Jessica's Year Away From Smith: Thank goodness it's the weekend.

Wednesday:

I had my art history class in the morning, then I came back to the apartment to finish researching for my final project in Drama in Performance. As I was researching I got a call from an unknown number. When I picked up, the man on the other line said he was calling from the Late Show. I then remembered that a while back my mom and I had signed up to win tickets to the Late Show for next week. The man told me if I called John, the audience coordinator, and answered the trivia question correctly, I would win the tickets for my dad and I. I found out that my mom got the same phone call and she had already won two tickets for her and my uncle. It was up to me, and I NEVER watch the Late Show. I quickly researched some trivia questions about the show and read a couple articles about winning the tickets, and I called the audience coordinator. He asked me where Rupert Jee works that they visit on the show a lot. I knew the answer because I had just read an article about a woman getting the same type of question. The answer was "Hello Deli"!! He told me I won the tickets for Monday night and my family and I would be able to pick them up from 3:30-4:30 before the show. I'm SO excited and I can't believe I actually got the answer correct. By the time I was done celebrating, I realized I had to meet with my drama group in the library. After our meeting, I walked back to the apartment and decided to relax a little (aka I didn't get any work done on Wednesday night.)

Thursday:

My Sex and Gender class went from 11-12:15 as always and then I had to rush back to the apartment to start my essay that was due today at 12:30. I already had an outline/idea for my paper, the hard part was starting it. I worked at The Bean (a coffee place at East 3rd Street and 1st Ave) for a little while with my friend Emily and I wasn't very successful writing my essay. So, we grabbed dinner at the Dumpling Man and then I went to my real study/homework place (Starbucks) to finish my work. I was finally able to focus and get it going. At around 10pm, my friend from that class, Nicole, joined me to start writing her paper. (We're procrastinators, I know!) When Starbucks closed at 11pm, we went back to our own apartments and finished writing our essays. I was up really late finalizing it so I wouldn't have to get up early to finish working.

Today:

This morning I woke up to proofread my essay a couple more times and then I decided I needed to include a drawing of the island we were talking about and designing in our essay. I must say, I was very happy with how my picture turned out and I'm excited to get feedback on my paper. I stapled everything together, grabbed a bagel to eat before class, and headed to my class. While I was eating my bagel, I saw this girl who looked really familiar walking past me. I have seen her a few times and always wanted to say hi, but I didn't know if I was just making things up. Well, anyway, clearly we knew each other because she stopped to say hi when we made eye contact. I realized that it was this girl named Lexi who I went to Mill Valley Middle School with. She also lives on St. Mark's here in NYC. We exchanged numbers and now we are planning on catching up and hanging out before I leave. After that encounter, I had my Architecture in NY class and we toured around Grand Central, the Chrysler Building, the Ford Foundation building and then we ended at the UN. It was one of my favorite tours and it was a GORGEOUS day today. I'm hoping that when my family gets to NY on Sunday it will still be this beautiful outside. After the tour, I came back to the apartment and now I'm just hanging out trying to get a head start on some more work (and catch you up on my life).