Coney Island and New Friend!

Today we basically just went to Coney Island. We left for it forty-five minutes early because we wanted to know whether or not we would be able to get wristbands for Astroland. If not, we would just go back to the dorm and do whatever but we didn't want to waste too much of the day.

We ended up getting there twenty minutes early and we were first to arrive actually. We waited for another half an hour and the guy comes out with this list of guaranteed people who were going and the waitlisted. Of the fifty guarantees, 8 showed up. With the waitlisted, only about 20 showed up and they could take a hundred more.

We (me basically) made a big fuss about the fact that we were there first and 20 mins. early and we got to go! Yay!

On the way to the subway, I saw a Washington Mutal branch (open 24 hours too!) behind Hayden and was happy to find a place to do my banking.

The subway was interesting. We were waiting for the D train to Coney Island, and we were a little ahead of the rest of the group. When the F train came, we saw that it also goes to Coney Island and were like, should we take that one. One girl actually got on and went without us.

The rest of us waited for the D train. It took so freaking long... It was annoying. Very annoying. The F trains were just coming in and in and finally were like, we should take it and that was when the D train finally came in. Figures.

And the way there took so long too! It seemed longer than going from Canal Street to Avenue U in Brooklyn...

Finally we got there and the got to go to Astroland. We saw Nathan's and were like, we must go get some hot dogs there later because they're famous. I mean that's the spot where Kobayashi downed 54 of them this last July 4th to win the contest.

We got our wristbands and the first ride we went on just basically took us up and twirled us around really fast and we went upside and all around. The second one we just went really fast around and around and around. The next one we did was the Clycone. That one was so much fun! Even though it was a wooden roller coaster, it was still very cool. It did throw me around a bit. All the rides actually... I think I'm probably going to be bruised all over...

We also rode the Pirate Ship and another ride that turned you around and around. After a bit, I started getting a bit faint. It was probably the lack of blood sugar actually... I hadn't eaten anything since the night before. Or the fact that I was a bit sick too... Period, you know? I was already under the weather. Not to mention the fact that it was cold with all the wind and today was not that warm at all...

So I begged off of the second ride of the roller coaster and just laid down for a bit. I had to search out Stephanie (roommate) who had gone with me. I just left her on the coast and left. I felt kinda bad... :(

She had gone to Nathan's without me! But I played one of those games and won a very small prize. It's a little blue monster thingie. I'm naming him "Bluemo" because he looks like a blue Elmo. He's actually pretty cute.

I found her later and we started going towards the subway. I stopped at Nathan's because how can you go to Coney Island without trying it? They were pretty good. I got their original frankfurter, sm fries and a sm lemonade. Not bad actually. I could have used more ketchup on the fires but that was my fault for not getting more of it.

Man, I'm in the dark right now. :( My roommate is asleep, of course and all I got is my lamp on... This has got to be the latest I've ever stayed up since coming here... I wonder how late I'll sleep to... I'm planning on going to sleep after this.

We took the local D train home when we should have taken the Q. It was so bad because it stopped at every single stop and it took so freaking long. Finally I couldn't take it any more and suggested a transfer. Stephanie didn't want to transfer so we decided I would do it and see who would get there first....

I ended up getting their first but Stephanie accidently offshot her mark and ended up walking over 20 streets back down to the dorm. I was like, hey, you could have just taken it back down and she was like, well I was in no hurry. If it had been me, I would have been no way am I walking that far.

We got home and we did our own things for a while and by 6:30 (we got home around 5), I was hungry again and went down to get some food. By the time I got up, the FYRE and ICE cream party had started (at 7) and I went down again to get some since it was being held at our courtyard.

That's where I met up with Sao (spelled her name wrong last entry). We basically hit it off just from there. She came up to my room and we just talked the entire time. My roommate actually fell alseep and we weren't even finished talking yet! We talked from about 8 to 11 about various stuff -- school, life, shared experiences, lifestyles. We had so much in common! She's the serious type too and reserved just like am and not really social. We also come from similiar Chinese family backgrounds so it was like meeting someone we each had a lot in common with. It was great! When Stephanie fell asleep, we left to go to her room since her roommate hadn't arrived yet. And then we ended up talking until 12:30. It was pretty cool. I didn't even realize we had talked so much for so long!

