Procrastinating

Music is such an important part of life, not just for entertainment purposes, but because music also affects our well-being. Different genres and songs affect mood. Music is a way of coping with things because it's as if someone else understands exactly what you are going through. Whether it's losing someone, being happy, heartbroken, or just going through a difficult time, there is a song that can help. Certain songs become correlated with times in your life and whenever you listen to that song, you are instantly brought back to a time when you heard it.

When I am stressed or have a lot of work to do, normally I turn to electronica music. Well, techno, electronic, electronica, dance, house, trance, electro, rave music, whatever you want to call it. Today I've been listening to Deadmau5, (dead mouse not deadmau-5) to get me through an all-nighter of studying. It's amazing that creating noise and mixing beats produces such a beautiful sound. It's hard to describe, but you feel so light and airy when listening to it.

Circa 1950, Karlheinz Stockhausen, a German figurehead in electronic music said his listeners told him his electronic music gave them an experience of outer space, sensations of flying, or being in a fantastic dream world. It feels as close to living in the moment as you can get.

"Many of my listeners have projected the strange new electronic music which they experienced into extraterrestrial space. Even though they are not familiar with it through human experience, they identify it with the fantastic dream world. Several have commented that my electronic music sounds 'like on a different star' or 'like in outer space,' " said Stockhausen. 


This type of music is very conducive to studying and is actually very peaceful. Right now I'm obsessed with this song. It's called Happiness in Brazil, a mashup with Alexis Jordan's Happiness and Deadmau5's Brazil (2nd edit).



Deadmau5 and Alexis Jordan - Happiness in Brazil (Al Vanjel Edit) by Al Vanjel Tweet This

Cheap and Cheer-Full

B & H Vegetarian Restaurant is easy to miss, blending in with the store fronts on Second Avenue in the East Village. I was skeptical upon stepping into the narrow restaurant, but for $7.50, you can get a delicious and satisfying meal- perfect for a college student's budget. It is a great place if you are looking for some comfort food.

For an atypical experience, sit at the counter and watch while your food is made. I ordered a B & H Special omelet filled with onions, peppers, tomato and mushroom. It comes with a generous side of thick and flavorful home fries and fluffy challah bread. The challah was so delicious and served with butter.
I gave into my sweet tooth and also ordered a cookie that I couldn't figure out what was in it but couldn't stop eating. My meal came to $8.95, WHAT A DEAL for a good-quality meal in New York City. I will definitely return with guests for an authentic Jewish deli experience. Tweet This

Cutest Advent Calendar of 2010

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me A PAIR OF LIPSPIKES 120MM and a partridge in a pear tree. Tweet This

Something to get you through the day

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Sunrise on a Saturday Morning

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SPOTTED:

Just a few weeks after the opening of her boutique, Dash, Kim Kardashian was back in NYC yesterday to launch her new jewelry line at the Bebe store in SoHo. Kim Kardashian for Bebe features both affordable and trendy pieces with inspiration from around the world. Tweet This

Oh the treasures you can find hidden in Bobst

Marvin J. Taylor kind of resembles Hulk Hogan and is as dedicated to the history of punk as a six year old boy is about his lego collection. Taylor is the director of Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. “I’m living proof that you could take a dissolute childhood turn it into a career,” he said.

Fales Library is a part of Bobst that I didn’t know existed and is located on the third floor. It contains over 200,000 volumes of the country’s rare book collection. It is composed of the Downtown Collection, the Food and Cookery Collection and the general Special Collections. The Downtown Collection is the largest collection of archival materials of the Downtown New York art scene anywhere and the only one in an academic library.

My Reporting Downtown class toured the Downtown Collection with Taylor last Thursday morning. Not that the collection was boring, but I didn’t appreciate it as much because I wasn't familiar with the names or cultural references.

One of the current exhibitions is a tribute to that church that NYU students walk past everyday on their way to class. The exhibit takes a look at Judson Memorial Church between 1954-77, a site for the first safe abortion clearing house, various social movements of the 1960s and home of the first gay support group.

Judson Memorial Church


Among what we saw was a recording of Yvonne Reiner's “The People’s Flag Show,” a 1964 modern dance performance in the Judson Memorial Church, with the dancers only wearing American flags over the front of their otherwise nude bodies. The press showed up and were outraged. “I think it’s absolutely brilliant,” Taylor said. “How liberating it must be to do this.”

Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy was another delight. It was like a sexualized synchronized swimming performance on stage. Undoubtably, very uncomfortable to watch with my class. It’s all about the body movements and the way the men are positioning the women. Partially clothed dancers writhed on stage. Women are sticking raw fish between their legs and men are putting raw chickens in their pants. “This totally changed dance and turned dance into performance,” said Taylor.

Moving the tour along, Taylor showed us what he considers “the best collection of punk rock anywhere.” I’m not into punk, but punk has certainly influenced fashion and many aspects of today’s culture. As Taylor put it, “[Punk] is so many things to so many other people.” The East Village is the birthplace of punk; what a better place than Greenwich Village to preserve these relics for artifactual value. "We believe the physicality of the object is just as important as the text in understanding the work," said Taylor. The primary sources are impressive, including the Richard Hell papers, the first copy of Punk Magazine from Jan. 1976 and a priceless interview tape with performer John Sex duping the interviewer.



Fales Library is open to all NYU students, faculty, and serious researchers. Fales is an example of a passion turned into something that all can enjoy, as well as an impressive documentation of the 70s, 80s and 90s in lower Manhattan. Tweet This

What's Good in SoHo for the Week of Nov. 1

The sidewalks of Broadway below Houston were extra packed with shoppers on the hunt for last minute Halloween costumes, but look past the crowds and you’ll see a number of stories emerged over the past week. Black Friday started early, a scandal surfaced among food vendors, Nordstrom announced plans to expand to SoHo, and Babeland encouraged people to get out and vote.


Love is love. Chelsea's Gay Men's Health Crisis center’s "Art & AIDS: Loving Life," an annual exhibit, ran last week at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in SoHo. This exhibit provided an outlet for gay and lesbian artists to express themselves through art. Read more


Last Thursday, Nordstrom announced that 350 West Broadway will be the future location of a new non-profit store that will have a different name and will not have any ties to the brand.


To get shoppers out of a sluggish shopping mood and in the holiday spirit, retailers introduced Black Friday deals last week and are promoting early this holiday season. The New York Times has the scoop on the deals.



A New York State of mind? The Post investigated SoHo food vendors who sleep in their cart to have a prime spot on the street. However, the city Department of Health requires that vendors clear the streets and store the carts where they are cleaned. Grody.

SoHo may have a new nickname. Known to be an artsy and fashionable neighborhood, SoHo is being called a “silicon alley” for new design and technology businesses opening up in the area. Wanderfly is just one of many new tech-savvy businesses to open up shop. Read about it

Babeland’s SoHo and LES locations gave away free vibrators to anyone who hit the polls on election day. Tweet This

IT'S ALL POLITICS; A DAY AT THE POLLS

I don’t follow politics as often as I should. Especially during midterm elections when all I’m really thinking about are my midterms. Before a day full of class and work, I got up while it was still dark outside to check out the polls for the first time on Election day. What I learned: if you want to be a journalist, be prepared to get rejected.

Polling site 10982, one of SoHo’s polling centers, is located at the Children’s Museum at 182 Lafayette Street between Broome and Grand streets. At 8:00 AM, temperatures outside were frigid.

It was weird to walk into the colorful museum for children that was turned into a makeshift poll site. I felt like it was a trip to the DMV, with multicolored walls. A tri-fold describing how to vote using the new system stood by the door, however, no one paid any attention to it.

There were six people present upon my arrival. I introduced myself to one of the poll workers right away as an attempt to get some quotes. She had a loud and raspy, but surprisingly chummy, voice that you wouldn’t expect to come out of such a gruff-looking woman. She told me that I could get as many quotes as I wanted and would even give me a picture “for my newspaper.” Referring to the new vote scanner she said, “Would you look at that machine? It looks like an industrial garbage can. $50,000.”

A woman named Pat, (she wouldn’t give me her last name) came over to me on a power-trip and said that I couldn’t ask any questions and I couldn’t speak to voters. A female police officer guarded the door so I couldn’t even get voters on their way out.

