Sorry can't talk right now.

Video editing. That's all I can say. Plus, what I wore today.

Music Monday

It's been another stressful monday, running around trying to figure out what's going on with my project and if my professor likes my script or doesn't (she didn't this morning, but by afternoon she had warmed up to it). I got most of my paper done for tomorrow and I might try to wake up early to finish off the reading if I don't get it done tonight. Tomorrow I'll be up late editing video, which of course makes me feel like a winner. However, by Wednesday night I'll be able to throw all my stresses away and dress up and just have fun. Here's to thinking about that. And because I feel like my life has been thrown upside down a little bit, a song that reflects a little bit of a strange perspective on time. And a place in which I wish I could live.

(Not so) Lazy Sunday

Today was mostly productive, though I did get caught up reading Liebemarlene Vintage for long stretches of time. I love her photos and her style. I also started a tumblr for things that I don't post here - quotes stuck in my head and all the pictures I have that I'd really like to have up somewhere. I also finished my tv script, which was probably the most involved thing I've done for journalism thus far. Tomorrow we have more filming to do, and I have to do my standup. The weather today was especially lovely, which made me sad to be stuck inside - tomorrow is rain. However, it was nice to get up and get dressed and have some breakfast this morning before settling in to work for the day. I think that Being properly dressed really helps my productivity. It's much easier to be unproductive when one is sitting around in pajamas. I think that that perhaps, is one of the reasons I'm so adamant about being dressed for class. Other people can wear their sweatpants and t-shirts, but to me that's loungewear. I don't feel like the day has really started if I'm not dressed. Speaking of being dressed, I broke out what felt like an academic outfit - perfectly suited to my pursuits. I also felt very 90s.

jumper: Old Navy, shirt: Old Navy, socks: Target, boots: nordstrom

Work is taking over my life. Writing a paper and logging video is not how a 19-year-old should spend her Saturday night, but here I am. A week from today is Halloween though, which makes me incredibly happy. I love to dress up. Often, I am able to come up with costume ideas out of the clothes I own (just like Jessica from What I Wore was showcasing this week). Originally, I planned on being a doll, using a poofy dress I have. And if I go out more than once for Halloween, I will be a doll the second time. However, I let my friend talk me into buying a Minne Mouse costume for the party we're going to on Wednesday night (for another friend's fraternity). I've had a lot of buyer's remorse over actually purchasing a costume, but over the past few days I've managed to convince myself that I wouldn't want to wear my pretty dress to a party in a barn anyway. So I'll be Minnie Mouse with a store-bought costume. The best part is that I purchased a short black petticoat to go with the costume, and I think that will get some use after the fact. Really, everything I bought other than the costume itself I can guarantee I'll use again. Remorse is over-rated anyway.
I've had an interestingly productive and unproductive day. Right now counts as unproductive. I cleaned my room though, which was definitely productive and I put up my spider lights so at least my room looks pretty.

Keeping me away

Last night it was simply that I could not access this page. Blogger had a problem. Tonight, it's simply exhaustion that keeps me from writing or posting a picture. So I leave to my bed with this:

Food for thought

Tonight isn't much of a blogging night. It's more of a thinking night, and I feel like I have a lot to think about. Interestingly, discussion of the movie Precious (based on the book Push by Sapphire) coincided with my reading of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. They both give me a lot to think about, coming from the perspective of a privileged African American woman. I feel like today I have more important things to think about than what I wore today, and so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to sit and read and think.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

As much as I love my black background and bright writing, I think it might be time for a change to layout and such. I'll see where it goes. I need to figure out how to make pictures bigger as well. It would seem that I'll be going into a period of experimentation. Nothing too drastic though, I think. Anyway, before all of that, what I wore today (to the one class I actually went to after my stomach was done with its hatred of me.)

The transition

Last night I was invited to a Rocky Horror themed crush party by a friend who is in a sorority. Thus, from day to night I went from this:
To this:I wore both of my new Modcloth items, but in very different contexts.

Music Monday

Ah, Monday, how I wish that you didn't come with stressful journalism classes that tell me that I don't know anything. Oh well.
Different songs have been rattling around in my head today, so I'm just putting up everything that's been there. It's a bit scattered.

Weekend warriors

I didn't mean to skip this weekend, but due to busy-ness on Friday and general sickness yesterday, it wasn't in my thoughts to post. This weekend has been generally good - except for feeling like my stomach was going to exorcise itself from my body yesterday - long story. I feel better now though. Yesterday night I went to see The Hangover for $3 in the student center with my friends. It was definitely a good Saturday night movie, definitely very funny. Not all of the jokes were in good taste, of course, but I generally enjoyed it. This week should be a little calmer than most, since I'm only watching a movie in one of my classes, and my others are going easy on us homework-wise. Tomorrow is rocky horror night, so I'll be dressing up like a crazy person, which I am really looking forward to. Also, sometime this week I'll be ruminating on Halloween ideas, since I love dressing up. No clothes today, just a nice fall picture of my journalism neighborhood.

I heard you're doing okay, but I want you to know...

I have something to confess, and that something is a severe shopping addiction. I look at clothes online every single day. One of the sites to which I am addicted is ModCloth. Up until a few days ago, it was all looking and no ordering. However, a week or two ago, I saw the item that I had been looking for: a faux fur leopard print coat. I sent the link to my mother who knew that I had been fruitlessly trying to hunt one down, and she gave me the go-ahead to buy it. Then, the day that I was to buy my coat, a dress that i had liked that had sold out quickly when it first went on sale came back. And I just had to have it. And so, my first two ModCloth purchases: the Soda Fountain dress in grape, and the smitten kitten coat.



