Curiousity Saved the Dog

Hell Yeah!!! Spurs won!

So I am back in the oven that we refer to as home as of my flight today. And God, is it HOT! And not in the good Paris Hilton "that's hot" term. It is 105 degrees and I have the whole summer to look forward to.

Anyway, I have arrived and what do I receive upon my arrival...oh, a jury duty summons for the end of June. I have been registered to vote for less than a year and I am already supposed to serve jury duty. Whatever...we'll see. I actually think it has potential to be cool.

So I shall provide a little +/- thingy because they seem to be all the rage.
+/- Freshman year is over.
+ Some classes that I hated have ended...cough, cough...Conwest
- I already feel NYC deprivation...and I've been back almost every other day since I've moved out (the 7th) for one reason or another while crashing in Jersey.
- No more Weinstein life...but I shall miss my Weinstein friends being so accessible. But moving out was a bitch!
+ No more Weinstein life...I can sleep...Hallelujah!
+/- Friends...when I'm there, I miss the ones here and when I'm here I miss the ones there. Saying good-bye is sad.
+ Julius Caesar on Broadway w/ Denzel Washington was marvelous.
+ The Apprentice finale was at NYU's wonderful Skirball Ctr.
- They only let 200 NYU students come and those people got special invitations from having a "previous relationship with the Skirball Ctr." They suck. lol.
+/- I got to see more family in Jersey...for the most part, it was a pain.

So I guess I will spend my summer dodging the heat and FINALLY getting my driving license.

I am: 29% Republican.

"You're probably one of those people who still thinks that getting a blowjob is not an impeachable offense."

Are You A Republican?

Wow - they totally get me!

Anyway, in an effort to procrastinate further, I am taking quizzes and updating my livejournal. Will my muse please come by my side about now. I'm in need of you, muse! So this week is going to be and is absolutely crazy and to top the craziness off I am sick and no, I am not talking little sneeze sick, I'm talking my-allergies-have-turned-mutant-sick! (aka. I am so sick I made myself go to the health center (mainly because while on the phone with my mom she was panicking due to my coughing - "you sound like you have bronchitis and bronchitis turns into pneumonia and people die from pneumonia!) and I have gotten to the point where all my congestion is in my chest and I am weezing! So I went to the health center and I have an f-ing inhaler now! I have not been this bad in a least 5 years. And to top that all off my finals start manana. Yep, tomorrow...when I want nothing more to do than sleep the day away, which I opted to do yesterday, therefore I cannot do nothing today.

One good thing: the other day some friends and I decided to go to the lounge and watch a movie. After much sadness of not being able to track down Finding Neverland, we ended up watching Dot the i. Amazing movie...so twisted but oh so good. And there's flamenco dancing! So here is my little movie plug - Go see Dot the i!

My final words: death to Thomas Hobbes, Plato, Epicurus, Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas More if they weren't already dead centuries ago. Must they have written such stupid books? I hate philosophy. Why can't I have my own and be done with it?

Next week is finals week, that means that now I am becoming the master procrastinator. So lucky you get to learn more about me. :)

Your brain: 80% interpersonal, 80% visual, 100% verbal, and 140% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers. Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious: Don't date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 80%. Don't be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 100%. Don't have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 200%.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 76% on interpersonal You scored higher than 72% on visual You scored higher than 83% on verbal You scored higher than 85% on mathematical

Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid

Your #1 Match: ISTJ

The Duty Fulfiller You are responsible, reliable, and hardworking - you get the job done. You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knittings. Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you. Conservative and down-to-earth, you hardly ever do anything crazy. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer.

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

40% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Where does that dixie come from? And yes! I have successfully kept all midwestern out of my speech!

So I watched some of what Bush (although it was quite nauseating) had to say and he just makes me mad. Example: (because this is the one fresh in my mind) a question about the future of the economy from a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. Bush's response: well, we are going to make sure that gas prices do not get much higher because that hurts small businesses and we don't want to hurt the small businesses... First of all, since when did the economy consist only of gasoline? I think that there are a few other products in there that we do buy. Second, I hate that he always uses small businesses as his scapegoat. Small businesses have a lot more to them than just gasoline since he seems to narrow-mindedly only care about that subject. I bet that they would be okay with gas prices rising just a bit if they didn't go out of business because nobody wants to buy from them because we have a, gasp!, FAILING economy (ooh, I'm sorry it's recuperating a tiny bit and has been for a few years, in about 10 years we will be back to where we were before the recession, yay!). I'm sorry to vent. But he really pisses me off.

