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To look life in the face.
Always, to look life in the face.
And to know it for what it is.

At last to know it.

To love it for what it is.

And then, to put it away.

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Why I heart New York? It's where I finally learned how to do all that.

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New York Part 2 is 35 days away.

Until then... I'm makin' me some snow angels.

I should do an update about Elena's visit, since it was just dandy (with cameos by Tyra Banks, Dolly Parton and her breasts, the guy who knocked up Nicole Richie, and the Judd sister who isn't Ashley), but I probably won't. I will say that I finally got out of my head long enough to look around me and appreciate this wacky city for a second almost ( Read more... )

AND I SAID, BITCH- YOU GET IN THIS ROOM AND DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO! THEN WE'LL TALK.
-23rd and 7th

No sleep last night ( Read more... )

"I remember one morning, getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: so, THIS is the beginning of happiness! This is where it starts! And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning ( Read more... )

Locked out of my room twice in one day. A crying teacher, a classmate on fire.... my design teacher gave me positive feedback on my last project, which has never come close to happening before. I fell asleep today during Mean Girls, and I don't think that's ever happened. My roommate saw Margaret Cho on campus twice this week in a fur coat, and ( Read more... )

I did not request a credit card, but Chase took it upon themselves to send me a little black one simply for opening a checking account with them. "How sweet," I thought. "I need one of these ( Read more... )

I get to meet with the head of the photography department tomorrow. I'm really excited. I scheduled the meeting to bitch about a professor I don't even have with whom I had a *run-in* and who rubbed me the wrong way, and I still plan to do that. But I also get to tell her that the professors I *do* have have taught me ten times more in a month ( Read more... )