Dean D'Agati (dotcom)

Today has been the WEIRDEST day.

The plan for today was to take my mid-term, and go to work… I guess both of those things did happen, but in the midst of a very strange turn of events.

The day started with me waiting for the bus. My class is 20-25 blocks from my dorm, so I usually take the NYU bus in the morning and walk home in the afternoon. The bus was really late though, which normally wouldn’t be a problem, but I had a mid-term today, and I didn’t want to be late, so I decided to grab a cab.

Luckily, I got one quick, but the driver wasn’t some Indian dude named Hassan (lol, stereotypes), but rather an old Jewish lady. She was hilarious and was so interested in my life, but she drove like an old lady, and I was in a rush. She saw an ad for a MTV’s The Buried Life on the side of a bus and told me how strange the question “What do you want to do before you do?” is, hah.

So we get down to 9th Street on 2nd Ave, when she tries to cross over to 3rd Ave… BUT NO. There is a random parade/mob/riot/protest about freedom in Tibet or something?! It was ridiculous. As punny cab lady put it: “Don’t they know you have an exam to take!? If only it was raining so it would rain on their parade.”

After about 5 minutes of sitting in PARK, I gave up, paid the lovely Jewish women who told me to have a nice flight tomorrow, yeah, she knew all about me, and rushed to take my mid-term.

When I finished (failing it), I checked my phone to see that today is jetBlue’s 10th Birthday and that they will be hiding out in different parts of Manhattan giving out 1,000 free plane tickets. I WANT IN. I only had an hour and fifteen minutes to get lunch and be at work, but when I saw that jetBlue was downtown, I hopped on the subway to try to find them.

The tweet they posted said: “We’re at Broadway & Dey St. Find us and bring a birthday card for JetBlue!”

When I got out of the Subway at the City Hall station, I started walking toward the nearest Duane Reade to buy a birthday card when who walks by me? MAYOR BLOOMBERG! Like, our shoulders were about 2 inches apart at one point. It was so cool. Totally made up for the fact that I did not win a free jetBlue ticket, but the story continues…

So I walk into Duane Reade, and as soon as I do, some guy runs up behind me goes to the cashier and yells, “Do you guys sell birthday cards!?” I looked at him and was just like “jetBlue?” and he was like “Yep.” Once I had picked out a card and was waiting in line, I heard people in front of me on their phones saying “NO, THEY’RE OUT OF TICKETS?!”

I went down to Broadway and Dey anyway, and jetBlue wasn’t there, but there were hundreds of confused people roaming around with a cell phone in one hand and a birthday card in another. My guess is they didn’t see Mayor Bloomberg today though, so, I win ;)

Turns out the next location they went to was University & 12th which is RIGHT by NYU… but I was at work so I couldn’t even try to show up. It’s all good though, I already have a jetBlue ticket to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow at 7pm. SEE YOU SOON 954!

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This morning, I woke up to a phone call at 7:00am. Normally, I hate when phone calls wake me up since they are usually a recorded message telling me I’ve won a free 3-day, 4-night all-inclusive trip to the Orlando resort area, but this time was different. This time, it was a call from NYU alerting me that all classes today have been cancelled and that the University is closed. SNOW DAY NUMBER 2!

I was supposed to work today, though. I kind of wanted the hours since I only get 4 a week, but whatever.

It’s still snowing outside. We’ve gotten over 20 inches so far, which is ridiculous. All kinds of record breaking.

Here are some pics I took today and yesterday. I didn’t go out in it this time. I’m ready for Spring, yo. Click for full size.

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Today in my Hollywood Auteurs class we watched Marie Antoinette. It’s a pretty chill class because pretty much every week, we watch a movie, and then spend a little time discussing it afterward.

Today’s class started off the same way it normally does: my teacher came in late, and we watched the movie. I had never seen it before, and it was pretty good, but when it was over, my teacher turns on the lights, comes to the front of the class and says (in his heavy Italian accent): “Okay so today we are going to discuss Marie Antoinette, with the editor of the movie.”

Turns out Sarah Flack, the editor of Marie Antoinette, was sitting in the back of the room the whole time, and she told us about the experience and took questions. Sarah has edited some LEGIT movies too like Away We Go, Dan in Real Life, and Lost in Translation.

She was really nice and I’m glad she came. Her newest movie, Somewhere, comes out later this year so look out for that.

Also, NYU Tisch Film class of 2014 & CCHS class of 2010 student, Nicole Payton, and I went on a little adventure in the snow today. Sweet.

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I have some big news.

Starting in September of 2010, I will officially be a resident of New York, and will have a permanent address in Manhattan. In September of 2010, I will be getting an apartment.

IT’S HAPPENING!!!!

I’m sure you have a lot of questions like:
-What kind of apartment?
-Where will it be?
-Will you live by yourself?
-Will you live with roommates?
-When do you move in?

I don’t have answers to any of those questions yet. All I know is that I’m getting an apartment next year in New York City, probably the East Village. Let the search begin.

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(…and by man I mean child who gets to work 4 hours a week for hardly more than minimum wage.)

Yesssssss, I finally started as a Studio TA this past Friday. It’s actually a really sick job because I basically just hang out in the Tisch 12th Floor TV Studios and help the kids if they have any problems.

Speaking of problems (how’d you like that transition?), I have one of my own. I took a (sort of) easy semester this semester (no production class) so that I’d have plenty of time to work, but I only got four hours a week. Every Friday from 8:45-12:45. It’s fine, I mean, it’s something, I just would have liked a little more.

Either way, it’s 8 bucks an hour, and hopefully next semester/year I’ll be able to pick up some more hours and get more $$$$$$$$$.

Hey, deandagati.com hoodie giveaway this Sunday night. Just saying.

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I live in Gramercy Green right now. The nicest dorm at NYU. How did that happen? Because for some reason, sophomores get first pick of dorms. Seniors get second pick, and Juniors get last, so basically as a Junior next year, I’m screwed. (Freshmen have their own dorms.)

Honestly, I’m so done with dorm living. While I’ve been really lucky and had some really good roommates over the past year and a half, I just don’t like having a roommate. I want my own room… not to mention that as a Junior, I would be thrown in the shi…. um, crappiest dorms that you could ever imagine.

If I want to live on campus next year, I need to put down $1,000 by February 25th. But that’s just it. I don’t want to put that money down because I don’t want to live on campus. I want an apartment. My mom, however, is not feeling this because she thinks it’s going to cost too much money, not be safe, etc. (I can’t insult her on here because I’m pretty sure she reads my blog. Hi, mom.)

I’m having some problems though. Just about all of my best friends are either trying to become an RA, living in NYU housing, or already have plans elsewhere. So where do I live? Who do I live with? Can I get my own room?

All these needs to be figured out by the 25th, even though I can’t start apartment hunting until a month or so before I actually want to move in, which is in September.

Does anyone have any advice for me? =(
(deandagati@nyu.edu if you don’t want to post it on here)

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I grew up in Florida, so I grew up with hurricane days. While hurricane days were nice because we got a few days off of school, what was I supposed to do go play in the puddles electrified from down power lines? Not to mention power outages & major structural damage…

Today, was my first ever SNOW DAY! The last time that NYU actually cancelled school for snow was in 1998, so this is an extremely rare occurrence. Last year we had a blizzard that I actually did go to class in — never again.

I went to Madison Square Park today (pictured above) where people of all ages were out building snowmen, and chillin in the 10+ inches of snow. I even made my own mini snowman:

It’s still snowing out there… is it possible that school could be cancelled tomorrow too? Probably not, but I can dream.

More pics and vids lataaa.

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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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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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