"but, hey, not like I'm gay or anything"

EDIT: Just hours after becoming the 55th Governor of NY State, David Paterson and his wife Michelle have admitted to both have extramarital affairs during a rough patch in their marriage.

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.

I felt like I was running around all day, which I weirdly really enjoy. I had 3 classes today, one of which was frustrating b/c I practiced something wrong, so I have to redo HOURS AND HOURS of practice. okay, maybe not hours. whatever, its annoying. & then my song for vocal rhythm section wasn't that bad. eh, I just need to pick a better fun song for next week. Then I went shopping, but don't get too excited. I only bought my favorite salad dressing (which is only exciting to me) and a mic & cable for it. Now I'm a real singer :)
Alex is stuck in Puerto Rico! He was suppose to come home on Sunday, but all flights into the city have been canceled until wed afternoon b/c of the snow (wtf? snow?. I'm excited to see him b/c I haven't been seen him for 6 days! ah! I wasn't prepared for this!

Oh, and we all thought this was funny. & so true:
      My best friend Anna is a single New York gal. She drew an analogy for me to better understand her singledom predictament.

"Rachael, here's the deal. I'm like Anne Frank's older sister in the Play Anne Frank's diary. The Franks and that other family (the name escapes me) are living in the Dutch attic. Food rations are meager. At one point in the play all they have to eat is some slightly rotting kale. All the characters in the play, except for Anne's older sister, manage to choke down the slightly rotting kale because they have nothing else to eat. Anne's older sister is loosing weight daily. She's starving, and yet she still won't eat the vile, slightly rotting kale. Her mother pleads with her to eat the disgusting kale because that's all there is to eat. And yet Anne's older sister won't touch it.

Rachael, I am Anne's older sister. The slightly rotting kale are the gentleman callers I have to choose from. I am starving for sex and afffection, maybe even some romance, but I'm not eating the slightly rotting kale. "

I suggested that Anna go out and get something else to eat. She responded, "I can't I'm stuck in the attic!"

quite quotable

Rel & I are pretty sure that this is us...b/c it happened to us & we would say this

I Should Always Get What I Don't Really Want

Girl #1 running down subway steps as train pulls away: Hurry, hurry! ... Shit! We just missed it!
Girl #2: We didn't want a six train anyways.
Girl #1: I know... But it still pisses me off.
--4/5/6 platform, Union Square
Overheard by: Bean

via Overheard in New York, Jan 14, 2007

totally missing the big little city

Okay, so this guy, Sean Kenney, obviously has way way way wayyyy too much free time, but this model of Greenwich Village is so awesome. Theres so much detail in the model, esp Murray's Bagels (mmm, how I miss multi-grain bagle with low fat cream cheese for $3.20)
I'm so bored at home I might just dig up my old legos and make a model w/ 13th street, magnolias, new school, french roast, sammys, and the library for myself

eh.

Today, after my voice lesson, I felt that I needed some clothes, because I honestly did. So I walked to the nearest H&M. Which in case you don't know is about 983462346 blocks away from where I live (aka it was about 25 blocks). It would have been a nice walk most days, I mean how could it not be as I was on the journey of new apparel, but it was raining very hard. & I was wearing flip flops. why are flip-flops always on my feet when it rains?
I'm a dumb ass (w/ 3 new nice jackets, 2 shirts, and a new skirt all for $120) and I'm tired.
• Rel & I were planning on going to the Deitch's Art Parade, but missed it because we are slow walkers. I'm so mad, it looked awesome.
• My friends Alex and Tara discovered Max Brenner today. It sounds like heaven. I think we're going to go tomorrow
• For Central Park Carriage Horse, Death Arrives Inelegantly