ESG Investing in Upper Manhattan

How I romanticize studying & 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

The only way I’m able to get through my ESG investing readings is by listening to this playlist. 

I romanticize I’m older, living in a brownstone in Uptown Manhattan. I’m wearing the Panthère de Cartier watch. I’ve perfected the no-makeup makeup look. There are a couple of kids dressed in Ralph Lauren teddy bear sweaters running around the kitchen island and stairs. It’s November or December, so the house is decorated accordingly with thanks to my friends who just so happen to be interior designers. Holiday garland lines the stair railing and a train set choo-choo’s around the Christmas tree skirt. The hardwood flooring is cold, but the furnaces and fireplaces are on. Subgenres of jazz are playing constantly on the record player. The most modern artists we have in our collection are Adele and Laufey. I’m probably a businesswoman or lawyer. All my clothes somehow fit me perfectly. I have enough disposable income to use services like a dry cleaner every week and tailor. This is how I get through life, tbh.

While walking back home from class a couple of weeks ago, Olivia told me I dress like a Spanish exchange student. Lol. Dress for the life you want, I suppose. I forget not everyone had like an adolescent, life-changing moment of finding the “French girl” side of Pinterest that ultimately catapulted them into a world of YouTube fashion videos, capsule wardrobes, and Alexa Chung articles on personal style.

Right now in New York City, it’s peak fall foliage. I wish I could be there this week to experience it, but I have great things happening where I am. Opportunities that people used to ridicule me for talking about too much. It’s funny how fast life plays out in just under a year!

My dad (second from the right) with his brothers, cousins, and friends. I want to recreate this picture someday.

“This is literally the worth time to be going down a Past Lives spiral. You don’t need to be thinking about NY rn.” -Elizabeth

1989 (Taylor’s Version)

I learned this week that my friends think of my lore when listening to music??? This is getting out of hand.

I wish I could pull quotes, but I relate to too many lines from this album to the point where it would be 1. Excessive to paste & 2. Annoying that I even relate to that many lines. 

“If she's got blue eyes, I will surmise that you'll probably date her

You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor

You search in every model's bed for something greater

Baby, was it over when she laid down on your couch?

- “Is it Over Now” (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)

“I cannot be your friend, so I pay the price of what I lost

And what it cost

Now that we don't talk”

- “Now That We Don’t Talk” (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)

Girls, if he is treating you in a way that has you listening to playlists titled along the lines of “the other woman” or “got cheated on (Taylor’s Version), DROP HIM NOW. 

How dumb must you be to get into crypto? No offense, but…

TTYL!

- Viv ❀