she’s famous and I don’t have anywhere to be at 5 p.m.

(After the photographers took pictures of her holding her new books — shouting things like “Martha, look to your right please. Please Martha, right. Look to the right.” “Over here Martha! Your right, just could you maybe hold the books the other way?” — she whipped out her camera and took pictures of them. For her blog. Apparently Martha gets a kick out of the number of page views her “little personal blog” gets. I can’t remember if it was 7,000 a day or 7 million a month, but it was crazy.)

(As much as I wanted her “Encyclopedia of Crafts,” I couldn’t justify spending $35 when it’s only $20 on Amazon.)

Her book signing was at the new Michael’s craft store opening on the Upper West Side. This is a huge development in the craft world, as the only other store nearby is in Queens. But this new one. Holy cow. It’s insane. The aisles are entirely too small and all the employees drove me crazy, but the stuff that was stocked made me want to go on a shopping spree. Because who doesn’t need a $124.99 paper cutter?