Instead, I observed the people coming in and out. It took about 10 minutes from start to finish to vote. Thirty-six people voted between 8:00 and 9:00 AM. “SoHo is light,” said one poll worker. “It’s not as heavy as others.” Fifty people came in between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. This site seemed to get many people who appeared to be 55 and older as well as the handicapped. Some voters had their children with them. Schools were closed for the day. Others were accompanied by their dogs.

I heard people chatting about the new polling procedures as they exited. New doesn’t always equal better. “I like the old way better,” said one man. “I was used to it.”

“Things are too small on the ballot,” said one older-looking woman. “The lighting was horrible.”

While waiting for his wife to vote, one man chuckled, “There was a third side? I never turned it over.” Tweet This

I did such a "New York" thing

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As I was unsuccessfully getting people to talk to me for my issue piece, I resorted to sitting in Starbucks and bothering people who were enjoying a cup of coffee to get quotes. People in coffee houses like to talk. This particular Starbucks was crowded because the weather was lousy and there weren't many tables to sit at. About twenty minutes into my experiment, a gorgeous woman who looked like a model approached me and asked if she could sit at my table. I had an extra chair and no one was sitting with me, so I decided to share my table. I used the opportunity to ask if she would answer a few questions for me. She turned out to be the nicest one that I spoke with and I ended up giving her my contact information because she may have some connections for me in fashion journalism. Tweet This

For the fashion conscious...

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and for those who have a love affair with all things concerning fashion, check out http://ny.racked.com/.
This blog covers what's going on in retail all over New York City and even breaks down news by neighborhood. Get updates about your favorite stores and breaking news about sample sales, special in-store events, products to drool over, store reviews and cool places to check out. A special "Street Scene" section is devoted to fashionality found on the bodies of New Yorkers around the city. You can vote on what you like and what you think looks horrendous, and even get some ideas for your own outfits. This blog is perfect for keeping up on what's going on in the retail-dense areas of the city such as SoHo. Tweet This

Time warp: An extensive presentation about firefighting in New York

One of my friends has a thing for men in uniform. She’s met some hot firefighter friends throughout the years, so I decided to check out the New York City Fire Museum this afternoon, hoping to meet some of my own eye candy.

The Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) is the largest fire department in the United States and has been around since 1648. As a journalist, it’s important to have an understanding of this organization’s connection with the city. The Museum preserves materials from the history of firefighting in New York. It is located in a renovated 1904 firehouse at 278 Spring Street, between Hudson and Varick Streets in SoHo.

I was surprised when I walked into an empty museum, apart from the three couples there besides myself and a few of the Museum’s staff coming in and out.

You first walk into a small, hokey gift shop with FDNY T-shirts, toys and coffee mugs. There is also a wooden box for a $5 suggested donation (but you don't have to pay if you don't want to.) Guided tours, led by members of the FDNY’s Education unit, are available to groups with a minimum of 10 individuals.

The experience does get better as you wander through two floors of pretty remarkable collections, including a tribute to 9/11.

There is a large, main room on the first floor with fire-related artifacts from the late 18th century to the present. You can find several large engines in this room, including a horse-drawn buggy that was used before fire trucks to reach fires.



A hour-long video gives you an idea of what it is like to be a firefighter. I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I still got the impression that members of the FDNY are devoted to their jobs.

I was interested in seeing the September 11 Memorial after visiting the Tribute WTC Visitor Center with my journalism class. The Museum’s two-room exhibit focuses on the firefighters that lost their lives on 9/11. There is a wall of tiles with pictures of each of the 343 fallen members of the FDNY. Visitors can watch a computer presentation of some unbelievable photos from that day, view glass cases filled with remains, such as a piece of one of the planes, a camera that was left behind, a firefighter’s lost helmet. The Museum collected patches from firefighters who came from all over the country to help with relief efforts, which are displayed on two huge boards.



The second floor contains more artifacts from different time periods– helmets, uniform parts, parade hats, tools, hand pumped fire engines and early fire apparatus.

The third floor loft is a space that can be rented out for parties and special events.

Something you should note: The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and on Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. It is closed on Mondays and major holidays.

The Museum also runs a fire safety education program to teach participants how to prevent fires and what to do should one occur. For more information, check out the Museum’s website:
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The Gunther building in SoHo between Broome and Greene Streets is an example of one of the many cast-iron buildings in the neighborhood. It is more than 135 years old and functions as a co-op apartment building.



