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i hate finals, i hate finals, i hate finals.
but i loooooove California and that is where i am headed soon :)
notice California is the only word worth hitting the shift key for in this post.
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As Michaela already pointed out, college is almost half-way over. WHAAAT?!
My classes are over on Monday at 10 PM, then I'm going to my sorority formal at the Hotel on Rivington (http://www.hotelonrivington.com/) which is pretty effing awesome. My first final is on Friday, then I have four more until May 11th when my semester will be over with the completion of my Music Humanities final. I really love that Columbia forces you to listen to Copland and Mozart and Wagner and his nationalistic crap. Woeijlasdf. That's how I feel about that.
Anyway, I'm getting my stuff picked up and put into storage and then going to a Yankees game with Eve, Lauren and Tracy on May 12th. May 13th, I'm on a plane back to the CA.
I've been watching way too much "Sex & the City lately." And by "way too much," I mean "not enough." I had my mom mail me the series (NOT a wise move, I know) and it's been a downwards spiral ever since. I never really followed the show when it was on HBO and now that I'm finally watching, I feel so much closer to pop culture. Anyway, the show has definitely inspired me to consider a career that is... *gasp*... not in finance. Perhaps I will apply for that internship at SEVENTEEN Magazine this fall, or maybe look into one at Cosmopolitan. I've been working on my sorority's website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sigmadeltatau/frame_all_index.htm) and have been reconnected with the days of yearbook and Photoshop CS. I think working in the Photography/lay-out department of a magazine would be A-MAZING.
Sex & the City has also drastically changed my perspective on Columbia. It made me realize that as awkward and intellectually stuck-up the people can be here... it should not affect my impression of New Yorkers, who are generally pretty normal and fun. Not that people here aren't fun-- you just really have to dig for the fun ones. I've also found myself a "Steve." Seriously, this kid sort of looks like him (but is a bit more handsome) talks like him (although think tough Pennsylvania rather than dorky NYer) and is funny. I don't know much about him yet but I'm doing my research, don't you worry.
Life is pretty fabulous. It's all of this "Sex," methinks. ;)
Love,
Christine
Post Scriptum- download "Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder and Time Machine. Talk about fabulous.
Post Post Scriptum- if you really want to be fabulous, check out my "Hot Child in the City" album: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ce2118/my_photos
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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I went about 2 months without the internet on my laptop which pretty much translated into both "long-time-no-AIM" and "long-time-no-lj."
But I just wanted to update and say I miss you all like crazy and have been thinking about you SO much lately. Everyday I remind myself of how blessed I am to have always been in the right places at the right times and met all of you wonderful people the first 18 years of my life. If that sounds mushy, it's because it is :)
My sister and Kaitlyn are coming to visit this weekend and I am stoaked beyond belief! Updates on that later.
School is still the same, SDT is a shitload of fun, New York is still incredible... boys are very fantastic.
Writing to you with so much California pride,
Christine
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
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soooo i signed up for 7 classes (well, one is PE) thinking i could do some shopping and drop a few and keep the ones i really enjoy.
soooooo, what happens when i really enjoy them all?
i guess this is one of those good "AHHHHH!"s.
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
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only three more days left of winter break!! :(
i'm excited to be back in NY and at Columbia and to see my friends, but I'm also going to miss my CA friends and my family and being in Southern California where there is NEVER an opportunity to complain about the weather.
i think it's supposed to rain tomorrow. 1/4-1/2 an inch.
weather here is a joke. a beautiful, blissful joke.
a joke i will miss for sure in a week when I am thrown into the freezing cold.
EFF THAT!
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
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i'm going to be home for Mother's day this year!!! whooo hooo!!
May 11th is the last day of finals... Mommy's day is on the 14th.
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
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I'm a little bit in love with the weather here at home
but at the same time, still kind of missing walking outside and feeling like my hands are going to fall off.
wait, no.
hahah! I'm in CALIFORNIA, BITCHESSSSS!!! Call me, I want to see you.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
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The city is in a state of chaos, I swear.
