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Divergent“In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.”

Insurgent“One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.”

I’ve gained 3 subscribers in the past few weeks. Brings me joy. Thank you, whoever you are. :)

I was not a fan of this trilogy. After the first book, I felt the story left me hanging. So I kept on reading to the second and third book but after I finished the series I still feel lost.

-What’s your favorite art piece?_{attach a picture}
-Who’s your favorite artist?
-Do you consider graffiti art?

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

-Eckhart Tolle

“Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can’t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn’t hurt him and he doesn’t have an unquenchable lust for blood. Gene is a human, and he knows the rules. Keep the truth a secret. It’s the only way to stay alive in a world of night—a world where humans are considered a delicacy and hunted for their blood.

When he’s chosen for a once in a lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him. He’s thrust into the path of a girl who makes him feel things he never thought possible—and into a ruthless pack of hunters whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. Now that Gene has finally found something worth fighting for, his need to survive is stronger than ever—but is it worth the cost of his humanity?”

My boyfriend told me to read this, along with many others books I will post. I still have to read the second book The Prey.

Just need to post the books I have read so far this year. I just did a search on dystopian books and stumbled across Starters. I read through it very quickly and enjoyed it.

“In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers her renter plans to do more than party-her body will commit murder, if her mind can’t stop it. Sixteen-year-old Callie lost her parents when the genocide spore wiped out everyone except those who were vaccinated first—the very young and very old. With no grandparents to claim Callie and her little brother, they go on the run, living as squatters, and fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. Hope comes via Prime Destinations, run by a mysterious figure known only as The Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to seniors, known as enders, who get to be young again. Callie’s neurochip malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her rich renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, even dating Blake, the grandson of a senator. It’s a fairy-tale new life . . . until she uncovers the Body Bank’s horrible plan. . . .”

-What’s the most fun job you’ve had?
-What’s the worst and/or most boring job you’ve had?
-What’s your worst work moment?
-What’s your proudest work moment?

My grace period has ended for my first loans(subsidized(a) and unsubsidized(b)). I made my first official payment (I made two mini payments before). My next loan-C kicks in in a few months.

Loan A – $23,000
Loan B – $13,300
Loan C – $7,500

Total Debt: $43,700

I’m very responsible when it comes to making payments between my credit cards and school loans, I always pay way before the due date. If I can, I pay more then the minimum. I still want to attend grad school which obviously will increase my loans.

“On Saturday, May 4, 2013, the Shorewalkers will hold the 28th annual Great Saunter—a 32-mile walk around Manhattan’s rim.”

I love walking although it’s something I’ve been doing less every year. For years I’ve been wanted to walk the rim of Manhattan then I found this group the Shorewalkers that does it the first Saturday of every May. This year I’ll finally go. I will bring a camera, document it and share some pictures here.

iO Tillett Wright – Fifty Shades of Gay

“Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination: Where do you draw the line? (Filmed at TEDxWomen.)

As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned her shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think she was a boy. As a teenager, she fell in love with both women and men. Her life in the grey areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform her work as an artist.”

$0.86 – Ajax
$4.61 – Mocha Iced Latte
$3.00 – Beef Patty & Garlic Knots

Todays Total : $8.47

Month’s Total: $62.06

June 5th

0.00

June 6th

$6.68 – Gallon of Milk & 2 lbs of Sugar

Month’s Total : $53.59

June 3rd
$0.00

June 4th
$2.16 – Vanilla Chai from Dunkin Donuts

Month’s Total : $46.91

$2.25 – Cheese Fries
$10.00 – Metrocard

Spent the majority of my morning and afternoon at home. My friend came over to visit me, I ate a little. At night, my other friend is a bassist in a band, they performed in a bar, so we went to see his show. My friends brought me drinks and food :)

Today’s Total: $12.25
Months Total: $44.75

There’s quite a few street artist in NYC who make these. I decided to give it a try at home, I made these all in April 2012.

A drawing I did of Ben Riley’s Symbiote Spiderman.
10.5×14 inches – 04.18.12

A drawing I did 03.31.12. This is not an original (meaning I didn’t draw it from the top of my head but it is NOT traced!) It’s from a video game called Kingdom Hearts that I use to play some years back.

$2.50 – Chinese Rice
$30.00 – Applebee’s Restaurant

Total= $32.50

-How long have you known your best friend?
-How’d you meet your best friend?