Chalk-graffiti on the side of a storefront in SoHo that made me smile. "Orange, you glad I didn't say banana?"



I took this photo on Prince Street and Greene. I thought it was really cool and caught my attention as I walked by. I want to learn more about graffiti and investigate more displays of it in SoHo. Tweet This

10/10/10

I just came across a book that I had to put together during my junior year of high school. One of the assignments was to write diary entries about anything that you wanted. Upon reading them, I found a few that were from the first time I came to New York City and toured NYU.
For my sixteenth birthday, my mom took me to New York, a place that I had been begging her to take a trip to. I literally got the chills reading what I wrote. I was SO beyond excited to be in the city and convinced that I was going to attend NYU. "I feel like a child going to Disneyland for the first time." Kind of cliche, but I just think of how excited I was. Another weird thing is that I wrote a bit about ground zero (this is in 2006) and my journalism class just toured the tribute center down there.
My mom and I got stuck in Atlanta because our plane was delayed and had to switch planes. We stayed at the most disgusting hotel I have ever set foot in, compliments of the airline. We didn't have our bags, only our carry-on shit. I had brought a blanket on the plane that I ended up wrapping myself in to sleep because I was so scared of catching a horrible disease by sleeping on the beds. We called the front desk to bring up toiletries for us and this woman comes to our room with literally three teeth and could not speak correctly for her life.
I found this around the same time that I starting writing in that book. I was also a junior then and I'm a junior now...weird coincidence?
I even wrote about the revolving doors that are in just about every building and how cool I thought it was to walk through them...now I'm terrified of getting stuck in one, and how obsessed with Bobst I was, I cannot study there–things change.
But I'm glad that I came across this because I've been so over school lately (self-diagnosed with junioritis). It has given me a taste of the past when I didn't take certain aspects of the city and this school for granted.
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Simple goes a long way

Tonight I had dinner with the President of NYU. John Sexton, J. Sex as students call him, was surprisingly entertaining. I really enjoyed learning about him and his experiences that have made him the man he is today. I didn't really expect him to be there until the end and figured that he would only stay for a couple of minutes, but he was present for the two scheduled hours and some change. He doesn't come from an affluent background like you may think, and he even graduated college with a 2.1 GPA. A man by the name of Charlie Rose has driven him to create what NYU is today. He says this NYU is all "Charlie's vision." I can't wait to read the biography that I'm going to pick up from his office tomorrow.
Something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is what the fuck am I going to do when I graduate? I always thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do and exactly where I wanted to be. I NEVER thought I'd be at a crossroad. I've always been so certain that I wanted to be a journalist and live in New York City. But lately, I've been having second thoughts...and thirds...and fourths. I've been doubting my abilities. I am in my junior year now and I just see the rest of my time here flying by. Next semester, if all goes well, I will be studying abroad in Florence. And then I will be a SENIOR! A SENIOR! It's madness. I don't know if I want to do print or if I want to be in broadcast or if I will even be any good in either of those directions. I have no idea. But tonight I received some insightful advice, both from J. Sex and from Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City, a book that I am excited to read. Both of these great men were saying that the three biggest and most important questions in life are: 1) What you are doing 2) Where you are doing it and 3) Who you are doing it with. Now these question aren't direct answers to what I am looking for, but I think a step in the right direction towards figuring out what will make me the happiest. I've moved so many times that I know what I'm looking for, but I have a tendency to want things that I can't really have and when I have them, I want something else. So my next big goal is to figure out really what I want because my next move is going to be a big one and will affect all other aspects of my life.
J. Sex said that whenever he and his wife said goodbye to each other–whether it was on the phone or just leaving the room–they said "I love you" to one another. So before his wife suddenly died, he had left early for a meeting. Their last words to each other were "I love you." Tweet This

What I'm currently listening to...

