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it felt like spring for a few days last week, and accordingly i did things like make hummus, bake cupcakes, and listen to older sleater-kinney albums, all things that for one reason or another remind me of spring. for now it's cold again, but it still feels like spring around the edges, and i can't wait. every year, spring weather makes me feel about a thousand times better, instantly.
today was survey, which meant that a committee of professors went to my studio, looked at my work and talked about it (without me there), and then decided weather or not i should be allowed to continue on to start thesis next semester. a no would mean that i would have to add at least one more semester onto my time at pratt, and that i probably would have cried myself to sleep tonight. but instead! i passed, and a fraction of the weight that's been pressing on me has lifted. and plus, a surprise fantastic critique during which some prints i felt awful about were called "beautiful and amazing", and then a fantastic show opening.. i am suddenly so, so happy at pratt, something that sort of came at me full force a month or so ago. i've come to adore most of the people i'm around all of the time, and i feel lucky to be in their company. sarah and i applied to got to italy over the summer, and i can't imagine anyone else i'd rather do it with.
also,
something sort of amazing and strange and unbelievable happened, and every so often i have to remind myself, and wonder about it's realness.
i went to gloria steinem's house again, this time for a dinner party (sans gloria). her cat is in love with me. seriously.
i have less than three weeks to cut an 8 by 4 foot foot piece of mdf (to be printed by a steam roller!), and it's keeping me up at night.
i'm sort of in love with this podcast. at first it seemed sort of lame, and now i can't get enough of it.
my 25th birthday is in less than 3 weeks and i haven't thought about it aside from wanting someone to buy me a cupcake from babycakes, please.
today was survey, which meant that a committee of professors went to my studio, looked at my work and talked about it (without me there), and then decided weather or not i should be allowed to continue on to start thesis next semester. a no would mean that i would have to add at least one more semester onto my time at pratt, and that i probably would have cried myself to sleep tonight. but instead! i passed, and a fraction of the weight that's been pressing on me has lifted. and plus, a surprise fantastic critique during which some prints i felt awful about were called "beautiful and amazing", and then a fantastic show opening.. i am suddenly so, so happy at pratt, something that sort of came at me full force a month or so ago. i've come to adore most of the people i'm around all of the time, and i feel lucky to be in their company. sarah and i applied to got to italy over the summer, and i can't imagine anyone else i'd rather do it with.
also,
something sort of amazing and strange and unbelievable happened, and every so often i have to remind myself, and wonder about it's realness.
i went to gloria steinem's house again, this time for a dinner party (sans gloria). her cat is in love with me. seriously.
i have less than three weeks to cut an 8 by 4 foot foot piece of mdf (to be printed by a steam roller!), and it's keeping me up at night.
i'm sort of in love with this podcast. at first it seemed sort of lame, and now i can't get enough of it.
my 25th birthday is in less than 3 weeks and i haven't thought about it aside from wanting someone to buy me a cupcake from babycakes, please.