Another Weekend Away and Future Plans
Aug. 8th, 2011 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankyoldmanSo I went out of town this weekend and visited my sister, who had just moved into her new place the weekend before. This is her first time living on her own (at age 22... she's a bit later than me with my first living alone experience at 19) and I wanted to make sure she had at least one visitor in the middle of her two weeks waiting for school to start.
She got into grad school at the place where I did undergrad, so there were a lot of places I went around and showed her, and tips to be given. It's the only place I've ever felt homesick for, not because it was a time of happiness and rainbows (there were good times, but if you know me at all, I had a really rough time getting through engineering) but because it was the first place where I lived my very own life. Which is a powerful thing, I think.
It kind of felt like I was passing it on to her. Even if there's a graduate program there I'm trying to get into, I think this was a really good weekend for me too, for me to be able to say goodbye for realz. Now that I'm living on my own again and starting a variation on My Very Own Life, and maybe I'll start going to things more.
It doesn't hurt that I finally decided there was absolutely no way I was going to get to take a class here this semester. I'm going to lean on the five billion more things I've done with my company in my next application and not try to do everything at once. I'm being smarter and applying for a graduate program here as well as the university I really want to get into. Sure, it'll be a master's program only partly related to what I want to do, but it'll be some forward momentum at least. I don't idle well.
Next semester, we'll see.
There was also a goodwill trip, because my sister wanted some cups and plates, so I went along and ended up with several cute tops and a set of four glasses that look rather a lot like what you would see in Don Draper's bar on Mad Men (they're called roly poly glasses, which the internet just taught me). Really. I think I need to learn to actually make some cocktails.
And now some sewing talk.
So I spent some of my time yesterday when I was back in town cutting out the pieces for a dress for myself. It's a simple sleeveless number with an elastic waist, gonna be made of this dark green rayon I found with some gold flecks in it (it's actually seriously cuter than it sounds). It's been so hot lately and I feel like I've cycled through my meager intense heat appropriate dresses and shorts quite a few times now.
Other coming projects:
- a nice light sheer stretch rayon flutter cardigan
- starting on my Peggy Olson inspired jumper dress out of a silk wool blend houndstooth I picked up ages ago
- the jacket for my Snake from 999 cosplay
- the vest for a Jacuzzi Splot (the guy on the left) from Baccano! cosplay
- a gothy Young Edea dress. Yes, she was so goth when she was younger.
She got into grad school at the place where I did undergrad, so there were a lot of places I went around and showed her, and tips to be given. It's the only place I've ever felt homesick for, not because it was a time of happiness and rainbows (there were good times, but if you know me at all, I had a really rough time getting through engineering) but because it was the first place where I lived my very own life. Which is a powerful thing, I think.
It kind of felt like I was passing it on to her. Even if there's a graduate program there I'm trying to get into, I think this was a really good weekend for me too, for me to be able to say goodbye for realz. Now that I'm living on my own again and starting a variation on My Very Own Life, and maybe I'll start going to things more.
It doesn't hurt that I finally decided there was absolutely no way I was going to get to take a class here this semester. I'm going to lean on the five billion more things I've done with my company in my next application and not try to do everything at once. I'm being smarter and applying for a graduate program here as well as the university I really want to get into. Sure, it'll be a master's program only partly related to what I want to do, but it'll be some forward momentum at least. I don't idle well.
Next semester, we'll see.
There was also a goodwill trip, because my sister wanted some cups and plates, so I went along and ended up with several cute tops and a set of four glasses that look rather a lot like what you would see in Don Draper's bar on Mad Men (they're called roly poly glasses, which the internet just taught me). Really. I think I need to learn to actually make some cocktails.
And now some sewing talk.
So I spent some of my time yesterday when I was back in town cutting out the pieces for a dress for myself. It's a simple sleeveless number with an elastic waist, gonna be made of this dark green rayon I found with some gold flecks in it (it's actually seriously cuter than it sounds). It's been so hot lately and I feel like I've cycled through my meager intense heat appropriate dresses and shorts quite a few times now.
Other coming projects:
- a nice light sheer stretch rayon flutter cardigan
- starting on my Peggy Olson inspired jumper dress out of a silk wool blend houndstooth I picked up ages ago
- the jacket for my Snake from 999 cosplay
- the vest for a Jacuzzi Splot (the guy on the left) from Baccano! cosplay
- a gothy Young Edea dress. Yes, she was so goth when she was younger.