I am officially at the halfway point in my German course. (3/6 weeks complete). I have class four hours a day, four days a week, so I hope I've actually learned something.

In other news, New York City is as beautiful as she always is, but also just as bank-breaking. Most of my money has gone to feeding myself extremely modestly and, of course, supporting my nicotine habit. I've tried desperately to cut down but I'm studying German all the time and (insert 3,000 other excuses) it hasn't really happened as much as I wish it would. Cigarettes are so expensive here. Everytime I buy a pack I spend more than what I allot myself for food. If I come back to Cornell emaciated, you'll know why. At least I'm not really paying rent--I paid one flat fee for the 7 weeks I'm here, and even though I'm in bumfuck upper west, a train ride downtown is only ten minutes.

I haven't met many new friends (my suitemates probably joke about me as "the one who comes home at night and who has a funny, piney, skunky smell coming from her room all the time")....but I've hung out with plenty of old friends. I also have a couple of homeless friends who live in this 24-hr cafe on macdougal and bleeker called "Esperanto Cafe." One is this half-japanese guy named Jumanji who used to be a professional skateboarder, sponsored by Emerika (he showed me his youtube videos--this dude is legit). Then, he broke his arm really badly and had no health insurance, probably started doing crack, etc. Anyway, there so many storytellers here, it's amazing. The Moleskine that I dedicated to my summer in New York is mostly full of interesting stories from people...it's really great.

I'll be in Ithaca for a week before coming back to new york to catch that flight to Berlin. Hopefully I survive 3 more weeks of this intensive-ass class.

silence is more comforting than static in the form of small-talk.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/01/bush-peace/

 boo boo boo boo boo boo pet boo.
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The savage attack has prompted Greyhound to scrap an ad campaign that extolled the peaceful, worry-free upside of bus travel.

The punch line of the ad was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage'."

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I'm officially depressed.

Spontaneous, playful uncertainty I can deal with.
Deadly, no-way-out uncertainty rips at me...tears at ME...my body my mind Me.

uncertain(tea?)

uncertain(tea)r

un, sir....tan tea?

Quiero té, mi amor.
Chamomile, per favor.

Te quiero.

Ya te extraño

My phone is officially dead.

It's so liberating.

But it could be a problem at gRoots.

I'm definitely going to make it to NJ for All Points West. I'm not extremely thrilled about the Bonnaroo lineup this year, minus BB King, so.... yeah. If you buy a carpool pass (4 tickets at once) then you get onsite parking... I'm considering finding 3 other people to ride with me and doing that and then staying with family in Jersey City.

Hmmm???

http://www.apwfestival.com/