I'm Supposed to be Doing A Spanish Project...

But instead I'm listening to "Rent" and explaining what "grading" is.

Grading is basically sizing a garment. And essentially, to do it, you rotate the pattern piece around a central bust point--the apex of the dart.

Wow, that was shockingly easier than I thought it would be.

Anyways, yesterday Zoe asked me if, for the final collection that each of us is doing, if we would rather do it together, so that it would be more impressive. Now, no offense to Zoe, but when it comes to sewing, I kick her ass. Like, MAJORLY. And what concerns me is that she sort of regards it as a secondary to actual design, which is fine...if you're Vera Wang. Unfortunately, we are rather far from it, and right now, sewing should pretty much be our focus. I mean, Jason Wu PERSONALLY sewed Michelle Obama's inauguration gown, and I mean, it was sewn DAMN WELL. And even though he's kind of a bland designer (it's like Oscar de la Renta without the glamour or the texture...which is basically nothing) he's still madly successful, which is somewhat encouraging to me, since I'm much more focused on finishing and presentation than whimsy and creativity.

Whatever, I'm considering, but I'm having a very difficult time seeing the pros in this, other than if it worked, it would be AMAZING. But I have a damn long list of cons:

-Zoe gets rejected from Parsons and becomes depressed and doesn't want to anymore or is just very difficult to work to with.
-We never have a chance to work on it together.
-I end up doing almost all of the work and Zoe still tries to claim half the credit.
-Zoe and I have hugely conflicting ideas.
-We're too indecisive and get nothing done.

Basically, all of these end in major amounts of passive agression, and a friendship break-up, whilst the former (amazing turnout) results in like, honors.

So conflicted...

Sam