All Black Everything.

So clean! All Black Everything! I love seeing more and more of this blacked out look everywhere. Even on the radio:

"This is Roc Nation, Pledge your allegiance. Get y'all fatigues on.All black everything.Black cards, black cars, All black everything." -Run This Town, Jay-Z

"All black on, Black top shades, Black top Maybach.
I’ma rock this shit like fashion...." - Hard, Rihanna

So stylish and sophisticated... I think it takes the same amount of confidence to pull off the head-to-toe black as it does to wear bold colors and patterns.... it's daring and maybe a little out of the comfort zone, too. I love seeing it pulled off, freakin fresh to death and I am re-committed to my beloved monochromatic wardrobe picks.

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Back at Home, and impromptu High School reunion...

I am really enjoying being in NC! So nice. Just me and my old pal Bud Light watching music videos and Degrassi The Next Generation. I'm at home totally regressing. Haha. I LOVE watching videos, haha and the channel MTV hits is the shit, but they don't have it in NY for some freak reason. Degrassi comes on Friday at 8pm I think, and I am never there to watch it, so somehow there are 7 episodes on demand to watch--and I eating it up.

Tonight I'm going to Bex house for her annual friday-after-thanksgiving party. She's the only local who hasn't left CH and doesn't live with her parents, so her house is pretty choice. I'm a little blah about going tonight. Like Bex is my buddy and some of the other girls who will be there I'm still cool with, but honestly? I sorta haven't tried to keep in touch with anyone from HS. It's like, at the time when I was running track and stuff, my team mates became my best friends, but 4 years of college and now 2 more years tacked on has made that gap between us seem enormous. I'm curious to see how it will all play out tonight. I mean, it's not like anything ended badly, but I was a little surprised when I was looking through my phone and realized that I don't even have 4 of my old friends phone numbers in my phone anymore. I don't think I've changed at all... And I just hope we all get together tonight and it's like no time has passed between us all. So we'll see. I'm excited to reminisce none the less.
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More Tourist stuff

Today my two friends from DC, Cam and Gab, came to the city because Gab had scored 3 tickets to a live taping of the Wendy Williams Show. If you haven't seen it before, it's a day time talk show, and generally really funny, fun and silly. We had a wonderful time, and I got to be on TV again, haha. I'll post the video of it as soon as I get a chance to rip it. Way too much fun though!

Tribute to MJ for his birthday, from Google

Very Nice.

RIP DJ AM-- tribute from the Palm in Las Vegas

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E and I went to the Today Show today!

We are such tourists, ha. This was our far away gift to Mommy. She is over the moon about it, I'm in love with Matt Lauder. He's a cutie! Anyways, It's very easy to get up there to watch the show, and very fun too. So far I am loving the city. I made sure to take a lot of pictures this morning while I was out, and I will share them asap.

Learning the Map with the help of pop culture.

I literally had to study the map of the Upper West Side for a couple of weeks before I could effectively apartment hunt. Now that the housing is handled and we're all moved in, I really want to learn the areas I have heard so much about. I remember Samantha Jones moving to the Meat Packing District on Sex and the City, or about the tents at fashion week in Bryant park, as seen on Project Runway and in The Devil Wears Prada. I know the Upper East Side from Gossip Girl, Gramercy is where Whitney from The City lives. I could go on and on. So where do I fit? Up at the top of the map, boarding Harlem(in blue) and overlapping with the Upper West Side is Morningside Heights (in red.) It pretty much consists of Columbia, Barnard, Teacher's College and a slew of hospitals ( like St. Lukes) and churches (like St. Johns). What I've learned (and you have too, after reading this obscure geography lesson) is: I live uptown. I live right by the school of social work, and I am seriously a student. Seriously.