celebrate the new, celebrate the few

i'm so excited, tonight is our HIGH RISE MULTI-USE TOWER CRAWL! wooo! in forte's class we're giving group presentations on contemporary arch. typologies, and me/justin/jiddy/sarah chose the multi-use tower. so tonight we are going to do a 'tower bar crawl' and make a movie out of it. i'm so damn excited!!!

last night was great - we went to the malthouse as is our wont on thursdays. jiddy showed up so that was funny. at the end of the night we were doing shots of sambuca and that crap is so sugary and greasy, when someone handed me mine, it slipped right out of my hand! oh god it was awful. now everything i own smells like licorice. i guess it could be worse. but seriously, the section of my pants where it got spilled was literally hard by the end of the night - like it had been sprayed with some kind of disgusting clear sealant. hah! so anyways the end of the night was just really great. and then after that katie, amy chris and i went to eileen's - YES. eileen's is so great. then starsha charis and richard came too. these obnoxious yonkers kids started making fun of the irish waitress' accent cuz she kicked one out for smoking inside, and as they left, richard jumped up and said "i am just so mad right now." and ran out, and picked up two trashcans and threw them at the cars of these kids as they drove away. he then got in his car and tried to follow them. he was back in 10 minutes though for a burger - it was pretty hilarious/badass.

so i'm almost 100% on columbia. gotta get a money order (for some reason i have no checks) and send that off. i applied for housing yesterday!? i had been feeling for a few days after ithaca that columbia was the right place for me, but i kept trying to convince myself of cornell because when we were there, my mom was really quiet about judging it. so i assumed that she wanted me to go there. so i kept thinking "mom must see something i don't" so i spent a while trying to see how i should go there. but slowly i realized it wasn't gonna happen, so i was dreading telling my parents, since i thought they'd be dissapointed. so last night i called them and i was kind of slowly trying to say that i was going with columbia, and my mom goes "THANK GOD! now i can finally say something! we were on pins and needles that you might choose cornell, but we didn't want to influence your decision!" it was like the biggest miscommunication ever - i thought my mom wanted me to go and she thought i wanted to go, but we both knew i should go to columbia. hah. anyways that's done. i'm so relieved to put that decision behind me. cornell's open house was pretty weird - no one asked questions and in general the admitted students just seemed kind of...blase? i mean on the other hand the kids at columbia's open house acted like they were all on meth or something. i would prefer something more in the middle, but i don't really have another choice! so, here's to decades of debt and three miserable, oppresively anxious, sleep-deprived years!