I'm Kiwi. 21. NJ. NYU Draper Master's Student. Beauty Intern at Marie Claire Magazine. Formerly @seventeenmag and Rutgers '11. I write stuff. As a student of literature, I have learned that even the most brilliant fiction writer could not come up with the bizarre things that happen to me on an astoundingly regular basis. I'm pretty much famous for my travel blogs. Check them out.
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Louie talks more than I do. He just doesn’t have my extensive, flowering vocabulary. Besides waking me up with a GOOOOOOD MORNINN’ every morning, he rambles on HELLO?! HELLOOOO? HELLO LOUIEEEE. Today he shrieked I LOVE YOUUU, so I might be winning him over.
Looking at the course list for next semester. By December 14, I’m halfway through my Master’s in terms of credits. How did I even manage this? On paper, I look like such an overachiever. Why do I bombard myself with so many classes? My next semester will depend solely on whether or not I have a job, and which state it’s in, so I should probably get on that. Since I don’t really need the classes for credits, I have decided to take only take classes that interest me, my thesis be damned. I thought I saw a biology class called The Alien Form and I practically signed up for it on the spot. Good thing I didn’t, because it’s actually a philosophy class called the Alienation of Form. Wouldn’t be the first time I was hoodwinked into taking a class that I thought would be interesting and finding that it’s a philosophy class. Rutgers, I’m pointing at you.
I want to take a genetics class, because my program has one. Let me explain: I’m in a humanities program, so when I say genetics, it won’t be something medical and complex that I’m not prepared for. It’s going to be an interest course. And I always said that if I didn’t have so many crap science teachers along the way, I would have been a geneticist. I don’t think my adviser will let me, though, as I am such a sheer gift to the realm of comparative literature.
Walking to class the other day, the thought came to me that I would probably be okay if I never read another book ever again. In the days since, I’ve been going back and forth in my own mind debating whether or not this is true. I don’t want to sound defeatist, but I might be done with this. In any case, the exercise is futile as there is a stack of no less than 16 books on my floor that will need to be read in the next month.
On Wednesday, Seventeen sent me out to a really awesome little event for the natural skincare and makeup brand geoGiRL. I’m pretty much obsessed because it’s seriously perfect makeup for girls who don’t wear much makeup. Which is me when I’m not working. I’m never usually completely bare-faced, but layering stuff on is such a chore sometimes. I’m writing a blog for Seventeen.com about the company and the event, so you should definitely check it out- I’ll post a link when it’s up. We’re delaying it a little bit because I’m trying to organize a giveaway of my favorite picks from the line. I’ll let you know how to get involved with that, too!
