So I FINALLY made it back to the city after a LONG day of traveling. I left Cape Cod yesterday at 10:30 am and didn't get back until 11 at night! I was supposed to get in at 5:45, but a train crossed 4 tracks in Greenwich, CT and tore down some of the electrical lines. My train got stuck in New Haven at 4:45 and as of 9 pm, we still hadn't moved. I got a car service to drive me into the city, so I am back :) I think it always takes going somewhere else to value what you have. Sometimes I take the city for granted, that there is always something to do, that I can get whatever kind of food that I'm craving at whatever hour, and that I live in such an interesting place. As I was coming into the city on the FDR, I was dazed by the beautiful lights and skyline that you only see when you leave Manhattan. As much as I liked taking a break from city life, it's great to be back.

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The Spark.

It's rare but when it happens, you feel so conscious of the moment. Your heart starts beating fast. And faster. You feel ethereal. There's a fluttery feeling in your chest. You feel like you can't breathe. You feel a sudden jolt of adrenaline that almost makes you jump. It's as if your heart has sent the same feeling to your brain and you feel like you can't speak, let alone utter anything arousing. It's as if your body needs the energy to not fall over because it is so captivated by the person standing in front of you. You can't control it and you wonder what it is about this person that makes you feel that way. You can't explain it, but all you know is this feeling; truly one of the best feelings in the world. Tweet This

I got a fabulous new MACBOOK PRO :) Everything happens for a reason; it truly does. This is going to be a super short post because I am tired but I promise I will post something better tomorrow. Leaving you with two things I found that make me happy:

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Being the genius that I am, I spilled a liquid substance all over my laptop and it is currently in a coma. Depending on if it wakes up or I have to shell out over a grand to get a new one.... This means no Internet access for at least a week, thank god I have an iPhone,but it is so much harder to use this tiny screen. I am beyond devastated because I have so much new music that I haven't back up since sometime last semester and a lot of things that I have written since then and they could just be GONE :( so my posts will be limited this week and I don't have any inspiring photos to add. On that note, Happy Fourth! Tweet This

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Where's the wonder in "Wonderland?"

Summer is the time when a college student can take a step into the real world and catch up on what has been happening while he or she has been trapped in the library. I just watched Alice in Wonderland (the 2010 version) for the first time. It should have been titled as the other tale of Alice, Through the Looking Glass. Although I read ex-post-facto that Tim Burton combined ideas from the two. Nonetheless, I was lead to believe it was supposed to be a remake of the 1951 Disney animated film. I was wrong.
As much as will always deprecate Disney, they did a much better job of portraying this story. I had been expecting to see some of my favorite aspects of the original film but they were not present. There were no sing-along songs; no "I'm late", no un-birthday song, no talking flower scene. I remember really liking the scene where Alice paints the roses red and in this version, she does not; dislike. I am left extremely disappointed. As far as design, I expected more from Burton. The mad hatter could have been done a lot better-you could get so creative with his character! I also expected more color, better costume design, more special effects and a better overall design of "underland." Even if I was high, I don't think I would have liked it.
One thing I did like about the film that was never clear to me before is that the Queen of Hearts is really looking for love even though she appears to rather be feared than loved. Burton did a good job of portraying good vs. evil, but the film overall was boring and lacked the imagination of a child that the original film will always have.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

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