Come on baby, light my fire.

It's been a while.

This past weekend, I went to New York City with my parents and Jaclyn. It was horribly cold, so walking around times square wasn't as fun as it could be when it's a decent temperature. We stayed in the Algonquin, and I felt incredibly classy. We saw Equus for the second time and got the cheapest tickets possible, which was the last row on the mezzanine. At stage door, we didn't get to meet Dan Radcliffe or Richard Griffiths because about 50 fangirls had been waiting outside since the play started. There was clump of hyperventilating girls in between 

us and the actors. Oh well.

Earlier in the day, we also stumbled on a store in East Village called Village Scandal. 

Jaclyn bought this obnoxious red mesh thing called a "fascination". I got some cheap dangly earrings and a great hat, although I didn't really process the fact that it has a huge bow on it... much like Aretha Franklin's masterpiece at the Inauguration. Oh dear.

I haven't knit in about a week (which is really unfortunate because I have

 all that fancy yarn now). However, last week I finished yet another hat. I don't really understand why so many of my posts have focused on hats, I really don't like them that much and they usually look stupid on me. Hm.

I also got my hair dyed dark auburn. I like it.

Right now I'm reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (I'm going to read all the AP English books on my own so I can take the test at the end of the year and hopefully get college credit... win). It's about opera and terrorism... my two favorite things. Well, not really. Anyways, it's pretty exciting. Read it.

On the 25th there's a solo and ensemble performance at my school, and the choir and band teachers accosted me today to ask if I can accompany some of the instrumentalists. I feel so professional now! Only I'll have to actually start practicing piano now. So far I'm accompanying my friend Stephanie in Peeters Sonata for Piano and Trumpet. I think I might sing an Italian aria as well...

Basically, I love Connecticut because I got out of school today at 11:15 AM. Snow is wonderful.

Peace.