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I think I need to relearn to type. I've found lately that I've been having trouble. It's probably from typing non-word things so much at work. I basically have to use the hunt-and-peck method because it's mostly numbers on the numberpad with random letters thrown in.
I've had a few nice compliments this week. Last night, Lauren asked me - not in a bad way - how a person can become such and expert at cooking by just watching Food Network. I'm not really sure, but I have! I love to cook and I'm getting really good at it. She also told me about how she works with a girl we went to high school with - we graduated with this girl's sister. The girl was in my art class and she told Lauren that she was intimidated by my work. That was nice to hear, since I've been through about 10 years of being intimidated by everyone else's work.
I've had a few leads on internships or jobs in the fashion industry for next summer. One of mom's patients works for TJX (the parent company of TJ Maxx, Home Goods, Marshalls, and Bob's Stores, as well as a Canadian company) as a designer. She told me they never have enough interns - and they pay - where as I didn't even know they had a design team: I always thought that everything but Bob's Stores sold clothes that didn't sell elsewhere. So I talked with her; my mom told me while she was trying to treat her and ask questions, the woman just wanted to know about me - what I had learned, what I was taking, what did I know about this that and the other. My aunt also has a lead, but I doubt it's going to be nearly so productive. The woman she knows wants an "American girl" to help her with the sewing for her company. But I am so not her girl - I sew my samples and muslins, but I'm still learning and am not great. Improved, yes. Good enough to be a line seamstress? No.
So other than that I'm just working - 6 days a week. Sleeping the 7th. That's it. I've turned 21 and I haven't even been to the RMV to get my new license, let alone gone out to a bar or club. I'm so bored and so exhausted. I can't wait to get back to school. I wanted to go to summer dance classes, which started this afternoon, but my commute doesn't allow me to make ballet and I'm missing one of my pointe shoes. Which is especially odd because I stored them together, one inside the other. But I'm missing the ribbons, the elastic I bought, and my gel pads (the updated version of lambs' wool). You're probably asking how I can be missing ribbons, which are attached to the shoes - well that's easy: they aren't. When you buy the pointe shoes, they give you ribbons that you have to sew on and I like elastic, so I have to buy those and sew them on. I also can't find my tights. You are also probably thinking, it's summer, just don't wear them. But pointe shoes are fitted in such a way that it is necessary to wear the same - or close to it - items on your feet as you did when you bought them.SO I didn't make dance this week and if I don't find my other pointe shoe soon I may not make it at all this summer. :(