We had made plans to get jobs together, to go shopping together, I offered her some of my mooncakes, she offered some of her fruit and some soy milk... LOL, it was just great. I think I made my first real friend. We're going to go uptown on Friday after all our classes and go window shopping, lol.

Later, we're going to go to Flushing to see how the stuff are there (basically how cheap) and try Chinatown to see if things would be good there too.

Even though she is a Sternie, I still feel like we have a ton of stuff to talk about. She's so accomplished. I'm almost in awe of her. She spent her first 13 years in Shanghai and the rest in the US. She's a little more personable than me though but she's still pretty cool. She's great in math -- international business major with plans to go to law school... She's amazing. She wants to do a double major, double minor...And here I am trying to just squeeze in a minor in with my major. It's like wow. I'm glad I met her. :) Today was a pretty good all in all.

edit x1: My neck is stiff and my shoulders hurt... There's the results of yesterday's Coney Island fun... Man, I'm also hungry. How can I be hungry? I just feel hungry. Or maybe I'm mistaken stomach aches/pains/cramps for hunger... The air conditioning is finally off. I know Sao is like me in that we both don't like the cold so I turned it off when she came in the room. It's still off and it's a nice temp here. Yay! :)

Bad News at NYU

A Grad student killed herself today. :(

Already a suicide! That's so terrible! Classes hasn't even started yet and this is the 6th one this year. I'm sad. How can that be? Why? There's just no point... :(

"NEW YORK (AP) _ A graduate student at New York University jumped to her death Monday from the rooftop of its prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, police said.

The woman "died as a result of an apparently intentional fall" at 10:30 a.m., NYU spokesman Josh Taylor said. He cited university policy in not releasing her name but said she was a second-year graduate student at its school of performing and media arts.

Police identified the student as Joann Mitchell Levy, 23, and said she was found unconscious in front of 286 Mercer St., across from the Tisch School, at 721 Broadway, in Greenwich Village. She was pronounced dead at the scene."

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On a lighter and seemingly trivial note, my necks hurts so much. Coney Island really did a number on it yesterday. I think it hurts more today than yesterday night...

I just came from a floor meeting. Muni is apparently worried that I might not have any social life. That's true considering it's more like, social life, what social life? And apparently the load I've taken is going to kill me. Also, my chem and bio lectures are going to also going to be freaking huge. Absolutely freaking huge. And classes start tomorrow... :)

How the hell am I going to wake myself up... I seriously have no idea.

Hopefully, I'll be able find my classes... Stephanie and Brittany both have the same class so we'll hopefully leave together for it and I can just follow them since they seem to know more than I do...

On other news, apparently my aunt is pissed off that I said Nadine wouldn't be able to get a 1400 on the SAT. While I vaguely remember saying that, I didn't really mean it. And if Nadine does, well good for her. I don't care either way. Hear that Nadine? It's really nothing. Why the hell should I care about you? I have enough trouble trying to take care of myself.

It makes me wonder though. I said this like back in December of last year and she's getting pissed off now? Hello, it's been nine months, slow on the uptake, much? Whatever. Go study your heart out Nadine. Get a 1450, 1500, 1600 (there's my yeah, right), whatever. Just get your parents to pay for where you're going to go to school. That's the important part anyway.

ADDENDUM (since I wasn't feeling up to doing a whole new entry): For some reason or another, I was looking through my old HP stories. Did I really write those things? I'm not so sure I didn't plagerize them right now, just stole them from someone else because they don't feel like something I would be able to write. Maybe it's the two year absence that makes me think I have absolutely no talent but those stories I read, they were not bad. I would read them. Hey, I did reread them. They feel so distant, not a part of me any more. I don't understand it... God, I've got to stop listening to the songs I write my songfics on. They're all so depressive and it's making me really sad. But am I sad because I read a sad story and am listening to a sad song? Or am I sad because I'm just sad today? Did Muni really mess me up that much? Is the suicide bothering me more than I thought it is? I don't understand. I don't know... This is all so confusing... Am I making any sense? I don't know... :( I seriously hope I'm not falling into a huge, annoying depression because that would not be fun at all. No sirree Bob. Not to mention depressions are very inconvenient. And I think if I jumped out of my fourth storey window, I'd probably still live.