A-C

AGrub: BigSis' friend from college. He lives in NY and works as a lawyer. I usually only see him at events thrown by BigSis and her friends.

Anxious: I met Anxious in choir, as a college freshman. We became very good friends, and shared a common circle of friends (Buke, GoldenFinch, Contessa, Liu, B, etc.). She and Buke dated for eight years and broke up in the Summer of 2004. From that point on, we stopped getting along very well. She tends to be hypercritical and also very anxious! We fought about her wanting to come and live with me for a few weeks, and also, for not telling me about the Narc-masturbation incident.

Arch: In the fall of 2005, Hammer started to date the Arch. I met him at Anxious' birthday party that October.

AW: A member of the "W family," our next-door neighbors when I was growing up. He has a twin, LW, and they'reLilSis' age.

B: My best friend/soul mate of sorts. I met B when I was 17 and we dated from when I was 20-23. We lived together for two years. We have since remained best friends. There is too much to say about B to even attempt to summarize it here.

BarMan: Bartender at Cheers. He's a talented singer and has a great sense of humor. He's dating ThursdayGirl. I've had a little on-again/off-again crush on him.

Bar & Books: A favorite hang-out of Narc's. One of the few "smoking bars" in NY City. Located in the West Village.

Battery Park: The waterfront nearest to Narc's apartment. We've been for several sunset-walks there.

The Beast:

Becky & Brady:

Bezoukhoff: A friend from graduate school, and a bit of an eccentric like myself. As a Russian, Bezoukhoff lets me indulge my Russophile side. He even once offered to duel Narc!

BigSis: BigSis is obviously my older sister. Just a year older than I am, she and I went through school in the same grade with the same friends until we got to college. So we were always very close. BigSis is married and much more of a "planner" than I am!

The Bouncer: This name has been assigned to two different people. The first-- a friend of the Stallion's who I bumped into in the Summer of 2004, and who called me the following February. The second person referred to as "the Bouncer" is the bouncer at Cheers. He only works there on Friday and Saturday nights.

Bro-in-Law
Buke
BulgarianGuy
Candy
Cheers
Columbia
Contessa
CouchSleeper
Cowboy
Crys
CW

D-F

Dag Hammerskjold Plaza:

Decompress
Duff
EF
English
The Exhibitionist
FightingMensch
FlirtyColombian
FourteenthFloorBoy
FourthFloorGirls

G-I

GoldenFinch
Grey and Dreary, Deary!
Hammer
HW
IrishBird
IronChef

J-L

Jake
James
JBC
JerBer
Judit
KHill
KSing
KW
LilSis
Lindsay
Lindsor
Liu
LW

M-O

Maeve
Manchester Pub
MarriedGuy
Masturbation-incident
Matt
Medicine
M&M
Mocca
ModelChick
MuscleGuy
Narc
NDN/NextDoorNeighbor
New-Girl
the Nigerians
Nipkins
NiS
No Biggie
NV
Oc
OG

P-R

PakistaniMan
the Patriot
Peachy
Prissy
ProfPP
ProfSex
Public Library
PumpedUp
Red-faced-Lawyer
RK
Rochester
RockStarChick
RY

V-X

Val
Velma
Violetta
W Family
Waikiki Wally's
WigGuy
the Wizard

Y-Z