Subways and buses aren't running... cars aren't allowed in Manhattan without 4 people in them. People are WALKING over bridges. And cabs are fucking charging a million dollars to get anywhere. And are impossible to catch.
I hate MTA.
Eve and I are taking a cab to JFK at 4 AM and not only is it going to be impossible to catch one, but we're also going to end up paying 100 dollars instead of the usual 50.
It's days like these you wish that Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand Theory" worked in the short run. Like, the really really short run. The market needs to clear and Christine needs to see some equilibrium prices. Like, NOW!!
To all my NY lovers, I will miss you. To all my CA lovers, I'm coming home to you soon!!!
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005
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funny how you really can feel your heart "smile." im so glad caroline used that expression early last year. i have so much love in my life right now.
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Thursday, December 15th, 2005
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everyone is going home so soon!! congrats to those of you who are finished (or close to being finished) with your finals! YOU'RE SO FREAKING LUCKY!
i have two finals tomorrow (Art Hum and Econ). Art hum i feel prepared for... econ, not so much. meh, whatever... we'll see what happens.
Anyway i'll be up all night tonight. again. then testing all day, shopping, then studying for my final on friday. then partying (hopefully forgetting about failing econ) and then spending the weekend christmas shopping and studying for stat. Monday is poli sci, tuesday stat, wednesday home.
THAT IS A WHOLE WEEK AWAY. WHAT THE EFFER?!
i love you guys... have so much fun at home this week and as you take a bite out of your warm, delicious pizookie while sitting on the boardwalk on main beach watching the waves roll up the shore and back down into the beautiful pacific ocean, remember your dear old pal Christine who is in 10-degree weather in NYC, pulling all-nighters at the library with nothing but the company of her red bull and the wilting rose in a coffee cup left behind by her friends (weird, I know).
sorry i can't write sentences today but it's 3 am and i am going on two hours of sleep in the past 36 hours.
Also as a sidenote, keep me and my friends in your prayers these next few days. The past 24 hours have been emotionally draining, yet oddly enough i've been feeling God's presence more strongly than I can ever remember feeling it. Nothing really in particular, just an odd conglomeration (sp?) of events. Days like these I have no doubt in my mind about God's existence. It really is true that you can see God in people... even people who don't believe in God. I think God reveals himself in people best through friendship. That warm, fuzzy feeling you get inside when someone really opens up to/trusts in you. Or that moment when you're just having so much fun with someone and they make you so, so happy, you can't help but think that maybe the entire reason for presence in your life was for that exact moment to occur. Not in a selfish way, but in a "you need to feel this exact sort of peace at this very moment in your life" sort of a way. Who knows.
More econ, less babble. what am i doing with my life?
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
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I'm comin' home December 21st! Alyssa is already home, which i am soooooo pissed (aka jealous) about. But, whatever... I'll suck it up. Wait, no I won't... I'll complain about it at least for 10 more days until I am home too.
I am now officially Sigma Delta Tau's Webmistress. Whoohoo! Now I need to go figure out how to design a webpage.
sweet.
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
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It is snowing and it is beautiful.
there are a few things about a New York winter that keep me from wanting to return to warm CA this very second.
i haven't slept, i make no sense.
vicky and i just ordered delivery breakfast from kitchenette. i'm so excited :)
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Today Professor Kosto decided we were going to meet for class at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. We sat in a realllly long room, at a reallllly long table and leafed through 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition Leviathans. As in, THOMAS HOBBES FREAKING TOUCHED one of those books. We also saw books written shortly after Leviathan was published that called him a threat to the church and to the state. We compared the edition we read in class to the older editions and found corrections that Hobbes made to his older editions, etc. It blows my mind how Professor Kosto keeps this class so damn fascinating. There's really something to be said about a professor like Kosto who can manage to take a class like Contemporary Civilization and really take it that extra step and make political philosophy not just interesting, but fascinating.
