Things I Have Been Up To Lately Besides Dropping Off The Face Of The Earth

1. Living in my studio. More or less.
2. Paying 75 cents for coffee and getting 80 cents in change. Thank you, vending machine, for supporting my caffeine habit.
3. Sewing pocket owls. They're as magical as they sound.
4. Making pocket friends.
5. Free motion machine embroidery. I love it.
6. Buying a sewing machine. See #5.
7. The opposite of animation. What's that mean? Instead of animating objects and people, I'm animating the camera used to capture them. What's that mean? You'll have to wait until I put it on Vimeo, which will hopefully be December 8th.
8. Talking with amazing visiting artists like Brent Green and Jim Campbell.
9. Trying to figure out programming and coding and other stuff that involves math in order to create an interactive installation. Yikes.
10. Doing the pythagorean theorem. Remember that? Yeah, I didn't. I couldn't even remember what it was called. I just knew there had to be some mathematical way to figure out how to connect a chimney to a roof. Wait, what? Oh yeah, see #11.
11. Building a fort, 4 foot by 5 foot by 4 foot high, a roof that peaked at 6 feet, and a chimney that was just under 7 feet.
12. Shedding cardboard.
13. Sitting in my fort.
14. Having said fort collapse on me less than 10 minutes before my exhibition started.
15. Still sitting outside in my collapsed fort for 3 hours.
16. Not writing my paper that's due Monday. Oops. I guess that's what I'll be doing tomorrow.
17. Buying beautiful chiffon fabric for a garment I'll be making that I really don't feel like explaining right now.
18. Not sleeping enough.
19. Thrifting.
20. Realizing that the majority of the clothes I own previously belonged to either senior citizens or small children.
21. Skyping with my favorite 4 year old. We like to talk about boys.
22. Visiting my family for a weekend.
23. Enjoying delicious apple cider & donuts at the cider mill. The highlight of autumn, as far as I'm concerned.
24. Playing flute like crazy. I missed it. And now whenever I take it out, I lose track of time. At least now I have a project related to it. That's an excuse, right?
25. Listening to Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Dion, and friends.
26. Scheduling classes for next semester. I'm so excited!
27. Re-reading parts of my absolute favorite book ever. Not that I have time for that.
28. Writing down my bucket list instead of just verbally announcing things I hope to do before I die.
29. Wearing beautiful vintage saddle shoes.
30. Making legwarmers.
31. Hula hooping. But that's nothing new.
32. Making mix tapes for Mia, because I gave her my walkman, which she calls her iPod.
33. Trying to figure out how to use an iPod, since my roommate passed her old one onto me. I've never had one before!
34. Enjoying CS5. It's beautiful.
35. Collaging. More than I had the chance to last year, but not as much as I'd like to.
36. Watching Love Actually even though it's a little early.
37. Getting into George Harrison.
38. Wishing there were closer to 32 hours in a day. Think of everything I could get done!