Comments on: JE LIS

By: wellwell

wellwell — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:29:54 +0000

PAIGE! I, too, dislike New York, but I have only been to Times Square. I would love to just roam around. My friend from school is from New York City, and when I went a few months ago, she told me all these cool places that I should go. But the person I was with didn’t want to ride the subway (“It’s creepy!”) or take a cab (“They’re dirty!”) and it was much too far to walk.

South Street was very fun! I really liked it there. I have a new appreciation for Philadelphia.

Anyway, the one thing I wanted to say here was that the comment you left on your sister’s picture of graffiti showed up on my mini-feed just now. AND I SO KNOW WHO DID IT! At least the tasteful one, but the stick-figure. But I didn’t want to randomly leave this person’s name in a Facebook comment, or even a WordPress comment. So yes, IM me sometime and we shall figure that out. Or text me, but your status said you lost numbers in the brand-spankin’-new phone of yours, so here’s mine: 490 0683.

Have a lovely evening.

By: asdfjkl;

asdfjkl; — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:10:44 +0000

Yeah, no city is very nice when you go with a “touristy” group.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:20:20 +0000

I do read this on a regular basis, but don’t always comment, because I am a shy panda. I always enjoy it, though. I, too, was a very bookish child, and can relate, though for the past two years I have worked in the library where I spent so many hours as a child, which is strange.

By: indiechouette

indiechouette — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:04:32 +0000

Maybe I should mention specifically where I went and why I was there.

We went to Europa Cafe for lunch and then to the Hilton Theatre to see Young Frankenstein with the school. I’m not gonna lie. I am not a fan of musicals. I enjoyed Young Frankenstein, yes, but I don’t think I appreciated it as much as most of the other people in the audience did. Basically, I was on board to experience the city, but I didn’t get to experience it except when I looked out the bus windows. And when I did, I was mesmerized and almost overwhelmed by all of the people, most of whom are beautiful in some way. I wanted to be outside the bus, walking on the streets with friends, not trapped in a rolling box with a toilet and a bunch of administrators who wanted to make it crystal clear that we were “not from here.”

The more I think about it, the more situational it seems. Because really, when I went to the Philadelphia zoo and the Washington DC zoo with my parents as a child, it always seemed so boring and touristy, but when I recently went to Philly, I had an amazing time on South Street, and DC was a blast to frolic through when I went to visit the art museum this spring. Maybe I should give it another shot with someone who knows what they’re talking about? I reallyreallyreallyreallyreally want to go to Siren Music Festival this year, too, which would sort-of get me in the area (I don’t know New York at all), but dayumn, it seems unlikely seeing as:
1. I have no car
2. My college orientation is on July 15th, six hours away from my home (which would mean about ten hours away from New York City, and I don’t know how far that is from Coney Island)

Anyway, that was probably a longer answer than you needed. All I really needed to say is probably that the people were rough and rude, but I suppose they will be in any tourist-ridden area because they see people just like you every day. Well, not you. Me. But I felt I owed you an explanation.

By: asdfjkl;

asdfjkl; — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:23:47 +0000

How can you hate New York?

By: swaziprincess

swaziprincess — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:47:37 +0000

I would do the exact same thing you did. I think the librarian was shocked I could carry so many books to check them all out, but that’s besides the point.
I would read and read and read, and when I had finished the ones I had checked out I would make my mom take me back and begin all over again. It got to the point that I’d read the entire ‘young adult’ section of the library and had to look elsewhere for something to read. So I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one with that habit.

So here’s to summer and constant reading. :]

By: wellwell

wellwell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:15:00 +0000

At college, all I did was read. Especially during classes when I wasn’t supposed to. The school library doesn’t really have anything except for reference books (but they do have the largest collection of amazing magazines–I sat there for hours reading them) so I would just constantly be buying books and laying in my bed or sitting in the park or cafe reading them. I never felt upset with spending money on books. Not like I do with clothes or groceries. My mother always made sure that I had money for school book fairs. I would apologize for spending so much money on books and she would say, “No matter what, you should always buy books.” It’s like this quote that’s painted on the wall at Borders, that is something along the lines of, “When I have money, I buy books. If I have any left over, I buy food.”

Also, I think you left your CDs in my car. I’m going to make copies of them and then get them back to you. We need to get together so you can tell me who all the artists are!