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It’s funny, David and I were just reminiscing about high school yesterday, and today I’m pretty sure I spent a day in high school.

This morning, on the bus, I was standing by this Junior girl who was talking about her roommate. The conversation went a little something like this…

Girl #1: I don’t know, I just don’t understand her.
Girl #2: What grade is she in?

K, pause right there. “Grade?” Who says that? 14th Grade? Continue…

Girl #1: She’s a sophomore. And she acts like a sophomore too, like, we’ll be talking about something and she’ll start bragging about a party she was at…

Oh really, Girl #1? Only sophomores do that? Your birthdays are probably 3 months apart.

Anyway, so I get to class, which is when my day became less high school like and more 3rd Grade like. It’s a history class, and my professor walked in dressed in clothes appropriate to the century that we were talking about — wig and all. Lol, seriously? It was cool though, it provided some entertainment for about 5 seconds.

Then I went to Intro to 3D Animation and suddenly I was back in college. Hate Mondays.

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I’m all for implementing technology into the classroom, or whatever. But making a homework assignment due online every Sunday at 4? Come on! Especially today, it’s Super Bowl Sunday! What is the world coming to?

That is all.

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NYU hooks us up with really cheap tickets to all these New Yorker kind of events like Broadway shows and tickets to sporting events and concerts. They were how I was able to go to that Yankees game last year.

While I don’t really consider myself a fan of basketball (in fact, I’m a bigger fan of the Miami Heat than I am of the Knicks) last night I went to a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden.

First of all, it was just cool being at the Garden. How many amazing people have performed there? Billions? I had also never been inside the actual area. Our NYU orientation was there, but it was in the WaMu theater, not the main arena. I went with my roommate, Dylan, and we actually walked there. That’s how close it is to the dorm. Pretty cool.

Anyway, it was really a lot of fun. The Knicks lost, big surprise, but the arena was packed with fans. I was surprised, but hey, nothing wrong with that. The coolest part though was when they announced that CC Sabathia was at the game and showed him on the big screen. The place ERUPTED. Bigger cheers that the Knicks got all night, lol. I was even wearing my Yankees hoodie so it was all good.

Finally, just a note to anyone planning on going to a Knicks game (or any sporting event in New York City): don’t wear a Red Sox hat, or you will get boo’d out of the stadium ;)

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I don’t think I have quite enough readers for this to work well yet, but I’m going to give it a try anyway. I’m starting this new recurring blog post (like awesome people) called “SHARE YO MUSIC.” Each volume, I’ll post a song that I find particular good for you to listen to and download, then in the comments you all can post a good song that you’re listening to right now. Any song, by any artist, in any genre works!

The first song I want to do is…
RIDIN’ SOLO by JASON DERULO
To listen:

To download:
Click here.

I actually first heard this song the other night when somebody posted it on somebody else’s Facebook wall at like 2 in the morning. Lurk that I am, I listened to it, and have listened to it about 15 times since then. I really like Jason Derulo.

If you disapprove of this song and/or Jason Derulo, post something better! Feel free to post using a fake name if you don’t want the world to know about your Miley Cyrus obsession.

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Ughhhhhhhh I hate change.

Where does Facebook find the time to change everything, all the time, when half the features on the site don’t even work like they should!?

However, now that I’ve said that, this change is actually kind of nice. It’s so much more organized. Friend requests, messages, and notifications are all in one place up there by the Facebook logo. But what I don’t understand is: why am I the only one who has this?

Click on the screenshot to see it full size.

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My sister was in town this past weekend so we were hittin’ up some of NYC’s tourist destinations when we came across Dylan’s Candy Bar, what Opera calls a “must see destination” (so you know it’s legit).

This place literally has every kind of chocolate and candy you could imagine. With everything from candy bars to chocolate fountains to fill a bag worth of random candy and then weigh it to pay for it, Dylan’s Candy Bar is the place to go for delicious treats (Valentines Day, anyone?). Oh, and speaking of delicious treats, I also had my first Pinkberry experience this weekend!

Pinkberry is exclusively in New York and California (although it’s coming to Miami later this year, isn’t everything?) and I’m not sure but I think it was the start of this whole frozen yogurt craze goin’ down right now. I had never been there before because I didn’t think I’d like frozen yogurt, but after my Menchies & Lutz (which is modeled EXACTLY after Pinkberry, btw) adventures over Winter Break I figured it was time to try it out… and it’s pretty great, not gunna lie (it’s also two blocks from my door, so that’s nice too).

Click on “read more” for some pics inside of Dylan’s.