Lights and Music
By Cut Copy

This is why we won’t delay for your birthday
the secrets that we held that day will be kept straight
all your friends have gone away so let's celebrate
you're holding hope open for the one making you wait

This is what you hoped to say on your birthday
the secrets that we held that day will be kept straight
everyone will be dismayed if your promise breaks
but you'll be back again to say who you want next

lights and music
are on my mind
be my baby
one more time

lights and music
are on my mind
be my baby
one more time

fading with the colour you see in my face
cold and crystal you cant hide as your tears race
i'll be waiting by in time but your dream's away
you're holding hope open for the one making you wait

lights and music
are on my mind
be my baby
one more time

lights and music
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be my baby
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Touch by Natasha Bedingfield

I was tryin' to cross the street
When I tripped and spilled my coffee
On a man who yelled at me
And then walked off in a hurry
Now he's gonna be late for work
So he called his secretary
Said to cancel his appointment with the guy in the lobby

Who's been waiting for a while
And talking on the phone
Got invited to a party and thought he couldn't go
But he's here right now
Standing in my house
And someone turns the music loud

So we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Yeah we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
Cuz it feels like the world dissapears around us

When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch

I was planning out my party
Running errands 'round the city
Grocery bags full of alcohol
And chocolate chip cookies
Saw a dress that was amazing
In the window of a boutique
So I went across the street
Then my heel broke and it threw me
I tried to catch my balance
But I was supposed to fall
It seems that spilling coffee
Was no accident at all
Cuz you're here right now
Sitting on my couch
Funny how it all works out

So we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Yeah we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
Cuz it feels like the world dissapears around us

When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch

Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected
When we least expect it
And then when we touched
And it all connected
Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected when we least expect it
And then when we...

When we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Yeah we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch touch)

Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
Cuz it feels like the world dissapears around us

When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch

Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch

Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch

Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch

Ooo oo oo ooo
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A Gift from Gaga

Last night at her Monster Ball concert in St. Paul Minnesota, Lady Gaga debuted a new song of hers called "Living on the Radio." Personally, I think it's a great song. She has so much talent and I think sometimes people pay more attention to the show that she puts on and don't give her enough credit for her vocals. I think she is the Madonna of our time, but bigger. This is the second song that Gaga has recently revealed to her little monsters, the first being "You and I," which I love and wish I could find a good quality version of on itunes. She is releasing a new album early next year. But for now, check it out and decide for yourself what you think:

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I know. I've been slacking. I've been going through a lot of issues and I haven't had the motivation to post anything. But I'm working on it. So sorry to any of my readers (if i have any.) I promise that I will post a lot more often, but please be patient. And I will also work on making my posts better quality.
I want to share with you a piece of history and my newfound discovery that I learned the other day. Maybe it's apparent to everyone else except me, but I was taking a walk through my new neighborhood of Chinatown, TriBeCa, and the Financial District. I came across Duane and Reade streets, both with Duane Reade drug stores of the corner of the blocks, leading me to wonder about the origin of the New York City chain. I found out that, in fact, the first Duane Reade Pharmacy opened in 1960 between Duane and Reade streets on Broadway, right where I passed by.
Also, yesterday I needed to get a prescription filled and it was called in to a little pharmacy called "Aid Pharmacy" on Walker Street between Lafayette and Centre. Let me tell you, it is a sketchy place. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really trust little places like that. I like to go to Walgreens or Duane Reade, where it feels more legit. I felt like I was walking into a sex trafficking building. The label on my prescription is in Chinese, and I was so scared to take it. It was just supposed to be antibiotics but I was so scared that it was going kill me or something.
And on yet another tangent, I found this post from the VOICE blog. It would be awesome if MTV made a show about hipsters. It would be pretty hilarious.You could definitely make a drinking game out of it.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/08/on_friday_crush.php

HIPSTER DINOSAURS?
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Hipsters, you are no longer cool. Dov Charney declares the "hipster" to be dead

“Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster.” -Dov Charney of American Apparel
HAHA.

Thought you all might like this story:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/08/today_in_contra.php

Here's another funny one:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/08/breaking_new_yo.php Tweet This

A girl can only dream...

Lady Peep Spikes 150 mm
6 inches $1,275. I am in love.


Pigalle Flat Spikes $995


Lady Lynch $845 (6 inch heel!)


You You 85 mm 3.5 inches $595; Every girl needs a nice basic pair of black pumps



Very Prive in black $795
platform pump
suede peep toe pump; Again with the basic black heel, but this pair is so gorgeous. .

LOVE!


Christian Louboutin
black suede Madame Claude d'orsay pumps
$795-BLUE FLY PRICE: $636! DEAL. WANT SO BADLY! I will have these one day

and finally...


the Lady Claude Leopard Calf hair $895 Tweet This

I really didn't want this blog to be an outlet for my feelings but lately it has. I'm really homesick. I don't think I've ever been this homesick since being away at school. I hate it and I don't know how to deal with it. Sometimes this city can be so lonely. Tweet This

"I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years, or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist, or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."

