Greetings from two blocks west of the white house!

I've been slacking but I'm hard at work at college.  One of my latest collegiate endeavors included partying at the white house on election night.   Look above for some crazy pics. 

With the exception of election night, I've found DC to be kind of an underwhelming city.  The streets are always extremely vacant and devoid of people, or of really any life at all.  In other words, where the squirrels at?  

The other day I took the metro (really for the firs time since I've been here) and I just kept expecting to get off in the meat packing district.  Instead I got off at Pentagon City, which was a glorified Natick Mall.   What a disappointment.  

A Break from the Cynicism

I always say I will update soon, and, incidentally, I never do! I will own up to that.  But, to my credit, I have been doing a lot of writing lately.  I am now an official writer for the GWU newspaper, the gwu hatchet! I write for the arts section.  So far my articles have been really boring because I am the bottom of the latter and therefore am forced to cover the theater department.  However, if you are missing e.katz's prose, feel free to check it out.  This week I am (randomly) the headlining article for the art's section.  who knew! 

I generally write an article for every thursday's hatch. For some reason, it won't let me post links, but click the arts section on www.gwuhatchet.com and you will be directed to the genius that is my article!

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Greetings from College!

If someone had told me last year that a degree from college meant you were simply able to put your morals on the back burner and succumb to the social pressures of clubbing and partying for four years while fighting the constant urge to drop out, I probably would've signed up for one of those awkward year off programs where you study marine life on a ship.   What the fuck IS this shit?  How much alcohol does an eighteen years old REALLY need to consume? I wish I had a class that addressed both of those questions because they I could use a little enlightenment when it comes to college culture.  Who needs to know about media in a free society--- please, just show me a power point that notes the correlation between beer consumed to papers written by any kid from Jersey at GWU and I will show you a power point of reasons why I would rather be in Boston at my local Starbucks consuming a nonalcoholic beautiful latte. 

In other news, I'm in the library and sitting in a chair that has chewing gum smeared all down the left arm rest.  Nothing like a defaced piece of furniture to bring you joy in the midst of a quarter-life crisis!

I'm also thinking of investing in a pair of non-prescription glasses.  They just scream "hey, I'm smart"! Kind of like a kid from Jersey after a 40. 

I'll be back soon.  I haven't even started my tirade on Sarah Palin.

The Eternal Question: Santorini or my values?

I took a much longer hiatus from proverbial blog than intended, but all that matters is that I'm back, with more witticisms than ever.

What I'm going to blog about today is the economy. I work at a boutique in Newton Centre, and I seldom close a sale, hence why I am blogging at this very moment. One could say that's a testament to my sales ability (or really the clothing the store sells), however I'm more inclined to blame it on the economy. The worst part of this crisis is that there is nothing you, or I or my Dad or your dad or our grandfather's best friend's sister's lawyer's mom can do. You just have to wait it out, while discreetly praying that the decline in flights won't ruin your potential twentieth birthday trip to Greece.

In the meantime, I've been trying to ease my nerves with different articles by people who are smart. I've always thought of Thomas Friedman as being just a really generic democrat who has too many opinions for his own good, but his article in today's New York Times made me feel more in control of this financial crisis. Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29friedman.html?em&ex=1214884800&en=e0277bc788f8f54b&ei=5087%0A

In short, he essentially reduces the necessary involvement by people like me to consist of simply voting for the candidate who I feel will focus on America rather than Iraq. According to Friedman, the next election should center primarily on the American economy, forcing candidates to shift the Iraq debacle out of the picture for at least the short-term. This change of subject could as much as lead Obama and McCain to choose a financial strategist at their running mate, at which point it would just become a test of whose VP seems ready to kick more ass. That's where we're supposed to deliberate and carefully consider the options for the sake of consideration.

My initial response was, that's it... that's all I gotta do... just vote? But, then I reviewed this once again, and realized he's asking me to CONSIDER voting for McCain --instead of just blindly voting for Obama like I was planning-- if it were to potentially warrant a brighter financial future for America. By the transitive property, he's asking me to compromise my integrity and morals! (I know- what morals?!) So what do I do: preserve my integrity, or ex-nay the Acropolis? It's too painful to think about.

If you're ever in the mood to be depressed...

...listen to the soundtrack of the movie The Hours. I bought it on itunes a while back, thinking it would be really great to listen to while doing homework or taking a relaxing shower. Turns out it makes me want to slit my wrists. Who knew?


In other news, Whole Foods' across the globe are being upgraded. I noticed recently that the barrels of overpriced mangos in my local whole foods looked to be constructed of re-finished hardwood. After looking around furhter, I noticed several recent improvements, like a much more comprehensive salad bar, one that includes sandwiches (who puts a sandwich in a salad is another story). Being the inquisitive person I am, I could not help but ask my good friend-the woman re-shelfing the two bite brownies-what the deal with all the new improvements was and when I could expect a jamba juice to nonchalantly reside left of the prepared foods section. She then told me, in no uncertain terms, that every Whole Foods is essentially trying to live up to the one in the Time Warner mall in New York. I then told her, in no uncertain terms, that it was going to take a lot more than a couple of sandwiches and a mahogany barrel to match that whole foods. Oh, and there will be no Jamba Juice.

When there's nothing to blog about and your capstone is in a week...

...you still don't blog about the primaries!  

BUT, I just read an article on the Huffington post entitled "Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now."   In short, should Hillary bow down now, the Obama campaign will pay her back the $11.4 million of her own money that she used in campaigning, along with an estimated $10 million to $15 million that she spent on random campaign expenses that she had also used her own money on.  In addition, should Hill decide to bow down gracefully in the near future, she would be an essential shoe-in for senate.  The article also mentions that her eminent departure from the race could give Bill & Hill the "opportunity to heal the rift with the black political community." 

With what Obama is willing to reimburse her, she could buy the white house! At this point, I don't understand why she wouldn't drop out.   More than that, I don't understand how Hillary is so okay with her failures--- where's the inferiority complex? Where is this confidence coming from?  You lose mad primaries and you're made fun of on the daily and you just kind of lie nonchalantly lie to the American people on occasion; how are you still so peppy and annoying and in the presidential race? If I had Hill's cell number I would text her and ask her all of the aforementioned.  

May 30th

It's very hard to articulate my feelings on the upcoming Sex And The City movie.  I'll quote Oprah, "this is more than just a movie-- this is an event!"   She's not kidding.  I'm not coming to school on the day of May 30th, and I may even take the 29th off just to energize for what will be the most gratifying experience of 2008.   Here are some reasons why this movie is going to be amazing:

1. There are eighty different costume changes.

2. Jennifer Hudson plays Carrie's assistant, and who -other than the New York Times film critic- didn't like Dream Girls?

3. Carrie is still making her stupid-hardly-funny-almost-annoying-yet-ultimately-endearing punns, as is evident from the movie trailer.

4. Miranda's hair is looking better than ever.

5. The movie has been getting amazing reviews so far.  Oprah guaranteed the general public on last Friday's show that the movie would not disappoint, and I have a lot of respect for big O's opinions.

Carrie Bradshaw once said, when you're tired you take a nap-a, you don't move to Napa.  And with that, I'm off to do the former.