Just some thoughts

More about America Reads: When I come from my building [as opposed to from school], I walk underneath the Manhattan Bridge to get there. Also, that street I use that the school is on has outdoor seafood stalls [because it’s in Chinatown], so it smells like fish. And when it rains, it smells like wet fish. Blech!

I am so tired of people looking at me. I might start walking around with a paper bag on my head, because at least then I’d know what they were looking at, and I would also know they couldn’t see my face.

There’s some stupid guy on my floor who keeps writing all over the announcements posted by the elevator! He writes “chill” on everything. As in, crosses out words to replace them with chill. It’s so stupid and annoying. It’s also very disheartening that this is somebody I go to school with, that was accepted to NYU. Especially because I live in upperclassmen housing. [shakes head]

The same feeling comes over me, though not as strongly, when I see gum underneath the desks in one of my classes.

The grill guy at Downstein made a “Star Wars” reference the other day, something about Sen. Palpatine. Haha.

There are sad, lonely, abandoned umbrellas all over New York when it rains. They’re mangled and left in the cold, of no more use to whoever left it.

I was sitting in Kimmel the other day waiting for institute to start, and I happened to look around and think how sorry I am for all the girls who don’t have someone in their lives to tell them when they don’t l;ook good, so they shouldn’t wear something. Then I thought about cutting them a little slack, because the people in my life that I depend on to tell me that are all 2,752 miles away. Although now that I think about it, I’m sure Ashley would tell me something like that. So I’m covered. I don’t know about these other girls.

Why are yawns contagious? [Rebecca?]

A girl in my ward looks like the woman in “Edward Scissorhands” who is the Jehovah’s Witness [I think that’s what she plays].