I miss the days of good ol' days of Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandals.

I feel like crap...I hate allergies...they are evil. I got barely any sleep last night because I couldn't breathe so now I am cranky.

My Monday classes (the last official day of class) are cancelled. One on account of jury duty (conwest); the other because she is sparing us from having to write about "what we learned in advanced college essay" like we did with writing the essay and just having us turn in our papers to her cubicle. Yay!

I'm going to have to spend basically my entire life until wed. dedicating myself to my Conwest in-class essay (he gave us the topic which is totally odd given it is an in-class essay). Anyway, I have to become an expert on all that is Hobbes, Machiavelli, and either Shakespeare's opinions in Julius Caesar or Virgil...I can't decide. Then come Wed. I get to write it all down in a Blue Book...I hate Blue Books...they are evil, almost as evil as allergies.

My schedule ahead, it's scary that it is almost over:
Friday - last official day of classes
Monday - turn in ACE essay
Wed. - Conwest exam
Thurs. - Cosmos and the Earth exam (8 am! I will surely die)
Fri. - Mom comes in
Sat. - Pack my stuff and haul it all to my Great Aunt's house
Sun. - Study for Econ final
Mon. - Econ final/ take all little things left in the dorm away...tear
10th-20th - chill, on the 11th I'm going to see Julius Caesar on Broadway with Denzel Washington starring as Brutus! I'm excited for that. If only I could somehow make that extra credit for Conwest...hey, a girl can dream.
20th - plane flight...back to hot Phoenix

Don't you love when you are in such a good, hyper mood for no reason and people who get high regularly think that you are high when actually it is just you really, really happy and/or running on a lack of sleep?

I am getting really bad at updating. Ummm...well it is the last week of classes and it does not feel like it is really over. Exams start may 4...conwest is going to be the death of me (or my GPA)...i am terrified for that final. I am actually praying for a solid B...and that is just sad. Speaking of praying, I just heart my Astronomy teacher and his firm belief in evolution. His theory is that if God exists "He is a practical joker" to give so much evidence to the fact that He doesn't and if we want to believe that the Earth was created 6000 years ago, then we should take it all the way...why couldn't Earth have been created one second ago? We have no evidence that it wasn't because God could have created us with these memories of the past.

In other news, I chose my new room – it was chaotic with my bad pick time, there was almost nothing left. So my pick ended up being easy because my options sucked. I just went up as high as I could which was the sixth floor unless I wanted to live with an RA, which I did not. So I got room 602 in the lovely estate of Water Street all the way down to the Financial District. Though one benefit of my late pick time – we got to find out who our roommates were because with the limited selection they ended up being the people right behind/in front of us. So I met my future roommate and chatted with her all the way back to campus (this was a good 30 minutes) and she seems like a really nice person that I could get along with. We discovered that neither of us smoke or smoke pot (thank God!), both like to go to bed typically in the range of 12 and 2 on weeknights, like a clean (not fanatically clean but clean) space, and (this is the big one) we both adore Gilmore Girls. So that is a huge relief gone.

On the ever-changing career path that is my future (but somehow they all manage to stay within Stern) I want to be a corporate lawyer. This should last for about another week.

Also, to share my enjoyment of this piece with other (even pseudo) environmentalists and dislikers of Bush...

http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jhtml?reposid=/multimedia/tds/headlines/10055.html

I love John Stewart!

And the procrastinator's dream (a survey) stolen from Claire...

