In my work I have come across so many amazing people and have slowly started to build up a network of wonderful friends – albeit friends on a professional level. Through the events that I get invited to (and there are many!) and the interviews that I have to set up for my boss I have been in the company of many B/C-list (shhhhhh…don’t tell them I called them that!) celebrities and people who I really look up to. Another aspect that I’m fascinated by are the journalists that I’ve gotten in contact with – and I mean journalists from across the spectrum – local newspapers and blogs to writers with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. I love it.
Last week we were having a meeting with a freelance writer for one of the top shelter magazines here in New York and he mentioned that he was working on a story for the New York Times on dirt and how it affects design and living in the city. Intrigued, both Vicente and I started commenting and telling our own versions of the Battle of the Soot (ask any New Yorker – we all have those stories…) In our house we have a ‘no-shoes’ policy – those dirty buggers get pulled off feet just as you step into the door. Considering the amount of people, dogs, birds, trees, garbage trucks and food on this small island, you can surely imagine what the streets’ dirt-quality must be like! Some friends don’t quite get it, but when you clean your own home, there’s nothing you wouldn’t do to try keep it as clean as possible for as long as possible.
So, back to the meeting with the writer for the New York Times…He took some notes and emailed me on Monday to get an okay for him to use some of our quotes in his article. ‘Of course’ I said, figuring that as long as Vicente’s quote got featured, I’d be happy to have mine edited out. But to my amazement, my quote made it in! See for yourself – my name in print in the New York Times! Who would’ve ever thought?
Read the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/garden/02dirt.html.
I had to giggle when I saw the title. It was written in the stars? No! Just the Times!