Jeremy Relosa

He's our senior art critic.

He's not just the donut man.

He's like, oh, that's right.

Am I in the group chat?

Yeah, it felt like...

A lot of my feed on Instagram and a lot of just people online were not the real people that were important to me in my personal life or my real life, which is such a weird thing to say that like my real life is.

I guess I should say like more in person, but all the important things my friends would just like kind of catch up with me about.

And it's just like nice to just

be a person in New York and just experience it that way and kind of leave yourself open to like connections and maybe meeting someone kind of randomly.

And I think about two weeks in, I got a voicemail from my friend.

It was actually really exciting to do something like that.

But I could tell there was maybe a little hesitation to communicate solely via the landline, even from the get-go.

Leaving a voicemail was the easier option.

Especially when I would tell them like, hey, I'm actually at the office most of the day.

So if you call during the day, I won't answer.

So they would be a little bit more inclined to like leave a voicemail knowing I wouldn't answer as like a little safeguard to...

That's kind of cool.

No, it was interesting.

Like, you know, we set up a date and, you know, this time and place, like two days from now, and then you just hope they show up.

I know that sounds like what an awful payoff.