the light was so beautiful driving home, see?

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today sucks

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The past 96 hours included turning in and presenting: 1 30-min group presentation and 35 page paper and 20 page writing portfolio, 1 30-min solo presentation and 15 page paper on copyright infringement in the art world, 1 8-min partner presentation, 1 5-min presentation, and in total 73 powerpoint slides.

Remaining: 15 page paper, 8 page paper, 5 page paper, 3 page assignment, and 1 motherfing final exam.

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…quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there.

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You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

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