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The first rule of my CinematNIC journal: never take it too seriously. Each post is penned from my personal tea gatherings with the Mad Hatter, where time is at a standstill. Zero Kelvin makes that possible, of course, if you knew anything about science and, like, read books with words in them and stuff. And, really good tea.

My diary is 100% snobbish and always in on the joke. Truthful and a self parody of what I’m like. I would say “what I’m like in reality,” but I don’t live in the real world. The dream world is my reality, and your reality is my dream.

I am Nicole. A film score composer, filmmaker, actress, and musician. Visit me on IMDb at imdb.me/nicole and my official website, CinematNIC.com! Everything is better with exclamation marks in my kawaii world.

Portals to Wonderland are found sparingly. In my life, they are as follows, so far:

• The New York Palace, only the original home portion, discovered when I was 14; no other NYC portals exist

• the University of Texas at Austin clock tower

• my great aunt and uncle’s house in Urbana, Illinois during my childhood and early youth

• the Peer Gynt score performed live, notably during “Ase’s Death” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” discovered at age 12 hearing it on repeat as my separate music class waited our turn for rehearsals

The only entry away from the literal portals is uninterrupted concentration on:

• The Time Machine book by H.G. Wells

• the Peter Pan writings of J.M. Barrie

• Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, obviously

Foods found throughout Wonderland:

• Mexican 24/7, the best cuisine on Earth and in the dream world, mmmm ¡nopales!

• Indian

• Japanese

• Polynesian / Hawaiian

• veggie soups

• Middle Eastern, like baba ghanoush

• burgers, burgers, burgers! Beyond, my pick, followed by Impossible or my homemade black bean patties

• the meatless food from Thomas Keller’s restaurants

• breakfast food at lunch or dinner

• fabulous teas: chai, Darjeeling, green, white, Irish black, and my fave ever, Earl Grey

If you didn’t already notice from my statement above, my owning burnt orange everything, my fabulous Longhorn tee sock monkey, those Texas keychains on my laptop bags, and more knickknacks, I am a University of Texas at Austin 2007, Texas Exes member. 🤠🤘

The UT Austin campus is where I informally co-founded a film company in the fall 2005 semester with the Roswell aliens drawn in my notebook. It is now where I intend on filming one of my big blockbuster movie trilogies someday! #lifegoals

Don’t be late!

“Suddenly, a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her... In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”

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