this is for you mom

Monday, October 30, 2006

to destroy is easier than to create

I just got back from seeing Babel which really horrified me on so many levels.
I wrote some stuff for socialist theory today...about marxism and its place as a history rather than simply an outline for the future.
I also outlined my paper for Sex, Gender, and the Bible -- on Dina and her crazy brothers that I call my ancestors.
and my roommates never do the dishes.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

hmmm

so i remembered suddenly that no one knows what my room looks like except for mom and dad. so here is our sweet chinatown pad:

the view when you just come in our door of our common room:

the double (that i live in with kelly) is the door on the left....the triple (elsa, shaq, and jackie live there) is the door straight ahead)

our kitchen (which if directly on the right when you walk in)


our common room from another angle:


the hamster: Kingsley:


the view from just walking into mine and kellys room:


my side of the room:




bathroom: (pretty standard)

but how great is that shower curtain??


my desk (lots of pictures all around it):


please notice the absentee ballot on my desk :)


wall next to my desk:


polaroid wall!:

Sunday, October 22, 2006

my weekend

Boston was great.
I basically hung out with Laura for two days straight and it was wonderful. It was the most sober weekend I've had in forever (absolutely no alcohol was imbibed) and so laid back. Maybe this is just my friends, but at NYU it seems like on the weekend we all go out like crazy - and don't get me wrong...i love going out to crazy bars and big weird parties, but it was definetly nice to just chill in peoples rooms for a weekend. I would get sick of it after a while, but for a weekend it was great to be at normal and laid back chilling college. groups of friends sitting and drinking and talking instead of running around manhattan and wondering if the L was running this weeikend. of course it was harvard, so there were people studying at 11 pm on friday night, but what can you do.

The Fung-Wah chinatown bus there took SEVEN HOURS. ridiculous ridiculous traffic. the man sitting behind me looked like Fidel Castro and YELLED on his cell phone the entire ride about the sale of his mini cooper on craigs list and the evils of the world and buses. Well, he yelled for the entire ride that he was there for becuase we appeared to leave him at the rest stop in hartford. don't worry...he was already in boston when we got there and yelled at everyone on the bus for not making sure that he got on. This is a picture that I took of him with my cell phone:


Poor Laura waited in the Boston bus terminal for two hours for me...luckily she had a lot of reading to do that she got done. So I ended up getting onto the Harvard campus around 11 at night whereupon we seek out my good old friend Dan Carroll and hang out in his room with him, his awesome girlfriend, and their friends. They got drunk and ended up falling asleep while Laura and I just chilled. We also got to hang out with the amazing ryan walsh who is one of those guys that you look at now and wish you had dated in high school.

Alex Bassett was supposed to come down on saturday...but unfortunately she could not :(.
Saturday began with the head of the charles regatta!! I saw elsa (my roommate whose father was rowing in an MIT-alumni 8) and some boats. Then I went to watch Laura's acapella group in concert and then met up with alex - a guy from PC who just graduated from BU and who I did crew with in high school. It was great to see him and really weird to hear the names of people that I hadn't thought about in years. We went to urban where I found nothing I liked that was worth the money, but Laura found a great hat! Back at the head of the charles we ran into brian mcqueen and proceeded to walk around with him...random. we then found EVERYONE who we had gone to high school and who had kept on doing crew with. Everyone except Josh FH who was apparently coxing a Danish National Team boat. We did friend him on facebook after that though!

We walked about 12 miles around the charles and surrounding areas which resulted in me wearing a hole in my shoe and cutting my foot. don't worry mom, i cleaned it out and changed my shoes and everything.

Saturday night we went for what was probably the best dinner I have had since Rosh Hashanna - it was ammaaaaaazing Indian food. Following that we got coffee and 3 hours of conversation with the amazing ryan walsh. we walked around for a bit, hung out with dan some more and just chilled.

Sunday I went to the Harvard Coup to get some books for class, got breakfast, hung out, and got on the bus (with some major help from laura since i didnt realize i didnt have cash and she threw at 10 dollar bill at me so that I could buy a ticket). The trip took exactly 4 hours and I got back and threw my stuff down and decided that I really needed new groceries. I hit up Trader Joes and Food Emporium and now won't need groceries for the next month which is GREAT since its such a pain to go up to 14th. I go all the way up there because trader joes is amazing and so so so cheap. I basically get about 29034873 things there and it always costs 20 dollars. I get 5 things at food emporium and its 25 dollars. I also realized right before this that I had forgotten a ton of books that I needed for class and went to Barnes and Nobles in Union Square to get them. Some guy in barnes and nobles was cracked out on something and screaming about how it ought to be a library.

So now I have groceries. And lots and lots and lots and lots of work. Ughhh. But at least I have nice, healthy vegetables. I don't understand how some people can eat mac and cheese every day. Once in a while it is awesome...but I need my stirfriend veggies and brown rice to feel like a non-gross human being. Alright, I should get to unpacking, writing in my sadly-neglected socialist journal, reading for social history of photo and sex gender and the bible, and figuring out my photo stuff. love and miss you all!!



