…fall over, fall overboard… Monday, Jun 15 2009

okay let there not be overt mockery!

Well, it is getting on towards summer for reals here. Lots of thunderstorms. They like to occur at 3 am when I can’t enjoy them properly.

My biggest news is that both my roomates are now gone and I have a new one. He is a fellow I used to work with at Bodies, then he moved to Atlanta, but he hated Atlanta so when his job there offered him a promotion to move back here he took it with relish. Now my big empty apartment is less empty.

It is however very clean because I had a lot of time to myself when I was living alone for the past three weeks. I am super excited about this. There’s something so wonderful about the fresh smell of murphy’s oil soap on all my hardwood floors. I also got way too excited about the fact that I bought a new shower curtain. One of my roomies had torn a hole in the old one.

I have been doing lots of writing and sewing for myself. I just finished a new bathrobe at 4 am. Now that I live with a dude again I can’t just be running around nekkid -ALL- the time.. It is green with white ‘crysanthemums’ that I hand dyed myself. Also all the visible stitching is done by hand. I’ll get some pics eventually. I’m super happy with it.

Also been playing a lot of facebook scrabble. Oh, and watching old tv shows on hulu. I love the internet.

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…I have dreams of Orca Whales and owls.. Monday, May 11 2009

Well, here I am again..

Lots has happened which is why I have not blogged. Kelly came to visit me! We ate at many a resturant and spent all our money on shiny things.

Then last week my Mommy came to visit! She spent four days here and I think we spent at least 18 hours of that riding trains or buses.  We went to the Cloisters for one, which is fabulously beautiful and also far far away. We spent another day at the Met, and I really gotta get out there more often because I forget how fabulous it is.

My roommate Kirsten has moved out, and my other roomie Dante is planning to leave early June. I shall swiftly need more roommates. I got a couple of friends moving here late June, so I think what I’ll do is sublet the furnished room for the end of this month and beginning of next to make up the money I won’t otherwise have then. Nothing’s final yet though.

I need a day off to clean..

I am still sewing like mad. Dante commissioned a dress from me that I finished when Mom was here. It is bright orange, red belt, yellow lining. O so bright! I could never wear such colors.. but they look good on some other people I know.

Kelly got me wathing Battlestar Galactica, and now I have nightmares that Cylons are chasing me which is Awesome. No seriously. Awesome.

She also brought me some new music and that is the bestest thing ever. Anybody want to get me a present? It’s easy. Just burn me a CD (or 8) with whatever on it. I guarantee I won’t have heard some of it, probably don’t own most of it, and will in any case love you forever.

Just sayin’.

Well that is my blog post for today and I have thus averted all mockery. Whoohoo!

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… and when she’s done she’ll feed you to her cat… Tuesday, Apr 21 2009

Hi Everybody!

Well, I have big news, I guess. I got my results from NYU and they were not the ones I wanted, so I am not going to grad school this year after all. But after a weekend of thinking and talking to people about it (not to mention the drinking and boys), I’m actually pretty cool about it now.  It’s another year of freedom! And next year when I try again, I’ll be more prepared to entertain offers outside of New York, so that’ll be another card to play.

And since I really felt the interview went well, I have decided that what they are doing is hoping I’ll come back next year, when they can give me lots more money ‘coz I’ll be a repeat applicant. It’s happened before- my friend Simms got in that way on his second try, so there is precedent.

Anyway, I was sad for a while, but all will be well.

I made a list of things to do this year that are not grad school, and there’s some pretty awesome things on it.

I said not to mention the drinking and the boys.

I am super excited becasue Kelly is coming on Friday! And after she leaves, Mommy! This is gonna be all sorts of fun.

I have to find at least one new roommate this month. I want to do it when I am not so busy because the process is such a pain. Not looking forward to it, trying not to stress about it prematurely. So that’s that.

All of this involves me cleaning my house. It never ends!

I was supposed to have a date tonight but he just cancelled ‘coz he’s stuck at school. Lame. I was already shaved too.

Maybe I will make another pie instead. I wonder what I got in my house?

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… she’s actual size, but she seems much bigger… Monday, Apr 13 2009

Oh my lovelies, I have returned!

My computer is still broken and I still have to fix it. But today I did what I’d been thinking about anyway and bought another. It is a tiny little netbook, just for going out and about and writing upon. It was super cheap and I totally walked into the store and out again in15 minutes ‘coz I knew exactly what I wanted. And now I have the internet again, so I can do things like order parts to fix my old one..