I'M BORED, YOU'RE BORED, HERE ARE SOME RANDOM QUESTIONS.
Created by FIRELOVEASTHENIA and taken 1078 times on bzoink!
ARE YOU CURRENTLY GROUNDED?	no
DO YOU SNORE?	no
ARE YOU A LOVER OR A FIGHTER?	lover
WHAT'S YOUR WORST FEAR?	bugs...yeah it's not really deep, but true
AS A KID, WERE YOU A LEGO MANIAC?	no
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF "REALITY" TV?	can...not...turn...away...from horrible tv
DO YOU CHEW ON YOUR STRAWS?	no
WERE YOU A CUTE BABY?	oh yes
IS THE SINGLE LIFE FOR YOU?	sure
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR KEYBOARD?	black with white letters
IS BARBIE SEXY?	no
DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER?	only if there is no one else in a million mile radius
HAVE YOU EVER BUNGEE JUMPED?	no, but it would be cool
ANY SPECIAL TALENTS?	nope
WHAT'S YOUR IDEAL VACATION SPOT?	sydney, australia
IS JAY LENO FUNNY?	sometimes
CAN YOU SWIM?	like a fish
HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVE "DONNIE DARKO"?	no
ARE YOU A VIRGIN?	yes
DO YOU GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE OZONE?	don't you
HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE CENTER OF A TOOSTIE POP?	one good bite
CAN YOU SING THE ALPHABET BACKWARDS?	yes, but a little disjointedly...i could perfect it again if i tried
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE?	many, many times
ARE YOU AN ONLY CHILD?	yes
DO YOU PREFER ELECTRIC OR MANUAL PENCIL SHARPENERS?	who uses pencil sharpeners anymore? this is the '00s we are all about the mechanical
WHAT'S YOUR STAND ON HUNTING?	:( don't kill the little animals, unless it is a rodent
IS MARRIAGE IN YOUR FUTURE?	far far away
DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?	most of the time
WHAT ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO?	spring! trees, grass, things blooming...just spring in general
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAID "I LOVE YOU"?	yesterday, my mom hehe
IS TUPAC STILL ALIVE?	i don't think so but i always love a conspiracy theory
DO YOU CRY AT WEDDINGS?	no
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?	not at all
ARE BLONDES DUMB?	some
WHERE DOES THE OTHER SOCK END UP?	under my bed
WHAT TIME IS IT?	4:45
DO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME?	jo, jojo, cloanna, jo dawg, jo mama, any variation of jo u can possibly think of
IS MCDONALD'S DISGUSTING?	yes, except for the fries...they are yummy
WHO'S YOUR HERO?	it depends on my mood or what movie i just watched
ARE YOU IN LOVE?	no
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE IN A CAR?	spring break in az
DO YOU PREFER BATHS OR SHOWERS?	showers
IS SANTA CLAUSE REAL?	sure, why not?
DO YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR NECK KISSED?	no
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?	no
WHAT ARE YOU ADDICTED TO?	tv
CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER OR REGULAR?	regular
CAN YOU CRACK YOUR NECK?	i hate the noise of cracking...it makes me cringe
HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN IN AN AMBULANCE?	no
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH TODAY?	2
IS DRUG FREE THE WAY TO BE?	for me...yes
ARE YOU A HEAVY SLEEPER?	most of the time, once i get to sleep
WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?	brown
HOW LOUD DO YOU SNEEZE?	soft most of the time
DO YOU LIKE YOUR LIFE?	yeah
WHAT'S YOUR BEST FRIEND'S NAME?	there are multiple
WHO'S BETTER: STONE COLD OR THE ROCK?	the rock because he's an actor too and i could identify him
ARE YOU PSYCHIC?	yes...pay me $3000000 dollars now - and I will tell your fortune!
HAVE YOU READ "CATCHER IN THE RYE"?	yes
DO YOU PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS?	i used to play piano, viola, and the wonderful recorder
CAN YOU SKATEBOARD?	no
HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN ANYTHING?	no
DO YOU LIKE CAMPING?	hate it!
ARE YOU HORNY?	no
DO YOU SNORT WHEN YOU LAUGH?	no
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?	not truly but it's fun to believe in things that aren't real
ARE DOGS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND?	yes all the doggies of the world!
DO YOU BELIEVE IN DIVORCE?	yes
WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSEPAD?	my laptop
CAN YOU DO THE MOONWALK?	badly
ARE YOU A RACIST?	no
DO YOU MAKE A LOT OF MISTAKES?	no! - I am perfect
IS IT COLD OUTSIDE TODAY?	no, it's nice
DOES SIZE MATTER?	maybe
WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?	peanut butter sandwich
DO YOU WEAR NAIL POLISH?	yes
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN KISSED?	yes
WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING TV COMMERCIAL?	diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper...i mean seriously that is just too long
DO YOU SHOP AT AMERICAN EAGLE?	no
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Thanks for your concern. Everything is better now. I do exaggerate a bit though, last week was in the top 5 worst not the worst and that is still only because nothing really bad happens to me. I lead a boring life.