I also received my adobe creative suite, so I'm happy to be fiddling around with InDesign again, and learning my way around Photoshop.

dress: target, sweater: gap, shoes: naturalizer, tights: unknown

I had to dress a little bit warmer today, since I wasn't sure if our storefront would have heat back. It didn't, so I made a good choice. I'm thinking of using my newly reacquired multimedia skills to create some sort of look into my closet, starting with shoes. I'll be getting my CS 4 soon, so I might create a flash object or a video. I really like the gifs that Rebecca at the clothes horse does. I think they're really cute, and if I can find out how to create them, I'd like to make something like that.

Psychotic

For my lit class I watched the Hitchcock classic, Psycho, which, even though I knew what was going to happen was still a tiny bit terrifying. It's not my favorite Hitchcock - I think Rear Window takes that prize so far, though I found Vertigo more visually appealing. I love watching old movies and seeing the clothes and the settings that are both different and the same as contemporary life. I think since Mad Men has been on television, there's been more exploration into that time period, but I don't think you can beat the real thing.

Got me on my knees, Layla

I got this song stuck in my head during lunch because the song playing had similar tonal qualities. Here's both versions, though I like the unplugged version a little more.

A day in the life

I've been thinking a lot about how to decorate my room at school, which currently only has one wall adorned. I decided to take my notebook of ads that I love and making that into wall art. But the rest of my room is decidedly barren. I have the posters I bought last year rolled up next to my desk, waiting for whatever I decide to do with them, but I can't decide if they really fit with what I want anymore

I guess that's just one of the pains of having a small dorm room.
In other news, tonight is the first meeting I will be attending of the school's fashion publication, STITCH. A couple of weeks ago they had an interest meeting, which was packed with people interested in working for the magazine. I applied, and got accepted as a writer! So, I'm pretty excited. I'm glad to be getting involved in something else.

dress: forever21, jacket: forever21, boots: kimchi blue - from Urban
I broke out the bright blue today - mostly because I haven't worn this dress out (except when I dressed up as Titania for a party). I'm loving these boots I bought from Urban Outftitters. I had been wanting gray boots and when I saw these (relatively) inexpensive options, I knew I had found what I wanted. Plus, they're my only pair of boots with a heel.

Music Monday

Happy Monday!

I wasn't sure what to put today, but I got an invite to a Rocky Horror themed party, so I figured this was appropriate.

I always have good intentions

they never quite work out. I just mean about posting though. It's cold here. And my skin is super dry. I think partly due to cold and partly due to the fact that I haven't been drinking enough water. I'm still dedicated to not wearing pants, even if it is 40 degrees out in mid October. I think my tights should be excited about getting so much wear. I've been here for almost a month. I think classes are going well, though the paper I turned in last week could have gone badly, I have no idea. I liked the book I just read, even though I don't understand the Bible, which may have been key to understanding what was going on. I'm ahead for the week, which I like a lot. It's no fun being behind at the beginning of the week, like I was last week. Tomorrow all the journalism sophomores have a meeting about residency. I'm excited to know what the process is, but scared to actually go through it. Maybe a year from now I'll be writing this from a different city, away from my friends. I have pictures of clothes I've worn that I just never got around to putting up, since I never got around to posting, but I'm trying to get better. My goal is every day, and maybe I can finally make it happen.

I got this feeling that it's later than it seems

Really, it's earlier than it seems, due to the fact that I've been working for a few hours and my body seems to believe that it's around midnight and it's only 9:48. This may be a long night. I can't focus on this one thing that will wrap my week up into a nice little package. Something about writing this paper is giving me severe mental fatigue - perhaps it's not the paper itself but the fact that it comes at the end of such a heinous week.
This afternoon when I was walking to class, it was raining and otherwise remarkably quiet. As I walked, the only noise to make it's mark in my ears was the sound of my feet, hitting the ground with each step. A nice sort of thwacking thunking sound. I feel as though I've seen this campus drenched in rain far more frequently than I ever did last year, and it makes me wish that it would just get cold so that instead of rain we could have snow. For some reason, this year I cannot wait for snow. I want to sit at my window, next to my heater, drink hot chocolate, and stare out at the courtyard covered in white powder.
I'm glad to be rid of this stressful week, and approach next week in hopes that it will be if not easy, much less stress-heavy. I cannot wait until tomorrow afternoon when I have time to do what I want - whether that's sleep or finally putting some things up in my room or whatever it is. I'll probably do some more cleaning, since that seems to calm me down a little bit. When I'm stressed, it's the only thing I have very much control over.

The Natives are Getting Restless

Or rather, they have no rest. I knew that my work would pick up, I just didn't expect it this soon. And now I've bid adieu to Don Quixote and the Cervantes class because I just could not handle it. Oh well. In other news, those crazy McQueen shoes are blowing my mind. I wish I could try on a pair just to understand them. They're just...mind boggling.


photo from Elle News Blog

Windy nights

As I sit at my desk, trying to muster up the focus to edit my audio slideshow for my journalism class (which is eating my soul, slowly) the wind has apparently remembered what Chicago's nickname is and picked up its game. I'm sitting here in silence because I'm listening to my audio track on iTunes. And when I'm done writing my captions, I'll listen to that again and again so I can log the audio. Sigh. The weather here has been thoroughly unpredictable with rain and wind one minute, chilling you to the bone with those 54 degree temperatures and the next minute the sun is shining and the mid 60s feel like you've walked onto a tropical island. This is not what I meant when I wished for fall. Neither was the workload of a million and one things to do this week. By the end of this week I may have one fewer class to worry about - Don Quixote has not endeared himself to me enough that I could even fantasize about the idea of keeping that class on my schedule. The Man of La Mancha will just have to wait. I may keep him waiting for many years though.