Other than having no CD dive, it seems pretty much like it is a mini version of the acer I already have. But it gets 7 hrs of battery life and it weighs less than a hardcover book. Also it is a lovely prussian blue.

I have named it Egil.

My other project for today was to clean my kitchen. Not as exciting, I know, but boy did I feel like I’d accomplished something. I even rubbed the walls down wwith bleachwater. They were filthy. Now they shine.

Tomorrow, the Bathroom! Dun dun dun! Also, laundry. And maybe a pie. Maybe. I did buy blueberries yesterday.

I love it when I have two days off in a row. I get so much more done! If I only have one day off I always end up just sleeping all day.

I am very excited for the impending visitation of one Kelly O’Brien. And then the week after that, my Mommy! I can’t wait. I sense much delicious resturant food in my future..

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…and I’ll watch ‘em roll away again… Saturday, Mar 28 2009

Stop mocking me! My computer is broken and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet. 

Not like there’s a lot of news anyway. I’m still waiting for that call or letter from NYU, and that’s really all.

Been making a lot of pie, I guess that’s news. Last week was sweet potato. It was a big hit at work, but I don’t know that I’d make it for myself ever- little too much world of starch. Tomorrow I got big plans for cherry pie and everybody is excited so they better turn out. I was gonna make ‘em from scratch but the grocery was out of frozen cherries so I just bought canned. It’ll be fine anyway I’m sure.

Waiting waiting waiting. I want mid-April to be here. Stupid March. At least the weather’s getting nicer. I wore a skirt yesterday, and that is a beautiful thing.

Oh and my cat is losing major weight. I thinks she likes the spring too. Also she is on the eat-only-food-you-don’t-like diet and that is the only thing that ever works for her. We had a kibble battle for nearly three days. I won. Yes yes.

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…how can you say/ I go about things the wrong way? Saturday, Mar 7 2009

All right, I delayed as long as I could, but I must at last succumb to the avalanche of peer pressure and post something..

Man but I do loves me my hyperboles.

Anyway, it is March now and I cannot wait for it to be spring. I am tired of cold and want to wear cute skirts and eat ice cream again. We had a crazy snowstorm to start the month thought, it was like winter was giving us a valiant last stand. It’s mostly melted now. And the temp has been yoyoing like mad, 18 one day and 55 the next. Bah.

But enough boring talk about the weather. What else has been going on?

Well, not much. Lots and lots of waiting. And being really cranky about all the waiting. I guess the disadvantage to having my grad school interview date early is that I get longer to wait.

I turned in my ‘homework’ last week, and I really felt like I’d done all I could do. ‘Course, now that it’s all in I’m having irrational thoughts along the lines of “perhaps I should have annoated my research more throughly!”… But in the end I don’t know that I should have done more. I had lots of primary source pictures, my renderings were some of the best watercolors I’ve ever done, I’d swatched the whole thing down to the collar and cuffs… Man! I even threw down 15 bucks on buttons! They had to be real horn, I felt. And the silly things were 3-4 dollars apiece, so even though I only needed 1 or two of each size to show for samples, it added up. Good thing I’m not really making this suit…

Anyway it’s in and done and I am waiting. Did I mention I was waiting? Arrarrrarrrarrr…

Was really unreasonably cranky all last week, didn’t even have the hormones to blame it on. Then I had two entire days off and wow is my whole world better all the sudden. Apparently I really needed that day of lying around my house naked doing absolutely nothing. The second day I did laundry. ALL of it. Sheets, towels, the handwashed delicates, every thread of laundry I could find.. And oh man does my room smell better. Mmm… detergent..

Oh, and the other day I took some friends to see a show- ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’. It’s based of the Bosch painting, just beautiful. And renewed my LOVE for the Cello. Oh but I do loves me the celloin’. Ahhh… So good! Also, near-naked people fly on harnesses. Way cool. Made me wiggle and cry, somewhat to the distraction of the nearby patrons… I’m the best audience member ever.

My cat is once again on the I-bought-food-you-don’t-like-but-that’s-all-you-get-so-deal-with-it diet. It’s done wonders for her energy level.. After two days now I do seem to be sort of winning the battle of wills, in that she’s begrudingly eating it and I did not buy her anymore of her old brand. I’m gonna stick with it if I can, it’s good to see her run around more even if she is annoying in the morning.

Oh, I’m also waiting to hear about a summer job in Allentown PA that would be working with a fellow I met at NYU. It’s not riches and it means camping out in Allentown for eight weeks, but I’d really love to work with this guy again because last time was really fun, and anyway it might be good for me to get out of the city for awhile. But I’ll hear after the weekend I guess.