So anyway here is what else is going on in my life...

1. I got my housing assignment and I am living in Water Street (aka. beautiful luxury apartment-like dorm, but far, far, away into the depths of downtown near the South Street Seaport). I did not get the dorm with all the singles and I was a bit sad about that and since a commute does not really bother me (some people who got Water Street are really pissed) a huge room will make up for this year in the tiny jail cell otherwise known as Weinstein. Since I went into the housing lottery by myself (in hopes of the single) I get the luck of the draw when I choose my room tomorrow...pray for a good roommate for me!

2. I made my schedule...since I got Water Street I had to redo it because I could not do morning classes and have a commute. Sleep...where would you go? So here it is...

Monday
11:00-12:15 Principles of Financial Accounting
2:00-3:15 Statistics
3:30-4:45 Management and Organizational Analysis

Tuesday
3:30-4:45 Intro to Marketing

Wednesday
same as Monday

Thursday
2:00-3:15 Statistics
3:30-4:45 Intro to Marketing

Friday
FREEDOM!!!

It's actually a pretty sweet schedule. I'm just so happy about Friday.

3. Two more weeks of actual classes...where did the year go?

4. As of today, I have now gotten 2 (count them...2!) A's on my Advanced College Essay essays...one more to go. My essay teacher is awesome!!!

I am having the absolute worst week in the world and almost none of it has to do with actual classes, but I think it's beginning to affect my productivity in them.

Technology sucks that is all I have to say...

So I just talked to my advisor today. I think that I may switch my major to Actuarial Science but I still want to co-major in Internation Business and I HAVE to go to Florence spring semester of next year (where they offer basically no business courses and I would have to come up with a creative way to use up my electives)...I am essentially positioning myself to go a tiny bit over the strict rule of 128 credits (end of financial aid mark). But whatever, I am so excited about Florence even though it is almost a year from now (come on, how awesome does a class called Sociology of Consumerism: Capitalism and the European Marketplace sound...okay maybe it's just me). Anyway, I also talked about my courses for next semester...I don't register until April 14. So they will be Statistics, Organizational Communications, Intro to Marketing, and Management and Organizational Analysis (or Principles of Financial Accounting if they decide not to make the same course in Florence count for it). So now that I know what I'm taking, I get to fool around with times...I really am an obsessive planner.

Speaking of which, on the internship/job front...I am extremely lazy when it comes to the whole job search process. I hate it and I just want to have someone come to my door and say "job" so it would all be done with. I only applied to one until today (the one I interviewed for)...I'm sooo lazy and unmotivated. I just need to keep thinking of 120 degree weather because I really don't want to survive another summer while at the same time I need to get my license just so that would be over with. So basically where I am at is if in my extreme laziness, I get a job here I will stay here and if I get a job there or have no job, I will go home since for me the pros and cons of each pretty much equal out.

So now that I am sane, I think that I will back-track the past week...list style.
-took my midterm today...it's just one of those that I would give the teacher an F on for both organization and content...does it make sense to ramble and take up two pages while asking ONE essay question?
-A on my paper...yay!
-I got back in the city and I am happy to be here! NYC is the place to be!
-However, I did enjoy my break...it was good to see some people that I haven't seen in a long time and catch up.
-Sleep for me during the past week has been simply marvelous...I will miss it.
-The week ago I had my interview. I am happy with how I did, but I don't think I will get it because I got the impression that there were a lot of people with a lot more experience than me applying (for the record...I have none). Personally I just feel honored to have gotten the interview. He said that out of 30 applications the first few days, he called 4 people to interview...one of which was me! So...wow! That's enough for me, but on the very off chance that I do get it...it would be awesome. But I am just happy that I think that I did well, but the competition is muy muy steep.
-There are less than 2 months of school...that is so insane! How can freshman year almost be over? I think that it is tragic (well, except for the writing essays part). Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying there freshman year as much as yours truly.

