yes, I’m grateful.
in Loved Ones, Performance, there are pictures here, Thoughts and Feelings
as beautiful people, bed, Carpe, case in point, fun, girl, gratitude, laugh, life, point, sleep, Stuff, tomorrow, work
Dear Jessica,
You know that girl who looks just like you? The one who has to do two shows tomorrow? Well, she’d like you to go to sleep.
Like, now.
You know, carpe diem.
Or rather, go to bed now so that you can do that carpe diem stuff tomorrow.
But first be grateful.
Intentionally so.
Because there are some beautiful people crowding your life right about now.
They laugh and listen and dance.
They do all that stuff with you.
And they make work so much fun.
Um, case in point.
turns out nyc does just fine on the 4th.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as apartme, apartment mate, apparent reason, bad move, broadway show, building, creeper, crowd, dancing, Eating, fact, few days, fireworks, friend, fun, funny part, gif, gift, girl, good reason, hand, hoda, holding hands, holiday, holidays, hudson river, music, New, new york times, NYC, office, onlookers, reason, Roda, salsa, shake, shake shack, suck, Times, work, Yay
I have to admit: this holiday didn’t suck. It didn’t suck at all, in fact.
Oh, non-sucking holidays are a gift. A GIFT, I tell you. And I have learned to appreciate them as such.
And as my friend and (once again! yay!) apartment-mate Betsy just said: “You have had a very New York few days.”
They included:
- Watching the fireworks over the Hudson River from an office in the New York Times Building. Great view. Great people. Great fun.
- Participating in my very first outdoor Roda (pronounced Hoda) in Columbus Circle. This is where we all sing and practice capoeira. I was nervous. But the crowd seemed to love watching it (with good reason–there are some amazing capoiestas in the group!)
- Salsa dancing to live music in Columbus Circle afterward. What? SO FUN. And then when a strange looking man tried to dance with me, one of my friends grabbed me and quickly told him that “we need to practice.” The funny part is that the friend is a girl. I am not sure what, exactly, we were practicing for, but whatever it is, I hope it calls for some pretty bad salsa dancing between girls. Cause we had that down. And then whenever the creeper would get close, she would just grab my hand, leaving us awkwardly holding hands for no apparent reason to onlookers. Hilarious.
- Eating dinner at the Shake Shack in Times Square. But I didn’t get a shake, which, upon reflection, was a bad move on my part.
So yes, it was a very New York Fourth of July and I have to say that I rather loved it.
I am smiling just thinking of it.
And tomorrow I get to go audition for a Broadway show–something else that is pretty New York, I guess.
candy heart.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as aids, blogs, boar, bulldozers, candy, candy heart, Carpe, chance, diem, drowsy, epic, finger, fuck, fun, gay man, hairy legs, hearts, heavy machinery, influence, Jess, jog, lot, love, maniac, muddy, ooh, pez, pez dispenser, pez dispensers, run, sleep, Smartest, spitting, today, tree, wild boar
I should tell you that I am under the influence of some sleep aids right now. I am writing until I am drowsy enough to go away, at least for a little while. I’ve always heard that medicated blogs are more fun; now’s the chance to really see for myself. Actually, I’ve never heard that, [...]
lately, darling (me and lyric got a new jam!)
in Loved Ones, Performance, video
as bit, couch, darling, fun, jam, little bit, lot, lyric, missing people, new jam, rap, thing, thinking caps, time
“Lyric,” I said, “It is time to write our rap.” “Okay,” she agreed, and we both sat on the couch with our thinking caps on. And then I told her that I think we should write a rap about missing people. We both have a lot of people that we miss, so this is not [...]
grateful.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as aloneness, California, fun, fun thing, God, hand, jenna, life, Ollie, Pacific Ocean, picture, role reversal, sense of togetherness, sister jenna, thing
One fun thing about leggings is that they have no pockets. Okay, so that’s not like the most fun thing, but bear with me. Because see, since they have no pockets, that means that I hand my camera over to other people to store in their pockets for the day. Thank God not all of [...]
sledventures.
in Funny Stuff, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as Blair, blair witch, dear life, elbow, elbow pads, fun, jenna, Jimmy, nobody puts baby in the corner, Shane, sleds, snow, truck, way, Zach
I’m still cold. I’m still a little wet (from. the. snow.). My elbow is a little sore. But whoa, that was fun. I mean, fun. Genuine, pure fun. The kind that involves climbing trees, trying to outfall the snow as it falls all around you and you fall into piles of it already on the [...]
