b/c I'm a flake, but not TOO big of a flake, and I know the right people.

So, haha. Today I went in to say hello to my wonderful Janet (Janet: my faculty mentor and amazing costume designer extrordinair, if you don't know of Janet, you don't know me) because I haven't in a while and I wanted to turn in my design app and ask about the Merit Scholarship. Turns out the scholarship app was due on the 13th!! AHHH!! So my nice morning chat w/ Janet turned into me scrambling upstairs to get the forms, filling them out lickity-split, running a reference form down to Priscilla (costume faculty) and up to Rory (assoc. dean, costume/set design faculty) with pleads of speediness. Of course Janet got one too. The girl at the desk chuckled because I knew I was way late and she knew I was way late and a good laugh was had by all, yeah. Anyway, because the costume faculty is soooo nice they all got their references in by the end of the day, even before lunch I think, and Janet made a call so all is well. So that was my fun morning!!!

Before my portfolio presentation for Intermediate Costuming I went to say hello again to Janet because we didn't have very fun times this morning. We chatted and I'm going to help her with The Secret Garden down in Cedar City (for U(tah) S(hakespearian) F(estival)). She might be able to pay me, but even if not, if I help enough I could be billed as the assistant costume designer which is a huge resume booster, plus working w/ Janet is always FABULOUS. It opens a couple of days after Spring terms gets out and Janet's going to drive down and back up in a day to see it and I could go along! I've always wanted to go down to Cedar, and now I probably will! Maybe next summer after London I can get an internship there. I love my major. I love my Janet.

I've been going through withdrawls since Millie got over.

BEE-YYYY-Utiful

Oh man, I love it here at BYU. I just got back from a Habitat build. Nadin came with to shoot some footage for a documentary. We went out to McDonald's after. Such a great day. I love doing things and being social this semester! It beats the heck out of my last three semesters, ESP my last semester. The weather is getting nicer (who knows if it'll stay) and we've passed the middle of Winter Semester. Somedays I just stand at the bus stop at 8 in the morning and look at the mountains and love my live. This feeling also occurs when I walk accross campus after being in the shop for hours, or driving Ven-oos to places I've never driven before or when I hang out with Ashley or when the roommies have fun parties and have people over. Pretty much I'm living the college life and loving it.

oh the social whirl-wind that is my life.

Last weekend was a three day and I had lots of fun. Let's see...on Friday...I can't remember what I did, but it was fun. Oh yeah, I babysat for Ash and watched Swan Princess, that was fun, as were the kids. I helped Kevin move the TV downstairs beforehand and drove the Saturn home after! Yay! I have a car. Genevieve and I have named it Ven-oos. On Saturday I woke up early to do Go Dog laundry that wasn't brought down, and then had a costume meeting for our Spring Sing in the Ward, I went to a build for Habitat for Humanity and met some super cool kids, then the gang and I (minus Becca) went to Nicholas' to play games. After games I crashed. Sunday night we had a Mexican Dinner, courtesy of Nadin, and had TONS of people over. It was a blast. We played games late into the night. Monday I went to Shopaholic with Shannon, Jill, Chris and baby. Then I went to Payson to hang out w/ Ash, then I actually did my homework.

For this weekend...I have a date! A guy from Doctor Who Club and I are going to the men's V-ball game. He's super nice, and dates a lot so I'm expecting a fun night, and in case you didn't catch the profundity of this event: This is my first REAL BYU date, where the guy asked ME out! It only took 3 1/2 semesters. And this is also the 3rd guy ever to ask me out (Sam, Cole, and now Tim). On Saturday I'll build for Habitat, then find something else fun to do.

Glossary

This is for Genevieve so she can read my posts, and for the fam too who don't know BYU lingo...

