Chewing Gum & Graphite.

What I’m feeling now is appropriate for a Monday, I think. I just finished reading Mockingjay and I’m in an almost end-of-Harry-Potter kind of funk. It was such an emotionally jarring book that I don’t really know what to do with myself right now. Though I have things I should do: put away the clothes on my chair, write my WTE paper (but first think of what to write about), look over my studio books. I’ll probably do at least two of the three eventually; I don’t have anything else planned for today. After an exhausting week of waking up early and walking a ton, I need a day to just sit in my room and relax.

To focus my attention on other things, I’ll talk about the weekend because it was wonderful. On Saturday, I went kayaking in the morning with Goddard people. Yeah, kayaking in New York City. For FREE! It was a lot of fun but the wind was really strong so it was a huge workout trying to paddle against it. Later I met my friend Jordan in Union Square and we went to the Guggenheim to see an exhibit called Haunted because all Tisch kids have to see it and write a two page response. It was a fantastic exhibit, but it was a HUGE exhibit. I took way too many notes and thus, I was there for about three and a half hours. Jordan went through it a lot faster, and I told her she didn’t have to wait for me so by the time I was finished, I was alone, my right shoulder hurt from my tote bag, my left shoulder hurt from my camera (which I couldn’t use, anyway) and my feet hurt from walking, but I liked the exhibit enough to buy the expensive book about it, which only added to the pain in my right shoulder. I traveled back to my dorm, where my parents met me because they brought up some things that didn’t fit in the car when I initially moved in. Then we went to Lombardi’s for dinner, which was delicious, even though we had to wait 45 minutes for a table. Then we went to this place called Popbar, which makes popsicles with gelato, and they taste like magic.

Yesterday, a few Goddard people went to the High Line park, which was cool. We walked around Chelsea a bit and miraculously found our way back. Then I met up with Sara Patterson, and even though I have the worst sense of direction, I managed to get us to Magnolia Bakery only to find a massive line outside. So we we back and took a sort of roundabout route to Popbar instead. Then we took the subway to midtown, went to her dorm for a very short amount of time and then tried to get tickets for a show. We wanted to see La Cage aux Folles, but there wasn’t a show happening that night, so we went across the street and got rush tickets for A Little Night Music. To pass the time before the doors opened, we got food at a street fair on 6th Avenue. I was just as excited to see the show for the third time as I was when I first saw it. We were up on the balcony, which I didn’t even know they had in that theatre, so now I’ve seen the show in every level. Haha. Sara liked the show a lot, which I was happy about. I always get nervous when I show my friends things that I really love, because I don’t want them to be let down after I hype it up so much. We waited at the stage door afterwards and managed to get four signatures on our programs! I almost had a heart attack waiting for Bernadette Peters to come out, but when she did, she only signed a few things and then got in a car and left. So Sara and I are determined to go back and get her signature one of these days.

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I’m starting classes tomorrow. Real or not real?

Real.

So far, I’ve heard from four colleges. I didn’t get into Purchase, but I wasn’t expecting to, so that’s no big deal. I got into Goucher, which is nice; at least I know I’ll be going somewhere. I didn’t get into DePaul (my feelings about this will be determined by other acceptances/denials) and I got wait-listed for Emerson, which kind of sucks. But hey, wait-listed is better than denied.

I got the DePaul and Emerson letters today, and it’s rainy and gross out, so I’m in a pretty blah kind of mood. I ate the last piece of my birthday cake from Meg to make myself feel better, but then I was still sad because there was no more cake. Haha.

ANYWAY. Here’s a list of better and more exciting things:

1. On Saturday, Caileigh, my parents, and I went to Pod for a celebratory birthday dinner. We were going to watch The Hangover but I took the disc out of its Blockbuster envelope to discover that one side of it was broken. WHY DON’T THE BLOCKBUSTER PEOPLE CHECK THESE THINGS BEFORE THEY SEND THEM? So Caileigh and I watched Up instead, because she had never seen it before.

2. We sold out our show yesterday! All 42 seats! Hahaha. We were the first PlayShop show to sell out, though, which is pretty neat. The show went well, and Amanda and Mr. Burns saw it! I can’t believe there’s only one more week. I don’t want to think about it.

3. I got the part of the Baker’s Wife in my Drama class’ production of Into the Woods! I am very excited about this, because it’s a fantastic part and Into the Woods is a fantastic musical, but we’re going to kill it because there is no way that you can put on a decent musical with the 24 random kids in a Drama class. A lot of the kids in that class either don’t care, can’t sing, can’t act, or a combination of the three. Eh well, hopefully it’ll be fun anyway.