For the record, this is my new room.
Not too shabby, as they say. It's kind of freakishly narrow (probably because it's actually meant to be a hallway I think), but that just means I have to economize my junk. The Frankenstein's monster bedding is a manifestation of my total indifference towards color coordination and just the generally disjointed nature of my life right now (the blanket and yellow pillow--which I stole from my little brother's room--came in the box I packed, and the red sheets/green pillow came in the box of stuff my mom sent me; she got the sheets at Ross for $6 or something insane like that).
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Last Thursday night on the Q train in Brooklyn I was leaning against the doors (by far the coolest spot on the train if you must stand) staring at nothing in particular in a field of vision specific to long subway rides (a glance into infinite nothingness), when I noticed the people sitting in the 3-seat section across from me. A professional-looking man wearing a suit and tie was seated next to a young, standard-issue vaguely hip girl wearing sunglasses (at night, in the subway), who was seated next to a pudgy, middle-aged Asian woman with a bowl cut. All three were sound asleep and leaning just ever-so-slightly to the right, so that each of their heads nearly rested on the next person's left shoulder.
It was everything I had in me to keep from snapping a picture of it with my phone. I don't know if I've ever seen a more genuinely human scene--three obviously unrelated people sharing a synchronized catnap on a crowded subway car after a long day.
I'm not too big on New York, but it's those moments which make you realize what a huge and occasionally really adorable mishmash of humanity this city is.
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Uh...I've posted about this before, but I'm still very deeply obsessed with this song:
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Last Thursday night on the Q train in Brooklyn I was leaning against the doors (by far the coolest spot on the train if you must stand) staring at nothing in particular in a field of vision specific to long subway rides (a glance into infinite nothingness), when I noticed the people sitting in the 3-seat section across from me. A professional-looking man wearing a suit and tie was seated next to a young, standard-issue vaguely hip girl wearing sunglasses (at night, in the subway), who was seated next to a pudgy, middle-aged Asian woman with a bowl cut. All three were sound asleep and leaning just ever-so-slightly to the right, so that each of their heads nearly rested on the next person's left shoulder.
It was everything I had in me to keep from snapping a picture of it with my phone. I don't know if I've ever seen a more genuinely human scene--three obviously unrelated people sharing a synchronized catnap on a crowded subway car after a long day.
I'm not too big on New York, but it's those moments which make you realize what a huge and occasionally really adorable mishmash of humanity this city is.
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Uh...I've posted about this before, but I'm still very deeply obsessed with this song:
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