Day 51

Staying true to character, I’m already behind on this! YAY! :p 

it just wouldn’t be right for me to be all caught up. 

let’s see…yesterday was Monday and my Existentialism class (which I love) was cancelled. Instead, I met with my thesis advisor to discuss the first part of my draft which I’d given to her. I think it’s partly because I’m so obsessed with her/want to be her best friend, that I always feel like I’m disappointing her. I feel like she expects better from me and I gave her something very basic/decent/etc. I don’t know. I think part of me (stupidly) also wanted this thesis to be so good and epic. blah. I do want to impress her, because she is so smart and such a great theorist but i just don’t know how many original thoughts one person can have aigooooooo. 

but anyway, she said it was great for a first draft (always this comment…which really means it was shittastic). blah blah. so will work on fixing that. if anyone wants to read/peer-edit for me (and promises not to judge me terribly), HOLLA ATCHO GIRL. 

then i came home and did NO work. yolo-ed out with my boos, watched sex and the city episodes and then got excited about poland with albina :). 

all in all, a very good day. even if i slacked off on my essay + thesis like a lil bitch. 

BAIIIIIIIIII,

simmi

Day 52 (i think)

(I’ll count days for certain tomorrow. currently, i’m being a lazy shit.)

speaking of…my behavior this weekend was the epitome of laziness. i have to say, i impress myself with my lack of concern for responsibilities. i didn’t even open my thesis word doc!!! usually, i leave it open in the background, so it can judge me as i spend hours not working on it. but this time, nope. considering that i’m meeting with my advisor tomorrow for a lengthy meeting…this should be interesting haha hah haa ha.

ahem. 

today was a day spent realizing how great my parents are, and how supportive they have been in their own way. while my parents don’t show much interest in what i study/want to do in the future (and that gets me down sometimes), they do let me keep doing it. i guess i’m glad that they’re not at the other end of the spectrum, where they restrict my passion/interests. they are also super sweet. i’ll talk about the overwhelming guilt i feel when they are nice to me another time. 

alsoooo, talked to my dad yesterday and he said i can go back to poland this summer for a couple of weeks!!!! :D i am BEYOND excited. i miss all my friends from the program so much and can’t wait to see them again. and Warsaw itself!! (now I really hope Macaulay approves that funding request lol….or simmi will live in a super-pimped-out box in warsaw xoxo). 

i wish i could travel forever. (i know i know, doesn’t everyone). (actually, i change my mind — not forever. but for a bit. :p)

i don’t have a photo to post today since i spent the entire day inside (minus baby’s bathroom + walk breaks) and have been in pj’s all day god bless america 

til tomorrow,

simmi

‘ello

attempt # 3 (?)  to revive this side blog :)

so someone on my facebook feed posted this idea about documenting every day of senior year up until graduation - through a blog post and a photograph. i really like the idea so i’m going to steal it!

i will hopefully be better at keeping up with this than i have been with other things… 

daitheflu: spectralelegance: Rhythm 0, 1974 To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her. Abramović had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions. Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later: “What I learned was that… if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” … “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.” I will always reblog this. It’s just too beautiful. i love abramovic. when she was at the moma i loved watching her perform. it was like a religious experience.
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daitheflu:

spectralelegance:

Rhythm 0, 1974

To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.

Abramović had placed upon a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.

Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained impassive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later:

“What I learned was that… if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” … “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.”

I will always reblog this. It’s just too beautiful.

i love abramovic. when she was at the moma i loved watching her perform. it was like a religious experience.

Source: ragata

Locked Up and Left Behind

cuckooforcristiano:

“We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference this afternoon. Bloomberg annouced a host  of extreme measures being taken by New York City in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, including a shutdown of the public transit system and the unprecedented mandatory evacuation of some 250,000 people from low-lying areas. But in response to a reporter’s question, the mayor stated in no uncertain terms (and with more than a hint of annoyance) that one group of New Yorkers on vulnerable ground will be staying put.

…..

According to the New York City Department of Corrections’own website, more than three-quarters of Rikers Island’s 400 acres are built on landfill–which is generally thought to be more vulnerable to natural disasters. Its ten jails have a capacity of close to 17,000 inmates, and normally house at least 12,000, including juveniles and large numbers of prisoners with mental illness–not to mention pre-trial detainees who have yet to be convicted of any crime. There are also hundreds of corrections officers at work on the island.

i wish more people would freak out over this. the fact that we pretty much treat prisoners (regardless of whether they’ve been convicted or not) as less than human in many ways is so scary and sad. 

(via daitheflu)

Source: cuckooforcristiano