today when a fellow subletter told me, "hey im going away for the weekend...just to let you know so that you dont think i died or anything."  i was gonna be like, well yeah, obvi if i dont see someone for a few days, i *instantly* think that they are dead....but then i thought back to freshman year when my roommate and i didnt see our RA for approx a week and we really thought she was dead.  first off, she told us that her door would always be open, and she lived right across the hall so we knew if she entered/exited or not.  this was actually the beginning of her not really caring abt us (for our christmas gifts upon which our hall money was spent, she gave us mentos and hi-liters she picked up from the wharton job fair), as she never really kept her door open afterwards.  anyway. secondly, there was a stench coming from her room after a few days.  what could it be??  a rotting body?? lastly she was a good student, so it wasn't like she would just cut class and go somewhere for a week.  so roomie and i were fairly worried...we thought maybe we could slip a note under her door asking "HEY ARE YOU DEAD"...but this would prove futile if she was.  so we waited........and in fact, she was ok....she went back home or smtg for the period she was missing from out lives, adn the smell coming from her room was horded trash.  the end.  happy weekend!!   

" 'ARMIN I WOULD HAVE YOUR BABIES!!!!!....IF I WERE A WOMAN!!!!!' "

AvB@ the tobacco warehouse on sat...amazingggg....ive gotta say it was maybe one of the coolest experiences of my LIFE...trancing underneath the stars, underneath the brooklyn bridge...tho the view of the stars was hindered by the white tent overhead...but that allowed for a freakin awesome laser show....i think the best part wasnt the music (and he played a truly sick set); it was watching armin loving the crowd...he gets so into performing and he's always smiling throughout his sets....love love his dimples!!!! 7 hr set this time, tho i was there for the last 4 only =/  and in the end....i got a poster signed by armin whooooo...it was MADNESS trying to get one of those...my head was seriously almost crushed by all the people...as i was leaving with the poster, i heard this guy on his cell phone: "dude, its FUCKING madness right now...hundreds of people are trying to get posters from armin, theyre biting each other and ripping the posters...its ridiculous"...and yeah, it really was that bad haha...i guess they were that coveted, bc at the subway, two diff groups came up to me and asked IS THAT FROM THE AVB EVENT?! YOU"RE SO LUCKY!! CAN I TAKE A PICTURE OF IT...i was like are u serious...u want to take a picture of a poster?? 

change of plans.  ill be in philly for like the next 2 wks and then back to new yawkk new yawkkkkk!!

NYC RESTAURANT WEEK July 10-14 and July 17-21, 2006 ohhhhh yeaaahhhh

...btw the opening quote was from the dude next to me...but he better get in line bc uhm yea i def have more of a chance than he does

as i sat in my office bored by work and my limbs succumbing to hypothermia ( the result of the AC unit NOT HAVING AN OFF BUTTON WTF...only TWO options: warmer and COLDER...uhm yea i have never had to use the colder option), i decided to take a break and get some chocolates...15 minutes later, after a quick trip to Fauchon and Pierre Marcolini down a few streets, i called my friend for the confessional and realized i just spent over $40 dollars in 15 minutes...20ish in each store doesnt sound so bad but added together:  hahaha....and that was with total restraint, i.e. only 8 miniscule pieces cost over $20....midtown really does inspire such gluttony...theres a mercedes dealership right across the street...i want to ultimately live in the city but how could i afford it?? and is it really worth it?? can i honestly justify dropping so much on chocolates almost every other day?? or $5 for a single cookie?  i see so much waste here; sure, the lights are pretty at night but im sure its so freakin expensive to operate nyc...  and working with excel sheets and just hearing abt revenues in the BILLIONS, one is inclined to think that a million dollars is a mere pittance...like how can anyone NOT have a million dollars....thats truly sad, when you become desensitized like that...im wondering why this year, i chose to pursue a business path, when the courses of my health and societies major fixate on the disparities btw the US and like. basically everyone else haha...rich vs poor.  anyway. back to work.  ill be in philadelphia in a few days, where the standard of living is relatively cheaper (Cirque du Soleil tix in nyc: 100; in philly: 75!! =)), and maybe i can get myself back to reality.   

hope y'all are having wonderful summers and that your World Cup team of choice is still in the running!! mine is...italia!!! ;)

yayyyyy back on long island hahaha....what??! im happy to be back?? yeaa...happy to be in a place with temperate weather...not like 120 degree weather in phoenix ("dont worry it will be overcast tomor so it will only be 107" "oh ya, theres a dust store coming, no worries, it will blow over in a few hrs"...the last time i was in phoenix was due to a monsoon and a crazy layover...phoenix may or may not want me dead) and suddenly going to 50 degree weather in canada...its like my boss carefully watches the weather channel and sends me to the places with the most horrible weather "HEY DAPHNE OH THE WEATHER JUST TURNED REALLY BAD SO WHY DONT YOU GO VISIT THERE AND DO SURVEYS"...so 76 degrees tomor is just perfect...and the PEOPLE of LI...you lovely lovely normal wonderful people...ok maybe it was the demographics of the areas i visited but woooow ive never met so many crazy people hahaha...just like i never used to use the word ghetto so profusely until i ventured to philly, i never had the reason to call people crazy til last week.  now...bed. nite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my25_aJLyxc&search=Upenn

chk it out. wanna be britney spears?  she has nothing on Penn man ^