Lenny! Hi! Or, as I guess you’re saying in Russia now, привет! (isn’t Google amazing…) How was the trip/how is Moscow???

I totally understand missing reading…when I was in Spain, I read whatever books in English I could get my hands on. I just finished reading The Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald and loved it. I’m also reading a lot of Dorothy Parker and Jane Austen right now. Judith Butler is very heavy on gender studies and queer theory, which, if you’re into that, is really really interesting. I could also be horribly self-promoting and link you to my blog, but I’m not going to start plugging myself (camiwillknow.tumblr.com ok, I suck)

I dunno, I could see art and math going together. I mean, music and math go along, why wouldn’t art? It’s all about proportion and ratio, really, isn’t it, to make something visually appealing?

Aw, I LOVE Pixar (don’t worry, I get misty eyed at them too…Up had me crying like baby in 10 minutes). And Grosse Point Blank is awesome, though I think as far as John Cusack goes I like High Fidelity better. But I’m a music nerd, and High Fidelity is the story of my life some days!

But that’s it, I have nothing more to say to you until I hear interesting stories of Moscow.

Cami!! I have internet now! (as of 10pm Moscow time… yay) I’m so sorry I haven’t replied in a year, packing, leaving, arriving was (as Miamians say) crazy.

That’s sounds like a lot of fun! My best/oldest friend used to go to Hawaii for swim meets and competitions. How were the beaches? Lol, *face palm* was so cute!

You know, one thing I really miss is reading, being in a foreign city and all. Can you recommend one? : ) I want to get some English jokes ( Brain Friel, Judith Butler, that sounds kewl).

Haha. I don’t know where liking math comes from in my family. It’s kind of an anomaly for an art student to do any kind of mathematics.

And no ::heavy sigh:: I didn’t get to check out the The Miracle of Science. Something to do when I go there for graduate school, lol.

I like funny movies. Unfortunately, I’m a sucker for films with good music and they make me really emotional. For example, 1,000 balloons movie (Pixar’s Up). Every single time they cue the theme song, my eyes tear up and I’m trying to prevent myself from absolutely balling in front of about 70 kids in the audience. I’m a sucker for romantic movies like Love Actually, but that’s another one I can’t watch in front of people, more than Up. One of my favorite movies is Grosse Pointe Blank. I don’t know why, but it’s hard for me to stop watching that movie while its playing. The royal tenembaums… Oh! Wall-e! One of my favorite all time movies.

Anyway, I just wanted to say a few things quick before tomorrow comes (now that I have internet). Otherwise, I get pretty anal about these posts and it’ll be another week before I finish putting everything I want to say, lol.

Oh I forgot to mention stuff about Moscow… (will do tomorrow : )

My birthday was July 30…I didn’t do much on the actual day, except work and get Mexican food, but my parents took me out the following night to a nice restaurant, and then last week I went to Raleigh for a couple of days to visit my boyfriend and he got some of my friends to meet us as my favorite bar for beers, so that was nice. I’d been kind of dreading 24 (geez, I’m now officially in my mid-twenties…), but it wasn’t too bad, I guess.

How far am I from Asheville…um…I just moved here, so I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s like 7 or 8 hours (I live in the southern outer banks of NC now). When I’m in Raleigh visiting the boyfriend, I think it’s a 4 hour drive from Asheville. By the way, while you’re in Asheville, you HAVE to check out Early Girl Eatery. It’s AMAZING food in a great atmosphere…down home Southern cooking using almost all local organic ingredients. There’s also a pretty cool bookstore/coffee shop near there called Malaprops, if you’re into that kind of thing. And, obviously, Biltmore Estate is pretty epic. And I’m told that if you can catch a show at the Orange Peel, by all means do so. Sorry, I get gushy about Asheville…it’s a damned cool place…I’m hoping to score an internship up there in the Biltmore archives one of these days.

Yeah, Columbia is pricey. Not to mention I doubt NYC would be a fabulous place to live. Although, I also have a grudge against Columbia. They didn’t have the decency to mail me a rejection letter, despite their $75 application fee for grad school…I got a rejection email as an attachment. Jerks! But MIT/Boston is AMAZING. Cambridge is my favorite area in the Boston metro area by far…I spent way too much time over there when I lived up there, even though I was living in Brighton at the time. If I ever move back, Davis, Kendall or Harvard Sq is where I’d be. Did you get to check out The Miracle of Science? It’s this cool bar around MIT…a lot of students hang there. Anyway, I highly suggest/support going to MIT and living in Boston. It’s the greatest city on earth.

Happy Birthday! What did you do? (and which day was it?)

A couple days ago I was staying at a fraternity at MIT, but the friend who I travel with (he’s going to be my room mate for the Math In Moscow thing) had a meeting with a professor in Columbia University today. Which is where I’m bumming internet from. I don’t think I’ll be applying here, since they offer no financial support and it costs lots of money to go to, lol. I think the plan right now is to meet a couple friends in Connecticut on Saturday and meet with a professor on Tuesday in Princeton via a car rental and then Asheville since we were offered a place to stay there. How far is it? North Carolina can’t be that big : )

Oh and MIT was awesome! They took us on a tour through the whole campus… well I’m not sure how much I can post….I’ll message you about it. The people are awesome, the library is awesome (math section) and the math professors are famous… I’m totally going there, even if its for women’s studies, lol. Boston was a fun city to walk through in general.

Aw, Asheville’s a great town! Unfortunately, that’s on the exact opposite end of the state from me!

Where in New England are you? I miss it up there!