Bun Week! Part 3: Black Light Party

Wednesday was our black light party, which basically consisted of us buying and setting up 20 blacklights, giving out glow sticks, and having people decorate shirts with black light markers.  It was pretty cool.

This is what the room looked liked before we turned the lights off:

And this is after:

I believe this is Emily, twirling her glow-necklaces at me

More glow-necklace twirling, this time by Cristina

A nice glow-smile

Bun Week! Part 1: Stress Free Night

Monday night was Stress Free Night, which involved lots of fun and destressing activites:

We had a table of games, including a puzzle, Sock 'Em Bop 'Ems, PlayDoh, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Legos, and coloring books.

Noveen takes out her anger on Bozo the Punching Clown, while eating some free Coldstone Ice Cream.

Justin gets acupuncture in his ear

Cristina missed out on the free ice cream, so she was left with just sprinkles. 

I blew bubbles.

Meli tried to blow bubbles but failed.

Lindsay got acupuncture too. 

This is her pre-acupuncture afraid face.

There was also massages and yoga, which I have never done before but after 45 minutes of it, I was sore for the next 2 days...

Bun Week! Part 2: Sunnygrams

Tuesday was our Sunnygrams event, which is an organization where you make cards for children in the hospital and then they deliver them.  As you can see, we made some pretty sparkly and bright cards...

It may not be traditional, but it is the coolest campus...

The view from our student center looking out at Washington Square Park (which is currently under renovation, though fingers crossed, it will be ready in time for my graduation next year) and 5th Ave.

Financial District Protest

This Saturday, I heard chanting outside of my window and looked out to see a protest marching down the street.  I think they were protesting something about the bailout and women, though I couldn't really hear what they were saying/read their signs.  Perhaps it was just a continuation of the previous day's activities.  Nothing says adults protesting the bail outs like "pillow fight at Wall Street"

Birthday Cake

It was my roommate's 21st birthday this weekend and instead of buying her a gift, I decided to bake her a cake because it's delicious and easy and I like coming up with cake ideas.  Past cakes of mine have included a 4-layer red velvet cake with polka dot icing, peanut butter marble cake, and a dark chocolate raspberry cake.  I decided to go with an Oreo cake this time, but of course the grocery store was out of regular Oreos.  Luckily, there was one deli open (the product of late night grocery shopping in the financial district) that sold small packages of Oreos.  I made a chocolate devil's food cake with a layer of Oreos, and then because I for some reason decided to make the really smart decision of not putting the flat sides of the cakes together, I put Oreos around the outside of the cake to hide the gapping hole between the 2 layers.  All in all, I think it was a pretty successful baking experience.

1 layer done:

Finished product chilling in the fridge (btw, it says 21!, not 211):

Topshop

Waiting in line...

Topshop opened its first US location on Thursday.  It's a British store, similar to H&M but pricier and with a collection by designed by Kate Moss.  They have been doing advertising for it for the past two weeks, with little Topshop trucks parked outside of our student center, with girls in bowler hats handing out totes filled with water bottles, catalogues, and gift certificates that are only redeemable on Thursday and can be anywhere from $5-$500.   Now everyone is carrying Topshop tote bags around campus, so I'd say it's pretty effective marketing. 

I dragged some other Student Council members with me after our Dylan's Candy Bar event and even though we went at like 7pm (the store opened at 11am, I think) there was still a line around the block.  There were Topshop employees standing in line, entertaining customers and checking gift cards.  I only had $5, of course and the lady told me that they hadn't had any $500 all day.  I heard that there was free Pinkberry and coffee and donuts earlier in the day for those who braved the line.  When we finally got inside, I really liked what I saw.  Everything was really cute and trendy (though totally out of my budget, except for maybe a couple of select purchases here and there.  Hi Mom.), and I'm sure that most people at school will soon be sporting Topshop clothes like we now do H&M.

Dylan's Candy Bar Cupcake Extravaganza

Our third student council event this week was geared towards freshman and was a cupcake decorating party hosted by Dylan's Candy Bar, this really amazing candy store uptown that's down the street from Serendipity's.  (Dylan is the daughter of Ralph Lauren. You can do cool things like open your own candy store when your dad is a famous designer)  Anyways, needless to say, and as the below pictures prove, the event was quite delicious.  

Poems

One of my courses this semester is a creative writing course, and it's probably my favorite class, mostly because of the people in the class, but also because it's such a fun and stress-free atmosphere.  I always look forward to going to it and to doing my homework (crazy, I know...).  We just recently started our poems unit and I just thought I would share two of the poems I wrote.

This one was inspired by my blog :) and I had to make it a picture so that you could get the full effect.  Click on it to make it bigger/readable.

(ps. it's an acrostic)

This last one I actually wrote freshman year for another class, but I was trying to be green and recycle.  

The New York Times

The Riddle we can guess

--Sometimes--

But other times

We don't know 

22 down,

A four-letter word

For "first murder victim"

Second letter is "b"

And it's only Monday

Oh--Abel

Based on the feedback from my class, most people felt like there should be a bigger religious message since it's about Cain and Abel.  But there really isn't and I'm okay with that...

Filming in the park

Nicholas Cage and crew, for the new live action version of the
Sorcerer's Apprentice (you know, mickey and tye dancing brooms in
fantasia), have been filming in and around our campus. You can't see
Nick in this shot, but he's just behind these people, in a full length
leather coat, pointy black hat and curly, stringy hair extensions.
This is the second big budget movie that they've filmed on campus
since I've been here (the other being Will Smith's I Am Legend) and
despite the fact that there are annoying people telling you to walk on
the other side of the road because they're filming, it's one of the
things that I love about going to school in New York. Not a lot of
students can say that they saw Nicholas Cage filming his new movie
during their lunch break..