1 year

It's been almost 1 year since I came up to the lovely and smoggy new york city. I can't believe it, really. Tomorrow I'm going in for a final performance of scenes and I'm not scared shitless like I used to be....instead I'm excited, scared, basically open to anything happening and dealing with it as it comes. there's so much joy in the unknown. i think i've discovered that this year. as i was going to sleep a few nights ago, i began to make a list of all the memories/discoveries that i've made since last may---in no specific or important order:
1. everyone is now aware that i love to peel paint. i peel old radiators, bathtubs, walls. the peeling paint on subway ceilings really taunts me.
2. the never-rotting apple outside of stella adler during the summer. it was a feat of nature.
3. artichoke pizza and union square with chase
4. singing 'three's company' with kevin and ashley in the teeny tiny 3rd floor kitchen with no faucet
5. seeing 'the seagull' on broadway and being utterly enrapt for 2 hours
6. the promenade--i still go there when i'm feeling homesick
7. lint-rolling my entire room---it's a new form of vacuuming
8. ice cream runs at 3am
9. the new discovery of saltines+icing
10. getting caught in a rainstorm inside 'Heights Books'. it's now closed down.
11. governor's island bicycling. going inside haunted prisons and eating lemon ice with kelsey and discussing 'diving bell and the butterfly'
12. first audition for student film. oh heavens.
13. anthony paige and late night carroll gardens diner runs
14. going to the abandoned zombie yard in red hook with anthony
15. tea and sympathy
16. gray's papaya hot dogs are NOT worth crossing central park for. thanks A LOT chase
17. extraordinary coincidences
18. learning that new yorkers and foreigners kiss each other on the cheeks all the time
19. the 6am commutes on the Long island railroad to Ronkonkoma
20. chris at the Fall Cafe makes the best vanilla lattes. i know his name but i'm too scared to say it.
21. cinnamon raisin bagels have been my comfort foods.
22. the humming song of the subway when it leaves the station
23. getting my foot stuck in a subway door and thinking i was going to die for .5 seconds
24. waiting in line to see 'dark night' for way too long
25. tap dancing on roofs in brooklyn
26. crunching leaves with kelsey
27. 2am cookie delivery
28. following woody allen's best friend, the tree-toucher
29. halloween in new york, just don't go there
30. the year of making banana bread.
31. the old woman who always walks around the neighborhood and wears a pink hat and oakley sunglasses and scowls.

.....i'm done for now. no one will probably understand all these, but it's ok.