Alright, alright. I know I’ve been awfully naughty about keeping you posted about Nellie’s grand and wild adventures in New York-land. I am thoroughly to blame for this mis-step; you see, I’ve been running amok doing my best to see as much of New York City as I possibly can. It dawned on me not a few weeks ago that the clock is ticking in regards to how much time I have left (or lack of time thereof) as a student doing an Urban Semester. With that realization, my face took on the charming gelatinous consistency of pudding (something along these lines 
) and I very quickly came to the understanding that I must cram as much sightseeing into as little time as was physically possible.
Before I continue, friends, I feel that I should come clean with you. In case you haven’t figured it out by now (in fact, if you hadn’t, I’d be a bit concerned), Nellie and myself are very much the same person. Though I may continue to conversate with you by referring to myself in the third person on occasion for the remainder of my posts, it can get bloody confusing switching “characters” while trying to give you, friend, the most comprehensive, fantastical idea of just what I’m up to while in this magical City.
So. Now that we’ve cleared that up, moving on…
One such grand escapade I’ve gone on since my last musing was to the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Our drawing professor, Stephanie Snider, decided that since our next project would be focusing on using paper – be it bent, cut, or colored – as a media to create a work that tells a story, it would be terribly appropriate to visit a current exhibition there, “Slash: Paper Under the Knife.”
Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to take pictures inside, but quite fortunately I managed to stumble across some pictures on the World Wide Internet of a few of the works that weren’t embedded in nonsense like Adobe slideshows:
By: Noriko Ambe
“Flat File Globe 3A Red Version” (2007)
By: Pietro Ruffo
“Youth of the Hills” (2008)
I’ve included some lovely shots taken by yours truly of the exterior of the museum, as well as the surrounding Columbus Circle:
Student Greg Funk and Professor Snider deep in conversation about pigeons (actually, I have no idea what they were talking about, but pigeons is as good as any other topic)
Sarah Sanders, BFA ’12, smiles cheekily. Perhaps she knew the wondrous pieces that lay in store for the rest of us?
The front of MAD (which is what I was upon finding out that I couldn’t take pictures inside)
My, what pretty buildings. Pretty tall, that is!! Womp womp. Thank you, I’ll be here til May; try the veal!
Ahoy! I spy…Columbus!
And a few pictures from my own private Idaho….I mean, outings into the unknown of NYC
Some lovely buildings downtown, right by the Woolworth building (which is, incidentally, considered by many to be the first skyscraper in New York)
The Met
St. Mark’s Church – ironically, not on St. Mark’s Place. You know what they say, that New York humor…
Even the Statue of Liberty gets a little frazzled sometimes. Maybe she should invest in a fanny pack, eh?
Alright. Now that I’ve thoroughly exhausted you with pictures you’re probably bemoaning the fact that I even decided to update you on my rather bustling life as a city girl, I’ll take my leave. And I promise, friend, that I’ll frequent you with a plethora of delightful ventures in the next few months. For after all, there is still so much city to see, and if I want to see nearly much as I hope to, I better get my derriere moving.