Chewing Gum & Graphite.

On Thursday, I went to Brighton Beach to be in a student film. We found a dead cat and I had to prod it with an umbrella. ARRRRT!

On Friday, Adam bought a cassette tape deck, Ty showed us her short film that Alexis and I were in, and I went to a weird party in a tiny apartment on Thompson. 

On Saturday, a few of us saw Trojan Women at Atlantic. I had mixed feelings about it. Then there was the Broome talent show with free pizza and then Hannah’s party, which was nine-year-old themed and a lot of fun.

Today my dad visited and we went to Lombardi’s at a weird time so we didn’t have to wait and then walked all the way to the High Line, walked the whole High Line, and then walked to Penn Station to take the subway back here.

It was a good weekend, but I have a midterm on Tuesday that I haven’t really studied for. I will tomorrow. I will study so much tomorrow.

I promised myself that I wouldn’t pull any all-nighters this year, but I guess that was mostly pertaining to work. We can pretend that this doesn’t count.

I have to be down in the lobby in two and a half hours to go to New Orleans and I feel like if I went to sleep now, I would just be more irritable and tired than if I just stay up. Plus, we have an obscenely long drive ahead of us. I can sleep then. Maybe.

To pass the time until it’s light enough to finish packing, I’ll recap a bit of the week. It was full of work (mostly Writing the Essay) and little sleep, but also a lot of great things. On Tuesday night, Adam took me out to dinner for my birthday at Yaffa Cafe on St. Marks. The restaurant was super cool and even though we were there forever (there seemed to only be one waiter, though he was a pretty cool dude) it was lovely. On Wednesday, my actual birthday, I had a midterm at 11:00 and I woke up at 10:51. I had a moment of blind panic before slipping on shoes and a coat and running to the Tisch building to get there on time. In Writing the Essay, Ethan was playing The Decemberists in the beginning of class (as suggested by Jen) and we had celebratory end-of-progression bagels. Ethan stuck a candle in one of my bagel halves and everyone sang to me. I spent an awful three hours dealing with my cell phone, which stopped working even though I had only gotten it like, three weeks ago. So that was really, really frustrating, but at least I have a working phone now. Then later, Adam, Jack, her friend Grace, and I saw Bright Eyes at Radio City, which, as I mentioned previously, was so, so wonderful.

Thursday and today were blurs of studio and work and lethargy. On Thursday in Acting we got new scenes and mine is from On the Verge by Eric Overmeyer, which seems like a really cool play.

RIGHT. NEW ORLEANS TOMORROW. OR, LATER. I’M EXCITED. 

…YEAH.