Oh, tomorrow guess what I get to do...what is the best hotel in all the land? Oh, the Waldorf-Astoria, you say? I get to go to the Waldorf and see how fabulous it really is because my dad is coming to NY (yay!) but only for a night for a business conference and he is staying in the Waldorf. I think that I might hijack the room for the night and get out of my tiny room so I then can have the wonderful bragging rights of saying that I stayed in the Waldorf (well, that is if I was the bragging sort of person...)

OMG...I think I am going to have a heart-attack! I just got an A on my Advance College Essay paper...that's right not an A-, not a B+, or B, like normal papers for me, but an A (and since there is no A+ this is as good as it gets)! I am freaking out! This does not happen to me! I do not do wonderfully on essays! And on top of the beautiful "A" sitting there is an "excellent job!" WTF?! And she got me at the exact point that I was about to shout obsenities from the rooftops about writing this next essay! An A...OMG! Sorry for the gush...but I think that I am seriously going to die.

And now I have to study for my midterm at 12:30...how the hell am I supposed to take a midterm now? Not to mention the stupidity of a midterm the day after break...

But I got an A...on a paper in an essay class! So I am seeing the world through rose-colored glasses right now. OMG! Anyway, since I cannot think of anything else and I have to study, I'll have to make my little recap of break for later.

Sleep, blinding sunlight, sleep, palm trees, and did I mention sleep, and oh my God it's warm...yep, I'm back home in AZ. Well, I went to the Alicia Keys/John Legend concert on Fri...amazing! I am so happy I went...it was pure musical genius. I went mega-shopping! I find it's always better to wait until I am in the presence of my Mom to go on a genuine shopping-spree because she will foot the bill. Yay, pile of new clothes and the most wonderful boots known to man (well, WOman). I just feel so much better to have caught up on sleep...it is truly heavenly...I missed my bed so much. While I am ecstatic to be away from the cold, I am bothered by the intense sunlight...I will be happy to return to the land where all is grey.

Ok, here is my moment of panic. I just applied for my first summer internship job yesterday...thinking well I'm just a sophomore and no one is probably going to want to hire me so I'll just relax for a while and wait for rejection...yeah, I'm a pessimist. So I get on the computer and there is an e-mail from the job saying they want to interview me tomorrow or friday. What?! Ok, I am leaving for Spring Break TOMORROW! My plane takes off at 6 from Newark so I have to leave the city no later than 3. And I really like this job and I sound really bad saying that I have to leave for Spring Break and my classes end at 12:15 and although I would be perfectly fine skipping for an interview (I'm doing well in both of these classes and I already had my midterms)...I can't exactly say that...then I sound flaky and irresponsible. Oh, what to do. What to do?

Oh, and I haven't even brought up the biggest problem...I have nothing to wear for an interview! At least nothing I like. :(

But let's just say I do get past all of this, have a great interview and get hired (fat chance)...I will be working on Park Avenue for the summer...that would be awesome!

Update: My interview's tomorrow at 2. Aaaahhhhhhh!

I have to write a 3 page paper and (surprise, surprise) I don't want to do it. It's just so much tedious crap designed to instill in us ethics and a general sense of well being. Sorry whoever the devil creator of this Adv. College Essay Business and Its Publics course is but I hate to inform you that if we don't already have ethics, no amount of reading/listening/writing about this crap is going to sink in...so why make everyone else suffer. Anyway, I have to watch Arrested Development (one of the best shows ever - you should watch it so it doesn't get cancelled!) in, like, 5 minutes so that is going to make my paper writing be delayed by another half hour.