A-room: the onsite storage for costumes in the shop
the shop: the costume shop, where I work
Off-site: our costume storage by the old ag complex
the van: the astro van thatI drive off-site
HFAC: The Harris Fine Arts Center, where I live
Deanne: the costume shop's cutter/draper. She makes the patterns for our shows. She is also the assistant manager of the shop
Donnette: The manager of the shop
flat-patterning: using a standard sloper to make patterns, everything is flat
sloper: a generic cut out of a specific size of garment. They come in bodices, skirts, and sleeves.
Macbeth: our current Pardoe production, set in Mesoamerica/Book of Mormon times
Pardoe: our main theatre in the HFAC, seats about, oh I don't know, 600
DeJong: our concert hall in the HFAC seats roughly 1200
Nelke: our experimental theatre for student productions in the HFAC, seats about 150
Margetts: our black box theatre in the HFAC, probably seats aroud 80
stitcher: one who stitches. Also known as a seamstress or seamter, but we have to be politically correct here. I am a stitcher
first hand: a super stitcher that takes Deanne's mock up patterns, cuts them out of the fashion fabric and sews them together
mock up: a muslin prototype of a costume. These are created by Deanne and sometimes constructed by the first hand. After the first fitting they are altered and a pattern is cut from them
fashion fabric: the fabric that a costume will be made out of.

A Day After Sarah's Birthday

Today Deanne gave me a stitching job! I sewed two panchos together. She's been giving me more complicated things to do. This could be because there are really no repairs or alterations for MacBeth, which I'm a stitcher for, so there are more builds that need to be worked on, or she trusts me to do more stuff. Yesterday she let me cut the chest peice/cross over thing for MacBeth's feathered cape from the mock up and pin it on the cape. That's pretty special. I'd like to think I'm getting better. I hope to get pretty good so I can be a first hand maybe someday. First hands cut the fabric from the mock up patterns and actually build main pieces.

MacBeth also has a lot of crafts that I'm to do some of. One is to attach more feathers to MacBeth's cape. Crafts are fun because there's a lot of designing involved since there aren't patterns or anything.

Speaking of patterns, I'm doing pretty well in my pattern making class. It kind of blows my mind that I'm actually becoming a costume designer! We've learned flat patterning with bodices and skirts so far. We work off of size 12 slopers which are very close to my size, so the skirts I've been cutting patterns for would work for me. I drafted my pleated skirt to be my size because drafting was easier than using a sloper. For my designed skirt I'm cutting the pattern I'll be using for my creative project for my Isaiah class. Of course I'd make a costume piece from a doctrine of Isaiah.

This weekend with Shannon and the Herricks was so much fun! It was great to be around NE people in a big family atmosphere, almost just like home. And the baby was cute too. Turns out Shannon's blind date that Jill set her up on was with Tim from the Doctor Who Club, and Shannon's cousin on her mom's side is Elder Flint from the Yankee Hill and Beatrice wards! He got off a month ago. Funny to see him again. He asked about you Riss :)

Classes are great, I'm keeping up with everything. The place I want to live for Spring only offers Spring/Summer contracts. I'm supposed to call back at the end of February, but housing will probably be full by then. I'm pretty sure most complexes have S/S contracts and kids just chance it if they stay for only Spring and hope that someone will buy their contract. We'll have to see what I end up doing...living with Ashley and commuting everyday...? haha, probably not.

I spent Saturday morning with Ashley. As per usual we went to Taco Bell for lunch. I made a video...

February the Fourth

I have a cold, but meh. Because this blog has basically turned into an ongoing schedules of events in my life...

Before the end of the week I have a New Testament, Isaiah and Marriage Prep paper due. I haven't started any of them, but they're super easy.

On Friday I'm going to Carolin(e?) with my costume shop buddies. It's the new Tim Burton film based on some book, I don't know. Some of the girls really like the book, so we're going.

On Saturday, I should probably do homework and clean my room and chop up one of my dresses to make a skirt, and Saturday night I'm going to go out with Shannon Herrick! She's coming down for Jill's baby's blessing (yes, Jill has a baby!) so we're going to rock it hard-core Provo style on Saturday night.

On Sunday I'm going to Jill's ward for the blessing, then dinner w/ the Herricks at Jill's afterwards. I'm so happy to have NE people around me! Jill's husband is in the bishopbric of a singles' ward, so I'll get to visit w/ more young happen'in cats my age. Isn't that fun?

I baked pumpkin cookies on Tuesday night. They are delicious of course, although I hate the elevation here that makes me guess on time, jerk.