Taylor Davidson Mystory

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New Girl v. New Boy: Reoccurring Characters

Alex Nelson--> Brett Dier

Sam Sweeny--> Alexandra Daddario 

Robyn--> Heather Morris

Raegan Lucas--> Chace Crawford

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Clyde’s Bar; Los Angeles, California (New Girl v. New Boy) : This is the bar Nick works at/manages and later CeCe will also join by becoming a bartender when modeling slows down. A lot of the show takes place here.

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New Girl apartment 4B v. New Boy Apartment 4B: Pictured above is the common area, kitchen, bathroom and Jess/Jesse’s room-- Both located in Los Angeles

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Staring Kyla Pratt as Erin “Coach” Tagliaboo! Coach is the fourth roommate to inhabit apartment 4B. While Coach doesnt stay for long, she has been friends with Nicki, Schmidt, and Westlyn for a while now. Coach got her nickname because she is a personal trainer and known to work her clients into shape. 

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Staring Theo James as Cesar “CeCe” Parekh! Cesar is Jesse’s best friend and better known as a fashion model. CeCe is very self opinionated and always finds girls throwing themselves at him. He eventually ends up falling for Jesse’s roommate, Schmidt. In the last season, they get married and get their own house together. 

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Staring Amber Riley as... Westlyn Bishop! Westlyn moves in after returning back to Los Angeles after performing as the lead role in a show in Latvia. Although she loves to sing, she prefers to do it as a hobby and becomes a police officer instead, which is where she meets her boyfriend Alex. Westlyn is also obsessed with her cat Ferguson and is constantly talking about him. 

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Staring Kat Dennings as... Sara Schmdit! Sara’s roommates refer to her mainly by her last name, Schmidt. Schmidt is super self absorbed and connected with her Jewish roots. Schmidt is forced by her roommates to keep a “Bitch Jar”, which she must put in money any time she is being too self absorbed or mean. Schmidt eventually ends up falling in love with Jesse’s model best friend, Cesar AKA CeCe. 

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Staring Aubrey Plaza as... Nicki Miller! Nicki is one of Jesse’s new roommates and will later on become a love interest. Nicki has a very dry sense of humor and takes pride in her laziness. She also works at the local bar, Clyde’s. In later seasons Nicki will publish a “fiction” book called, The Pepperwood Chronicles, which tells the story of her love for Jesse.

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Introducing Skylar Astin as Jesse Day on Fox’s new show, New Boy! Jesse decides to move to Los Angeles after walking in on his girlfriend of six years sleeping with someone else. Upon moving in with his new three female roommates, his life has become very different. Jesse is an elementary school teacher who then becomes promoted to middle school principal. A fun fact about Jesse is he loves to sing!

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Genderbent cast of New Girl... NEW BOY! Coming to Fox, Tuesdays at 8 pm. Staring Skylar Astin, Aubrey Plaza, Kat Dennings, Amber Riley, Theo James and Kyla Pratt.

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Emblem

I chose this emblem for several reasons, for starters it is the tattoo I got back in March. These three triangles represent the past, present and future. Throughout my blog I have picked up on a very strong sense of nostalgia, as well as set plans for my future. I am constantly forgetting to live in the moment because I’m too focused on the past or am too preoccupied with my future. These triangles show that your past and future will always be incorporated in the present BUT that you must not let it consume the whole thing, to live in the moment. This represents me at the end of this project, coming to a balance between the three, being at a place in my life that I am happy with. Also, the lines are dark and bold, but simple. I am simple but like to stand out and not blend in with the crowd, which is also represented by this.

Epigraph: “Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry” –Rupi Kaur

Motto: “I dive into the future, but I’m blinded by the sun. I’m reborn in every moment, so who knows what I’ll become.” -Revival

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Pause #3

Looking back at the past two posts specifically on community I surprised I did not chose to write more about my home and my hometown. I am a very big homebody, I have lived in the same small town all my life (until leaving for college) and always am longing to go back. I feel like I have such strong ties with my home community back in East Meadow because it is where I grew up and it’s all I ever really knew. Ironically, my mother just sold my childhood home and I am DEVASTATED. When I go home, I have two weeks to pack up all my stuff since we must be out by May 15th and then we are moving to Port Jefferson, which is fifty minutes away from where I live now. I felt this was important to reflect upon because while it is sad, especially as someone who is always filled with such nostalgia, it is a sign for new beginnings, which continues to push me toward the fact that I am indeed growing up. Writing these entries truly has shown me how much I have grown as a person, when in reality I always tell people I never felt that I have had any personal growth. Once sitting down and looking at past experiences as well as the way I look at them in the present day truly helps me better understand why I am the way I am and how things affect me further than what you can see on the surface.

I feel that to reflect back on all posts as a whole, I will always have that little kid inside me who likes High School Musical but also continues to grow up and dive into more age appropriate pieces of media or literature such as Milk and Honey. My family and friends continually help me find the person I aspire to be and contribute to my success. Such negative events in my life such as my parents’ divorce and a break up have forced me to become a strong independent woman. I feel that I may be so nostalgic because the past few months haven’t been the easiest and I would prefer to go back to times when I was happier and things were easier. With that being said, nothing good was ever easy and with time all the work I am putting in will be worth it. I feel as if every post is very different in reflecting different aspects in my life, however tie together well. After all it is as if these are all puzzle pieces that create the person I am today.

