I hobbled over to the 7, took it to the 9, and there was a 7 minute wait for the next train. There were so many people that after the train finally came, I couldn't get on. The next train came another 5 minutes after, and again I couldn't get on. By then, it was already 9am, when my class starts.. so instead of accepting defeat I decided to get back on the 7, then transfer to the 8, then transfer to the 6, then walk over to school from the other stop.. I made it to school at 9:30, apologized to my teacher, but at least I made it.
After that I ran some errands, went home, took a quick 20 minute nap, then went to see Dr. Rackow in the 17th. Then I went home and sulked, and napped, and almost didn't go to art class because I was in such a bad mood and so tired. But I met up with Nicholl and we went to the 19th to art class at 6. I painted today, and made a cool headless lady.
I asked my teacher what was a good restaurant around her, and she told us of a little place called Le Divin which was very small but amazing, right around the corner. Outside we (priya, nassim, katie and i) ran into a french man and I spoke to him in french, and he explained that everything was organic in the restaurant, and he thought we were art students because I had so much charcoal on my face.
We couldn't really understand the menu, so I asked the waiter to explain it to us and he went through each dish and explained. I got the cheese plate which filled me up so much I almost burst. We got a bottle of organic wine which was the best wine I've ever tasted. Dinner was aaaammmmaaaazing, art and dinner cheered me up. We had lovely conversations about first impressions, it's always funny to hear that. I told Nassim I thought she was a bitch and I told Katie I thought she was way too cool, and it was funny to hear that Nassim thought I was really intimidating and "too cool, i'm never going to be friends with her" (hahahaha) and Katie thought the same thing but she saw that I was sitting next to Julia so she thought she could maybe talk to me. and now we are all such good friends despite initial mind-made barriers. Goes to show, what happens naturally in NYC is all a self made maladie, it's neurotic and it's so natural we don't even realize it, we accept it for the truth. We accept so many things as the truth when they're such illusions.
Yesterday's theme was "don't accept defeat. pull through." now when I look back, I remember only a beautiful day. Had I accepted defeat, it would have been a terrible waste of a day.
Paris, je t'aime, je t'aime!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about graduate school in Paris? it's so cheap, it's like 400 euros and it covers med insurance.
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