endless excitement for a dreaming girl.

hello all! This have been sooo great lately! I'm finished with work for the week...and boy was it an interesting one. Today I taxied to Chelsea to make a drop-off an artist's gallery...a rather established and interesting artist with a very large studio and a very friendly dog. I thought that was cool...but THEN I was working at my desk when Calvin Klein walked by! Yes THE Calvin Klein. And of course I knew exactly what he looked like and my heart nearly dropped with the sight of a fashion legend a mere inches from my location. Whoa. It was quite a day. 

Last night I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see Annuals in concert. A band called What Laura Says opened for them...they were surprisingly good. It was a really late night...thus explaining why it is almost 8 on a Thursday night and I am basically ready for bed.

I have a very important appointment tomorrow (more details later...maybe). AND Aunt Wendy and Heather are coming into town, so it'll be lots of fun with them...I have lots of plans for places to take them. Saturday will be great too...Loney, Dear show in Brooklyn. Sunday is the SuperBowl! It'll be a good time. 

Oh my, city life is so fun!

apt pics!

So, I have finally uploaded photos of my apartment (I did not, however, include ones of the spare room or of either of the two bathrooms) I love it here. It's so cozy and so totally safe...and there are only 6 units in the building so it's very small. I've actually decided to start looking for a roomate...it might be nice to have someone else around the house...I don't know. I am really just looking for someone I might be friends with/enjoy their company, so we'll see what I find...


This is the lovely hallway...that is the front door to the left and the spare bedroom to the right.
This is my room! You can't tell but there is actually quite a bit of space...a closet and a dresser behind the door.
For anyone who was/is worried about me cooking and eating real food...LOOK! I have been really good about grocery shopping and cooking for myself. Mom, you should be proud.
Little kitchen :)...really only big enough for one person or maybe two really small people.

This is the living room...there's a desk and shelving units on each side of the window which is certainly nice for all of my headband stuff/ useless objects. I just love the exposed brick.


That's all or now :)

this is one crazy place.

There's not much going on right now...but of course that is relative. This weekend I spent some time in Brooklyn, hung out with new friends and reunited with an old one. It was quite nice...and snowy!

It's very busy this week around Interview...and sometimes it's frustrating, but hey, that's the life of an intern. Things just keep on getting crazier in this ridiculous life of mine...I've got lots of plans with weekend. AND my lovely Pittsburgh friend Elke has planned a weekend here with me in February (the weekend of the Noah and the Whale concert!) So I am SO excited. My old friend Celia is back in town now... you can check out the headband inspired by her this week on wearfrolic.com.


SO, Animal Collective played the first show for their new album yesterday, a show that has been sold out for months. They also announced a May 13th show at Terminal 5 yesterday, which means that tickets will be on sale at noon on Friday, which happens to be my busiest day of the week (sooo many appointments!)...so hopefully I can snag one of them...that would be ridiculously exciting.

The other day I was out for a little walk/part time job hunt when I came across the COOLEST shoe store ever. This place is outfitted like a four year olds dream playhouse--oh so whimsical--and is filled with tons and tons of cool shoes by Irregular Choice and Poetic Licence (who happens to make the most comfortable, most fabulous shoes)...both London based brands that are sometimes hard to come by here in the states. As a shoe fanatic, this was the perfect end to a super fun weekend, especially since everything was 40% off! Hooray for shoes!

The Steelers are going to the super bowl. Yes, this is a very exciting thing, especially since us Weavers sure are Steelers fans. It's just kind of hard this year, especially since the last time the Steelers went to the championship we were there with our dad--the biggest Steelers fan I've ever known. For that very reason it was particularly hard to watch the game the other night because I couldn't stop thinking about him and about the things he had said and the way he was so emotional about that experience that we had as a family. Sometimes it's just so hard. I can pretend like it's not and try to let it go for a few minutes so I can live my life, but there are those moment when it's just too much. And it's all just now starting to become real--and I'm here in New York, at this sort of crossroads in my life when under any other circumstances everything in my life would be just about perfect. I still just can't believe it.