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Community #2

A. Describe a literacy sponsor from your childhood or young adult life. As Deborah Brandt defines it, a literacy sponsor refers to 

…any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, and model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold, literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way….sponsors set the terms for access to literacy and wield powerful incentives for compliance and loyalty. Sponsors are delivery systems for the economies of literacy, the means by which these forces present themselves to—and through—individual learners. (Literacy in American Lives, 19)

 As you describe this agent and their relations and experiences with you, be sure to identify the mood, feelings, thoughts, etc. that you experienced as a consequence of your interactions with this agent.

Growing up I absolutely HATED reading. My mom was always forcing books at me as presents when I did well on my report card and even signed me up for a book club. I NEVER read the books and would forge my reading log as an elementary schooler. (Shh don’t tell my teachers) It wasn’t until my freshman year in high school that I truly enjoyed a book for the first time.

My English teacher Mrs. Laporta and I did not get along for the most part, not that I was difficult in anyway but we had very different personalities and she chose favorites (and I wasn’t one of them.) However, this did not take away from the fact that she was a great teacher. This is the year I read Jekyll and Hyde, The Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet. Every year I dread the assigned readings but this certain year I didn’t find them too horrible.

It was the last month of school and we were assigned an independent reading project, any novel of our choice, which had to be approved. I chose The Fault in our Stars by John Green. It was at this time that John Green began to blow up and The Fault in Our Stars was in talks of becoming a movie. I promised myself I would read the book before seeing the movie and now this gave me an excuse to do so. I found myself getting actual excited about this project. I finished the book in 6 hours, running into school the next day into Mrs. LaPorta’s room gushing about it. She smiled and told me, “Taylor, I know you hate reading. I can see it when you enter my classroom everyday. The fact that a book is making you smile the way you are warms my heart. This is the reason why I do what I do. Not all reading is bad, just find something you enjoy and let it set you free.”

I could never forget those words because they made me let go of this negative connotation I had with reading and accept the fact that there are indeed books out there I would enjoy. Without this project, I’m not sure I would’ve realized this or without Mrs. Laporta’s encouragement. For the project, we had to create a portfolio for the book, which was a collection of all these little assignments. One being a fan fiction, another to cast it if it were to become a movie, then a faux interview with the author and lastly to redesign a cover for the book. I had an absolute blast doing this project and posted my fanfiction on twitter, which got 96 retweets at the time and I felt as though I was famous. She opened me up into this new world and generation of literature that I’m not sure I would have found without her. Also these skills I engaged in 4 years ago, now help me in this class particularly which is awesome!

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Community #1

C. Choose a specific local legislative issue or unofficial social code that that stood out in your community and constrained your and/or others' behavior. Include an anecdote about one of your or others' experiences that supports or problematizes the "rules" of that law or social code. Then describe what this anecdote says about the values, norms, behaviors about your community, which might have shape your own beliefs, thoughts, actions, etc. 

I attended a public high school in New York, meaning no uniforms, however there was a dress code which was strictly enforced for females and one for males that no one even cared about. Females were restricted in ways such as no shoulders showing, no leggings, no revealing midriff, no bra straps out, and no tank tops. Males were directed to not wear “muscle” tanks or anything with a derogatory connotation but teachers never made any comments when it came to this. However when it came to females that’s a completely different story.

I constantly found myself getting in trouble with teachers about my clothing, when in reality I meant nothing harmful or offensive by it. My clothing was in no way inappropriate, there were girls who wore things much worse than I did but since they were super skinny and flat chested, teachers let it slide. I found myself getting more and more penalized by female teachers telling me to “pull up your shirt” or “go to your locker and put on a sweatshirt.” One teacher, Mrs. Walsh, screamed at me down the hallways to pull up my shirt or else she will take me to the principal herself. Body shape contributed largely to whether your outfits were approved of, which I believe to this day is unfair.

To summarize the dress code at my high school it was very different depending on the person, making it unfair. I believe this is a behavior that should be assessed by the school district and come up with a fair solution that either the dress code is either the same for all people of all sizes, or not at all. This was a very large frustration I dealt with daily and now that I am in college, I am happy that I can wear whatever I want (for the most part) without being threatened to be sent to go change into my gym clothes. The fact that “bustier” or “curvier” girls are held to a different standard than those who have thinner or different shaped bodies just should not be allowed. Having this problem speaks poorly for my high school and while I hated this about my school, I still loved the experiences I had there.

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Come Back to Me, a playlist by timetopartaytay on Spotify

Come Back to Me by Mila Grey tells the story of a forbidden love, that is the last thing from dull, and a horrific loss. This playlist will incorporate themes of love, loss, and the pain of long distance.

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Pause #2:

Continuing to reflect on previous posts I am recognizing a very large sense of nostalgia, with a continuing sense of self-identity. These posts are forcing me to recognize things about myself that I would not normally come across or even acknowledge. 

I am constantly thinking about my past and how it effects my current day. (Random side note, I just got a tattoo that represents how the past and the future is incorporated into your present.)

Reflecting on times when I was younger and things were per say simpler, when the only arguments I got into were if the first high school musical was better than the second one, makes me miss the innocence behind these memories. 

All events discussed in the posts show this recognition of the person I am, as well as becoming. With discussing these events I am coming across different things that have shaped me into this person I currently am, as well as who “Taylor Davidson” truly is. In a way you can say I am recognizing my “transformation” in one way another, throughout these past 19 years.