-The Perks of Being A Wildflower

I'm not sure where this is from, but I really like it.
"Sometimes I wish I could just be a little kid again. So when life gets tough you can just play pretend. I wanna go back to when Santa did exist. When your daddy was the only boy you ever kissed.  When Disney World was the best place to be. When the only movies you could see were rated G. When your biggest problem was learning to write your name and people didn't change...and your friends were the same. And every time you were sad or you had a bad day, you could just run to mommy and it would all be okay. I wanna go back to no hurt...and no pain...just laughter. When everyone always lives happily ever after." Tweet This

Forbes recently released an updated version of their "Most Expensive Colleges" list. New York University ranks 10 on the list. Is it worth it? Comment please! Find out what your school is ranked:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/94/best-colleges-10_Americas-Best Colleges_CostOutStateOnCamp.html Tweet This

How To Fail A Test With Dignity

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

How To Fail A Test With Dignity

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"Attitude is like posing in pictures. We pose the way we want to be seen by others. But stolen shots are better because they capture the real us."
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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"I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing."
—  Neil Gaiman

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Nothing is permanent. Don't worry. You make your future. If you want something, go for it, and never look back. Tweet This

DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN INCEPTION YET

I walked out of Inception feeling indifferent. I knew that I enjoyed the 2 hours and 20 minutes that I spent with my eyes glued to the screen. I was entertained to the fullest, as a really good film should. But I was left with wonder. Something that I don't always like. I knew that there had to be some kind of twist at the end because of everyone else's reactions that I've heard of the film. Inception was so well conceptually designed. Retrospectively, it blew my mind. It was so creative, especially in the plot elements such as the simplest aspect of the film on dreams. I feel like I need to go back and watch it again and maybe even again to pull out details to determine if the end scene was a dream or not. I feel like it is a dream because his kids should have aged at that point but I got the impression from the way that they looked at him, that his inception crew seemed to know him as the real person, not from the point of view of a projection. My theory, is that he is in limbo. This movie reminds me a lot of fight club in that you don't really know what is real. It makes you question the "real world" that we live in. Many cultures believe that the afterlife is our real life. Maybe they are right, maybe we are all dreaming. As a person that is so intrigued by how the mind works, I wish I could actually experience the dream travel.
Dream Incubation is a real phenomenon in which you can " 'plant a seed' in the mind, in order for a specific dream topic to occur, either for recreation or to attempt to solve a problem." (wikipedia: dream incubation) I am fascinated and want to learn more. This movie has inspired me and should win an Academy Award. Tweet This

You can't let them know that they've hurt you. Refrain, no matter how bad you may way to let them know. Find another outlet. If you let them know, they've won. Tweet This

"There's a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it's not giving up. It's realizing that you don't need certain people and their crap." Tweet This

Just because you can post it to Facebook doesn’t mean you should.

From what I’ve gathered from my newsfeed and my Facebook "friends" that are still in high school, I have noticed a disturbing trend that wasn’t prominent when I went to La Costa Canyon. For their 15th, 16th and 17th birthdays, teens are renting party bus limos and getting wasted in them. Partying is part of being a teen and I’m not going to pretend like I don't partake, however what I do have a problem with is what goes on in these limo buses. I’m talking about a limo orgy.
Let me give you a mental picture of the party. The teens pile into the party bus with bottles of hidden alcohol and crank up the music. Then the boys sit on the limo seating area and the girls give them lap dances, to the point where they have their skirts all the way hiked up and pretty much anything is game. Girls are grinding on the guys while using stripper poles as balance. I’m not a fan of dancing to rub out a boner, sorry. It’s not like a high school dance or even club dancing but so trashy and wrong to see kids this young acting like skanks. They are out of control! Everyone hooks up with someone and then, when they all disembark, it’s like what happens on the bus stays on the bus, except for the photos that must go up on Facebook. I really wish I could post some of the photos but I don’t want to cause any trouble. And I also would like to know what their parents would think if they saw what they were paying for when they rent the limo. It’s horrifying to see this. Tweet This

If there is one thing I've learned about over this past year, it's time.

