Chewing Gum & Graphite.

train rides and memorizing lines and Words With Friends (and family) and delicious food and I wish I could eat my aunt’s stuffing every single day and psychedelic music and Philadelphia and beautiful weather and Stephen Sondheim and walking and hanging out with Seamus and laughing and Retrospect and AIDS Thrift and procrastinating as usual and trying not to feel weird and sneaking into Gallatin through Tisch to rehearse even though the former is technically closed on Sundays (which was thrilling) and costumes and progress and not wanting it to ever be Monday.

Going to the Berkshires for the weekend was exactly the kind of thing that I needed, but I wish we could have stayed for a few more days. For the first time, I’m not thrilled to be back in New York.

and consisted of:

1. Going to Brooklyn with Ty and Alexis, buying a pair of really cool shoes for nine dollars.

2. A New Studio actors party, at which I shared a bottle of wine with my friend Ben and had a generally good time.

3. Seeing A Bright Room Called Day at Tisch, another congratulatory pumpkin.

4. Alexis and I unintentionally having a party. There were like, fifteen people in our room. And it was strange and slightly overwhelming. But we did watch Halloweentown, which was pretty great.

5. Ty’s film shoot, at which Alexis, Connor, Spencer, and I bonded because we all had to sit in our underwear in the freezing Goddard classroom and then wrap ourselves in blankets and chase Thomas (who was wearing a bright red onesie) through Washington Square Park. ARRRRT!

6. Broome’s Murder Mystery dinner. My team absolutely dominated and won movie tickets. Honda was randomly chosen beforehand to be the murderer. Coincidence or prophecy?

1. Volunteered at the Housing Works book store and had Book Corner flashbacks.

2. Stumbled upon a cool art exhibition. 

2. Watched four crappy movies during two successive Crappy Movie Nights, the most notable among them being The Room, which is just the greatest (in the worst way possible).

4. Got arrested. FOR ART! (But actually for trespassing.)

5. Went to Whiplash without worrying about waking up early for class the next day.

6. Finally got to check out Occupy Wall Street for a bit with Alexis. It was really interesting, though there wasn’t much to actually do, so I want to go to one of their General Assembly meetings.

7. Ate a cupcake that had cannoli filling for frosting, was subsequently enlightened.