I forgot to mention that last sunday my awesome friend greg came in and we went to some crazy bars and did some awesome adventuring in nyc. its worth noting how nice it was to have someone around who has known me for so long and in such a different context than everyone here. thats another reason it was so awesome to be around laura and dan and ryan this weekend.

Friday, October 20, 2006

catch-up

last night I hung out at one of the sophmore-filled union square dorms. I lied...actually I should tell my whole day yesterday.
I modeled for one of the other photo majors who is doing a really cool project about the asian influence on world fashion. she put tons and tons of makeup on me and dressed me up in crazy stuff and had me do backbends and stand on my hands and do all sorts of crazy things. after that i went to the opening of the katrina photograps show that the photo department is hosting (I helped hang the show!!), then to dinner with bailey.
Bailey somehow convinced me to go to the jewish fraternities ice cream mixer. i went and hung out with a bunch of old friends...THEN we went to carlyle (that union square dorm) and just hung out with marsh, db, dakari, dee for a while and then i hung out with the dancers and larkin. it was raining so i didn't want to come all the way back so i just slept in the girldancers room. now i'm here, showering, packing, and heading to boston for the weekend to see laura and alex! (and shoot a lot a lot a lot)

Monday, October 16, 2006

I have been at photo doing printing since 6ish...ugh. two more prints to go and I am outta here!!! home to write a response paper, do sex and gender reading, and go to sleep.

this is an example from my newspaper fashion line project:


ahhhh i'm so hungry! i'm totally getting hummus on the way home.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

someone stole my bike.
I'm really angry.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

:)

I'm going to write in this now instead of doing an entry in my socialist theory intellectual journal....

I've been super busy.... lots of shooting, trapezing, and paper writing.
this picture is from years ago...but accurate:


My friend Witt and I are training a double still trapeze act together and so far its going great...we have a good rythm together and both of us are pretty fearless when it comes to trying new stuff so we've been putting together some cool moves...

that is what one doubles move looks like, other stuff involves hanging off each other...
Last night I caught my splits and through a pretty decent layout so I'm happy about that...

In terms of school, I turned in my SEX, GENDER, AND THE BIBLE paper the other day...among other things about how in orthodox juddaic rabbinic tradition women were punished for eve by being banned from torah and so considered unable to control their sexual desires so not allowed to study torah so not able to control so not allowed....in a vicious cycle. hopefully i'll get that back on thursday.

Last thursday night I modeled for one of the seniors in the photo department...she needed a small flexible person to stand upside down and then hang from someones waist. Honestly, I had a lot of fun at the shoot becuase it was a bunch of friends. It was fun to do all sorts of bendy stuff too....

Friday we went to a crazy party in brooklyn which was tons of fun and then on sunday it was jackie's bday and we had pumpkin pie and then monday was no school which is always good. I had a lot of stuff at the trapeze school over the weekend though, so no crazy crazy partying for me!

The most exciting thing that has happened recently is that....I GOT A BIKE!! One of the guys that I work with had an extra and just gave it to me...he is the nicest guy who is dating an NYU professor and wouldn't let me give him any money for it (he said he really just needed somewhere to store it until the summer when his nephew uses it). Last night, my friend Rob and I rode all around the financial district...there were no cars out and it was great to see nyc at night from a bike. I think tonight we are going to ride down the west side highway to 35th street and then ride back. I still plan on walking to classes (until it gets super cold) because I like the slow walk to wake me up...but it will be nice to be able to bike to Union Square to see my friends instead of waiting for the bus or walking. I also plan to use it for just getting around the city, getting to work (its a 30 minute walk), and exploring. Its nice because I wouldn't walk around chinatown by myself too much at night, but I wouldn't really worry on a bike :). Its not too pretty..not one of those cool vintage bikes that the hipsters ride....but really, what do I care as long as it gets me where I need to go? So yeah... I LOVE having a bike.

I've got to prepare for my photoshoot that is happening on Thursday tonight and do some reading, etc. Now I'll head back to the socialist theory...

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Saturday, October 07, 2006

I thought that you all might appreciate this


life has been crazy...today is my calm day and it is very exciting to finally have time to wash my hair :).

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

sorry I haven't written in a while...I've been super super crazy busy. I'll write about whats happened the last week later, but this is whats on tab for the rest of the week

today
class, paper writing, running, making dinner at home, paper, paper, paper for sex gender and the bible (i'm sending it to dad to read over for me haha)

thursday
9:30 and 12:30 class until 2
I'd like to be shooting so I've got to talk to a few people about modeling
processing processing processing
I'm probably going to take thursday night to just do photo and homework so I get it out of the way for most of the weekend

friday
training at 1 with witt
more shooting i'm sure
maybe seeing mom and dad!
working 3:30 onwards
brooklyn dance party!!

saturday
shooting shooting shooting
crewing for some guys film
some volunteer business

sunday
AIDS walk in the morning
work 3:30-
JACKIE'S BIRTHDAY!!

monday
no classes!!

in retrospect my weekend doesn't look too bad...not as much planned out. I want to shoot A LOT though and hopefully aron yuster is coming in to visit this weekend....