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So I’m walking home from class today, and I’m thinking “Ah, you know what would be delicious right now? A tasty Subway sub.” So I walk into my local Subway at 19th & 3rd and order up my favorite item from the Subway menu: the Italian BMT. I load up my toppings, get the value meal (cookies, not chips, fasho) pay, and head home. When I get upstair,s I select an episode of How I Met Your Mother on my TiVo and get ready to indulge in the delicious sandwich that has befallen me. But as I unwrap it and prepare to take my first bite, I notice this huuuge hair inside of the sub.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

Now I have quite a dilemma. Do I just take the hair off and eat it anyway or do I let my germophobe perfectionist self put back on my coat and shoes, and go down to a different Subway to order the same sandwich. I IM David Nathanson, my personal consultant, who tells me, “its just a little hair watch your show eat your sub i’m gonna go get a haircut good day for us both.” He’s right. It’s just a hair. It’s not going to harm me in anyway. It won’t effect the deliciousness of my sub. So I tell him okay, and sign off.

Anyway, when I get down to Subway #2 on 25th & Lex, they don’t even have my favorite herbs & cheeses bread! So I had to get regular white bread, and pay for the same sandwich again. But let me tell you: it was hairless, and it was delicious. The end.

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Well, my Winter Break doesn’t officially end until January 19th, but yesterday I decided that since I miss school so much (no.), I’d see what a class at UCF is really like. Granted, it was the first day, so this class of 500 kids pretty much consisted of the professor (who was somewhat of a dick) going over the syllabus. But I never have classes that big, nor have I ever been to a class at a Florida college, so it was a crazy experience. (Actually, my phone wasn’t working so it was terrible.)

I also spent a good portion of the day roaming around UCF with Jenny. She showed me some of the secret awesome places around here that nobody seems to know about for some reason. (I literally drained my iPhone battery taking pictures so they’ll all be up on Facebook when I get home.)

Then we went to David’s soccer game. That was…. cold. But good! Because it was all Cooper kids playing, hah. A little hypothermia is good for you anyway.

After the soccer game on the frozen tundra turf fields of UCF, we all headed to what is apparently the place to go for pizza in Orlando: Lazy Moon. They have the biggest pizza slices you’ve ever seen in your life. Exhibit A:

And finally, I ended the day by chilling at Emily & Amanda’s apartment, which I think is incredibly nice. They have almost as much space as David’s house, and four bathrooms?! Come on! Then of course Mandy put me to work grating cheese or whatever, and then a lot of people showed up, and then the fire alarm went off. But it all added to the excitement of the party.

Also, there are insane amounts of hot people at UCF. Did I mention that?

Now I’m packing up to head out of here… but I’m not going South back to tha Coop though, nor am I going North back up to New York. See you in a few hours, Gainesville ;)

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I’ve been up here in Orlando for a few days, staying at my friends David, Jack, Lee, and Kim’s four-bedroom house.

This place is so legit. How many 19 year olds do you know that have a house?! With a lawn!? And a jacuzzi!?

I live in a tiny studio apartment with another person… which is nice and all… I mean, it’s in New York City… but for now, I’m living it up on this microfiber couch in the living room.

Orlando has been so much fun, seriously.
Today I spent the day at UCF, and oh yes, you can expect to hear about it tomorrow.

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Wasssssuppp Orlando!?

I’m hanging out here at UCF for a few days staying at David, Lee, Jack & Kim’s house (yes, HOUSE — freakin awesome) aka the Scottafouchenathanberg household. (More on that in an upcoming post.)

We went to go see Youth In Revolt tonight in downtown Orlando, and while I’ve been to UCF plenty of times, tonight was my first time ever going downtown. It has a very New York kind of feel to it just on a much smaller scale, with much less people. Still, it was really nice and this was seriously the sickest movie theater I’ve ever been in. It has, as David likes to describe, “first-class airplane seats” and a full bar… not to mention tickets are only FIVE DOLLARS. A movie costs $12.50 in NYC.

As for the movie, it was good. Not amazing or anything, but good. I’d recommend it.

Finally, I just want to say thanks to everyone who has joined the deandagati.com Facebook fan page! It’s only two days old and already has over 250 members! If this is your first time here, check the post below this one for a little more on what this site is about.

