I've recently put together some things I've recently made or experiemented with. They were originally to send to a school back in the states but I'm not applying there anymore so meh.




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I recently got accepted to London College of Fashion, so I'll be doing that next year. Central Saint Martins just isn't a good fit for me. A lot of the people there are pretty nice, but most of the people I know who are going back next year or wanted to go back next year are really aggrivating to talk to and completley up their own behinds. Plus, CSM doesn't have the degree I want to do anyways. That aside, I'm getting my BA in Technical Effects for Performance. IN OTHER WORDS, I'll be making things like puppets, creature costumes, animatronics, stop-motion models, prosthetic limbs, and a couple other things that escape me right now. I'm beyond excited.

Uhmmm, apperently I am specializing/majoring in 3-D Design! Woo!

I feel so guilty when I'm behind with my work. Being a rediculous procrastinator however, I manage to leave all my work on my desk, covered by a rediculous amount of clutter. I have a final project due Friday for Coneceptual Practice and I've only completed about 1/10 of it. There's a lot of things I could blame it on, but I'm not sure which sounds best. I have to chose my pathway for the rest of the year on Monday and I'm completley clueless, not to mention my portfolio isn't up to par. Talk about stress! I'm also getting a little antsy about going home in a couple weeks, it's going to be weird and I'm not sure how I'll feel about it. I feel like I've been living in London for about a year and it's all very odd. I'm not really looking forward to leaving some friends behind for a month, espeically the ones I live with. I am looking forward to eating Chinese food at Panda Garden and hanging out with my dog though. I also really need to stay away from boys, they are a distraction. I haven't gone to bed before 3 in a week or two and I blame it on the male race.

I feel pretty uninspired, due to the fact that school is getting a little monotonous. I had all of last week off, but didn't do much other than a half-assed trip to the Tate Britain and a lot of movie watching. Halloween was okay, I ended up staying in and watching The Big Lebowski with somebody, and everybody who went out came home complaining about how much it sucked, so I was pretty satisfied with my decision. I'm in Fashion Communication right now and I'm not really looking forward to it, I wish I took Illustration instead, ugh!
On another note, I'm coming home December 11th-ish, so after the initial jet lag I will be up for hangouts and whatnot. I might be coming back to London before New Years and go to Paris for 4 or 5 days before school starts up again, I'm not sure yet though.
I'll leave you with some boring but nice pictures of my flatmates:

I just finished a caplet-type thing fashioned out of a men's jacket for class. Here are some photos I took for my sketchbook. It pays to have hot friends!



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It sort of drives me nuts knowing that at least half of my friends from Wallingford went home this weekend and I can't! I think once I go back one time and see what it's like, I won't feel the need to anymore. I could be wrong though.

I start Fashion at Uni Monday! I have a paper due also, but it's a trade off. Tomorrow is the last day the Globe Theatre is showing Antony and Cleopatra and I was suppose to go with a few of my flatmates. I was really looking forward to it but I might have to do homework tomorrow afternoon, since tomorrow morning I need to find a new printer. Ugh, maybe next spring :/

Here are some things from Friday, they're not very exciting but I have been taking pictures of everything recently. I'm required to put images of what I do in class in my "reflective diary". Anyways, some draping and pinning of a standard men's white, short sleeve, collared shirt.

Despite the fact that I have caught a pretty nasty cold, things are going pretty well. I had a miniature textiles introduction-type thing today. As therapeutic as hand-sewing can be, sometimes it drives me nuts.



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Tomorrow my group chooses their pathways for the next week or so in the Fashion and Textiles area. This is pretty exciting for me, mainly because it means I will have a more serious project to work on. Yeah!

I came back from a short holiday last night, and the weirdest thing happened! While driving up to my building, I actually felt good to be home! It felt nice, it feels nice.
I spent the weekend in Abergavenny, Wales this weekend. It was really nice to get out of the city, and moreover it was nice to stay in a house with comfortable couches and sweet pets.(  I enjoyed it. )



Today I started Fashion & Textiles and I love it already. We obviously didn't do much, but I felt a lot better about what I was doing compared to ( last week! ) I'm pretty excited to get assigned an actual project at this point.(  Soon! )




A lame update maybe, but at least there are photos.

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School is good, and appropriately enough the instructors encourage documenting nearly everything. I have every Wednesday off, so I can work on my drawing project all day tomorrow. I have to fill up an A3 sketchbook with anything having to do with London, it's more of less just city-themed (i.e. lines, shapes, architecture). Other than school, my life has mainly become a game of saving money in the most ridiculously expensive place I've ever been. I've been doing fairly well at this game and in a few months time might even deserve a blue ribbon, my forever aging hula-hoop trophies would be pleased to have some new company.