Have you ever noticed how time seems to pass ever so slowly when you wish it would fly by? And that it does the opposite when we don't have a chance to stop and think about it. There is no better cure and no harsher sentence than time. The hardest lesson is learning that you can't fast forward or rewind, you can only deal with what is currently in front of you. How many times have you thought that if you knew something would be the last, you'd do something different? Well don't. At the time, it was everything you wanted. You can't be regretful for that. But for the future you know to savor what you are given and treat everything as if it were "your last." Tweet This

Doing something that scares you is far easier than deliberating over doing something that scares you - Emily V.

I do not understand how people do not sweat when they work out. Especially in a 90 + degree room. For 90 minutes. Today when I came out of my Bikram class, I was drenched in sweat to the point where my hair was slicked back, my clothes were soaked and I looked like I had walked through a storm without an umbrella, while there were women there that had dry hair, and only looked mildly dewy.
Bikram Yoga is a type of yoga that is done in a hot room (about 90-100 degrees) for 90 minutes. You are not to leave the room and abstain from drinking water for the first 25 minutes of class. You do 26 postures, with two sets of each one. The standing series is an hour and the floor is 30 minutes. You sweat balls.
I love it.
Today was my first day back at Bikram in about five or six months. I got so busy with school and work that I just couldn't find the time. I've been doing yoga since I was thirteen when I found out that I had Scoliosis. I found Bikram when I was seventeen and have been doing it ever since. I tried going back to other forms of yoga because the cost is so high in the city, but I couldn't. I can't achieve the same feeling after that I do with Bikram. I feel like I get a much deeper stretch and it's like getting an intense workout while stretching and strengthening all in one. And it work wonders for my back. And works as a stress release. The benefits are so numerous. I really like the challenge and the heat doesn't really bother you once you've been practicing for a while. I've decided that I need to pick a day and time and just go religiously to keep up with it. I've missed it.

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Live your life.

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They are going to have some attractive kids.

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Random Facts

-It takes 7 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach.
-A human hair can hold 3 kg.
-The length of the penis is three times the length of the thumb.
-The femur is as hard as concrete.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
-We use 300 muscles just to keep our balance as we stand. Tweet This

Current Song Obsession: Power Mix-Tiesto

You have become what you have always been
light flickering around, peripheral vision
no words we can speak, our paths have been chosen
but all trails that we trek,
should lead us back to here because our

love comes again
just when i've broken down i found
love can come again
you've got to believe that

love comes again
just when i've broken down i found
love can come again

dig within me, turn all the secret stones
forests and fields, breathing with blood and bones
still no words we can speak, our paths have been chosen
but all trails that we trek,
-should lead us back to here because our

love comes again
just when i've broken down i found
love can come again
you've got to believe that

love comes again
just when i've broken down i found
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The way I see it.

August is sneaking up on us. Stores are stocked with back to school clothes. Summer is almost over. Where did July go? I can't say that I haven't had a good summer. It was definitely a lot better than last year's. For awhile I was sad because it wasn't turning out like any summer before. I don't have the beach at my disposal and it hasn't felt like a break from school. I've been working full time and taking a class. I've felt like I've been missing something. However, I've realized that I can't even compare it to anything else because I am in New York, and that in itself is an adventure. I love being here and I think being out of school, you really get to appreciate the beauty of the city. I've tried to cross something off my To Do list every time I have a day off from work. I still have yet to spend a day in central park, but I've requested more time off from work in August to enjoy the last moments of summer. Most of my friends are here which I haven't been able to say that for a few summers now. It truly feels like for the first time that I am on my own, and I like it. I've been trying to just do whatever I want to do, and that's my new approach on life. College goes way too fast to not enjoy every minute of it. I almost can't wait until school starts again because with that comes all my friends who weren't lucky enough to spend the summer here. Tweet This

"Sometimes you just have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve." Tweet This

If you really knew me...

