I should probably update you all on my life. I don't want to go into too much detail, b/c it has been 2 months, so I'll just list it.

1. Blood Wedding struck last Saturday. It all went very well, we had great, sold out audiences and my costumes looked AMAZING.

2. I am doing Peter Pan next year, in the De Jong, co-designing with Janet, directed by Rodger. Basically all of my favorite things. All of you with children should plan on coming.

3. I fly to London on April 27th. I am very excited, but it hasn't really sunk in yet.

4. I'll stay in Europe until June 24th, two weeks after my program is done, to do some research in France, Switzerland, and Germany.

5. I've applied to be on the College of Fine Arts and Comm's stuco but they have yet to get back to me about interviews. The man that was supposed to be the council adviser was called to another post so things in that dept. have been in limbo.

6. I'm making three bridesmaids dresses for one wedding and a wedding dress for another, all before I go to London! Needless to say this keeps me rather busy.

7. I'm doing a photo shoot for my friend Haleh tomorrow. I will be an eighteenth century boy.

8. I'm getting ridiculously stoked for grad school in Boston. I'll start the application process probably over the summer just to get a head start on letters of intent and all. Cross your fingers!

9. I've decided that someday, maybe rather soon I'll run the Boston Marathon.

10. I've also decided to go running in Hyde Park everyday whilst in Londonium.

11. The weather is getting Spring-y which is rather nice.

12. I broke my friend over the weekend, I'm having fun playing nurse, but have decided to not be admitted to hospitals unless I'm having a baby or am very very old.

Do you remember when....?

I used to update all the time? About the two or three Bwood movies I'd seen that week? Those were the good days huh? Anyway, mom's been on my case to update more often and seeing as today was a holiday and I totally wasted it in the homework related area of my life, why not update and waste a little more time?

First, of course in the old tradition we must start with the Movies I've watched recently. I think I should capitalize all the Nouns like they do in German, wouldn't that be Fun?...

The International Cinema came out with their new Schedule for the Semester. Highly anticipated films include Downfall (2004 a/b Hitler), Slumdog Millionaire (come EARLY my friends) and my favorite favorite favorite (!) Swades!!!!!! Slumdog was inevitable, but I must say I'm surprised the Humanities Department (about which I'm becoming much more appreciative and interested) was able to get the Permission/Rights to show it edited so quickly. It won the Oscar only a Year ago (Oscars soon!!!!). Of course I'll go, and we'll see what all the Fuss is about. I have some idea that Om Shanti Om (which inspired all my Bwood Love) came to IC b/c of the Slumdog Fervor, but besides that, Slumdog has no Connection with my love of Hindi Cinema. Often people assume I've seen it when I mention my Passion for Bwood. Of course I have to correct them. I'm excited for Swades b/c I'll get to see SRK in all his Flannel Shirted goodness on the Big Screen. OH!! My Name is Khan comes out in less than a month (Feb 12)!!! Let's hope it comes to Salt Lake!

Um....My Semester, all two Weeks of it so far is going well and is very busy. I had thirteen Fittings last week for Blood Wedding. The Wedding Dress's mock up is done and the Moon is almost ready to come in. Crazy!!! My Designs are actually coming to life! I'm averaging about 8.30-5/6 days (entirely in the HFAC except for 3 hours) which will become much longer once I actually have to start making my projects for my grad courses and dress rehearsals start. Can you believe that in basically 6 weeks Blood Wedding will be up and running and out of my hands? After almost a year!!!

Speaking of, my grad courses are great. I love being w/ Mary and the grad students because it's great experience for when I go to grad school. Haleh and Jaynanne are writing their theses and getting ready for their comprehensive exams so I get to watch their processes and ask them about grad school. For Eastern Costume History we were each going to do a half scale model of a costume article from the Far East, Middle East and India, but now we're each assigned one region; of course I have India. Mary wants me to make a sari, make a sari? huh. I'll either dye it and stuff and make a choli to go along, or I might do extra b/c I've been meaning to make a palatia salwar kameez, and Anjali wants me to spear head the lengha cholis for her wedding way off when, so we'll see what I get done and if I end up killing myself over it. So far during class time we've gone off site and looked at Mary's antique kimonos. Oh how I miss the dusty musk of hundreds of antique clothing artifacts. So far in my Jewelry/Masks/Armor class we've had a glass bead making tutorial and we each got to make a bead. I had the lame, wimpy torch so it took me forever, but meh.

