| 7:54p |
en route to something
Yesterday was marvellous, with huge lashings of insanity. I left my meeting with Andrew (my supervisor for my major project) feeling really happy. That's the first time in a while that I've left a day at uni feeling relieved. I think that my major project is on track now, yay! I'm feeling really excited by it- it's kinda free-form, kinda Dada (Andrew's word and not mine), kinda whimsical, and very Spacegirl Princess Carla. I think that it's actually moving along now! I also found out that Andrew had sent a lot of stuff for "Unpick me" (the Fashion and Textiles 2003 show stuff I designed last semester) to the printers. And there's, like, thousands of postcards and tickets being made. Isn't that cool? I find it rather mind-blowing- I have never had anything of mine printed up in such large quantities before. Oh actually, that's not true. I've had stuff printed in magazines before. I guess that this is the first time I've had things printed where I've designed pretty much the entire thing. It's very cool.
You know how yesterday, I wrote that I was en route to the FEVA Suppertalk on God's guidance? Well, I spend most of the night en route to something! The talk was held at Ian Morrison's house in Blakehurst. Ro was supposed to pick me up at 6:30pm, and by 7:20pm I'd grown tired of playing my gee-tar, and was beginning to develop alarmingly maternal worries regarding Roanne (eg. "Is she okay? What if she was in an accident?"). So I telephoned her. She greeted me with, "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" It turns out that she fell asleep, the poor little thing, from such a busy day (make that a busy year). I didn't mind, though- I find that God always has the best adventures planned. So we high-tailed it to the local Woolies and bought these apple pies for the supper part of the Suppertalk. We were going to buy some flour as well. The plan was that we'd turn up to Ian's place an hour late, covered in flour, citing "We wanted to bake for you guys!" as our reason for being late. This, of course, would be highly believable to those who have witnessed Roanne's latest baking frenzy. Anyway, we arrived at Ian's place at around 8:45pm sans flour (maybe it won't come in fashion for another two seasons), right in the middle of the talk. We were trying to be really quiet as we headed upstairs. "Ian, where's the kitchen?" I whispered, showing him the ice-cream that needed freezering. "Over there," he pointed. And so I turned, only to find myself in the bathroom. Of course, I found that highly amusing and began laughing. This was the wrong thing to do, as I soon discovered, seeing as the fifty or so people there were just outside the bathroom.
The talk was excellent, and the night was great fun! Everyone was in very high spirits. I think that a lot of people were chuffed to catch up with their buddies, as a lot of us hadn't seen each other since MYC. The journey home was also suitably epic. After being forced to eat all the orange Mentos (Ro and Karen weren't fans), we discovered that Ro had a flat tire. So Ro and I were holed up in my living room with hot drinks and cereal at 12:30am, waiting for the NRMA man to come.
Such a traumatic/amusing experience (there was more, but you'll have to ask me to tell), I must nominate a few heroes of the past few days.
My heroes are:
> Roanne. Because even though she had been in two cars that had broken down in twenty-four hours, and even though she desperately needed sleep, she still sat with me at 1am listening to me and giving me advice.
> My mum. For always being there on those mornings when I wake up and say, "Am I weird for feeling this way? What's wrong with me? Why can't I get it together?"
> Sonya. For sharing her spinach and fetta plaity thingy from Bakers' Delight, and encouraging me to be kind and loving to brave people.
> Meg. For giving up her lunch half-hour to call me and help me see the positive side of things.
Remaining thoughts and questions:
> I have come to understand that I have probably seen every single episode of "The Wonder Years". I never liked Winnie Cooper, she was so annoying. And did you know that David Schwimmer played the guy that Kevin's hippy sister married?
> Yesterday, I had seen the Thirsty Merc music clip for "Wasting Time" THREE TIMES in two days! Oh, I love that song so much! It's a crush song- my favourite category!
> Why does everyone have Spring Fever so early? Why? Why? It's August 29th still, hello?!
Spacegirl Princess Carla, signing out. |