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Hi. Here are photos from some really good days I have had so far this summer! Enjoy! I made smoothies with my friend Ron at our meeting to discuss the plans we have for the club we are on the board for at our university.  We had a picnic in Central Park.  These are two of my best friends Tyler and Ron. On 4th of July we went to visit friends in Scarsdale and roamed around a gorgeous park before meeting up with them.  Walking down the High Line for our friend's birthday.  At my friend Ana's going away party on the Upper East Side. We explored her apartment and found this gem of a photo. My friend Zoe and I posed alongside it. Ana and Zoe both intern (well Ana is gone now studying abroad in Australia) at the same off-Broadway theatre I do, The Play Company.  These are my friends Tyler, Michelle, and Ron snuggling in the one bedroom apartment they are sharing for the summer.  I hope you enjoyed checking ou...

A New View  is a new installation on my blog where I photograph life and the things around me. I love photography. One of my dream careers is to be a photographer for National Geographic , but since I am not in the Amazon photographing spider monkeys or in Burkina Faso photographing the fashion in their marketplace, I will instead photograph my experiences and the things I see around me. I am now living in New York City for the summer so I am sure I will see some pretty interesting things. For the first installation, here are some random photos I took over the past several months. My iPhoto continues to surprise me with photos I forgot I had ever taken, or ones people have taken of me.  So, all photos below were taken by me except the three with me in them of course. Enjoy! August 2014. Balleycroy, Ireland. (Photo cred: my grandma). October 2014. Galway, Ireland.  November 2014. Cardiff, Wales.  November 2014. Cardiff, Wales. Novembe...

That is the question.  Hello anyone who reads this. I have been on a blog hiatus for about 2 and a half months now, mostly because of my crazy schedule. However, I don't like calling that an excuse because I have always been crazy busy and I have always found time to blog in the past two years. What I fear is that I am not sure if my heart is in it anymore.  I have been thinking about my blog a lot in the past two weeks since starting an internship at an off-Broadway theatre in NYC. One of my main projects is that I am part of the team redesigning and redoing their website and blog. I have so many exciting ideas that I want to bring to the table there and it has made me reflect back on my own blog and website design.  I remember first starting my blog and feeling a combination of excitement and bashfulness. I was very insecure that what I wrote, posted, or talked about would be pointless or weird. I thought my quality would be so far behind the gazillion blogs tha...

Hello! So first of all, this is not a sponsored ad or anything like that.  I just wanted to talk about the three products I have from Søciety6 , an online medium that sells the artwork of hundreds of thousands of artists from around the world in the form of merchandise. Søciety6 uses the highest quality materials and ships it to the purchaser on behalf of the artist. My iPhone 4 case is: Vintage Camera I am convinced this case is made of steel. It held up so much potential destruction from the amount of times I had dropped it. It is a very sturdy case and I love the design. I still use this phone as my iPod, but because of water damage, the middle button and LED light are broken, so I got a new phone with my update.  My current iPhone 5s case is: Bill Murray / Steve Zissou This is my current phone case and I am OBSESSED. I watched the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou over winter break and really loved it. I thought getting this case wou...

Source Source Source I'm so busy! Enjoy these photos until I have time to breathe aka write a proper blog post :) 

You know how everyone is always like, "Oh my gosh you studied abroad? Did you travel? Did you have fun? Did you discover yourself? Did you mature in ways you never thought possible? Did you go to Paris? Did you see Big Ben? Did you get lost? Did you meet new people? Did you make amazing friendships that will last forever? Did you eat a lot? Did you even have time to study anything?", and you're just like, "Um yes", and then you scurry away before you are forced to give any details because if you mention ANY memory you might burst into tears because it is just a fading memory and you cannot handle that?  Yeah.  So the title of this post, "TIPS FOR WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN YOUR OWN BED IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND FEEL LIKE YOU'RE HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS" is supposed to sort of let you into my mind right now. I basically have come home from having many adventures "prancing", as my mom likes to call it, around Europe. (I prefer the word ...

Alright so these are the songs defining my January right now. " Sloppy Seconds " - Watsky " I'll Be Good " - Jaymes Young  " Long Way Down "- Robert DeLong " Don't You Find " - Jamie T Honorable mentions from late December: Vance Joy's "Mess is Mine" and Dan Black + Kid Cudi's "Symphonies"   (which has an incredible music video in my opinion) ALSO, I unashamedly am obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien now. I am not only in love with The Lord of the Rings, but The Hobbit as well. These two songs, Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire" and Billy Boyd's "The Last Goodbye" are constantly on repeat when I am in a chill mood, or just feeling extra emotional over my LOTR/Hobbit obsession. These songs are not only beautifully relevant  and made for the movies, but they are actually incredible songs that I would love even if I did not understand the context behind them.  What have you...