I'm finally crawling out of my February funk...it's so weird, every year in February...I take my normal anti-socialness to a new level. But it's March and I'm happy again. I'm leaving for home on Thurs. and I really think it is about time for a break. If only annoying Writing the Essay could end at break, then my life would be complete...well, I guess for my life to be complete that would require ConWest going too...if only there was a way...

So, I was reading this book and the main character came to Manhattan and was seeing all of the sights. And suddenly she begins to describe seeing Tiffany's and Saks and all of the other stores on 5th ave when I realize that I have been living here for over half a year and I have yet to stroll up (or down) 5th ave. An absolute tragedy! Okay, not that much of a tragedy - I've seen the big sights (Trump Tower, Empire State Building, Saks) but just not everything else. So I share this with some friends yesterday and we decided to take an impromptu trip up 5th ave yesterday after class since it wasn't that cold anymore (as in it's over 30 without 20 mph winds) and Dan hasn't walked up 5th ave yet either! So Dan, Jenny, and I walked from 8th St. all the way to 86th St. and stopped basically everywhere and acted like annoying tourists. Although we were completely frustrated with the actual tourists because they don't know how to walk without stopping and being in everyone's way. End of the trip was seeing Million Dollar Baby which I have to say was completely amazing and totally deserved to win the Oscar. So good...but so sad. I cried, that's right...jaded me! Then we took the subway back because we weren't about to walk the 5 miles back again. :)

Oh, in nine days I will be back home. It will be warm and I will be away from all of the sick people. How I haven't gotten sick is a mystery.

I just wrote what I feel is the best paper I have ever written - too bad it's not important and is only for a completion grade. I wrote my paper of "reading" the Gates. Will someone explain to me what she could possibly mean? I just decided to write a critique and I have come to realize that I am only brilliant when I am given the opportunity to write about something I feel passionately cynical towards. I love my paper...that has to be a first. I just spent a lot of time on that so let that be my excuse for this choppiness.

I have one more midterm to get through...I'm not really that worried. Maybe I should be.

I am so excited for ten days from now. I'm going to the Alicia Keys/John Legend concert! Alicia Keys is just great and I have become so in love with John Legend since his album came out...it is amazing! And this time I know I will not be let down by another R. Kelly/Jay-Z fiasco!

Oh, and Jamie Foxx won! Jamie Foxx won! I predicted all of the big winners except for the one that shares my last name...so sad. I love Morgan Freeman and I hoped he would win, but I didn't expect it. Well, it made for a nice surprise.

The snow is pretty. The brown slush...not so much. :)

Final random thought: Watching the Real World always makes me greatful for non-stupidity.

I hate this feeling of needing to do a stupid assignment and just not being mentally able to come up with the words to fill up the tiny two pages. And I really need to finish quickly because I am planning on watching the Oscars, and the whole thing because of the sheer greatness of Chris Rock, otherwise I could do by paper in between the lengthy boringness that typically is the four hour award extravaganza. As a result of this time crunch, what am I doing? Well, writing on this of course.

I'm going to be up all night...::commence me trying to summon up the god of motivation::

So, yes, I finally went to go see the Gates in Central Park. Personally, my feelings are a tad bit apathetic towards this supposedly once-in-a-lifetime-spectacular-event. I am so happy that I saw it with snow on the ground though, because otherwise I might be negative. Central Park coated in snow is just wonderful anyway...and it doesn't cost 21 million dollars to occur. What else could one do with 21 million dollars besides construct thousands of orange sheets held up by orange posts and call it art? Well, I don't know...feed a small country?! I have to admit, though, it was better than I thought it would be...I thought it would be complete crap...now, I think that it is just a bit better than that. I do commend it on having a "follow the orange brick road feel" though. After all the Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite movies and I just got it on DVD. Yay!

And I just saw In Good Company...quite enjoyable. I love watching movies and knowing that I was just there earlier that day. I saw so many places that I regularly walk past in that movie...I just love it. Also, Scarlett Johannson transfers to NYU in the movie! But I do have a problem that NYU dorm rooms look absolutely nothing like the one she had in the movie. Tsk...tsk.

I just love walking around in the city even though it's cold. There's always something to see. :)