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12/9/08

WELL.

FINALS.

AWESOME? Almost.

The stress has made my face break out like crazy, dramatically abused my sleep pattern and placed me in desperate need of a back/shoulder massage. It also made me sleep in about 4 hours later then intended today. Ha.

Knitwear — Not too worried. Drawing the Croquis worries me, but otherwise I feel pretty confident about that class.

Textiles — Workshop today will truly define how my final will be. I imagine myself finishing everything in three hours and then rewarding myself with a glorious nap.

English — We won’t be getting our final drafts back until next week, so this week is just a bunch of in-class excersizes. Depending on how textiles goes, I might skip English for workshop on Wednesday.

CDFP — If I pass this class it will be by the skin of the skin of my teeth.

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12/12/08

Well! Now three presentations to go then I am finished! :D woo!

I have been hanging out and not hanging out with people. It’s crazy how often it shifts during the semester. At the beginning I always hung out with Kristine, Brittany and Michael. Then it was Kelson, Kristine and Ionia. Then Ionia and Elyse. Now it’s Brittany, Ionia and Shawn. Haven’t seen Kristine in quite a while. And doing homework in my room means I pretty much never see the Gold Room crowd anymore. crazy stuff.

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12/13/08

Last night I went to the Epidemic Film Festival with Ionia. It’s the school’s bi-annual contest where students can enter their work. There were some pretty sweet ones. I can’t find the site the MC was talking about where they’d be online! argh!

well…anyway…finals.

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Let’s recap, shall we? :)

Friday night I went to a shindig at my friend Paula’s apartment! She lives in the hippie district and her apartment is so ideal. The best kind of hole-in-the-wall :) Her friends were all really nice. Some of them got drunk off their asses, a few were on some sort of drug that really fucked them up. Attractive. I brought Elyse and Brittany with me and they had a great time. I was so glad they could come! Paula and Elyse actually have some mutual friends (they hang out at the same bar and cafe) so Elyse practically found her usual crew there haha.

I knew about 5 people, but that just made me all the more social. I drank AriZona Iced Tea the whole night, I was one of two sober people (to my understanding). The other sober person was this cool kid from Turkey. He taught me how to say Good Day, Good Night, I Want Chinese Food and I Love You (the important ones, duh) in Turkish. I vaguely remember bits of each phrase but not the specifics. He was really quiet the whole night and I asked him if he’s a pretty shy person. He said no, that he’s not shy or quiet at all it’s just his English and that he’s actually really funny in Turkey. His English isn’t terrible it is just very limited. He was really cool to chat with.

Brittany, however, is HILARIOUS drunk. All her questions are shouted and she’s deliriously happy about the littlest things. Turkish Boy wore a shirt that had three skulls with a cloud on either side and Brittany was so excited to name them all. The clouds were Dave and Manuel, and the skulls were Jacobi, Marguerite and Fernando. His shirt was very hispanic, apparently.

It was quite difficult to get up and out to workshop at 9:20 the next morning. I haven’t gotten less than 6 hours of sleep in a couple weeks now, so that 4-hour sleep time was intense haha. I went to another workshop right after and didn’t get back to the dorm until about 3:30. I took a bath and fell asleep on my bed until about eight, ate dinner and crashed again in my jeans until ten the next morning. Like woah. Haha.

Monday I helped my roommate with a project. She needed to do photo storyboards for her final project, a silent film called “The Exchange”. The past week and a half we had been trying to find a guy to play her male lead, since she had the three other characters she needed. So I had to help with the hunt for my romantic counterpart. I had asked a few friends, as she had, with no luck. I randomly ran into Dylan after lunch sometime that weekend and asked if he would/could. He say yes! So finally we had a male lead. We shot on Monday. Ionia and I probably told Dylan thank you a total amount of fifteen times haha. Here are the closing (and my favorite) shots:

taken by Ionia Palmer

Dylan was super grossed out by the cocktail sauce Ionia used for blood, he hates any relation to seafood in any form. He was a good sport though. Ionia and Megan even bought him a shirt from Ross but he said they could use his grey one. So Saturday when we shoot he’ll be getting chocolate sauce on it, since the actual film will be in black and white. :) Click to enlarge!

Classes have been going well for the most part. For my final project I have to choose an object for my inspiration, and draw it. I have an item I like but I’d have to alter the colors because the scheme is too similar to my textiles color story. I am very excited for both projects but I know I will cry myself to sleep every night haha. *sigh*

Hey Jim, thanks for commenting! Yay! Comments! :) You watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer in college too? Which season? haha :)

Well that’s all I can think of to write! Hope you enjoyed. If you have any questions you want answered, or stuff you want me to talk about or elaborate,  just let me know through e-mail or comment. Thanks!

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I changed my major to Textiles*, if you hadn’t heard. I’m pretty excited. One of the main reasons I did that was because I realized how much more effort I put into that class. To avoid other homework, I would procrastinate by working on textiles homework. Weird, right? My “inspiration” for my final project is owls and pop art. I hope it comes out well! My colors are light green, blue-green(like teal), orange, light gray and black. I need to edit the green and gray so they’re lighter than now.

So today I headed to a fabric store in the Mission District to scope out some fabric to print on. I’d heard awesome things about this fabric outlet. So I go there and turns out they had re-located about a block away, which was annoying but I found it on accident anyway. There are three 99 cent stores within one block. I got some nice grey broadcloth. Practically everything in the store was on sale! It was crazy. But their organization was pretty non-existent. 100% Cotton printed fabrics were in three different spots in the store. There was a “novelty” section in the middle of the store, a “prints” section near the entrance and on the opposite side of the store was the “christmas” printed ones. Ridiculous.

Textiles homework is pretty time-consuming, but can be multi-tasked. So I watch movies or TV shows while sketching. Recently I have been on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer binge. It’s pretty awesome. I am a geek, I know. *sigh* RA Tyson heard my The Office text-tone and called me a dork. I (im)politely corrected him that I, in fact, am a geek**. :P

I hung out with Elyse! Man it had been almost two weeks so it was nice to catch up. I might see her tomorrow night as well. Yay!

Well, that’s all she wrote. Maybe something will happen this weekend that will be riveting for you all :P I hope you enjoyed the photoshopped picture of Jared and Pam. It was my favorite one of the “Jamaica” photos Pam uploaded to facebook. If you want the full-size desketop-background-worthy version lemme know and I’ll e-mail it to you.

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*A Textiles Designer does stuff like this, that and this too.
**Yes, there is a difference.