I want to research and publish at CSA (Costume Society of America) the summer after I graduate. I need to find a topic so I can research at the V&A when I go to London in spring. Being published and having presented at the national CSA convention would look great on my grad school apps.

I've basically decided on Boston University for grad school as of right now. It's in a thriving city, is in partnership w/ the professional Huntington Theatre, Boston has an opera and the fourth largest ballet in the nation which is one of the largest employers in Boston. Said ballet offers costume shop internships (unpaid) so I'm trying to figure out how to fit that into my life schedule. Deanne from the shop made sure to remind me that at that level and kind of performance the performers have no qualms about getting completely naked in front of anybody and everybody. I think I can handle it. I've been warned before. The Boston Lyric Opera has a wardrobe supervisor position open right now. Of course I can't take it, but it's encouraging because I have all the qualifications they're looking for. I don't want to be a wardrobe supervisor forever, but it's a pretty common, well paying job that somebody has to be good at. Let's not forget that I'd be going to church w/ all the BU/MIT/Harvard boys too!

Um...I don't want to write anymore, and if you even read this far you probably don't want to read any more so I'll give you a break.

I watched The Hudsucker Proxy last night w/ my friend John. Everyone in the costume shop was raving about it, it was ok. I think I was a little too tired to fully appreciate it, but it was clever and had good costuming. Jennifer Jason Lee as the reporter was the most annoying thing this side of a red headed stepchild, although she had beautiful red hair. Mostly I hated her accent which was more circa 1943, not 1958.

I'm done w/ my finals. I'll keep working the rest of the week, and I'll work on getting my show ready to go into the shop almost as soon as I get back.

I checked out Swades and Kal Ho Naa Ho to watch before I leave for Christmas. I can't get enough of those, mostly the first, but I haven't seen the latter in a long time it seems like, probably 4 months.

I updated fashionephemera w/ my more costumey projects, so check it out if you want.

commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1UmAaz325E

here's the link to the commercial I wardrobe supervised at the end of October.

Nine

1) I had five birthday cakes.
2) I have a tall man friend that seems very tall. I asked him how tall and he said 6'2". I said that I was 6' and that I thought he was taller. He said I must be wrong about my own height. I measured and I'm 5' 10 3/4". Epic fail. I'm having separation anxiety from my beloved 6'. I wrote it on my new UT driver's license though, so meh.
3)I got a UT driver's license.
4)On the Friday before my birthday me and a bunch of friends went to Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam at IC. The dubbing was horrible and the subtitles were way off basically the whole time, but the movie was epic. Aishwarya of course was breathtakingly beautiful and Ajay was adorable. Salman, whom I strongly dislike all the time, was dislikable. It was a FANTASTIC movie.
5) It rained/snowed/slushed yesterday for about 6 hours straight. All our parking lots, drives, and sidewalks were covered in miserable puddles. I have no Wellies, which I've wanted for forever and must get for the Holidays, but my roommate let me borrow her snowshoes for the walk to church.
6) I got officially accepted to the London Theatre Study Abroad for this Spring!! Huzz-ah! I need to start making a a list of things to do.
7) I don't want to go back home after London so I think I will go back to Provo and sew a new show for the Young Ambassadors. I don't think I'll need to be in school so I can just pay cheap housing and work all day.
8) I want to go to BU real bad. Whether or not I decide to apply right out of my undergrad I want to go out to Boston once I'm done. Janet has connections that could get me hook ups for jobs.
9) I've never been so excited to go home and sleep in my life. I'm so tired of waking up between 5.30 and 6.30 everyday. I'm a morning person, but when you oversleep until 6.30 you know something's wrong.

daniel craig, hugh jackman, gerard butler

I would make out with any of these guys in a second. Can you tell my type? haha. Anyway, that comes from an ongoing convo I've been having w/ a guy friend of mine, and I watched Wolverine and Quantum of Solace this weekend.

ready for boise

I'm SOOOO ready to go to Boise and eat Colette food and watch Bollywood and get away from school and some recent drama. Thanksgivings recently seem to be rather cathartic.