I've been neglecting this blog, but god knows why you'd want to read it anyway. If you used livejournal then you could see my bitching and moaning on a semi-regular basis, complete with photographic aids every now and then. ...or maybe it's better you stick to this blog.
Anyhoo, I've been in my dorm for more than a week now (got here last Saturday) and it's very nice. I've been walking a lot, eating a lot, calling people a lot, sitting in front of my laptop a lot (especially now that I have a cable modem) and...yeah. Most of my time is spend sleeping, walking, eating, and Internet-ing. It's kind of like being in Vassar or NJ except I walk a lot more here. There's a shuttle that goes from my dorm (200 Water Street) to the NYU Washington Square campus (which is where most of the classes are, as opposed to London or Madrid) in about 20 minutes but since I'm masochistic and need serious exercise I've been walking most of the time. If I'm fast it only takes me 35-40 minutes to walk, and if I'm slow (which I usually am) it takes 40-50 minutes.
Today I walked to the Loews Theater on Third Ave and 11th Street, which took me 50 minutes because I am stupid and went all the way to First Ave. Doooh! Diana suggested that we see Vanity Fair and since I didn't know anything about the movie I happily joined for da fun. Overall it was pretty good, except I felt like a lot of the story was being left out. Not considering the story, it was nicely shot and mainly takes place in England. So England gives it cool points. COOL!
We roamed around for a while, stumbling upon Rice to Riches after following my messed up sense of direction (I mixed up Prince and Spring street, which is scary because yesterday I looked up the address and could only remember Prince...Prince doesn't sound remotely like Spring, does it?). We had a cheesecake pudding and a peach pudding with cherries on top. Mmm. Lunch.
More walking brought us to our favorite place, Urban Outfitters. I hate to admit it but I always like the clothes they have. There are about five of them within walking distance though, and I saw two of them today. And there aren't any in NJ, poo. We do have a Free People store though, which is as close as it gets. Anyhoo, I'm not allowing myself to buy clothes until I lose weight, which at this rate means I will never buy clothes again. I already bought pants when I was skinnier and I predict depression if I buy anything larger. So blah! Blah.
My plan to lose weight and eat less/eat raw food is not going well, or going at all. Honestly, I'm eating so much crap. Today was bad because we had a floor meeting with free ice cream and...dude, there was so much free ice cream. So much. I had two bowls and I still feel fine (although I did feel a bit eh after the second bowl). Ice cream tastes really good; now I understand why people like it so much. To fill you in, I think (thought) I was a bit lactose intolerant, but yesterday I drank a bottle of chocolate milk and remained in good digestive condition today. It should only take a day for my intestines to figure out if they can handle the milk or not. God knows what'll happen to me after eating all that ice cream.
Back to Urban Outfitters. It always has stuff that I want. Always. Jeans look good on most people. Diana had some nice looking jeans and she got another pair. I don't look good in jeans, THE END! After not having been pants shopping in about two years, I realized why I took a liking to skirts: I don't need to alter them. Unless I buy pants in the kid's section of a store, they're always too long (unless they're cropped). I have no problem with skirts, except that they tend to not have pockets and pockets make life much easier. Dammit.
So blah. I spent my money at Other Music, picking up a used copy of the latest Sondre Lerche album and a used copy of a Styrofoam album. Mm, used CDs. Still good. Also got the new Filter magazine, which has a page about Magnet! HELL YEAH, A PAGE! I was so happy. If he doesn't tour near me I will die...I mean, I will cry.
Back to fooding. ...we fooded. Yes. Ate dinner at Dojo on 4th Street, which I had heard of because of it's cheap vegetarian-friendly fare. So what did I order? A hamburger. Yeah, I don't know why I ordered that. Next time I'll try something else. After that I had a hankering for some ice cream so we went to Tasti D-Lite. Damn, that's good. Hoooyeah. I've eaten so much ice cream today. God help me.
On top of the ice cream, i bought some kind of almond oat bar as I walked home and bought a 4 oz bag of Terra Chips in Duane Reade even though I only planned to buy toilet paper. God...dammit.
I feel so fat, despite all the walking around. Tomorrow I plan to walk up to Union Square and back again. That's gotta be an at least 3 mile walk, right? Maybe? Eh.
Other things I've done this week: go to a bunch of orientation things, buy some text books, talk to other people (gasp), go to Juniors in Brooklyn for mad delicious cheesecake, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (beautiful I tell ya), see my old friend Carol from Taipei American School, eat craploads of food, drink taro milk tea with tapioca junk, go to the WTC site, walk on Broadway what feels like a million times, find out I have no roommate.
That was very summed up, but there ya go. I'm going to use some kind of photo gallery for my site cos the blogging thing ain't gonna work when I have hundreds of photos from England still collecting dust. Doh.