I really lucked out last year, getting Professor Rosenberg for Lit Hum. I really really lucked out this semester, getting Professor Kosto for CC. He doesn't teach next term, though, and the class has been moved to IAB which has us fearing that it is a... DUN DUN DUNNNN... GRAD STUDENT! :( I realize a grad student can be just as good as a professor (hahaha riiight), but there's no way a grad student can be just as good as Adam J. Kosto. Qualifications have to say something. Anyway, there is an 19th Century Art class I want to take in the same time slot that I have CC in, but I don't want to switch out because I really enjoy the people in my class. We'll see what happens, I guess.
Anyway, it's days like these that I feel like I really go to Columbia. And that the name "Columbia" really does deserve all the merit that is associated with it.
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
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I think I'm minoring in Art History. And by "think I'm minoring" I really mean "am pretty sure I'm minoring." I just think it would be a complete waste to go to school in New York City and not take advantage of the fact that it is one of our country's meccas of art. After I went to Paris last year, I was appauled at how much art history I had forgotten since the Meet the Masters program (which I REALLY applaud the Capistrano Unified School District for doing).
My Art Humanities class took a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday and I kept thinking how awesome it was that we could study Bruegel's "Wheat Harvest" in class and then go see it and study it in person. Then Professor Bouche walked us around the museum and we saw Monet's "Garden at Sainte-Adresse" and 10-15 other works we studied in class. There is just such a difference between seeing slides of paintings and seeing them in person and the fact that I can do that is so exciting!
So anyway, Lauren and I are taking an Intro. to Art History class at Barnard next semester, which I am definitely looking forward to. Tomorrow we're going to the Met and writing our Art Hum papers at the cafeteria (for coffee, duh). I could live at the Met.
Anyway that is enough procrastinating for now. Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" is just screaming to be read (ewww, I DESPISE this man).
Sorry for not updating very often, Michaela (haha). I hope this entry will suffice for now.
Love,
Christy
PS- I am definitely listening to Christmas music right now. The holiday season is finally here!! Yaaay!
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
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My car went bye-bye today :(
My little sister got into a car accident. Thank God she's alright, but my silver baby didn't make it.
I'm coming home tomorrow. Probably driving a rental car.
How did I become so emotionally attached to a car? I think this was God's way of helping me realize my silly attachment to inanimate objects. My sister is OK and that is enough for today to be a wonderful day :)
OK, I'm glad I wrote this.
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
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Today I went to a cocktail party (and by cocktail I mean mixed fruity drinks, perrier and soft drinks... but in classy glasses of course) at President Lee C. Bollinger's house. Ummm..... can we say, WHOAH!!!!?!!?!
First of all, the house is beaauuutiful! It is on 116th and Morningside Drive and overlooks the park and the rest of Manhattan. It has a courtyard and a nice little garage for PrezBo's beamer and... is awesome. It's basically a 5-story mansion in the midst of 15+ story buildings. There were caterers there asking us every two seconds whether we wanted another drink or mushroom tart things or kabebs, or other funky-looking orderbs (I have NO idea what that word is supposed to look like). Then PrezBo gave like a two-second speech and then it was back to chit-chatting and eating DELICIOUS asparagus and hummus and NOT eating the pita bread because it is not South Beach-approved.
It was glorious.
Eve and I very briefly spoke to Bollinger and thanked him for having us over and talked about how we came from California and I told him how priviledged I felt to go to a school where events like this are very common for students to partake in. I can't even begin to describe the doors this Scholars program has opened for me not only on campus or in the city, but just in general. He turned a little pink and smiled and then I forget what we started talking about next because the only thing I was thinking was, "whoa, I am REALLY standing here, at this stupid party in this stupid house, ACTUALLY talking to Lee C. Bollinger. As in Gratz v. Bollinger. And Grutter v. Bollinger. As in the affirmative action University of Michigan cases that went to the Supreme Court not too long ago. I definitely think he sensed that I was a bit starstruck.
