I don't rock the lj-cuts.
I saw the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Guggenheim. It was beautiful. I bought 3 postcards. Sometimes I think about leaving the NY-metro area and then I think about all the amazing museum exhibits I would miss. I went to one day of the Howl! Allen Ginsberg Poetry Festival. They did fun stuff with the poem (like giving every person a different line and having everyone walk around reading them all at once). The whole thing was honestly kind of moving. Though it seems you couldn't be a beat writer without being Jewish and/or homosexual. Also-the Living Theatre is back in New York. They're opening a space in Hell's Kitchen. I splurged on 3 buttons. Later I went to the Strand and bought a few books from the dollar carts. I also bought a pair of hand-knit gloves made in Pakistan for $3 and I cannot WAIT to wear them. I slept over Harry's, which was really nice. It is so cold in this room that I could wear them now. I don't have a computer and don't know when I will. I'm updating from a SINC site on campus. I'd be a lot more productive if I didn't have internet access in my room, though. I forgot a lot of little stuff when I moved, but most importantly I forgot ALL my posters. I wrote down descriptions of them and taped the pieces of paper to the walls, in the spots I want the posters to go. I guess I'll retrieve them, and everything else, this weekend. My brother doesn't get home until really late Monday night. I think I'm going to sleep at home that night so I can see him and give him his presents. I'll just take the train back Tuesday morning. I look really, really nice today. I'm wearing my Banana Republic skirt (cream with yellow flowers), the shirt I bought at the Tori concert, the shoes from Italy my aunt gave me, blue head scarf, 2 blue rings, a lot of plastic bracelets, silver cross, thick black frame glasses, and I put my hair up in half-pigtails; you know what I mean, when they look like little bumps. Does anybody have any reccomendations for finding books for school for really cheap? Mostly I just need paperbacks that would be in any major bookstore, but I developed an aversion to paying retail over the summer. I sort of really want to add a 5th class. I'm going to take Professor Levy's advice and drop in on his Playwrighting class tomorrow night, see who shows up, what the class is like, that sort of thing. I want to keep writing. I also want to print out my writing and keep a portfolio. I need to find an on-campus on-the-books job. I do not want to do this. I am going to work 2 days a week. I need to do work for my aunt like whoa. I don't have any of the search links with me, but I'll email them to myself when I'm home. I think I'm going to prefer working for her from school, rather than home, because the printers here are more reliable. I've only met 2 of my suitemates so far, one of whom I felt I definitely bonded with. I mentioned that I didn't have a computer and she said I could use hers anytime. She also said I should feel free to eat any of the food in the kitchen, and that if the other suitemates didn't like the stuff in the living room (Ikea lamps, etc.) she'd take it down. She seems really sweet. Also, she's a theatre major, so we bonded over the woes of having a humanities major in such a science-heavy university. Both she (her?) and her roommate are in Sigma Iota Sigma, like the 2 girls last semester were. Apparently this room has been occupied by SIS sisters since the apartments were built. As long as they don't keep a keg in the bathroom for a week (again), it's cool. Despite a rather nasty psychotic episode I had Saturday night, things seem to be going pretty well.