If I don’t respond to that instagram DM right away, please take heart in knowing I’m most likely one hour deep into a three hour reading session by my digital Netflix fireplace.

I booked another NYC modeling gig! How?! Well the creative director told me she loved a video I made on instagram! She said "we love your energy, it's so natural and fun, and we thought, we HAVE to have this girl on set! We replayed your video like 20 times."

Am I having fun? The answer, after 24 years of life, is still yes.

First agent. First NYC film. First Hudson River hiking trip.

All the hippy-dippy mumbo-jumbo inner truth journey yadayada I’ve been doing all these months.

I’ve assumed the cool, determined expression of pedestrian city folk I used to wear in Chicago. This rhythm and attitude came back to me as naturally as breathing. I’ve never lived in this city, yet I know it well.