Shopping in San Francisco yesterday, success. Yes, let it be known that this is the real motive of coming back to California, friends and family be damned.

My favorite purchase (other than my boots), however, is my random bird cage from Ross I got for $10. I now sits in my window and makes me happy every time I look at it.

This is because I saw giant birdcages with ruffle ostriches peeking into them at Anthropology [where all those who shopped at UO go when they turn 30 and are willing to pay 5x that for a shapeless shirt that they could should only wear if they were 3x less fat] and that made me want a bird cage.

Have also been getting quite ridiculously tired of F21 (gasp!) because of their shod quality and clothes that disintegrate within 5 washes in freezing cold water. Can’t get over the fact that I can pay in the mid-$30s for a decent pleather imitation (haha, yes, I know what I’m saying) of an awesomely ripped-up jacked. Mine is in plum.

Speaking of Urban Outfitters, though: $39 jeans sale! Yeah, I’ll shop at Antropology when I’m 30.

Arden B.’s sales people didn’t match their clothes. Amusement abound. Their little cousin Wet Seal had some major understaffment issues and confusingly set up sales rack containing non-sale items, like awesome gray/shiny jeans that I would only pay 50% less for since they obviously snag and break easily, case and point by the snagging of the product in hand. So instead got the Most Confusing Jeans in the World in that the most Real they have going for them is the button and the back pockets. Eat that, $40 jean leggings advertised by Anthropology

Think will ask for Doc Martens for birthday since my cheap (but awesome) combat boots are dying from salt erosion thanks to stupid East Coast weather & the insipid practice it incubates known as salting the roads aka killing my shoes.

Happy 2010!

Did the touristy last night and went to Rockefeller Center to see the tree.

Hanging out with the giant Nutcrackers.

Radio City Music Hall

We have these in SF around the holiday time too.

I got these adorable houndstooth earmuffs from a tiny costume jewelry boutique for $5.

Supposedly the tree was supposed to be giant, but apparently I had my expectations raised exorbitantly through hearsay because I honestly didn’t find it as impressive as hearsay had me believe. And it was colorful; enough so that I would dare say it would look better in my home in the Bronx (definitely garish and colorful enough for E. Fordham Road).

Also dropped by Union Square Holiday Bazaar, but it was too cold and the prices too high for poor college students like me.

You can definitely feel the cold winter chill now in New York City.

Matt Damon at the end of a day's shooting.

My school’s been featured in quite a few movie filmings lately, the most recent two being Wall Street 2 (featuring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas) last month and The Adjustment Bureau (Matt Damon) just today. For both, the production agencies offered the opportunity for students to apply as Extras, and mostly because I needed money, I tried my luck at the latter one. Amazingly, I got a reply 2 hours after I sent in my picture.

The extras gathered to cheer on the campaigning senator who Damon plays.

So this morning I haul my ass up after 4 hours of sleep at 5am to meet the call time of 5:45 dressed in more colorful winter finery than I would have chosen for myself naturally. 10 hours later after all parts of me have lost feeling and gone numb, we wrap.

Moral of the day? Dress warmly and understand that Extra-ing is the tedious task of standing around. There’s no glamor to it, even if you are essentially paid as human fodder.