Present Joys

Our History of fashion class visited OSU’s costume collection this afternoon and got to look at a bunch of cool stuff. The collection also had an exhibit on Girl Scouts uniforms, which was beautiful and great. Here is a picture of Amanda and me blocking some of the items in the exhibition.

• Had a crit in figure drawing. Made fun of Boryana for moving like a breakdancer while she teaches.
• Went to see the visiting artist, who showed slides with a dim, grimy slide projector and refused to use a microphone. Interesting but annoyingly postmodern.
• Did literally no classwork during the Worst class of the week.
• Watched more of that movie in my American lit class. Another poor use of time I couldn’t help.
• Had tuesday art history class off because our teacher was sick. Spent the time on the quad with Amanda, Ian, and Dorian.
• Had another really intense, action-packed team class. Most of our discussion centered around exactly how humanoid should a siren look? It was very serious.
• Bonded with my History of fashion teacher over millinery and the sorry state of historical education at art school.
• Had wednesday completely off: my illustration teacher had to cancel class due to a family funeral.
• Gave a mini-presentation about 1950s politics with some other people in my American lit class.
• Spent all of thursday’s art history class looking at architecture, which was kind of a fun break from routine.
• Went to visit the print lab and got to talk to Kathy, which was really nice. It is good to visit places you normally don’t go.
• Did that thing in Burleigh’s class where we all sit around and talk to each other about our sketches. I ended up having a great conversation about Obamacare with Theresa and giving advice to Anna on her package design. Talked a little about my actual work, too.
• Grew to love and respect Mr. Burleigh even more than before, which I did not think was possible.
• In general: spent the whole week making plans to be gone next week. Looking forward to the break!

• Stayed up late sunday night to register for classes; had some problems with my account and didn’t get into a bunch of stuff.
• Spent most of monday trying to fix registration. Also: tuesday, wednesday, and thursday.
• Skipped the visiting “artist” (read: contemporary poet) lecture and had a good old-fashioned friendship lunch.
• Left my laptop at home on tuesday morning and had to go the whole day without it. It was difficult, but my bag was definitely easier to carry around.
• Looked at paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites in my 19th century art history class, which was, as you can imagine, super great.
• Talked to Julie Taggart, who turns out to be pretty cool. Even though she crushed my dreams of taking a screenprinting class with Dana in the fall.
• Used all three hours of my team ad class to talk about board games in great depth. It was intense and helpful and headache-inducing and great all at once.
• Spent of wednesday working in Corel Painter with a tablet. Non-messy and fun.
• Was compared to Richard Aschenbrand and Artie Isaac by two different people in the same day. I can only take that as compliments.
• Watched some of the Revolutionary Road movie in my American lit class (it is not very good—Meryl Streep isn’t in it at all). While this was going on, I started swatching for a new, ten-color fair isle jumper.
• Presented finals in Burleigh’s class and got info on our last project of the semester. We made a word cloud in class during which I was mocked for having no friends (in a friendly way, natch).
• Went to visit Mr. Felton, the copywriting teacher, who graciously let me into his class. Phew.

• Started a new team project with a new team, comprising people I enjoy and respect. I’m excited.
• Listened to M-Tabs explain the entire plot of Battlestar Galactica to our team class. This only very loosely related to our team project, but it was charming and entertaining.
• Went shopping with Evan—a topic which deserves a post all to itself. We drove all over town to a bunch of vintage clothing and antique stores, trying to find specific items and taking a bunch of pictures. This was in lieu of a normal History of fashion class, and it was much more fun. Also, this was the first time I had ever traveled in a Hummer.
• Wore a polo shirt for the first time this year. Spring’s a-coming.
• Took hilarious reference photos for a new illustration project inspired by pulp fiction book covers.
• Enjoyed a long crit, during which Mr. Mahan suggested that two girls should have a jello wrestling contest to determine the winner of a poster with zombies harassing a geisha.
• Got Polish food with Jason for his birthday.
• Went back to Illustration and finished the day even though it was 76°F outside.
• Finished the week with a knit-n-crit which was surprisingly robust, considering everyone is punchy and slap-happy and ready for some time off.
• Began spring break!