I have like a month & 1/2 of school left, which is just crazy. This whole year has flown by so fast. This kid added me on facebook who's coming to school here next year. How bazaar is that; I'm not going to be a college freshman anymore. During the summer I'm really hoping that maybe I could gig around Cincinnati. I feel like ohio is an untapped resource. Compared to here in ny, Cincinnati has like no jazziness at all. So if I really get in there, maybe I could meet/play w/ some of the good people. Okay, so that might not happen this summer, but hopefully I could break in a little bit.
It was a beautiful day last Friday (not now b/c its raining; god damn april showers that bring may flowers) so Rel & I went to tompkins square park in the east village and had a picnic. We always walk by it at night and talk about how we have to go again during the day. & we actually did. Rel refused to hop a fence - how lame, but we had ate on some nice benches and talked for a few hours. When we were walking home, we saw the CUTEST place: Sympathy For The Kettle so we had to go in. Its this place with over 150 kinds of teas & its just so cute I can't get over it. The cups and saucers don't match and kind of antique-y. I hate to say it again, but this place is god damn cute. I want to have like...my baby shower there b/c...get this...they throw tea parties. I was going to repeat myself, but I don't think I need to.
Next week my parents are coming and staying for 5 days & I'm really excited for that. They're staying at The Bowery Hotel. Apparently, its new and the NYT just did a story on it last weekend, so my mother is an expert on it. Its in a great location in the east village, and besides the fact that it is right next door to "a homeless shelter and a meth clinic, it should be extremely nice and a little adventurous." I really want to show my parents my area so they can understand why I love it so much. I feel like I have a million stories for every street, and I want to be like "this is where I get my muffin, and this is where we play scrabble, and this is that little tea place I told you about." Before, I was glad that they were coming, but now I'm actually very very excited. I don't care, I love my mommy. It should be a lot of fun, and hopefully my mom & I will spend some money in soho together :)
Last weekend, Alex & I hung out with some people from our dorm. It was so much fun because we usually just kinda keep to ourselves and stubbornly just have fun with each other, but it turns out, other people in the dorm actually pretty cool. I must say, I'm kind of relieved that we found some other people that meet our standards, (I kid about that part) because Alex & I have gone almost the whole year and have only found each other. Not like there's anything wrong with that...oh well I can't really explain well...I suppose you get the picture.
I find this hilarious: The latest search at Google had nothing to do with the Internet or lucrative ads. It had to do with a three-foot python that was loose in its New York offices.

Thursday I saw Uma Thurman. She was just walking down 6th & she looked cold. The celebrities are just like real people! Except for she was probably walking to her great apartment.
Some of my friends from CIT came in on Friday night, and they took me to see "Howard Katz." It really made me miss theater b/c it was so raw & live. okay, duh, theater is live, but its so different when you're there. The tiny cast was really good, but the lighting and sound really made the show. The main character was on stage the whole time, and he would appear to like fall into the next scene, like since the set was all on platforms. I don't know if this makes sense, but it was really awesome. The play is just about this guy who's an asshole & his job takes over his life, and he just looses it. Like it shows him going from when he was on top w/ a family, to when he's all alone on a bridge w/ his father's ashes. Oh yea, it was intense. One of my friends knew someone in the show, so we went out with him to this bar where theater people hang out. My friend pointed out people in the room to me, and one of them was a tony award winner, and another just wrote a musical, and they were all like that. I'm such a huge dork, but I thought it was so cool. They were discussing this new show, and this new talent. Again, I'm a loser, but I thought it was so cool. Anyway, it was so nice seeing my friends from over the summer :) I can't believe Markesha and I have been living in the same city for 4 or 5 months and this was the first time we got together.
Saturday night, Alex & I hung out with 2 girls from our dorm. Surprisingly, Alex & I can have just as good of a time when other people are around than when its just the two of us. We chilled out for a while and then watched requiem for a dream - which is a triiippy movie, but I really liked it. And I honestly think the 4 of us also ate all of the food in the West Village.

christmas time is here...

