And the nymph took the raven out to dance...

waking up in nyc can be wonderful. Especially when you find yourself in a room filled by sunlight in Park Slope... you walk out the door and there it is, the city, you take a train to hit manhattan for some brunch with your friends and they are having what they call the ny-brunch, all you can drink cocktails and eggs.. not for me i'm afraid. So you and your other friend walk down a block and find the perfect place for your quite breakfast.
Then you take the train uptown for a show at the Japan Society, where you find some of the best paperclippings you've ever seen
Sounds nice so far?
After a nice day of city-walking you take the train back to Park Slope for dinner at Harvey and Barbara's house. They make chicken with cranberries, it's delicious!
You dress up and take the train all the way back to Williamsburg. There comes to life a mythical evening.
The Raven this night accompanied by his dear friend the Nymph. They dance to drums, they dance to womp they dance to all musics they hear. They dance in general.
The ravens black feathers shine in the lights of bright green lazerlights, the nymphs senual hair moves around in the air.
When tired they return to their bed, they sleep and they wake up the next morning feeling good, feeling tired, but good...
Thanks Nymph, says the Raven, thanks for a great night...

Andalou, Sangria, Williamsburg

Friday night was a blast. My dear friend from Amsterdam and I had the greatest fun! After 2 weeks of midterms and being sick I was really in need of a break. So I took the train into the city, dropped my bags of at H&B's house and went into the city to meet with my friend.
We had dinner at wild ginger. Later crossed the street for a pitcher of Sangria. Seeing as Williamsburg is hipsters Pa-Lace the crowd was interesting. We soon made friends who decided to show us around.
The night was cold, the spots cool and the people even cooler.
Union Pool is a bar that once was a pool. It is filled with semi-hipsters, artsy types and man with beards. But it's fun, they actually serve beer in cans, there's a courtyard outside were they have fires and you can buy tapas from a little van that stands there.
Then we moved on to Petes Candystore where they served nice but overpriced cocktails. We decided we were in the mood to dance and the british guy told us he knew a place. Greeted by what seemed to be a middleaged lesbian woman at the door, I knew we were in for a blast. Entering I was reminded of some of those 90's movies.
It might have been the lazers, it might have been the music, it might have been the scenery.
We called it a night and said goodbye to our friends. It was a lovely evening.
My dear Andalou, thank you! xxx

Tumblr

I now also will be keeping a tumblr to post the more imagery related strings of thoughts...

http://catcardinal.tumblr.com

Babylon

As the days get brighter, and the cardinals in my back yard sing, spring is finally arriving.
The days I spend outside more now then inside and work at school starts to accumulate..
This weekend I took a couple of days off and decided to do things for me.
Friday night I spent in BK with a friend from home. We wined, we dined, we met people we liked and people that bothered us very much.
Saturday I was back on the island, I was invited to the nice little town of Babylon.
Italian food, midnight french waffels and beaches all around. I had a great little time and feel recharged...

or so I thought, since sunday I've been sick and struggling with all the work I have for school.

I got a few grade back and lucky me they are all quite high!

Now, if I can survive the last midterms, it'll soon be April, true warmth, lovely familiar faces and all that jazz coming my way!

Love,

Cat C.

The Blow - True Affection (HD)

Living in the U.S.A

As time passes me by I've come to realise I've not planned at all.. Although I've sent out a few letters for internships I have yet to decide what I really really really want to do this summer.

Many ideas have come by and as everyone around me says, there's a new one every week!
One is spending my summer working my ass of in stressy NYC.
Two is spending a relaxed summer doing a parttime internship in SF.
Three is spending three weeks in the us after school is done then returning home in the middle of june, get a job an appartment, see my friends and family and have nice summer...

The list goes on and on and on.But I have no clue what to do.I guess until I do know, I will just keep my options open and hope that some kind of revelation will tell me what to do.


So long,

We live in a material world

After a couple of weeks of living on Long Island I have come to realise that money really does make the world go around. At least around here it does.

I have been told that this is America's most materialist area. One of the riches and most expensive areas. And I sure do hope so...

Since everyday in class I am inspired by the nations intelects... The thinkers of this world, the betterers of this world I find it hard to understand that this generation I see around me is the result of that.

There's something to be said about the contrast between the city and the Island. Imagine taking a 30 minute train ride, leaving all culture behind and arriving in what seems to be a parkinglot filled with kfc's and poppeyes'... Not to sound ungratefull for this opportunity but Hempstead just isn't exactly classy.

I guess in every experience there's a lesson to be learned and let the lesson wisely be, for me, that this is not the life I see...