Procrastination. Half hour of working on my thesis. Procrastination. Food. Adding 5 pages to my website and a post on someone else's site. Procrastination. Calculating my potential GPA if I don't do well on finals (instead of studying for the finals). Thinking about how I want to play pool. Thinking about how I want to add more pages to my website. Making fun of pics on Whimit. Procrastination. I need to make a May page!

 

Went to see Nightwatch (Nochnoj Dozor), at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Fun flick. Somewhere along the lines of Lord of the Rings meets The Matrix. Also a trilogy, in fact (that was the first part).

After the movies...

Eugene tries to make my list of Whimit photos (clearly he doesn't need to try hard)

The elusive Maya.

        

Deciding on what to do after the movies.

In the end, The Edge, as always. This time, alcohol combined with geek talk, including lens aperture debates and mental video game playing.

    Productive procrastination. Can't work? Add more features to website.

To the left, notice a tagboard. Say something (not "something").

Learning to photoshop...

 

 

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Wednesday night, celebration of completion of thesis (well, technically, since I still have to revise mine)

   

Above, our honors seminar professor, Marisa Carrasco, and the empty wine bottles from the party.

       On the way to Ellen's house...

    

Ellen lives in that Communist building on Houston.

The lobby...

The elevators, with fish and hippos on the ceiling.

       

Inside Ellen's house... 

     Her cat.    

On the rooftop of the Communist building...

The view      

     The clock

The statue of Lenin

And the rooftop party...

Pool at Duke's Bar

"Was it good or baaaaaad" -Mike

That last comment triggered some giggles...

       

   

    Quite an exciting weekend. I spent the whole weekend thinking about how I have to write my paper, so I didn't really go out (except to play pool, but I don't even count that as going out anymore). So in the end, I spent the weekend doing nothing but thinking about how I have to be doing something.

  And now I feel compelled to write something.

   

Also, visit this week's random pic of the week and random link of the week (see left border).

        Eugene and I hung out at my apartment, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and eating meat, like real men do. Or something like that.

       

    NYU Undergraduate Research Conference

           

             

             

                

    Above, some of the talks and posters from the conference.

You can download the program HERE.

Some thoughts..

It was a fun experience. My talk felt a bit different, though, because the audience wasn't anyone from the honors class.

Instead it was comprised of people from the linguistics department, which made it seem more "real", not that it wasn't real, but in general it was less informative than a regular conference since we were all pretty much just there to support each other, and all knew what everyone else's projects were about.

 There were a few people whose research I wasn't familiar with though, and that was interesting.

Congratulations to everyone who presented, thanks to everyone who attended.

    And I didn't want a picture of myself while I was giving my talk, because I thought it might be weird, it's not like, a concert, or graduation. So here I am somewhere afterwards. Not even NYU.

  Well, that's not important.    

 

Later that evening...

  Ice cream and writing in the international phonetics alphabet.

       

And later still...

   At The Edge

       

       

       

    Outside...

           

           

           

           

       

           

       

           

Mike's hair got butchered. Even Matt is crying.

   

Summer's here.

    No one's been reading my site, I'm sure of it. So I've been getting lazy putting stuff up.

Below, another day in the life of awkwardness...

               

Mariya attempts to cook, Matt attempts to joke, Mike attempts to officially move in and I attempt to do work in the midst of this.

   

Above, one sleepless night after another working on my 90 single spaced page thesis (oh yeah, I'll post it in pdf when it's revised just cause I have nothing better to do than show people that one can write a hundred pages on a single sound), caused me to fall asleep in my Philosophy class. Whilst half asleep and still taking notes, I managed to include excerpts of my thesis. Sleeeeeep. Neeeeed sleeep.

    Back to Saturday's topic of health.

Over the years, Americans have become more and more concerned with health. The burger joints have been replaced by fruit smoothie and falafel stands. For each category of the food pyramid, there is some diet banning it. Not to mention Vegans, who eat grass or something. Hell, even McDonalds came out with McVeggie burger.

    I am as concerned about the amount of fat people in this country as everybody else, so I put together a summary of the most important tips to weight loss:

1. Don't finish everything on your plate.

2.  Don't keep food lying around on the table, especially junk food.

                    

3. Likewise, don't keep junk food in the refrigerator. Stuff it with healthy snacks like carrots, celery sticks, and apple slices.

   

4. Don't snack between meals, but if you have to, snack on something healthy.

              

5. Minimize your intake of caffeine.

6. Finally remember, if you eat healthy, you will feel healthy and look healthy! And if you ever see anything unusual, make an appointment with your personal doctor ASAP!

    Healthy living, ya'll!

Topic of the day: Health. I'll get back to that after I finish my Doritos. For now, new conversation I "oversaw":

(15:19:11) Stacey: did u move in w/serafina?
(15:19:13) Stacey: im not stalking u
(15:19:16) Stacey: but sometimes i go to her website
(15:19:20) Stacey: and it confused me the last time i went
(15:20:08) Mariya: what was confusing?
(15:22:00) Stacey: like
(15:22:03) Stacey: i thought matt lived there
(15:22:09) Mariya: yeah

(15:22:15) Mariya: theres like four of us here haha
(15:22:18) Stacey: omg hahaha
(15:22:18) Mariya: hahahaha
(15:22:21) Mariya: hahahahaha
(15:22:36) Stacey: wait how do u 4 live there
(15:22:37) Stacey: lol
(15:22:44) Stacey: omg its like a real nyu dorm
(15:24:35) Mariya: except it's more room than an nyu dorm =-O

    A little procrastination before I start on my thesis again, here's some other stuff that happened over the weeks...

Mariya (and unofficially Mike) moved in...

          

    

Jersey...