You'd know that:
-I am a really emotional person.
- I care entirely too much about what other people think.
- I can promise that I will ALWAYS be there for you.
- I take everything to heart.
-I have high expectations and I am almost always let down.
-I treasure my friendships because I know what it's like to be on the outside.
- I am extremely picky about the people in my life and I don't let them in easily. But the ones I do give a piece of myself to are really special to me. I guess it's better to be choosy than to let everyone have a piece of you.
-I can't deal with fake girls and fake friends. Grow up.
-I feel a year younger than I really am; weird, I know.
- I have trust issues.
-I keep a lot of what I am feeling inside. It leads to people thinking that I don't care, except I care more than I should.
- I’m the type of person that has to hear things myself. I am so stubborn and regardless of what my friends tell me, I have to do it the hard way. That way I know it’s real and I can’t ever wonder “what-if.”
-I am indecisive and it's such a problem that it takes me forever to choose something as simple as an outfit.
-There's one person that I can't get over no matter how hard that I try.
-I actually mean what I say and I hate when people say things that they can't make happen.
-I don't like games. I like people to be straight up with me.
-I've never had a real boyfriend.
-Moving across the country from San Diego to Shitsville, Florida my senior year of high school has traumatized me.
-I am sometimes scared that I am not normal.
-I hate that I am often not taken serious, even though I follow through with just about everything that I do.
-I am always afraid that I will disappoint someone by not doing the "right" thing. Tweet This

My Inspiration:

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Photos that make me happy

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Bliss.


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You really want to know what's on my mind?

Family stuff makes me so upset these days. It’s so frustrating that I have to choose between my parents even though I don’t want to. My dad makes me feel guilty that I want to stay with my mom when I am only going to be back in Florida for a week and haven’t seen her in eight months. I shouldn’t have to feel that way! He knows that I am closer with her and somewhere he had to know that was going to happen all along. It’s like I’m the parent and he’s the child. I just spent a few days with him in Boston...I feel like I’m walking on eggshells, or rather, what feels like broken glass. It's actually funny that I am majoring in Psych because my family is so fucked up and I in turn have so many problems that it's comforting to know most psychologists suggest that all signs point towards family relationships as the number one cause.
The house we have in Florida is nothing like a home and I don’t even have a room there anymore. It almost makes me uncomfortable to go back there. This time of year makes me really nostalgic for Enci town. Currently, I don’t really consider myself to have a home. I loathe Sanford probably more than anything in my life. It is in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do and a place nobody ever leaves. It is full of rednecks and uneducated and ignorant African Americans. Think apple bottom jeans and boots with the fur. There are thunderstorms just about every day of the summer and after growing up 5 minutes away from the beach, an hour means hitting up the beach for a bit is not happening. I can’t even convey how much I HATE that place. I consider my real home to be in California. 2978 Las Olas court to be exact. I hate that we had to move my senior year of high school. I will forever resent this decision made by my parents. You don’t really realize how much a home really means until you don’t have one. Coming back from college, all I really want is to come back to something comfortable, with the amenities that you don’t have at school-meals cooked for you, laundry magically done, and my room. My bed. My dog. The stuff that I left behind. I guess you know you are grown up when the only thing you’d go back for is family...except that’s broken too. Nothing is the same anymore and I feel like my parents aren’t there for me anymore. Maybe that’s just what growing up means and your friends become your family.
Thank god I have wonderful, supportive friends who have been there for me when I wanted to look to my family and couldn’t. I love you with all my heart. I really don’t know what I would do without you <3 Tweet This

I found this yesterday and almost died laughing. Insanely funny and true.

"WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LIKE A HIPSTER. PUT ON MY GLASSES AND MY PLAID SHIRT IM GUNNA CHECK MY FLICKR. BEFORE I LEAVE GRAB MY TRIANGLE AND MY CAMERA BAG CUZ WHEN I LEAVE FOR THE FOREST I AIN’T COMING BACK. IM TAKING DREAMY VINTAGE PHOTOS, WEARING INDIE CLOTHES CLOTHES, SARCASM BLOWING UP OUR CONVOS. DROP TOPPIN PLAYING OUR FAVORITE PLAYLISTS, BAD GRAMMAR GETTING US REALLY PISSED PISSED, TRYING TO GET ON THE RECOMMENDED BLOGS LIST. DON’T STOP MAKE IT POP HANG YOUR DREAMCATCHER UP, TONIGHT IMA FIGHT ANONS TILL THE SUNLIGHT. TIK TOK ON THE CLOCK BUT THE REBLOGGING NEVER STOPS NO OH OH OH, NO OH OH OH." Tweet This

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