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I went into the city with Katie, Julia, and Amari.
First, I woke up at 11:15 and my train was at 11:31. So I was like, “Oh, fuck”. But then Julia called and said that it was running 5-10 minutes late, but still, I was running a little more than 5-10 minutes late. So I pretty much ran the whole way to the train station and got there JUST as the train was arriving. It was sooo lucky the train was late!

Then we took the subway down to Union Square and got lunch at Chipotle and ate it at these tables outside in this park thing. While we were eating, these guys came up to us and asked us what we wanted to do before we die. We had to sign these forms and pretend to be 18 and the they video taped us answering the questions. It wasn’t like a legit thing though, just a school project. My answer: meet JK Rowling. Then we walked to this vintage store called Rags A GoGo and it was awesome. They had all these cowboy boots and flannel shirts and leather jackets and just generally old, awesome clothes. But none of us bought anything.

Then we went to Urban Outfitters and I bought a fisheye camera!!!!! I’m so excited about it. I also tried on a bunch of dresses and skirts and shoes but none of them were that great. Then we walked down to St. Mark’s and I bought a pair of Harry Potter glasses at a street vendor. It’s really sad that I’ve spent the last 10 years without them. Then we went to Trash and Vaudeville. I had no intention of buying anything but then Julia found this incredible pink fluffy tutu/skirt. And I bought it with my emergency tutu credit card. The last time I used the credit card in a store was the last time I ran out of cash and needed to buy a tutu. Is it sad that it’s happened more than once? Both times I wasn’t sure if I had enough money on the card and both times it worked and I got really excited.

Anyway, then we went to this Tibetan store because Amari likes Tibetan things. Then I wanted to go into some record stores but we wanted to go get cupcakes cause we weren’t sure what time they closed. We were planning on going back to St. Mark’s after but we never did. :(

But then we walked down to Rivington Street. I don’t even know what that part of the city is called… The East Village perhaps? Or the Lower East Side? Whatever. It’s low and east. It was a kind of long walk through a kind of sketchy area, and we felt a little bit insecure because Julia was wearing my tutu and I had a large camera around my neck and was carrying a map. We were prime mugging candidates. But we eventually found our way to Sugar Sweet Sunshine, a delightful little cupcake shop in a neighborhood that doesn’t look like it would have a cupcake shop. I had two cupcakes and a cup of coffee in the store and then brought home four cupcakes for my family, so I had one just now as well. NOM NOM NOM. Then we got a cab back to Grand Central because the subway was far and we didn’t know exactly where it was.

So basically, today was awesome.