Then, Eve and I were totally bright-eyed and cheery, and after mingling for a little while, decided it was time to head home and hit the books. But NOPE, not our time to leave quite yet. As we're talking and getting ready to walk downstairs, who else walks up to greet us but CHRIS COLUMBO!!!!! He walks up to us and says, "Well YOU girls sure are smiling!" and then we talked to him for another 5 minutes (he was definitely my favorite).
It's just evenings like these where I realize that my life in college is probably infinitely more glamorous than it will ever be, EVER again. Haha, better enjoy it while it lasts :)
PrezBo and Columbo are my new heroes :) :)
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
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I've been in Butler Library for the past 7 hours. And I'll be here for the next 2.5 hours. Then 1.5 hours later I'll be taking my Art Hum midterm. Then, 3 hours later I'll be taking my Microeconomics midterm. Then 3 hours later I'll be on my way to Brian and Greg's apartment on the East Side to watch SURVIVOR!!!! 2-3 hours after that I'll be on my way back to campus where I will get ready, then go to a mixer with Fiji at Kasbah Rouge which is a new hukkah bar on 110th. The theme is "LAIDies and their Pimps"... so.... classy hoes? No drinking for me, though, because I'm on South Beach for the next week and a half until the TOSHI PARTY!!!! (www.toshiuniversity.com). That is going to be awesome.
AJ was here a few weekends ago, and let me just say- we had an AWESOME time. We had some tequila, watched some Toy Story, saw some Broadway plays, feared for our lives in Times Square when 200+ NYPD squad cars were there due to the Subway terror alerts, made a filet mignon dinner, went to Nacho's with SDT, and "Gin Bucket" devirginized myself, my suite, and the boy's suite next door. Shout out to my boy AJ- I had a FANTASTIC weekend with you. Seriously, I can't stress enough how much you kids back home keep me sane when things get hectic here at Columbia. I have amazing friends here, but just know that I have such a special place in my heart for all of you that nobody will ever be able to replace. I love you, love you, LOVE you.
What is this business I hear about Michaela being in the HOSPITAL?!?! Mi-chay-la, expect a phone call from me this weekend.
My sister turned in her senior send-off form on tuesday. SO weird. Since when did I become a non-DHHS senior? Can we say, "whoa!?"
In other news, Christine has a crush!! WHAT THE HECK?! Finally, a DECENT boy!! More details later, I don't want to jinx the "sitch," ya know.
All in all, life is fabulous. I feel like I'm really starting to branch out at Columbia and also get into the swing of things academically. I'm actually enjoying my classes for the most part this semester (esecially CC, who would have thought?!) and the semester is FLYING. Pretty soon I'll be home for Thanksgiving in good old California (yaaay!)
Oh, and I talked to Joey last night and my heart became infinitely more happy. I miss that boy.
Back to midterms.... gotta keep my eye on the prize (Lauren and I are going jean shopping at Bloomingdales this weekend! WHOO HOO!)
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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I just washed about 100 dishes.
I realize that our mothers aren't around to clean up after us anymore, but why is it so hard to wash our own cereal bowls? When I was at home, I felt guilty for making my MOM wash my dishes, how can people be so fine with their FRIENDS cleaning up after them?
blahhhhh ruuuuuuuuuuuude.
My rant for the week... I miss you all!! AJ, I can't wait for you to get here this weekend so we can eat OUT and not have to deal with dishes :)
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
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ummm..... so....
In the past 72 hours, I joined the Columbia branch of SIFE, I got a job at a restaurant on 85th and Broadway called Time Cafe, I joined a sorority, and I am going on my second night in a row without sleep.
What am I getting myself into?
The only thing getting me through this paper on Plato's "Republic" is knowing that in less than a week, AJ will be here :)
It's a crazy world :-P
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Sunday, September 18th, 2005
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Went to Dos Caminos again last night and had a lovely time. I had a Cosmo del Diablo again. In fact, I had three :)
I am finished with the weekends of alcoholism. Done.
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