He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

Today I was in Times Square [ew, I know, but I had to catch a train], and a woman almost walked into me [a tourist]. She was wearing this shirt that said "It's all okay...Jesus loves you." Now, I have absolutely nothing againt people who love Jesus. It's all good, I mean, everyone needs someone to love, right? But I just felt, I don't know, like she was kind of encroaching on my religious beliefs...it's one thing to wear a cross but I feel like it's another to tell me that the god of your religion loves me. I don't want to be loved by Jesus. I felt like she had inadvertantly entered my personal space, my religious personal space, and we all know how much New Yorkers crave personal space, in a city with over a million people. I have no idea why it affected me like this, it's probably just that I'm very emotional right now, but that's just what I have to say, take it for what it's worth, and if I've just offended anyone, well, mea culpa.

Happy Black Friday!

So, I really wanted to go shopping on this Holy Day of Sales, but I had to wake up early to go to Baltimore and the weather was absolute crap so I had abosultely no desire to go out at two in the morning to stand in the lines that were already forming [!!] in front of stores.

The ride down to Baltimore was very uneventful, particularly because I slept for the entire three hour ride [we beat MapQuest by an hour...hmm, how fast was the driver going? I'm kind of happy I slept through the whole thing!]. But it's beautiful here, much nicer than New York, although there isn't much to do [haha].

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day! Or, for the vegetarians, Happy Tofurkey Day! I've got a lot to be thankful for this year.

Baltimore this weekend, I'm SO excited, even though there was a little trouble getting a ride down [ahem, you know who you are...I'm still "mad"], it should be a lot of fun, and I'm very much looking forward to it!

And once more, Starbucks has outdone itself - Starbucks liquer. I am so excited to taste it...it's taken all of my resolve to save it for this weekend, but I've done it. And I'm sure it's going to be amazing...

Life's Unanswered Questions [2]

I know that I've mentioned this before, but the ludicrousness of the whole thing is still there - why do they ask for student I.D.? Do I look like I'm not supposed to be there? Why the hell would I, just for fun, show up at the crack of dawn with a heavy bag full of books if I wasn't meant to be at school? Do I look like I'm a terrorist, goingto blow up the building or something?

Movin' On Up

New school building - UWS whoohoo! Except now it means I've got to take a train to Columbus Circle every day, which is annoying as hell, but whatever, it's nice up there, and the new building [or, as it's referred to by the admin "The New Building"] is ten times nicer than the old one.

Starbucks continues to amaze me - um, the peppermint mocha thing they've got going on for the holidays? Amazing. Starbucks is way cool. Speaking of franchises, I just need to get this out into the world: the Lord and Taylor's Christmas windows leave a lot to be desired. I understand that this year they're trying to be like Saks or Bergdorf's, classy like that, but there's just something missing...it all looks a little sterile, a little too thought out, and that music is a tad on the cheesy side.

Four days till Thanksgiving!

Life's Unanswered Questions [1]

1. Why do all the Aisian tourists in the city all have so much flipping money??? They are all, all!!, walking around with bags from Bergdorf's and, like, Marc Jacobs, and none of the other tourists are. Why is that?

2. Why can Aisian women get away with wearing the most ridiculous things that, on them only, look completely normal?!? What's up with that?!?

Guys: Step Aside

I am in love with my hot water bottle. It is without a doubt the most ingenious creation to ever grace the face of this planet. My love of it will never end.

In other news, my baby brother [he's three] is going through the standard rite of passage: he got the chicken pox. And it's so adorable because he thinks he's a chicken and none of us are bothering to correct him because it's just too cute. And he calls the pox "pops." Adorable.

I Love This City

Yesterday I was walking [in the freezing pouring rain, I might add] to go to a Starbucks [where else?!] to meet a friend, and as I turned the corner out of nowhere there was this huge flea market in an empty abandoned parking lot. It was HUGE!! And then as I sat in Starbucks later waiting for my friend to show up, the guy sitting next to me [I was sitting at the bar] was like, is there a flea market going on around here? And I said yes, and he was like, I figured because about five minutes ago I saw this guy walk buy with a lamp made entirely out of antlers. Haha, it was such a funny moment, almost made up for the fact that I missed seeing Brian Regan this past Saturday night.

"She's Smooth...Smooth!"

Kudos to Chandler for that gem of a line - Announcement! Chapstick has a new peppermint flavor that is out of this world, and the best part is that the actual Chapstick stuff, like the waxy stuff that goes on your lips, is an amazing, unnatural shade of blue. It's some realy good stuff, and I dont' know if the Chapstick people changed their formula or what, but this stuff is really good, better than the cherry one I always used to use. Go get it.

We Need An Ark

Ok Noah, get building - there was so much rain today, I really have never seen so much water in my life, and of course today was the day when I needed to be outside the most...I needed Macro explained to me, so my frined who knows it really well made me meet him at the Starbucks in Columbus Circle instead of coming downtown to my Starbucks, of course. So it not only poured, it was windy and freezing as well, and there was really no need for an umbrella. It was like people were just using them as props because it was raining so, hey, why not drag out the umbrella, but either way you got soaked! Dreaming of Florida [hmm, winter break option?]

Rock The Vote

Voting Day! My first election [I'm a baby, I know - that's for all my older friends]. Don't ask me who I voted for because I really wouldn't be able to tell you, but all I know is that I voted Repblican. Because Republicans are the shiz[nit, E!]. And it was really funny, so basically I went down to take a train to Union Sqaure [Anthropologie's having a sale!] and it was really nice and sunny, but when I came back up to street level like three stops later, it was gross and overcast, like a completely different day. It was very surreal.

Backstabber

I think the title says it all...can I just say that there are some personal things about me that shouldn't be shared with people who don't know me. If I tell someone something in confidence, which obviously means I trusted that person enough to tell them something that is really personal and difficult for me to share with other people, that means that I don't particularly want it to be shared with random people who now have a certian idea of me. It sucks, really, because I don't know these other people, they don't know me, and now just from what they've heard, they'll automatically have this idea about me that may not even be remotely true. And like, most normal people don't share other peoples' "secrets" or what ever you want call it. So yeah, that's what's up.