beautiful day in the neighborhood.

"lisztomania": phoenix

day 5 in the city. last night, mary & i ventured to chelsea for a stand-up comedy show at the upright citizens brigade theatre. for $5 we got to watch an hour of completely improvised funny business staring some guy from "30 rock" & a woman from conan o'brien.

walking from washington square to chelsea in heels, however, was nothing funny. lesson learned. i've also never seen so much pabst blue ribbon in my life.


in class, we developed our first role of film. shocker, mine had a few blips of negatives with no pictures {must have been distracted by our donald trumph sighting}

we also managed to make a some new friends, even getting invited to a birthday party/picnic along the hudson river on tuesday. of course, i volunteered to bring something baked {even if this means spending an afternoon in our meth lab of a basement kitchen}.

after class, mary decided that she just couldn't go another day without purchasing the most adorable, high-waisted shorts from urban outfitters. BORROW PLEASE!

while attempting to resist the turqoise romper i'd fallen in love with, i decided to thumb through a few of the books by the cash register. "young, broke & beautiful: a guide to new york" provided this ironic excerpt from its bar-hopping section. {read closely} a special shout-out to all my uga girls.

later we walked towards the next new york site i've been wanting to see since we've been here, the flatiron building.

another lovely thing about this place {i think i'm starting to sound redundant}: walking around aimlessly is never really just walking around aimlessly.

when we finally arrived in the flatiron district, we also realized we'd stumbled upon madison square park & all of it's blooming greenery.

while taking a quick breather, mary found $20 on a park bench. oh, happy day.