My friend Divya sent me this after she saw my tattoo. I thought it was pretty awesome because it gives it another (less) layer of meaning.

Pensez Ici

This is the inspiration behind the title of this blog. I got my second tattoo on January 9th this year, and it reads "Pensez Ici," which is "Think Here" in French. The text breaks into and out of the box so the tattoo represents thinking outside (and inside) the box. It's a little bit of a stretch but I wanted to get something to commemorate my four years at NYU, and came up with the idea sometime during the fall. You can't really tell, but there's mehendi (henna) on my hand from my friend's brother's wedding that was also going on and I thought it was an interesting parallel to capture on camera.

This is a better photo of the mehendi. I guess the photo's a play on permanent vs. temporary, traditional vs. unorthodox/modern (not to say that tattoos are definitively modern, but there's some element of flexibility in those who are pro tattoos); simplistic vs. ornate, etc.

Why blog?

Being in your second semester senior year should be some indication that college life is about to end, but somehow the realization hasn't hit me quite as hard as I need it to. I'm graduating in May and have no idea what I'm going to do after. In my efforts to take stock of my life (I know this statement is a bit grandiose for a 21 year old, but indulge me - I'm clueless), I looked through the classes I've been taking and realized a lot of them are centered around writing. Thus the blog.

I can't say what this blog will feature - I'm not good with categorizing things, my writing included. I can't tell when my fiction becomes fact, and when my fact starts becoming fiction. Genre is a head ache I'm ridding myself of in the hopes of freeing up any and all avenues of thought. Hopefully, this will be a forum for all sorts of expression - prose, poetry, photographs, doodles, music, video (the list is endless). And hopefully, it won't be too self indulgent.