The Liminal Juilliard 4th Floor Experience

Daya needs a small grocery supplement to the Juilliard meal plan, due to (good) changes in her habits and (not-as-good) changes in the dining hall.

So I went to Costco for tuna and protein bars and headed over to deliver everything tonight.

I also stopped by H Mart and got her favorite kimchi.

So she should be set for a while, til October maybe.

She was in rehearsal until 9:15 so I waited in the lobby.

Juilliard is a very special place and I contemplated the miracle of her being there.

It's quite amazing.

I don't understand how we managed to get her into Juilliard, but for my own life some things that should seem.... well, a hell of a lot easier than getting into Juilliard... fall flat. 

I need some miracles in my own life, too........

She appeared after rehearsal.

Dance is on the third floor, so we went there.

She keeps things in the dance lockers.

This is making a lot more sense now than it did at the end of last year, when she stored all her dorm stuff in the dance lockers. I was wondering how that worked.

The (very large) dance lockers are in a (very nice) locker room/backstage area dedicated to dance.

There are a lot of them, they aren't assigned, and if there is a lock on them no one bothers with it.

No one cares.

She got a few locks and claimed lockers.

They have been her summer dorm storage and now I guess one is her food pantry.

Daya is scrappy like that; it's quite brilliant.

I would do the same thing.

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After stashing her non-perishables in dance lockers, she said I needed the "liminal 4th floor experience".

I have already been everywhere on all the Juilliard floors a few times, but it's always cool being there so I was glad to get lost on the 4th floor.

And we did.

The 4th floor is drama and many, many practice rooms.  It's a square-ish shape, but also a maze, and everyone is in the practice rooms.  They can't hear each other (I don't think) but anyone in the hallway can hear everyone all at once. It's a bit surreal.

It's like this weird video game except you're lost for real instead of virtually.

Complete with a weird soundtrack!

And it really does sound weird!

I should have taken pics of the 4th floor but I did not.

Photography is not permitted inside Juilliard, but I could have still done it I guess.

Also we were too busy getting lost.

Eventually we found the elevators and escaped.

I'm glad she's doing well, and I'm glad she's now well-stocked on good protein.