For The Record

I sent Blair a formal e-mail claiming my intention to stop pursuing him and to initiate a friends only relationship. This will be good. Cause even if he were to break things off with 'her', he would need a readjustment period and I would be some sort of rebound. They have been dating for around 4 years. If him and I are to ever be together, it would have to build upon the friendship which we are building now, and it would have to take place later on, in the future. I guess things would be worse if someone (echem Josh) didn't help me to realize this, and if I kept hooking up with him and romanticizing the idea of 'us'. I am protecting myself. I am being smart about this because I actually DO care a great deal for him, I just really don't want to get hurt.

I am officially back on the market (although I was never really off it to begin with)

Mick Jagger is Really Hot (when he was young)

Today Kristen, Jason and Carrie and I went to this photography exhibit about The Beatles and The Stones. It was around union square and it was great!

Dear Nicole,

Would it be possible to stop eating like a pig every night? I know you need some time to let loose and relax, but why does it always have to focus around food? I think you might be trying to eat your problems, when they aren't edible. Summer is coming. Start going to the gym again you lazy glutton!

Your conscience.

p.s. You can't drink your problems away either.

Radiohead Compositions

The show last night was great. Kim and I really enjoyed it. We saw compositions of Radiohead + Dmitri Shostakovich by Christopher O'Riley. He did an amazing job with the Radiohead pieces, like every note was played. His hands are the fastest I have ever seen.

After the show, Kim and I went to 'the Heights' for their large, cheap and strong margaritas and then we met up with the girls and went to BCC.

My day was spent slumming. I have just been in one of my moods and needed to sleep late. I hope I get out of this funk soon.

One Month Left

I came to a startling realization today while rifling through my moleskin planner. I only have 1 month left of school. Normally, this sort of news would excite me, however I am sad about it. I am really starting to love Columbia, just in time for my program to end. Oh. The grass is always greener, isn't it?

I am Friends with the Jonas Brothers

They have the wrong Nicole Andersen/Anderson.

Commune

So, I think I want to go live in a commune for a month this summer. Kim said she would want to come with. I could sublet my apartment. I think it would be a really interesting ethnographic research experiment, and totally fun. Kristen was talking about one that meets once a year, in random places. I think she said that this year, it's in New Mexico. Karl Marx would be proud.

Topless Collage Roomie Night

Oh yes. I just had the most fun. Kristen and I each made a big piece for the living room! (Mine is the one on the bottom) I forget how therapeutic it is to do culture jamming.

Culture Jamming:
"At its best, culture jamming homes in on the flip side of those branded emotions, and refocuses them, so that they aren't replaced with a craving for the next fashion or pop sensation but turn, slowly, on the process of branding itself." (p.288)

"The most sophisticated culture jams are not stand-alone ad parodies but interceptions-counter-messages that hack into a corporation's own method of communication to send a message starkly at odds with the one that was originally intended." (p.281)

-NO LOGO by Naomi Klein

(My Anthropology Prof would be very proud of me, using my readings to create something. I should show him and get extra credit haha.

Persian Cat Skull

I keep trying to find a picture of a real persian cat skull and I can't. But here is an interesting contrast between a regular cat skull and a persian cat skull. Pikachu's face is such an interesting shape. I am intrigued to see what it would look like without all the fur and flesh that surrounds it. hmm

Coolest Library Ever

Today I had to go to Union Theological Seminary to take out a book for my media class. The stacks in that library are the coolest ever! There are glass floors with lighting underneath and right up against the stacks is a slot, about a half a foot wide. I felt a bit scared that i would misstep and that my foot would get caught in the slot, but it was really neat to look up or down through it at the layers of what seemed to be an abyss of books. Another sweet aspect was when you looked up and somebody was walking above you, you could see them walking through the glass. Talk about glass ceiling. It was very Harry Potteresque. The boy who checked me out was adorable and being taught how to be a librarian by a real life Miss Swan look/talk-aline.

Stay in school kids, libraries are cool!