So....Obama Became Prez Yesterday...

So I figured it was time for a blog! Seeing as the last time I wrote one, he had just been elected... This may also be due to the fact that Ms. Becker is just about 25 seconds away from driving a spike through my face for not sleeping last night because I was talking to a melange of gay men, and for also not posting one of these in, oh...7 weeks? So now I'm getting her into trouble. And I feel bad.

Whatever.

Yesterday I went to Sara Campbell, as I do most every Tuesday. I had to park on the street for the second time EVER, and the whole time I was panicking, thinking I was going to walk out to a nice, fat ticket from one of the nice fat police officers who live in the station 50 feet away. But it never happened...so yesterday I helped Kay tape fabric swatches to the line overview, which I LOVE ever since my FIT portfolio... it's kind of masochistic. And that took a good hour or so. After that, I cleaned up the design room while she went...somewhere...and I organized the fabrics while nearly passing out--I've been talking to lots of gay men this week--from exhaustion. But that really is one of my favorite things to do, sorta fabrics, because then I get used to dealing with them, and I'm learning how to classify them. Yesterday I just put a bunch of stretch woven in the knit pile...but that's how I learn, I guess.

I also got to help "design" a skirt and a jacket yesterday! Which basically meant giving my opinion as Kay designed it--something tells me I would not be a very good design influence for the Sara Campbell style. But still, I told her what I thought was off, and basically just agreed with almost everything she said, since she was pretty right...I also suggested that she double a fringe for the bottom of a dress, which she did. It gave me a nice feeling of pride and stuff. Sara was supposed to come up and look at the skirt and jacket (she was downstairs hosting a party for the Cancer Society or something) but she forgot. Kay was kinda upset, but her knee had been feeling better, so I don't think she cared that much. She decided that it would be better for us to just go home than to disrupt Sara's party.

Also, they have the yummy kind of twizzlers in the store now! I'm SO excited.

So yeah...In the past months, they've also taught me how to grade and skirt, and I've helped trace out patterns for overseas production, which was the MOST FUN EVER...both of them, I mean.

I also finished my FIT portfolio since the last time I posted. Kay helped me identify some fabrics, and I colored in my sketches, and made a BEAUTIFUL black gown (which my mother looked AMAZING in) and then almost left my phone at the post office, but the lady there ended up being really nice, actually, after her initial meanness, which I understood--I showed up with 3 minutes to spare.

But yeah...I'm starting to figure out that Fashion is better than sex...not that I know what sex is...or even how to spell it...

:P

SJ Donovan