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Me & my womb, or more accurately, Emily's womb!
As a birthday gift for our dear friend Emily (HI!), Tasha and I crafted up this little pink polka dotted huggy womb! It seemed like an awesome idea. It was an awesome idea for the first hour, but three hours of trying to end the cervix at the right place, make an ovary that wasn't lumpy, and find a way to make the fallopian tubes curve in even approximately the right manner was a little much. But thanks to our awesome tag-team sewing and ample quantities of delicious candies from our Chinatown foodstravaganza, we made it through! We were a bummed with the final result because we didn't think it looked right at all, so we were quite delighted when The Birthday Girl immediately recognized it as a womb rather than a deformed heart, a two-headed turkey, a crab, or something else. Even though it was at times a very frustrating craft experience, I think some day I will try it again. I would like to make some with little hot water bottles inside for all of my girl friends. I also decided that it is my new goal to make a fabric version of an anatomy torso.
So speaking of Emily, on Friday the two of us turned into two little giggly schoolgirls when we got to spend seven hours in the presence of our favourite women's studies professor! After our Feminist Theories class she took us out for beverages and fried food because it was the end of a hard week and she wanted to talk to us about The OC! I was very much in awe the entire time. Anyone who has ever met her can attest to the fact that you can't not think she's the most wonderful and understanding and interesting lady in the world. I just thought it was so sweet not only that she bothered to spend so much time with us, but also that she paid for everything and tried to pay for us to take a cab home too?! Geez!
She also told me that I "perform femininity in a really cool way" and if that isn't just the cutest little women's studies professor-esque comment that ever was...! Awww!