So Rel & I were in the Xmas spirit so we decided to decorate our doors. God Bless Rite-Aid & their 99¢ wrapping paper. We bought big bows and doodled our names to put on the doors. & then of course we CUT OUT SNOW FLAKES! Actually, no, I cut them out and made a huge mess on Rel's floor while she tried really hard to hang up christmas lights with tape. It's all good because Rel is in love with her dust buster & enjoyed cleaning up my mess. I believe that is why we're friends.
So I go back over to 13th street & out side of my door there are some pipes on the ceiling, a perfect place to hang my snow flakes. I hung up like 10 'flakes, and they looked mad cute. It was great b/c it looked like a winter/festive wonderland right by my door & then the rest of the hall way is beige and boring.
So I come home one day and I see a flake on the floor a few feet away from my door. Oh, it must have fallen. Well, then I look by my door and there was only one snowflake up. I didn't know what to think, but maybe a tall person hated them b/c they kept getting in their way...whatever, its not like someone would do that to be mean. oh contraire, my friend. I unlock the door, and Tiffany told me that she was sleeping & heard this DOUCHE be like "haha this is a building violation hahah i'm a douche." & Tiff thinks that ripped them down. God what a whore. And he's this total flamboyant guy who is friends with our annoying neighbor. GOD I was so pissed. Why would someone do that? Why would someone rip down snowflakes and ruin the christmas spirit just to prove to your self that you are an asshole.

oh and this picture was taken after the incident

"It is the city that doesn't sleep!"

So I got a chance to listen to everyone sing & let me tell you, there are some awesome awesome awesome people here. Out of the 17 singers here, there are 2 or 3 that are just incredible & I don't understand why they are wasting their time going to school when they could be gigging & making a lot of mooolah b/c they are so just fucking amazing. Then there are like 2 or 3 that are just... i don't know, they just were... and then you have the rest of us who are all in the middle & for the most part we are pretty inexperienced, so you kinda can't tell where we are. Oh, and FYI, I totally totally fucked up my singing, so thats fun. & I never want to talk about it ever ever ever again
There are about 6 or 7 people in our class of like 70 who aren't fresh out of high school. 3 of them are singers, & 2 of them are like...in their late 40s or 50s. Its strange b/c for some reason I expected them to be crazy good, but when they were performing with combos, these 18 year old kids were totally showing them up. At the same time though, its awesome that they are going back to school to pursue music. Whatever, I don't really need to worry about it.
Today Arielle (my jazz vocalist friend) & I decided to get ice cream b/c we are 18 year old girls & thats what we do, and I got really great ice cream in the best ice cream cone in the world. Obviously, very delicious. Then we went back to her dorm, Marlton, & watched project runway in the lounge w/ 892346892346 other people. Everyone was so into it b/c for a lot of people, fashion design is their major life and it happens at our school, so we have to be stoked for it. Everyone loved Vincent w/ his pants off and Andela's fucking rosettes. & when Angela got kicked off there was mad applause in the room. oh and whenever they do the shots of the Parsons building or the commercial for New School comes on, everyone does a little "whooo!" or cheer or whatever. Might sound lame, but it was just fun.
After that I hung out at 6A till like 4 doing, i don't even know what. Probably laughing at Alex b/c he is the funniest person alive. He's a design and managment major from Puerto Rico, is hungry all of the time, and sings with hand motions to his boyfriend over ichat. We were starving at about 3.30 & Alex kept saying "This is the city that doesn't sleep! We can find some food. I know it." As we were trying to use google & find some 24 food place that delivers, Jason was just so hungry that he left to find something. He came back w/ 5 things of Ramen. & Alex left with a friend to find something also, & came back with pizza at like 430. Just because I live in the city that doesn't sleep does mean that I don't sleep either. So I walked back to my room way tired & then slept till 11.30. I love not having classes.