Things I Do Instead of HW

Look what I learned how to do!

GAA

I knocked my last can of ginger ale off my desk...three times.

Popped the tab and had to push it all the way open with a knife.

Hello, my name is Magda, and I'm addicted to ginger ale.

Seriously Freaking Me Out

HOW DOES IT KNOW
Not really the second part, though. I don't play those games.

Vroom Vroom Vroom

The sound of an engine slowly approaching and then shutting off right outside my window really, really reminds me of being home on the couch with Kolby, hearing one of my parents pull into the driveway, and making Kolby run with me to the door to greet them.

I miss New Jersey.

Oh Horoscope.

School Blog

For my Senior Media Seminar, "Beauty and the Body in an Image Society," we're required to keep a blog for reflections on the texts, lectures, and linked cultural phenomena. If you have any interest in following my "required blogging," it can be found here. Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but it's kinda sad to be blogging for no one!

When Push Comes to Shove

"That was the most un-NYU apology ever. She actually felt bad!" -Ben Kafka, my Psychoanalysis professor

A Week Is a Long Time

So, as pointed out by my mother, I haven't updated in over a week. I've been insanely busy with working, starting school, dying of homework already, happy hours, concerts, and friends' birthdays. I started working last Thursday, the same day I saw the Damnwells, and have been working extra hours to pick up some cash. While $2 or $3 happy hour beers might sound cheap, getting 1 or 2 every day for a week really, really adds up. Like, really. Especially when that's only the beginning of a night that goes until 4AM. But enough about the things that my parents don't want to hear about.

Rundown: last Friday (9/3) was my friend Dan's 21st birthday celebration and we drank champagne at a swanky bar; Saturday I went to F21 with Julie and then met up with people for another birthday celebration; Sunday night we went out, I'm sure, but I can't remember where; Monday I went to happy hour at Benny's Burrito's with Melissa and Bess and ate amazing tacos, then got more food with Nicole (haha); Tuesday was the last first day of classes ever, but I only had work, and then I went to go see Hanson for free with Megha!; Wednesday was my first REAL day of classes, then I went to Indian place for Maddie's 22nd birthday and then up to 119 for Justin's 21st; Thursday we went to Karaoke for Maddie's birthday celebration; Friday I went to Brooklyn with Nicole to say goodbye to Joleen before she leaves for Senegal (super sad) then met up with everyone in the village and bounced around; last night I went to Nick's to hang out, then up to a bar in mid-ish town for Jim's 21st birthday, then a bunch of other places around there to dance our faces off.

Today I'm finishing my reading for the week, hopefully coming up with an idea for my presentation on Wednesday (can you believe I have a presentation already?), heading to midtown to buy my photography supplies (also annoyed that a $250 studio fee barely covers half of my studio costs), then SLEEPING. I've been trying to get 8+ hours of sleep a night, because the week before last (the week after I moved in and wasn't working or going to class) KILLED me--no sleep, lots of walking, etc. I'm still recovering.

I'll do a rundown of all my classes after they've met more than once and I'm not swamped and overwhelmed. I really can't believe I'm graduating this semester. It's too soon and I have no idea what I'm doing with myself.

PS: 36 views on my Damnwells video makes me feel so popular! I KNOW I don't have 36 viewers.

The Damnwells

This is a video I took of the Damnwells at their show on Thursday!!
It was incredible, I was seriously speechless and couldn't move the entire time.
Thank you, Alex Dezen, for always being so unbelievable.

This is the Start of a Beautiful Semester

I'm just waiting for the heat to break.

I've got another 6 days until classes start, and living in the city has never been this good.