PS. David has a new blog that you should check out: http://davidn31.blogspot.com/

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Yesterday, David showed me this iPhone app called Vint Green that let’s you take pictures that look like they were taken in the 70’s. There are about 72 billion photo related apps for the iPhone and none of them are really that cool, but this one is different: It’s really freakin cool.

Here are some pictures I took at the Flamingo Plaza:

Click “read more” for a couple more pics and have a good new year!

Read more…

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This past week has been beyond busy. With school and finals and packing and doing paperwork for my new job and getting my computer fixed and finishing final projects and using up my meal plan and David visiting, I haven’t had too much time to do things like update my blog or … sleep.

The highlight of this past week though is without a doubt when David and I went to see a taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Granted, the waiting outside in 20 degree temperatures for two hours wasn’t fun (UnderArmor + T-Shirt + Jeans + Hoodie + Coat + Blanket helped) but the studio was insane, and Jon Stewart is even funnier in person. He hangs out with the crowd before and after the show, and Hugh Grant was the guest!

David and I were excited to watch it later on TV in this clearly unstaged picture (photo cred Anna Cincera):

Anyways, I’m back home in the Coop now for a month! What’s up 954!?

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One year ago.

One year ago I was still in the Liberal Studies Program.

One year ago I was taking Cultural Foundations and Environmental Science.

One year ago I was failing tests and writing 10-page papers until my brain exploded.

One year ago my computer crashed and I lost my final paper for Social Foundations.

One year ago I literally went from taking a test, to getting on board a plane, to flying to Florida only to start my winter break by re-writing a paper that I had already written but lost.

But that was a year ago.

Now I’m in Tisch and spend my days doing work that actually interests me, but best of all, it’s all over. Sight & Sound Studio is done. Dramatic & Visual Writing is done. I just have one final to take, one project to do, and I’m home free for Winter Break.

David is coming to NYC next week, and it’s going to be COLD. In fact, it already is cold. 30’s and 40’s mostly, which to Floridians sounds pretty great, but it actually sucks a lot. Especially when I have to walk 20 blocks to class in it.

Easy work? Cold temps? It’s a pretty chill December.

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For the first AWESOME PEOPLE post, I wrote about Alex Levinson, an artsy, creative, beautiful girl. So for this post, I wanted to go with the complete opposite of that: a bland, unoriginal, unattractive guy. AKA, David Nathanson (far right on our Christian Hits album cover).

Okay, okay. That stuff may not exactly be true. Here’s why:

BLAND? If David was bland, I don’t think he’d be my go to guy for corny jokes. Here are some David Nathanson classics:
-What do you get when you mix a shark and a snowman? Frostbite!
-What did the ocean say to the sand? Nothing it just waved!
-What’s half of a tuba? A one-ba!
Harharharrr

UNORIGINAL? If David was unoriginal, would he have made me this incredible ukulele song last year? In fact, would he play the ukulele at all?

UNATTRACTIVE? Now, I don’t necessary find myself attracted to people who… yah know… are the same gender as me, but if I did, this guy would be a fox. Just ask his ex-girlfriends ;)

David’s coming to New York in December and we’re going to go see Jon Stewart live. It’s pretty awesome, just like he’s pretty awesome. I’m looking forward to it. Go read David’s LiveJournal.

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I’ve been talking/complaining about this “I’m In Miami, Bitch” (or as it is known on Y100, “I’m In Miami, Trick”) song for a while now via Facebook statuses and even that last video when I went to Muvico. I think it’s becoming less of a hatred kind of thing and more of a “love to hate it” kind of thing. When it came on my iPod yesterday on shuffle (which I don’t remember ever downloading it, btw) I realized that this song has taken over my life. It’s always stuck in my head… especially the “you’re lookin kinda cute………. (84 minute pause) …….. in that poka dot bikini gurrllll” line, and even my iPod knows that. For the record, I still hate it… but I listened to some other stuff from LMFAO on iTunes today and it’s… eh… mediocre. Not horrible.

On the other hand, I just saw American Beauty for the first time with Amanda and David. (Amanda has this crazy awesome home theater which makes me jealous x50.) I really liked it a lot. We watched a scene from it in class last semester at NYU, and it’s one of those movies that I’ve been meaning to see. Most of you know that I’ve seen surprisingly few movies in my lifetime… especially for being a film student… but I’m starting to get better. Next up: Pulp Fiction or Hannah Montana The Movie? Better not let CathMiran decide that for me…

PS. You’d think I’d like a song that reps my hometown. Thr33 0H F1v

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