PS. Pomegranate with chocolate chips, in case you were wondering ;)

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Today, the website on which you are reading these words achieved a pretty incredible accomplishment. With just 5 days to go until it’s one-year birthday, today, deandagati.com received it’s ten thousandth hit.

In the last few months, the popularity of this site has skyrocketed. While it’s probably because of the free t-shirt contests, it still means so much to me that all of you are willing to come to deandagati.com and read (or watch!) about my life (or even wear my name on your chest!).

The hits do not count my own (otherwise we’d be at like 20k by now hah), and the majority come from Florida, but there has been increased traffic coming from New York and several other states around the country.

Thanks again to everyone who has supported me, and this website over the past 11 months!

LET’S ALL GET SHWASTED!

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How insane were the Grammys last night!?

I’m not really to into award shows, in general. They are extremely long and incredibly boring. Sure, I’ve seen a few MTV award shows in my day… I was watching when Kanye didn’t let Taylor finish. But the bigger shows like the Oscars and the Grammys and whatever other 9,000 award shows there are don’t usually interest me.

It was my roommate who said “Aren’t the Grammys on tonight?” that even made me turn on the TV, and I’m glad I did because that show was SICK. Did they even give out any awards? I think I saw like two. The performances made the show by far. Let’s do a poll! (lol, these are fun.)

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Also, just for the record. I’m HAPPY freakin’ Lady Gaga didn’t win album of the year. There was some uproar about it on Facebook last night. I believe Taylor Slingerland told me to “go die in a ditch we arent friends anymore” when I shared my opinion with him. But even though Gaga went to NYU, she’s creepy and I hate her. Go t-swizzle.

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My sister is in New York this weekend so we’ve been out doing some touristy things. I’ve been in the Macy’s at Herald Square once before, and sure it was large and all, but I maybe saw an 80th of it. This is THE Macy’s. The Macy’s that the Thanksgiving Parade revolves around. The Macy’s that’s been in New York since 1902. The largest store in the world.

Let me try to break this down for anyone who has never been there.

We walked in. And there were ties. Ties, everywhere. Ties as far as the eye could see. After walking for what felt like a mile, we reached purses. Every brand, and every style you could ever imagine.

Macy’s takes up an entire city block. It’s 11 floors and has four Starbucks. It also has a sit down restaurant, an Antie Anne’s, a McDonalds, a pizza place, a Godiva chocolate shop, and more places to eat. It feels like, and in most respects is, a full on mall.

If you’ve never been, you’ve gotta check this place out.

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We are now two weeks into second semester and it’s time for my “here’s what I’m taking this semester” post that rambles on for much longer than it should. LET’S DO IT! YAY

So my original plan for this semester was to take a light course load, so that I’d have time to put in lots of hours at my new job (working as a TA in the NYU TV Studios). Problem is, I haven’t started working yet (that’s next week), but the homework is already starting to pile up.

I’m not taking a production class this semester, so unfortunately, I won’t be making any new film or tv productions until September 2010.

Here’s what I’m taking:

Writing The Short Screenplay (Writing Credit): This class is pretty much exactly like the Screenplay class I took last semester. It just focuses on writing short scripts that we can produce in later advanced production classes. I’m taking the same teacher I took last semester because, like she admitted on the first day, tears us apart when we write, but gives everybody A’s.

Intro to 3D Animation (Craft Credit): I’ve only been to this class once so far, but it is already beyond me. It’s really, really cool, but we use suchhh a complex program. It’s called Autodesk Maya, it costs several thousand dollars and it’s what they used for Avatar. My teacher is good but he sometimes forgets to tell us the shortcuts that he’s using which makes his directions difficult to follow. I like him though. He’s nice and understanding of the fact that we’ve never used this program before and have no idea what the difference between “grouping” and “parenting” is. Our homework on the first class was to make a 3D solar system in which the planets and moons can all rotate independently but also revolve around the sun. Here’s mine:

Hollywood Auteurs (History & Criticism Credit): Out of all the history & crit classes, I’ve heard that this one is the best. We literally just go in once a week, watch a movie, talk about it for a little bit and ditch. No homework. No papers. Pure awesome.

New York City Social History (GenEd Credit): This class. This is the class that’s going to kill me this semester. We are required to take a certain amount of GenEd classes that don’t relate to your major, so I picked this one because it sounded somewhat interesting, which it is, it’s just so much work. We have millions of pages of reading to do every week and then we have a discussion recitation class in which we have to talk about it in small groups…. not to mention submit a summary on Blackboard online… and write papers… and take tests. Sweet.

All in all, it’s really not a lot of class, but once I start my job my free time to do homework isn’t going to be as readily available as it is now. Still, I think it’s going to be a good semester.

Let’s do a poll!

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