BEST HOLIDAY EVER! This is my favorite day of the year, by far. It usually ends up being not as awesome (work day, work the next morning) as it should be (aka it should be a national holiday), but I get to wear as much green as I want, don a plastic green-jeweled crown, and listen to Irish jig music without getting weird looks! I’m so happy I’ll even let the horrendous sentence construction I just made you read slip by without changing it.
I’m not really sure why I’m quite so obsessed with my motherland, but I am and it’s fabulous. Good food, nice people, pretty cobblestoned streets and groomed yards, endearing accents, fun parties, an awesome language I wish I knew… but mainly I think I like the idea that in America on St. Patrick’s Day, “everyone is Irish”. It’s a sort of coming together for New York City, because so many of us are Irish.
Now I’m off to bake shepherd’s pie and skip gleefully through the streets of Williamsburg before the happiest day of heritage is over! I’ll get those hipsters to smile, I swear it.