And that’s all the news that’s fit to print for now, I suppose. Enough with your mockery!

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…and she laid it on to he and me… Tuesday, Feb 10 2009

Good morning, chickens and chickadees!

Well, first off, since everybody and their dog has been harassing me about it, I must make this announcement. I don’t actually know when I find out about my grad school application. They finish the interviews mid-March, and so I suspect the letters get sent out first week of April. The website seems to confirm these suspicions. So then. You’ll find out when I do.

But I’m not gonna freak out about it too much. I did all I could do at the interview, and now I’m gonna concentrate on the homework and see what happens from there. Actually I’m beginning to suspect that they give out the homework in part to give us something to do while we wait…

The homework is going pretty well, I think. I got two more weeks, feels pretty good so far. I found some great pictures of the fellow I want to base my design off of. One Gustave Stresesmann. Was Chancellor of the Weimar Republic a few times (those dudes switched up their cabinet posts more often than the W administration), and won the Nobel Peace prize in, uh, 1929 I think? Anyway, all that is incidental to the fact that he wore the same high-collar-and silk-tie combo from 1910 to ‘round 1939. A man of habit, he.

Now I gotta find a way to document what sorts of fabrics his suit might have been made from, and go do me some swatching. Can’t wait for that, that’s the fun part! Mmmm… wools and linens… yes yes.

Today is my first real day off in like 6-8 weeks, and I am way happy to have it. The super is over fixing my ceiling, and I got big plans to clean my room, maybe even do laundry. I did already take down my Christmas tree… I know, shame on me for leaving it up so long. I’d have taken it down weeks ago, but my roommate really wanted to keep it as long as possible… and as I have mentioned there was that whole thing where I was working all the time. But it came down today. All gone! Now I have packed my little Christmas box, with all my ornaments and lights and my gigantic tree stand. And when I open it up again, it will be Christmas! This is a lovely thing.

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…falling in love again, play it as I may… Monday, Feb 2 2009

Big day today kids!

I had my interview at Tisch this morning and I feel pretty good about it. Susan Hilferty said my drawings were beautiful! Then she gave me homework.

Yup, homework. They want to see me draw more detail, so I have three weeks to learn everything there is to know about 1920s menswear, and redesign a suit for the Duke in my Wiemar Republican Measure for Measure. Buttons and lapels and cufflinks and all, really specific like as if it’s for a movie.

Menswear is terrifying and boys are hard to draw. But I’m pretty excited. I’m sensing some library time in my future.

Of course they asked questions I wasn’t expecting, and didn’t say anything about other things I was expecting questions on, but that’s par for the course for these sorts o’ things I guess.

After that was over I sat through a studio class. They were doing early design presentations on the opera Wozzek, and I got really excited about it. Like I was having a hard time keeping my mouth shut (I did succeed, though. Mostly) . The other interviewees that day left during the break, but I was really interested, so I stayed the whole time, 12-5. Long class. But like I said, I got WAY excited. My fingers were itching! I wanted to throw my ideas out there SO BAD. It was all just really fascinating and I felt like I wanted to be a part of it.

So I dunno. Maybe someone noticed I was chomping at the bit, and maybe that’s a good thing. But I’m more determined than ever now- my backup plans all pale to blank in comparison. I really really want to go there.

I hope they accept me and give me the money I need. I WANT I WANT I WANT!

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Thaet was gud cyning! Saturday, Jan 31 2009

This isn’t a real post, I just had to archive this AWESOME thing that I found in the dark depths of the internetz…

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… oh it made me so happy…

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…what so proudly we held… Wednesday, Jan 21 2009

Oh I was there!

It was amazing.

It was very cold.

and crowded.

And we had to walk for miles.

and nobody got much sleep.

So worth it. I cried and screamed and cried and cried and cried.

I was dressed so festively! Red coat and blue blankie FTW!

It was Very Cold!

Sometimes my view was like this..

Mostly my view was like this. I got to see what I came for though, so I didn’t care.

This is W leaving! He flew right over us.

So much crowd!

We were all so happy!

The trains were packed, of course. Everybody was super nice.

DC metro is much cleaner than New York’s. Less old school cred though.

I still have the metrocard. It’s my only souvenir. Got a pic of Obama and a 1.35$ still on it… I’m gonna keep it forever.

Pics provided by my friend (and our driver) Mike Keane. Thanks Mike!

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