...but I'm still here. cool job. lovely apartment. great music ALL THE TIME. nice new shoes. fun friends. Seriously, what could be better?

goodbye for now!

we just want to have a good time.

Boy, has it been one crazy week. Work was fun/hectic/great. I had to help with the set-up and take-down of a photo shoot for MK Olsen. It was amazing to see just how much work goes into getting that one perfect shot of just one person for the cover of a magazine. Yesterday I got to listen to and write notes on some really great unreleased albums (including Animal Collective!), so that was cool. It has all just been so incredibly interesting. The work that I do is seemingly insignificant and perhaps a bit tedious and annoying, but for me it's a glimpse into a world that I'm never seen before.

NYLON requested some headbands/hair pieces for a story they're doing for the March issue on the surrealist art movement...who knows if they'll actually use them, it's a possibility.

SO, now it's Friday and I have four days off. The quest for a fun part-time job continues. I've got some headbands to make for Monday and plans with a handful of people. Tonight I'm going to a Raveonettes/Nickel Eye concert that should be terrific. I'm very excited.

It's funny, even though I have four days off it still seems like I'm really busy. Maybe that's only because I make myself busy.

That's all for now :)

first weekend = a success

hello there.

Today is Monday, which means day off, for now at least. I survived my first weekend here... and it was quite an eventful one. My good friend, Miss Isabel came to visit for the day on Saturday. It was quite a day, we had brunch at a fabulous little place right off Bowery and then shopped around SoHo for the day. She is also my headbander of the week right now, you can check her our on wearfrolic.com.

After four days of exploration, nights out, good music and endless walking, I'm looking forward to going to work tomorrow. Life is good. 

Anyway...I'm posting on accordingtocaroline.com today also. 

the perfect day.

Today is Friday, and the perfect winter day in New York City. The sun is shining, it's cold enough for all of my favorite warm winter garb and I have the entire day to explore.

I've been here for about five days, and considering that I've worked until 6pm the past three days, this is really my first opportunity to scope out the land, live like a local and meet people outside of work and the subway. Oh how blissful it is.

My new favorite place, the B-Cup Cafe (my current location at this very moment) is perhaps less than fifty feet from my front door and the perfect place for cheap coffee, excellent music and good looking people. I'm starting to really love it here in my neighborhood...and this is only the beginning. Yes, I'm an annoying distance from the major subway lines, but I am in the epicenter of thriving, talented, artsy type people quite like myself. It's just so strange to me that this is it. I've worked for so long to achieve this and for the past four years it was merely a dream that seemed a bit out of reach.

This still feels like a vacation, however false that may be. Of course I miss my friends back in Ohio, but it's truly a very small world and they have not disappeared from my life in any respect at all. This weekend should be terrific. It's time to have some fun, meet people and enjoy the city from a fresh local perspective.

I just want everyone to know that I am doing tremendously although the events of the past month have been a roller coaster of change in my life, I am fine, at least for the time being, and for now, it seems that things can only get better.

the sun shines in new york city

So...it turns out that New York City is just as tremendous as I had expected it to be. Today is my second day at Interview Magazine, a place that I have quickly developed a fondness for.

This place is the epitome of cool, at least in my mind. The walls are obnoxiously colorful. The people are interesting, cultured and friendly. Although I am merely an intern, this job is important to me. It seems that the magazine world is not quite what I expected it to be, nor how it is portrayed on television. Truly, the creation of a magazine is like the ultimate group project.

The apartment is starting to look more like home. It is small, old and quaint and quite frankly, just about all an 18 year old intern could ask for. Tonight I'm heading out to buy a few things for the place. This week, for me, is really about getting adjusted and finding my own way. I need to get settled in, feel comfortable with my job and get used to the city before I can enjoy it the way I should...but that certainly won't take long.

...time to get back...I'm quite busy these days.