I'm starting realize how long I'm going to be in London now, I know it seems dumb but the more I'm settled the more uneasy I become. I really like London and I really don't want to move back home right now, but I still miss my bed and my dog. I am excited to visit in December, it will be very good.

Unfortunately a photo-less entry, I will try to keep in brief. I started uni last week and it's good but slow. The first day we just showed up and got a general talking to as well as received some paperwork to fill out. The other two days were just shuffling around the campuses and getting introduced to all of the studios and technicians. Next week is a full drawing week (sans Wednesday and Friday which I have off) and I'm looking forward to actually doing something art related since I'm going to art school and all. After that everyone has to try one pathway from each subject (i.e. Fashion, Textiles & Print, Visual Communication, Three Dimensional Design, and Fine Art & Performance). I'm obviously looking forward to textile design, but designing for performace and contextual practice seem like they'd be pretty enjoyable to learn about. After Christmas we have to choose a pathway, I'm leaning towards Fashion, Textiles and Print but that's definitely possible to change. I actually would like a real job when I graduate so as much as I would enjoy moving towards Fine Art & Performance I'm going to move in a slightly different direction. I feel like this Fall is moving so slow, but hopefully (and probably) when school lifts off the ground it will be really, really quick. I'm not homesick, but it'll be neat to go home in December and see everybody.

Flatmates.

So recently, a certain person who remains nameless decided to log into my photobucket.com account and delete every single picture. There were some pretty old pictures in there that I can't really get back, since the originals are on hard drives that are no longer in exsistance. I'm kind of upset about it, mainly the pictures from Maine and the pictures of my family, since I've been looking at them every once in awhile when I get a bit homesick. The point is, if anyone has any pictures from my PAST they'd like to send me over, I would be very thankful!
Besides for that, things are going alright. I went to see Patti Smith the other night and it was amazing. When the Coral Sea Sessions come out on CD buy it and listen to my claps!
I missed enrollment for college yesturday (woops) but went to the school first thing this morning and got everything sorted out. What does this mean? This means I'm an honest-to-goodness, bonafide student! I get my ID on Tuesday, then I can even get neat discounts! Actual classes and such start Monday, so we'll see how that goes.
Another pretty nice thing is that all my flatmates have finally moved in. Four girls and three boys, all of which are pretty alright! Actually I sort of love some of them already, so that's defently a good thing.
Anyways, I need school to start immediatly, I am exhausted from trying to go out everyday. I suppose that's sort of a good thing thing, unless you're trying to save money. Ugh, money.

The view from my abnormally large window looks down on a playground and I actually find it very endearing. When I'm around, I've been timing my day by their recesses. The first break is at 9:30, so if I'm not up by then it's my final alarm to get out of bed and stop being lazy. Their second is at 2:30, which is a good reminder to eat if I haven't already (which seems to happen more often than not as of recently). They're obviously not there on the weekends but what do I need an alarm on the weekend for?

I've only been in London for a little less than a week but I really feel like I could live here. I know I've had fairly long stays here before (much longer than 5 days), but moving into my "digs" and seeing my school is really refreshing. I mapped out everything I could on my rediculously messy tube map, and I have a straight bus journey to school. The only major negatives that seem to have been presented to me are my lack of internet and moreover, lack of money. I know London is expensive, but UGH, I need to get used to it. Fortunutly, the internet cafe down the street from my dorm is pretty cheap and hopefully a technician will fix my internet jack in the next week. I'll post some nicey-nice photos photos later, and if anybody wants my new address and/or phone number make sure to e-mail me.

I'm moving to London on Friday and, needless to say, I am scared to death. I've somewhat tried to pussyfoot around the issue, ignoring the fact that I'm leaving for a few months. Unfortunately, the words "the day after tomorow" make the situation sound a lot closer than "the day after the day after tomorow". Feel free to make an apocalypse joke at this point.
I guess the worst part of the situation is that I'm not even excited! I'm just going to hope that I'll be excited after I move in and the "fear of the unknown" diminishes a little. There are people I'll miss too, but I know I'm just being a drama queen. Hopefully I'll sink into the city within the next 10 months, because I'd like to get my degree at Central Saint Martins rather than just go for my foundation year, although it will probably be a little easier for me to get into a good school in the states with CSM under my belt. I suppose I am excited about the actual EDUCATION I'll be getting, it's just the moving that I'm uneasy about. But whatever, I have to do what I have to do!


Well, to make the entry a tad bit more interesting...




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