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skygiantsThis week has been very, very busy for me, and will continue busy through the weekend (although for good reasons, some of them even involving a social life!) but it has included a few awesome things:
1.) Geeking out with my professor about BSG (and, like, actually talking about religious and racial things in the show, and in a way that was relevant to class, even though the rest of the class may have been looking at us like we were insane but ANYWAYS.) I already approved of professor - he is new this year, and young and very enthusiastic - but he has just shot up many points in my estimation.
2.) MY SWAG. Oh my god, you guys. Today was the costume sale at the costume-making shop where I work, where we try to clean out our basement, which means that basically we're selling off a lot of gorgeous handmade period-style costumes for insanely cheap prices and I get an employee discount. I had a Restoration-style green dress that I was eyeing, but someone got to it first and bought it for a production of Into the Woods. Which is a good cause so I can deal, and anyways it is NO MATTER, because instead I netted a beautiful velvet Renaissance-style skirt-and-top combo that fits me perfectly except for having a tendency to fall down around the very top, which caused my coworker to dub it the Renaissance Whore outfit, which . . . is basically what it is, and I LOVE IT. Also included among the swag: a beautiful puffed-sleeve period-style jacket that I plan to wear everywhere I can possibly get away with it, and a floor-length white skirt.
And yet, fabulous as this all is, none of it is quite so fabulous as the gown my other coworker nabbed, which is a Belle-style gigantic yellow ballgown in a fabric that is probably fleur-de-lis-ish but looks like leopard-print from far away with bright pink bows going down the front.
(Also, I talked a frat boy into buying a huge fur-lined Medici robe and wearing it home.)
3. Overheard in the cafe on campus: "If I was forced to choose between literature and cupcakes, I'd choose literature. But I really like cupcakes."
It is possible that this quote entirely sums up my life.
1.) Geeking out with my professor about BSG (and, like, actually talking about religious and racial things in the show, and in a way that was relevant to class, even though the rest of the class may have been looking at us like we were insane but ANYWAYS.) I already approved of professor - he is new this year, and young and very enthusiastic - but he has just shot up many points in my estimation.
2.) MY SWAG. Oh my god, you guys. Today was the costume sale at the costume-making shop where I work, where we try to clean out our basement, which means that basically we're selling off a lot of gorgeous handmade period-style costumes for insanely cheap prices and I get an employee discount. I had a Restoration-style green dress that I was eyeing, but someone got to it first and bought it for a production of Into the Woods. Which is a good cause so I can deal, and anyways it is NO MATTER, because instead I netted a beautiful velvet Renaissance-style skirt-and-top combo that fits me perfectly except for having a tendency to fall down around the very top, which caused my coworker to dub it the Renaissance Whore outfit, which . . . is basically what it is, and I LOVE IT. Also included among the swag: a beautiful puffed-sleeve period-style jacket that I plan to wear everywhere I can possibly get away with it, and a floor-length white skirt.
And yet, fabulous as this all is, none of it is quite so fabulous as the gown my other coworker nabbed, which is a Belle-style gigantic yellow ballgown in a fabric that is probably fleur-de-lis-ish but looks like leopard-print from far away with bright pink bows going down the front.
(Also, I talked a frat boy into buying a huge fur-lined Medici robe and wearing it home.)
3. Overheard in the cafe on campus: "If I was forced to choose between literature and cupcakes, I'd choose literature. But I really like cupcakes."
It is possible that this quote entirely sums up my life.
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Date: 2007-10-27 03:13 am (UTC)Also: Will any of this be used as a Halloween costume?
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Date: 2007-10-27 05:45 am (UTC)There will be pictures of swag if I can manage it!
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Date: 2007-10-27 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-27 05:48 am (UTC). . . also, I literally used to listen to D'Aulaire's Greek Myths on tape every night before I went to sleep when I was little, so. >.>
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Date: 2007-10-27 04:36 am (UTC)DO WANT! DO WANT!
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Date: 2007-10-27 04:36 am (UTC)*makes it a point to acquire very cool and unique coats and hats when she can find them and afford them*
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Date: 2007-10-27 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-27 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-27 07:26 pm (UTC)(Which gives me time to hem the skirt for dance-ability, too!)
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Date: 2007-10-27 07:48 pm (UTC)Next ball is December 15, which *wince* turns out to be the date of my Middle Welsh final -- which is, yes, on a Saturday evening between 5 and 8 PM. Gah. I know my prof loves me, but I wonder if she loves me enough to let me take it in a different timeslot.
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Date: 2007-10-27 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-28 03:53 am (UTC)December 15th is prooobably right in the middle of my finals too, anyways. When's the first one of 2008?