I got back to Haverford this afternoon; I'll be finishing up my fall break in my apartment doing massive amounts of research and outlining. Fall break was loads of fun. I'm really really really poor now. Which kinda sucks. I spent so much money this past week...traveling, eating, shopping. It's ridiculous how much money I spent. I could've used that money to fly home...if I found an extremely cheap ticket. Extremely cheap. But anyways, no regrets; this past week was awesome. Here's a photo recap of my adventures...




I started off break by visiting Laura at Columbia for the weekend. This woman works too hard, so we spent Saturday out in NYC eating and shopping. 'Twas a lot of fun. And yes, we're wearing scarves, which we just bought that day because it was that cold.




We passed a long line of people that Laura thought was a line to get into a bread cafe. So she asked one woman what the line was for, and the woman said, "Auditions for America's hottest mom." hahahaha.




After doing some street shopping (cheap cheap cheap!) we headed to Magnolias for some cupcakes. For those that don't know, Magnolias is a bakery in Greenwich Village that was made popular by movies and tv shows, especially Sex in the City. There's a lot of hype surrounding this little place, and it's definitely overrated, but having never heard any of the hype until Laura told me about it, I found the cupcakes very tasty and wasn't disappointed at all.


So after spending the day around the city, we met up with Brian, who came from Brown just to spend one night hanging out with us. Yay for mini (very mini) DC+2 get-togethers =]. In Brian's words, "Who am I to break up a tradition we started last year?" Indeed.




Nice dinner at a Thai restaurant. THAI ICED TEA IS SO GOOD. Haha, Brian look so unhappy in this picture




After dinner we went to see a Broadway show. I guess we're making a Broadway show a tradition for hanging out in NYC. We saw "The Wedding Singer," which is what the movie w/ Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler is based off of. The musical is the same as the movie...same plotline and characters...except the musical is, well obiviously a musical. It was a really fun, upbeat show. I enjoyed it a lot. I wouldn't pay full price to see it, but for the price we paid ($26) it was well worth it. Yeah, we got lucky again. That morning Laura and I tried getting student rush tickets for Jersey Boys, but there were way too many people in front of us by the time we got there, so we decided to try getting student rush tickets for Wedding Singer instead. And lucky us, we were the last ones in line to get tickets because after us they ran out =].




Me, Laura, and Constantine Maroulis, who played Sammy in the show. He was also the sixth runner up for American Idol, so naturally I had to take a picture with him (even though I don't watch the show). He also signed my towel. Yes, my towel. During the show the performers tossed out two towels they were using as props to the audience. I caught one =].




FROYO! (aka frozen yogurt). We went on a crazy froyo hunt after the show...wouldn't call it a night till we got some.


After staying three nights with Laura, I headed over to Greenwich, CT to stay with Jessie for the week. Oh but before that, I did this cool career exploration thing at Time, Inc. in Manhattan. My school set up a panel of speakers to give us information about marketing, sales, advertising, and such. It was good because I got to see a different side of journalism; I've only ever talked to writers, reporters, anchormen/women, but this time I found out about jobs in the publication part of the field.




The first thing Jessie and I did when I got to her house was clean her room, which I swear she hasn't cleaned out since she was 2 yrs. old. I found the most random stuff ever. This is just a picture of me with various things in her room. Rainboots from target, a hat from iceland, tacky necklaces, a trophy, a bouncy balloon, geek glasses, and a toy that looks like an egg beater. Cool.




We both had a lot of work to do for school, so of course we procrastinated the best we could by taking cool pictures on my camera. Every once in a while instead of taking pictures we'd play text twist. SO ADDICTING.




Nick was staying in Greenwich with his grandma after he finished the Humtones tour, so we met up with him for a day. We shopped, ate lunch at Costco (lunch at Costco is the best...hella cheap and hella good), and then played games at Jessie's house. I forgot how much fun Connect Four is. Kids should stop playing video games and play games like connect four and chinese checkers.




More evidence of us not doing our homework. Jessie found all these cool functions on my camera that I never knew about before. Like this split screen thing. Neat huh?




I absolutely love love love autumn on the East Coast. Everything is so absolutely gorgeous. I love it when the trees change colors, and the ground is scattered with so many colorful leaves. And the weather totally rocks. It's time to break out my scarves and sweaters, but it's nice because I can wear them comfortably now as opposed to shivering my butt off in the dead of winter with the same scarves and sweaters.


Whew. That was intense blogging. I think I'm good for the rest of the week. Oh, I almost cut off my toes today while I was cooking. I didn't know the cutting board I was using was kinda bent, so when I put my knife on top of it, it slid off and missed my toes by like 2 inches. The handlebar hit them instead and the blade hit the ground. And this wasn't a whimpy butter knife, it was a huge butcher knife. Whoops.

Alright, I'm done. I've got a long weekend ahead of me. The complete outline for my 20 pg. paper is due this Tuesday. Needless to say I'm completley screwed and will probably be forced to ask my professor for an extension. Cheers.