So I live about an hour and a half north of NYC (though grew up in Manhattan, and only moved to where I am after Soph. year of High School), and since it's a heavily suburban area, there's a heavy-rail train system serving the legions of commuters to NYC every day called Metro North. I actually work in a smaller city (White Plains) north of NYC at the Westchester County Planning Dept., but it's still on the way to NYC, so I'm on the train for an hour each way every day to and from my (paid) internship.
Anyway, none of that matters, of course - just setting the scene for one of the greatest chance meetings of my life. Since the train always gets crowded, it's a guarantee that you're gonna have to sit right next to someone, so I cleared my stuff off the seat next to me before hunkering down for a little more shut-eye. I felt someone sit down next to me, but didn't budge until a few minutes later, when I looked and saw that it was a young woman (I feel like such a stodgy old fart when I say that, but what else am I supposed to call a chick in her early 20s? "Girl" is too patronizing, but "woman" to me implies someone definitely in womanhood, at least 25 or so...) and quite the foxy one at that, dressed in business apparel. However, she also has a tattoo around her wrist, so BAM! - instant conversation starter, and I jumped on it.
We get to talking, first about tattoos, and I tell her about mine (my parents' names in Nordic bind-runes), which gets us to talking about music - and lo and behold, she turns out to be a singer, and a metal one at that! She talked about how she just quit a band because they wanted to do too many "blast beats and growls" (so she knew the lingo), and how she had just moved to the area to work in the city and was finishing undergrad stuff online (implying that she's not too much older than me, if at all, though of course I didn't ask). So we talked for awhile, and around when my stop came up, I got her name so I could facebook her, and walked out of the train with a spring in my step!
A little background - recently, I've been listening to a fair amount of music with chick singers (After Forever, Stream of Passion, Epica), cuz a friend of mine is pretty into that style, and I just find the concept of a chick who can belt out beautiful vocals INTENSELY attractive. I'd also love to be in (another) band with a chick singer (even if my first was with a "young woman" who could definitely sing, but also was an incredibly immature bi-polar nutcase), so even from a strictly professional standpoint, this was an incredible stroke of good luck. However, since she's hot, I certainly wouldn't mind it being more tha professional as well! I'm in college for one more year, but she didn't seem to imply she'd be going anywhere, so when I'm out, I definitely wanna live in the area, and we shall see what happens!
Anyway, just wanted to share my good fortune with you guys.
Anyway, none of that matters, of course - just setting the scene for one of the greatest chance meetings of my life. Since the train always gets crowded, it's a guarantee that you're gonna have to sit right next to someone, so I cleared my stuff off the seat next to me before hunkering down for a little more shut-eye. I felt someone sit down next to me, but didn't budge until a few minutes later, when I looked and saw that it was a young woman (I feel like such a stodgy old fart when I say that, but what else am I supposed to call a chick in her early 20s? "Girl" is too patronizing, but "woman" to me implies someone definitely in womanhood, at least 25 or so...) and quite the foxy one at that, dressed in business apparel. However, she also has a tattoo around her wrist, so BAM! - instant conversation starter, and I jumped on it.
We get to talking, first about tattoos, and I tell her about mine (my parents' names in Nordic bind-runes), which gets us to talking about music - and lo and behold, she turns out to be a singer, and a metal one at that! She talked about how she just quit a band because they wanted to do too many "blast beats and growls" (so she knew the lingo), and how she had just moved to the area to work in the city and was finishing undergrad stuff online (implying that she's not too much older than me, if at all, though of course I didn't ask). So we talked for awhile, and around when my stop came up, I got her name so I could facebook her, and walked out of the train with a spring in my step!
A little background - recently, I've been listening to a fair amount of music with chick singers (After Forever, Stream of Passion, Epica), cuz a friend of mine is pretty into that style, and I just find the concept of a chick who can belt out beautiful vocals INTENSELY attractive. I'd also love to be in (another) band with a chick singer (even if my first was with a "young woman" who could definitely sing, but also was an incredibly immature bi-polar nutcase), so even from a strictly professional standpoint, this was an incredible stroke of good luck. However, since she's hot, I certainly wouldn't mind it being more tha professional as well! I'm in college for one more year, but she didn't seem to imply she'd be going anywhere, so when I'm out, I definitely wanna live in the area, and we shall see what happens!
Anyway, just wanted to share my good fortune with you guys.
